They spoke at the “2024 Memorial Programme for the Commemoration of June 12, 1993 Election” in Lagos The event was organised by the Committee for the Defence of Human Rights (CDHR) in collaboration with the Centre for Anti-Corruption and Open Leadership (CACOL) and Moshood Abiola Mandate Movement. Speaking, the National President, CDHR, Debo Adeniran, said that Tinubu, being an insider in the struggle for democracy for which Abiola sacrificed his life, must complete the process of honouring MKO by declaring him winner. Read More...
When a doctor writes a prescription, he may use either the general chemical name of the drug or the trademarked brand name of some particular manufacturer. The brand-named items usually cost more. Congressional investigators and drug manufacturers who recently debated the merits of the rival methods reached no conclusion. But Connecticut’s state welfare department last week took positive action. It issued a list of the 25 trade-named drugs (see box) most commonly prescribed for welfare recipients, and ordered doctors to prescribe by general name “whenever possible. Read More...
TIME
September 13, 1948 12:00 AM GMT-4
The body gets 20% to 40% of all its energy by burning up fat. But scientists have not known exactly how—or where—the body burns its fat-fuel. Last week a young (31) University of Chicago biochemist named Albert Lehninger reported a solution of the puzzle. His report at the American Chemical Society’s meeting in Washington (see SCIENCE) won him the $1,000 Paul-Lewis Laboratories Award.† Read More...
