A needle-free method of relieving acute pain after an operation has been launched on markets in Germany, Britain and Ireland this month.
The fentanyl iontophoretic transdermal system (IONSYS) aims to replace needles, pumps, catheters or intravenous pump stands and greatly reduces the risk of needle-stick injuries and infection.
It also has the potential to make the administration [...]
Directed by Matthew Vaughn ( Layer Cake) and based on a
book by Neil Gaiman, this is a big-budget, special effects-laden
fairytale action adventure that falls a little short on genuine
wonder but works hard to entertain. Naive village boy Tristan
(Charlie Cox) promises to fetch a falling star to win the local
beauty he longs to impress (Sienna Miller). [...]
VIDEO: Sweeney Todd
- trailer
For a director who never writes his own scripts, Tim Burton is a
remarkably consistent artist. Aside from the disaster that was
Planet of the Apes (2001), he has never made a film that
did not feel deeply personal, and his sumptuous adaptation of
Steven Sondheim’s famous musical about 19th-century barber Sweeney
Todd, who made his customers [...]
Music fans are generally divided into two camps: those who
believe rock stars have a moral obligation to use their positions
of influence for greater good, and those who believe they should
stick to entertaining.
At the first Australian Big Day Out at the Parklands Showground
on the Gold Coast last weekend, there was plenty of support for
politically astute musicians [...]
Beijing’s Silk Street Market, famous for knock-off designer gear
from North Face jackets to Louis Vuitton bags, has unveiled its own
brand and, apparently with a straight face, warned counterfeiters
not to copy it.
The first items to bear the SILKSTREET name include “apparel
such as neckties, shirts and scarves, as well as a few household
items such as tablecloths”, Xinhua [...]
Legendary motorcycle maker Harley-Davidson reported a 26 per cent drop in fourth-quarter earnings brought on by declining sales in an increasingly sluggish home market.
The Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based company said net earnings weighed in at 186 million dollars, down 26 per cent from the final quarter of 2006. Sales fell 8 per cent year-on-year to $US1.4 billion [...]
How quickly the market turns. It was only a few months ago that
we were hearing how the strengths of the Australian economy and
booming Asian demand for our resources would probably protect our
shares from turmoil in the US. After last week’s bloodbath, many
analysts are questioning whether this is the start of a bear
market.
A bear market is [...]
The French trader accused of one of the biggest bank frauds ever surfaced Saturday - in the custody of police, who were questioning him about bad bets that cost France’s No. 2 bank billions of euros in a season of jittery markets.
Financial police in Paris were questioning Jerome Kerviel in a probe into Societe Generale’s [...]
The French trader accused of one of the biggest bank frauds ever
has surfaced - in the custody of police, who were questioning him
about bad bets that cost France’s second biggest bank billions of
euros in a season of jittery markets.
Financial police in Paris were questioning Jerome Kerviel in a
probe into Societe Generale’s allegation against the 31-year-old
trader, [...]
The Australian bond market closed firmer on Wednesday, as faltering domestic risk appetite pulled down bond yields during the local session.
At 1630 AEDT, the yield on the Commonwealth Government February 2017 bond was at 6.060 per cent, down from Tuesday’s close of 6.073 per cent, while the August 2010 bond was at 6.590 per cent, [...]
