By the CNN Wire Staff updated 7:31 AM EST, Wed November 21, 2012 Australian police seize $246 million worth of drugs smuggled inside steamroller. STORY HIGHLIGHTS (CNN) -- Australian police have seized as much as $246 million worth of drugs stashed inside a steamroller sent from China after busting an international smuggling ring in Sydney. A U.S. citizen, 33, and a Canadian, 34, have been charged with drug-importing offenses in relation to the confiscated methamphetamine and cocaine, Australian Federal Police said Wednesday. The charges carry a maximum penalty of life imprisonment. The operation to seize the drugs resulted from a "complex and protracted" investigation over the past two and half years, police said. The steamroller was shipped in from China, police said, and was tracked down at a storage unit in northern Sydney amid a series of searches. When officers searched the unit, they found the vehicle, dismantling equipment and 13 sports bags containing "blocks of compressed powder and a crystalline substance." The blocks consisted of 235 kilograms (520 pounds) of methamphetamine, with an estimated street value of up to 174 million Australian dollars ($180.2 million), and 115 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated street value of up to 63 … Continue reading →

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DALLAS, November 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- - RnRMarketResearch.com adds new market research reports "Antithrombotic / Anticoagulant Drugs: Technologies and Global Markets" to its store. This report provides an overview of the global market for antithrombotic/anticoagulant drugs, which is changing due to factors such as an aging population, an increase in thrombotic events, and recent advances in pharmaceuticals. Analyses of global market trends, with data from 2011, estimates for 2012, and projections of compound annual growth rates (CAGRs) through 2017 as well as breakdowns of the market size of anticoagulants by revenue at manufacturers' sales levels, including low molecular weight heparins and oral anticoagulants, as well as breakdowns of antiplatelets and thrombin inhibitors are covered. The research also has a discussion of research and development of antithrombotic/anticoagulant treatments and comprehensive company profiles of top leaders in each of the market segments along with companies that are novel or have specific interest to the field. This report is a comprehensive business tool designed to provide an in-depth look at antithrombotic/anticoagulant drugs market for various cardiovascular applications. The geographic scope of the report is global with a special emphasis on individual regions such as the United States, Europe, Japan and Rest of World. … Continue reading →

MILWAUKEE (AP) A white supremacist with a history of alcohol problems had no drugs in his system when he walked into a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee this summer and fatally shot six people before killing himself, according to a toxicology report released Wednesday. There were small amounts of alcohol in Wade Michael Page's heart, but because there was none in his bloodstream the alcohol may have been produced after Page's body tissues began breaking down, a Milwaukee County pathologist said. "It is impossible to tell if the ethyl alcohol level is due to alcohol ingestion or a product of decomposition," Agnieszka Rogalska said in an email. Page's sister had told investigators that in the year preceding the rampage, her brother developed a bloated appearance that made her wonder if he'd been drinking recently. She also said Page seemed to grow more intense over the past year, as if he had lost his wit and sense of humor, according to an investigative report. Page, 40, opened fire Aug. 5 before a service was to start at the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin in suburban Milwaukee. He killed six people and wounded four others before he was shot in the abdomen during … Continue reading →

Older teens and adults with attention deficit disorder are much less likely to commit a crime while on ADHD medication, a provocative study from Sweden found. It also showed in dramatic fashion how much more prone people with ADHD are to break the law four to seven times more likely than others. The findings suggest that Ritalin, Adderall and other drugs that curb hyperactivity and boost attention remain important beyond the school-age years and that wider use of these medications in older patients might help curb crime. "There definitely is a perception that it's a disease of childhood and you outgrow your need for medicines," said Dr. William Cooper, a pediatrics and preventive medicine professor at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. "We're beginning to understand that ADHD is a condition for many people that really lasts throughout their life." He has researched ADHD but had no role in the new study, which was led by Paul Lichtenstein of the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm. The findings were published in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine. About 5 percent of children in the U.S. and other Western countries have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, which can cause impulsive behavior and difficulty paying attention. Many … Continue reading →

Pfizer Inc. (PFE) destroyed documents about the development of its Celebrex and Bextra arthritis drugs while denying the existence of electronic databases containing millions of files about the medicines, lawyers for some of the companys investors said in court filings. Pfizer officials should be sanctioned for denying they had a centralized filing system for Celebrex and Bextra files and discarding records after investors filed suit accusing the company of misleading them about the drugs prospects, shareholders attorneys said in a court filing that was unsealed Nov. 16 in federal court in Manhattan. Pfizer executives later acknowledged the company maintained more than 2,000 so-called e- Rooms that stored documents about the drugmakers products, the lawyers said. Defendants destroyed documents in bad faith and compounded their initial misconduct by making false statements about the existence of centralized databases, Jay Eisenhofer, a New York-based attorney serving as lead counsel in the investors securities-fraud suit, said in the filing. Last month, Pfizer officials agreed to pay $164 million to settle claims by a separate group of investors that the drugmaker distorted the results of a study about Celebrexs safety profile. Pfizer officials said today they are asking the judge in New York to throw … Continue reading →