In bad press for drugmaker AstraZeneca , the company’s US medical director confesses to trading Vicodin for sex and “pumping” another for classified information. AstraZeneca is in seriously hot water for suppressing a study that showed the firm’s blockbuster psychiatric drug Seroquel caused diabetes and weight gain. Seroquel made the company $4.4 billion dollars so it might be understandable why they’d bury the research. Understandable but seriously wrong. Now, the drugmaker, according to the NYT faces “about 9,000 personal-injury lawsuits from more than 15,000 former users of Seroquel” and a federal investigation into the marketing of the drug

Former AstraZeneca U.S. medical director for Seroquel Wayne MacFadden confessed his multiple sexual affairs, and his offer of drugs to one of the women he was sleeping with, to lawyers in December 2007…The confessions include descriptions of sex in hotel rooms paid for by AZ, illicit distribution of Vicodin, and a kinky relationship in which one of his colleagues asked to be “punished” for looking at a study that had negative results for Seroquel.

MacFadden told that woman: “You will be punished (in the usual fashion!) when I see you … but perhaps more harshly this time!!!”

Kinky! But there’s more.
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A Brazilian carnival queen famous for her skimpy attire is grabbing headlines again for painting President Barack Obama’s face on her body.

Viviane Castro paraded nearly nude early Saturday with the U.S. leader’s visage on her right thigh. Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s face was on her left thigh.

Castro’s stomach read “for sale” _ a message she said represented the sale of Brazil’s Amazon to the U.S. Many here fear the U.S. wants to control the resource-rich region.

Castro appeared in last year’s Rio Carnival parade wearing nothing but a strategically placed piece of tape 1 1/2-inches (4-centimeters) long , violating a little-enforced nudity rule and drawing a penalty for her samba group.

She wore the same patch this year.

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Women have more nightmares than men, a British researcher says, but men are more likely to dream about sex.

Psychologist Jennie Parker of the University of the West of England asked 100 women and 93 men between the ages of 18 and 25 to fill out dream diaries, priming participants before dreams occurred to record them. The research was part of her doctoral dissertation.

“My most significant finding is that women in general do experience more nightmares than men,” she said. “An early study into dreams led to my discovering that normative research procedures into dream research often considered the structure of dreams, but that there is a gaping hole in terms of academic study that investigates emotional significance in the analysis of dreams.”

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