Tales from the Back Benches

It is a Wednesday night and The Backbencher pub in central Wellington is packed. Unless you have booked a table, it is standing room only and there are some familiar faces in the crowd – Justice Minister Judith Collins shares space with people holding signs calling for the legalisation of cannabis and a fellow who has made a Peter Dunne puppet.

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Octo Mom Has Checked Herself Into Rehab for A Dependency On Xanax

  Nadya Suleman, so-called-Octomom; has checked herself into rehab for what she fears is becoming a dependency on the  prescription drug, Xanax.       Nadya Checks Herself In  Nadya Suleman has checked herself into rehab for a prescription drug problem … leaving her 14 kids without a mother for 30 straight days. A rep for […]

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New skin cancer therapy shrinks tumors

A new drug for melanoma has been shown to rapidly shrink malignant tumors in an early trial at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Hospital in New York. Among 27 patients whom the experimental new drug was tested on, “19 showed a 30 percent or greater reduction in tumor size,” Dr

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