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British-Born Pfizer executive, Alan Hesketh, has been arrested and now faces charges on several child porn offenses that he is suspected to have committed. Mr Hesketh, who has been a resident in the US since 2002, was apprehended by US immigration and customs offices at JFK International Airport in New York on the 26^th of March 2008.

It is alleged that the pharmaceutical executive had been trading indecent images of children with a man, who is a resident of Buffalo, New York, via an online chat room from June 2006 and May 2007. The defendant, who used the alias of a 28 year old woman whilst trading these images, has been said to be on a leave of absence from Pfizer in the US.

If Mr Hesketh, aged 61, is convicted who stands to face a minimum term of five years imprisonment with a possible further 20 year term for distributing these images as well as another 10 years for having these images in his possession. In addition to these punishments the defendant could also be handed a $250,000 fine by the courts in New York.

New research has been made public to suggest that a single glass of pomegranate juice may be able to cure impotence. The study, as conducted and headed by scientists at the University of California have published their findings within the Journal of Impotence Research suggesting that this could be a viable replacement to the prescription drugs currently available, such as viagra.

The study itself, which gave a daily helping of pomegranate juice to 53 male volunteers, found the fruit juice to be high in antioxidants which works to increase blood flow to the penis. How does it work you may be asking, well the juice also increases the levels of nitric oxide which is know to relax blood vessels allowing them to pass more blood quicker than they would usually.

For just over a month these 53 men continued to take the pomegranate juice until they switched to another form of fruit juice as part of the study. The results of the pomegranate leg of the research showed that up to 47% of those who took part in these experiments had improved their sexual function.