Watermelon rinds could be the new natural aphrodisiac, new research has shown. Researchers from Texas A&M's Fruit and Vegetable Improvement Center say the fruit's rind can have a Viagra-like effect. The flesh and rind of watermelons contain citrulline, which reacts with the body's enzymes when consumed in large quantities. The compound is changed into arginine, an amino acid that benefits the heart and the circulatory and immune systems. Just like the popular Viagra and other drugs meant to treat erectile dysfunction (ED), it also helps relax and dilate blood vessels.

Oliver Sherwood, a two-year-old boy who is suffering from a rare illness that causes chronic high blood pressure, is being kept alive by four daily doses of the erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra. Viagra helps control Oliver's rare pulmonary hypertension by improving blood flow and opening his veins and capillaries to allow circulation. In adults, this boosts erectile function.

People can buy many things in vending machines, from candy and chips to sandwiches, aspirin and now medicinal marijuana. Yep. Marijuana dispensing vending machines now exist. In California Anytime-Vending-Machines in secure rooms dispense marijuana to anyone with a doctor's prescription for the weed that is legal in that state for anyone with a medical need to take it.

Security experts have debunked the reported assassination of a Russian spammer and called it a hoax. On Thursday, a blog post on the website Loonov. com claimed a spammer named Alexey Tolstokozhev was shot in the head, "a clear mark of Russian hit men. " The news even made it to the popular technology website Slashdot. org, saying "Alexy Tolstokozhev was recently found murdered in his palatial spam-bought estate near Moscow. The implications of this hands-on method of system administration are staggering. "

Smokers in Glasgow who were trying to kick the habit have been mistakenly prescribed Viagra because of a computer error. According to a report by the BBC, the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the error was caused by a computer "misreading" the prescription given to patients.