AstraZeneca has doped its version of a COX-2 inhibitor with nitrous oxide--laughing gas--to soften the gastrointestinal blow.

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Canisters of the so-called "laughing gas" were stolen after break-ins at two Borders hospitals earlier this week.

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The discovery of the so-called "laughing gas" was made at 11:15 beside the A7 at Ashkirk in Selkirkshire.

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The Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs is also calling for greater public awareness of the dangers of laughing gas - nitrous oxide - and helium.

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He rips into the stock market as being a depraved, drunken orgy--with cocaine snorted in the bathroom, laughing gas inhaled on the porch and church organists being debauched upstairs.

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Though nitrous oxide, also known as "laughing gas" or "nos, " has long been a rave phenomenon, it has recently grown into more mainstream use, propelled by the ease of social media to reach young people and spread the word.

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The country's billions of dollars of gas reserves should have it laughing all the way to the bank.

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