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Trapping, selling or exporting geckos, regarded by some Asians as cure-alls, is punishable by hefty fines and jail terms of up to four years, Environment Secretary Ramon Paje warned in a statement.

Before her, there was mutual suspicion between the sceptic vets and assorted 'backmen' and other cure-alls.

No cure-alls protect you from these biases, but here are some suggestions.

Lee and Johnston caution that these strategies are neither one-size-fits-all nor cure-alls for homeowners in cash crunches.

However, in many cases there is little or no understanding of the longer term risks of medications that are increasingly hyped as cure-alls for some of the natural processes of women's bodies.

Visit the Boots of the Middle Ages - the Franciscan monastery that's been in business dispensing cure-alls since 1391.

They're worked up about "lean production," another of these corporate cure-alls, and they'd like governments to try it.

While it's true cameras aren't cure-alls, technology is on the way to making it as much a cure-all as possible," he says.

We live demanding, stress-filled lives and spend billions of dollars a year searching for miracle diets, pills or cure-alls that we hope will somehow transform us into healthy people.

And according to Prof Caterson we are not talking New Age products -but rather tried and tested cure-alls such as Cod Liver Oil, which if taken daily can prevent rheumatoid and osteo-arthritis.