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FDA Nanotechnology Task Force takes positive step forward

...to answer safety-related questions, and to provide companies with clear guidance so there can be reasonable and safe pathways to market for the many potential applications of nanotechnology under FDA’s jurisdiction. Equally important, the report signals FDA’s commitment to a transparent public process for dev...

A new century of Alzheimer's disease research

...em. They are also made available to pharmaceutical companies to help them test whether the drugs they are developing could reduce the production of tangles and/or plaque. The mouse models helped provide a breakthrough discovery for the Mayo Clinic researchers. Physicians at the three Mayo Clinic sites have ...

Tougher Tobacco Rules Urged at Global Anti-smoking Talks

...d reporters that although the kingdom bans tobacco companies from sponsoring sporting events, international com... more competition is bringing prices down. Tobacco companies are taking the loopholes of regulations," he told reporters. "The government needs to implement to...

Annual Tobacco-related Deaths to Reach 8.3 Million by 2030

... to 8.3 million by 2030 as multinational cigarette companies target the region's huge and still undeveloped mar... such as Formula One racing. He said the tobacco companies spend between 300 to 400 million dollars a year in ads and sponsorships of Formula One, which reach ...

Dow Acquires Wolff Walsrode from Bayer

...aken full ownership of the Wolff Walsrode group of companies on June 30, 2007. The acquisition will deliver considerable top line synergies for Dow, driven by application expertise and worldwide growth in demand for cellulosics. The acquisition is expected to be financially accretive by the end of the first y...

Boeing Unveils 'green' Dreamliner Passenger Jet

...wo decades, has so far received 634 orders from 45 companies for the plane, which has a catalogue price of between 146 to 200 million dollars. The 787 will go into service after Airbus's mammoth A380 takes to the skies. The first units of the double-decker superjumbo -- capable of seating up to 800 passenger...

FDA Extends GRAS Approval Listex to All Food Products

... most dangerous food pathogens, US food processing companies can now apply a novel yet natural tool: LISTEX(TM)...d Safety now tops the agenda of US food processing companies and consumers, who are insisting on 'green' solutions, rather than chemicals. Natural bacteriophages...

Smokeless Tobacco Promotion

...ransferable to other settings, and that if tobacco companies are allowed to market snus they will undoubtedly u...e away from smoking. However transnational tobacco companies are already marketing snus using slogans that mention smoking, such as: When you cant smoke, snus....

EU Aims to Shake Up Wine Industry With Root-and-branch Reform

... we need a market-oriented (approach) allowing the companies and the European wines to be more competitive both in the internal market and in the external markets," said CEEV head Lamberto Vallarino Gancia....

Pediatricians Face Malpractice Crisis

...l malpractice insurance companies. Together, these companies insure approximately 60% of all private practicing physicians and surgeons in the United States. "While I don't want to minimize the horror of being sued, the numbers don't bear this [malpractice] out as a problem for pediatricians," said Dr. Carro...

Live Earth: How Global Warming Became Cool

...rcing sceptics into silence, prompting fossil-fuel companies to display green credentials and encouraging President George W. Bush to acknowledge climate change as a long-term challenge. Weart, who is director of the Center for the History of Physics at the American Institute of Physics (AIP) in College Park...

An Inconvenient Truth-Coal to Liquid

...one testing for 25 companies, both large petroleum companies and small startup companies," he says. "North Am...he low cost of oil and gasoline discouraged energy companies from seeking alternative fuels. As the cost of oil and gasoline has risen to record levels in the la...

Functional Food What is That, Ask First

...t attacks. Food products from larger, well-known companies would have undergone testing and monitoring, so tended to be more reliable, he said. Still, Savage concludes, We should not allow the baby-boomers to turn eating into a serious quest for eternal health. Food should be savoured, enjoyed and shared w...

Frustrated With Fad Diets One Man Sets Out to Weed Through The Jungle of Plans

... more overweight the equally distributing trend of companies setting out to profit from this occurrence grows just as quickly. There are more people in need of dietary and nutritional help than ever before. While we may never know the true best diet plan on the internet we can count on Big John to bring us t...

AIDS Foundation Lauds Brazil for Negotiating Price Cut on Abbott's Kaletra

...arbitrary AIDS drug pricing by multi-national drug companies can be. Abbott has been the pharmaceutical industr...e still believe Abbott -- like most pharmaceutical companies -- can do far, far more to improve pricing and access to their lifesaving AIDS drugs around the worl...

Tobacco Firm's Research Funds Spark Protest in SKorea

...ing. Kim's group says research funded by tobacco companies is banned in major universities in Western countries. Jang said his research was endorsed by the university's institutional review board. Other hospitals have also secured approval from their own review boards. "We decided to push ahead with the ...

China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

...l industry is lucrative but poorly regulated. Some companies try to cash in by substituting fake or substandard ingredients. The latest U.S. recalls announced Thursday by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission covered jewelry the agency said could cause lead poisoning. They also covered a magnetic build...

Efforts on to Tackle Health Problems Faced by US Truck Drivers

...person and a safe driver." Krueger said trucking companies need to do more to foster better health among thei...cluding diabetes and high blood pressure. And many companies are stepping up their own efforts at improving health. "It takes a while to undo years and years a...

Pharmacogenomic Market Gaining Greater Acceptance Across Europe

... the test is seeking to prevent." Going forward, companies will have to clearly demonstrate the clinical practicality of their tests to the medical community. Apart from oncologists, most physicians have misconceptions about the clinical practicality and do not understand the benefits of pharmacogenomic test...

FDAs Gesture for Firm Manufacturing Drug for Cushings Syndrome

...reat such diseases is financially disadvantageous, companies that do so are rewarded with tax reductions and ma...e longer period of exclusivity will encourage more companies to invest money in research. Under the act many drugs have been developed, including drugs to treat ...

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