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Film Festival on Gender Sexuality Draws Crowds

...student, all the four women have never enjoyed the company of women as much as they have loved jumping around with little boys when they were young and watching a game of base ball with their buddies when they grew older. "Let them be...if a girl does not want to do something, don't force her. Let her grow...

Beef Firm in US Withdraws Its Products from Markets After E. Coli Outbreak.

... the known symptoms of E.Coli. PM Beef, the meat company believed to be responsible for supplying tainted stuff, withdrew nearly 117,500 pounds of beef it had shipped to eight states. The US Department of Agriculture confirmed that PM Beef Holdings LLC of Windom had voluntarily withdrawn the spoilt meat ...

Very Soon You can Eat to Your Hearts Content

... a drug. He is collaborating with a pharmaceutical company that is working to find a compound that could be taken orally. Scientists already know that humans produce ACAT2 in the liver and that women have lower levels than men. Research has shown that estrogen can lower ACAT2 production, which may partly e...

US Drugmaker Slapped Huge Fine for Misleading Doctors Over Addictive Painkiller

... Office of Criminal Investigations (OCI), the drug company trained its sales force to represent OxyContin as a drug that did not cause euphoria and was less addictive than immediate-release opiates; and allowed healthcare providers to have the mistaken notion that OxyContin was less addictive than morphine. ...

Influenza Vaccine FluMist To Be Approved In Younger Children As Well

MedImmune, the company that has successfully sold flu vaccines to healthy...ears. This announcement comes at a time when the company is planning to self itself to UKs AstraZeneca for 15.6 billion dollars. AstraZeneca was behind MedI...

Talwalkars Awards a Record $1 Million Order to Nautilus

... ever order placed with a single fitness equipment company in India. The order follows a joint venture agreement between Talwalkar Better Value Fitness and Pantaloon Retail (India) Ltd to create new premium health and fitness centers in major retail malls across the country. The ambitious venture aims to...

Thailand Will Not Issue Compulsory Licenses for Patented Drugs

...ndation, said Abbott's offer demonstrates that the company "never treated patients as human beings, but busin...olding further negotiations with Abbott unless the company seeks to introduce new drugs in the country....

Holy Grail Of Dermatologists On The Verge Of Discovery

...sarelis also co-founded and has ties to a start-up company called Follica, which licensed the patent. This is an extremely exciting discovery and shows promise for treatment of follicular disorders such as hair loss and unwanted excess hair," says Dr Vera Price, director of the University of California, S...

Poisoned Workers of Hindustan Lever Demand Treatment

...om the company. Kodaikanal is a liability that the company cannot escape from and shareholders should ensure ... inside and around the factory. In early 2003, the company was forced by the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board to export 289 tonnes of mercury-contaminated ma...

Rent-A Body Scam Busted

...nsurance plans, as pre-approval from the insurance company would not be a requirement for surgery. Employees who were involved in this scheme affected more than 1,600 employers. The cappers arranged transportation for the patients, scheduled the surgeries, and coached the healthy patients on what to say. I...

Natural-Birth Centers In U.S Pulling Down The Shutters

...lpractice insurance premiums and lagging insurance company reimbursements, have folded in the Washington-Baltimore area over the past decade. Says Mary Beth Hastings, board member of the new Birth Options Alliance: 'There are countless women scrambling to find out-of-hospital birth support.' The group, w...

Campaign Against Trans Fat Gaining Fruit in US

...or of the menu item." In the next few weeks, the company plans to replace the pan and grill oil it uses to ...affect Applebee's locations outside the U.S., said company spokeswoman Laura Tigges. Many other restaurants, as well as coffee retailer Starbucks Corp., are ...

Ulcerative Colitis Disrupts Many Aspects of Daily Life: Survey

...ire Pharmaceuticals, a specialty biopharmaceutical company which markets UC medications LIALDA and PENTASA (m...nges they face and the concerns they have." As a company committed to educating patients and working with physicians, Shire is developing a program that will...

Deep-sea Mining can Damage Marine Ecosystem

...e not good,' said Prof. Halfar. A Canadian-based company is currently planning the worlds first commercial undersea exploration for high-grade gold and copper, targeting an area known as the Manus backarc basin off the coast of Papua New Guinea. 'The demand for metals is growing rapidly, and along with...

Government Hospitals to the Rescue of Loss-making Pharma Companies

...You will not find a folic acid tablet by a private company but its utility for our people is immense. They ar... Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL). The 46-year-old company set up to make India self sufficient in drug development is currently a loss-making outfit. It has...

Rice Containing Breast Milk Proteins to Be Grown in Kansas

... be grown on a large-scale. Developed by biotech company Ventria Bioscience in Sacramento, California, the rice strains produce lysozyme, lactoferrin, and human serum albumin in their seeds, which are commonly found in breast milk. According to the company, lysozyme and lactoferrin are proteins with anti...

Students Devise Oral Quick-dissolve Strips for Rotavirus Vaccine

...onals might not have delivered.' Truong said his company is in talks to fund further research in Maos lab to refine the strips so that they can dispense the Aridis rotavirus vaccine. Animal testing could begin later this year, he said. 'This is probably the second-most important childhood vaccine needed in...

Chocolate-makers Reverse Decision to Go for Animal Enzyme

...ona Dawson, managing director of Mars UK, said the company had listened to customers and decided to reverse its decision. "The consumer is our boss and we had lots of feedback from consumers who were unhappy about the change," Ms Dawson said. "It became very clear, very quickly that we had made a mistake,...

Invasion of Cicada Hordes Feared in US Midwest

...nt flaps down and turn the music up. An Illinois company that provides ice sculptures has turned down several outdoor parties over the next month. That's because of what happened when Nadeau Ice Sculptures owner Jim Nadeau delivered a swan statue to a wedding in 1990, during the area's last emergence of th...

Genetic Marker Linked to Aggressive Prostate Cancer

...discovered by deCODE genetics, a biopharmaceutical company in Iceland, in collaboration with Catalona of Northwestern and two other research groups. That study was first reported in Nature Genetics in June, 2006. Since then, the genetic variant has been widely duplicated by prestigious genetic research gro...

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