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FDA sees nanotech challenges in every product category it regulates

... scored the first run in the first inning. But the agency must act rapidly to adopt and fully implement the ..., medical devices, and food products. Overall, the agency regulates products that are worth nearly $1.5 trillion annually and that account for almost 25 perce...

Using nanomagnets to enhance medical imaging

...er to make nanocrystals in the 10-50 nm range. The agency is pioneering methods for manipulating and measuring the magnetic properties of these compounds and is developing instrumentation for understanding how contrast agents work and how to control contrast properties. Researchers correlate the measured pr...

Computer scientists join in search for ivory-billed woodpecker

...ory-billed woodpecker. "It's exciting for this agency to be involved in cutting-edge technology as we continue to research and understand what can be done to improve the habitat for this bird," he said. "We're pleased to be working alongside our partners in this ambitious venture." CONE purposes to ...

FDA causes unnecessary scare about common painkillers

... School of Medicine. At the same time, he says the agency has failed to recognize the harm of a pain reliever that should be taken off the market. "The FDA is adding 'black box' warnings to all prescription and over-the-counter pain relievers ?even to naproxen ?which the evidence shows is safe," said Furbe...

New study suggests promising drug combinations for sleeping sickness

...out by the international humanitarian medical aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), and its research arm, Epicentre, have now been published in the journal PLoS Clinical Trials. African trypanosomiasis, or sleeping sickness affects many tens of thousands of people each year in sub-Saharan Africa a...

Researchers image molecular motor structural changes

... Human Frontiers Science Program, an international agency that funds innovative research. As they move nutrients or other cellular loads around the cell, molecular motors travel along microtubules, infinitesimal "railroad tracks" within the cell. To date, cell biologists had not been able to capture actual...

How the US drug safety system should be changed

...eing subject to negotiation between the regulatory agency and industry. It also needs substantially more resources for the postmarketing study of drug safety. Strom concludes by proposing that an independent, nongovernmental organization is needed for nonregulatory tasks that are not within the mission of ...

Federal testing for mad cow disease a failure, law review editor says

...site it had built to USDA specifications. But the agency ruled that the BSE test was licensed only for "sur...ect" that was "not scientifically warranted." The agency invoked the 1913 Virus-Serum-Toxin Act, intended to assure the safe supply of animal vaccines, as it...

Cornell researchers find serious fish virus in Northeast for first time

... be reported to OIE if detected. The international agency usually imposes restrictions on any host country with VHSV to prevent fish from being moved to other areas and countries. "If you think of VHSV, you think of the most serious disease of freshwater rainbow trout in Europe," said Paul Bowser, Cornell...

Technique speeds up detecting, treating wound bacteria

...s the Army's medical materiel developer, with lead agency responsibility for medical research, development and acquisition. The command's expertise in these critical areas helps establish and maintain the capabilities required by the Army to fight and win on the battlefield. ...

US woman gives birth to baby from world's first frozen donor egg bank

...and operated an international egg donor recruiting agency for nine years before joining CEI. Dr. James Akin, Medical Director for CEI and Bluegrass Fertility Center and a voluntary researcher at the University of Kentucky Division of Reproductive Endocrinology, is the father of triplets and has practiced ...

New licensing agreement to maximize AIDS drug development

...onorrhea and chlamydia. CONRAD is a cooperating agency of USAID committed to improving reproductive health by expanding the contraceptive choices of women and men and by helping to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. CONRAD is administered through the Department...

MBL leads effort to update E. coli genome

...ding to Riley, currently there is no funding by an agency for any kind of coordinated E. coli annotation effort, however interested members of the E. coli community are applying to NIH for support to establish a K-12 information resource. "Interaction among the scientists accelerates discovery and the hope ...

Two NIH initiatives launch intensive efforts to find roots of common diseases

... Director of the National Institutes of Health, an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services. "This is a tangible result of the nation's increased investment in medical research over the past 10 years. We are now poised to combine what we have learned from years of population studies, with n...

NJIT engineer poised to take stem cell research a step forward

...Jersey Commission on Spinal Cord Research, a state agency that funds spinal cord research. She will use the grant to build a laboratory to test if stem cells taken from adult bone marrow can be made to turn into neurons. If her research shows that the cells can turn into neurons -- the nerve cells in the bo...

Study finds drug may cut down involuntary movements

...he medication would be the first authorized by the agency expressly for the treatment of Huntington's disease, which affects about 30,000 people in the United States. "Huntington's disease is an inherited brain disorder that causes patients to experience uncontrollable jerky movements (chorea), as well as ...

New Rotavirus vaccine joins routine infant immunization schedule

The federal agency that oversees childhood vaccinations today recommended a new vaccine for routine use against rotavirus infection, a common childhood illness that is the single largest infectious disease killer of infants and young children worldwide. Three scientist...

'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes

...'ve done is to create a sort of scientists' dating agency and shop," explains the Director of the Network's archive, Dr Martin Yuille (University of Manchester). "Vetted scientists can find on the website both data and materials about a disease. Then, they can 'date' a collaborator, design an experiment tog...

New battery technology helps stimulate nerves

... of Standards and Technology, a federal technology agency that works with industry to develop and apply technology, measurements and standards. ...

Envisat radar surveillance protects endangered prehistoric fish

...tion Satellites), a subsidiary of the French space agency CNES, the system is up and running at a time when overfishing has left the 40-million-year-old Patagonian toothfish species on the verge of extinction. Also found off South America, the toothfish has evolved anti-freeze components in its blood, ma...

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