Matrixx Initiatives Confirms Voluntary Recall of Zicam Cold Remedy Nasal Gel, Zicam Cold Remedy Gel Swabs

...sale of Zicam Gels and Swabs at cash registers and post the enclosed posters on or near the shelves where Zicam Gels and Swabs were previously shelved and at cash registers and other appropriate locations throughout your stores. Retailers should instruct consumers to contact Matrixx directly...

SeprOx Receives Texas Emerging Technology Fund Award

...o receive up to $1 million in total funding. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090611/DA30680LOGO ) "Too often, great ideas are shelved with no clear path to the marketplace when grants run out or new projects are started, when they could improve people's lives. The Emerging Technology...

V. Craig Jordan, Internationally Renowned Breast Cancer Scientist, Joins Georgetown's Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center

...oxifen has saved the lives of more than a half million women with breast cancer. Tamoxifen was first studied as a contraceptive in the 1960s but shelved when the drug failed to prevent pregnancies. Jordan was the first scientist to focus attention on tamoxifen's anticancer properties and its ability t...

Antioxidant-Rich Foods Lose Nutritional Luster Over Time

...virus-fighting capacity, as well as the ability to inhibit cancer cell activity. However, given that commercial green tea does not spoil and can be shelved for extended periods of time, Mendel Friedman and colleagues from the Albany, Calif.-based Western Regional Research Center of the U.S. Department of ...

Older Drug Effective in Treating Pediatric Nerve Cancer

... finds TUESDAY, Jan. 20 (HealthDay News) -- An anti-cancer drug shelved because it was thought to be too toxic may be effective in small doses agai...o cancer. "The drug, which was developed as a cancer therapy and later shelved because of toxicity concerns, has been around since the 1970s," John Clevel...

Finding the Right Home for Your Vitamins and Other Supplements

...to other household locations. The bathroom cabinet took a distant second place, with 25% of doctors and 27% of nurses reporting their supplements were shelved there. "It's best to store your supplements in a place where you'll remember to take them," said Donnica Moore, M.D., president of the Sapphire Wo...

Israel Offers Help to India in Tackling Water Scarcity

...desalination firm Technochem Agencies. "Several states in the country have flirted with the idea of desalination plants but most projects were shelved even before they took off," said Kulkarni, adding the choice of right technology was important given India's contaminated water. "Another fear...

Sponsor to Pull Measure Mandating HPV Vaccine

... A bill that would have required middle school girls in Maryland to be vaccinated against the virus that can cause cervical cancer is being shelved by its lead sponsor//. Sen. Delores G. Kelley (D-Baltimore County) said yesterday that she plans today to withdraw legislation that would have ma...

USDA Gives Go-Ahead to Market Controversial Genetically Engineered Rice, LL601

...tamination of food supply and rice exports. The approval to market this crop came as a shock, especially after the manufacturer Bayer crop science had shelved any plans of commercialization of the crop. Joseph Mendelson, Legal Director of the Center for Food Safety,” With this decision, USDA is telling...

Pharmacists to take over Treatment of Long-Term Illnesses

...arlier plan to allow nurses and some pharmacists to prescribe a wide range of drugs as part of a Government bid to speed up patient treatment has been shelved following the British Medical Association branding that move as ''irresponsible and dangerous'' saying it could put patients at risk. Chairman Ja...

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KineMed Presents Preclinical Data for Investigational Agent Demonstrating Neurogenesis and Confirming Improvements in Behavioral Model

...ower of KineMed's technology, which measures the flow of molecules through intact metabolic pathways. Using this technology, KineMed is able to take a shelved compound, or an entire drug class, and put it back into the clinic, thereby derisking the class of compounds. This is unique from other efforts becaus...

Pro-Pharmaceuticals to Present Abstract at the International Society of Oncodevelopmental Biology and Medicine Conference

...y capitalizes on the natural property of carbohydrates to increase the efficacy and reduce the toxicity of chemotherapeutics; "rescue" drugs that were shelved for toxicity or "half-life" issues; increase the solubility of existing drugs, and develop carbohydrate polymers as new chemical entities. The Compa...

Pro-Pharmaceuticals Updates Progress of Clinical Trials & Davanat 505 (b)(2) Filings

...s with the intent of enhancing the safety and efficacy of chemotherapy agents. The Company's technology also is directed at "rescuing" drugs that were shelved for toxicity or "half-life" issues; increasing the solubility of existing drugs, and developing polymers as new chemical entities. The need to improve...

Shelved in Biological Technology

Frost & Sullivan: Lower Import Duties and Rising Customer Demand to Boost Russian Electronics Manufacturing Market

...ic slowdown is a key factor restraining the entry of foreign investors into Russia. Many multinational OEMs as well as EMS companies have postponed or shelved plans to enter Russia amidst the current economic crisis. "The global economic slowdown will continue to have an impact on foreign investments in...

ChanTest to Highlight the World's Largest Catalog of Ion Channel-Expressing Cell Lines and Discovery Services at Ion Channel Targets, Booth 5

...development process, save time and money, and ultimately -- to help make better, safer drugs. They are also becoming valuable new tools to help rescue shelved pharmaceutical compounds. Dr. Arthur (Buzz) Brown, ChanTest's founder and CEO, will address conference attendees in a presentation entitled, "Ion Chan...

ChanTest to Highlight the World's Largest Catalog of Ion Channel-Expressing Cell Lines and Discovery Services at Drug Discovery Technology, Booth 839

...mpounds, and eliminate those that could be harmful. ChanTest's ion channel cell lines and services are also becoming valuable new tools to help rescue shelved pharmaceutical compounds. Dr. Arthur (Buzz) Brown, ChanTest's founder and CEO, will address conference attendees on that topic as part of the panel "T...