WHO On Measures To Combat Spurious Medicines

At a conference held at Prague on Tuesday, the World Health Organization along with twenty technological companies discussed various means// to combat the movement of fake drugs especially in developing countries. Howard Zucker, WHO assistant director-general for health technology, told that sa...

South-East Asia Flooded With Spurious Drugs

Numerous counterfeit drugs are being circulated in South Asia for various ailments like malaria, HIV AIDS, meningitis, typhoid//, pneumonia and avian flu. According to a British doctor in Laotian capital, Vientiane, the drugs have been well disguised making it difficult for the user to find out. ...

Bhopal Gas Victims Get Spurious Drugs, Say Activists

Terming it as a 'citizens raid', Bhopal gas tragedy survivors' organisations claimed //to have seized a large number of sub-standard and expired drugs from two medical stores of the Bhopal Gas Tragedy Relief and Rehabilitation Department. "A joint team of four organisations, working for the v...

PIL Raises The Issue Of Spurious Drugs

A PIL in the Bombay High Court today raised the issue of spurious drugs, demanding that state government be directed to take steps to curb the trade of such drugs. // The High Court has directed the state government to file a reply in this regard by July 12. The PIL was filed by Lakhpat ...

British Authorities Seize Spurious Drugs

Lipitor accounts for worldwide sales of more than $10 billion. The drug is prescribed to patients diagnosed as having an increased risk of cardiovascular// disease and diabetes and those with angina and high blood pressure. Recently while conducting raids at some wholesale locations British auth...

Federal Judge Sentences Defendants Who Perpetrated $10.9 Million Medicare Fraud HIV Infusion Scheme

...cal operations," said HHS Inspector General Daniel R. Levinson. "Our agents are working tirelessly with our Strike Force partners to investigate these spurious operations, bring perpetrators to justice, and recover stolen funds for the Medicare program." Trial evidence established that Russell, Pachec...

FRC Says Planned Parenthood, Desperate to Hide Agenda, Attacks Hatch and Hides Intent

... least two to one. "Now caught in the first of what is likely to be many maneuvers to achieve their goal, Planned Parenthood is launching a spurious and erroneous assault on Sen. Hatch. In fact, it is the insistence of Planned Parenthood and other groups that abortion be included, by hook or by cr...

U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce Advocates Strong Healthcare Reforms in Support of American Values

...financial collapse fueled by unwarranted and oversized growth of executive compensation, shadow banking, credit card fee and rate escalation and other spurious financial manipulation that has nearly ground America's economy to a halt." The report details troubling statistics regarding the suppression of ...

Medifast, Inc. Responds to False Claims

...by convicted felon Barry Minkow and the Fraud Discovery Institute. "This report is false and misleading. Medifast does not customarily respond to spurious claims, however, in this case we felt it was warranted to protect our shareholders and health coaches. We believe most everything he says to be false...

Genome-wide Association Studies Must Account for Ancestry

...e is that we no longer have to fully rely on a person’s self report. It will increase a scientist’s confidence that their finding is not a spurious association.” In addition to the study in Human Molecular Genetics, the investigators published a similar study in PLoS Genetics earlier thi...

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Spurious in Medical Products

Epocrates Lab

Features:...sts and panels, including preparation/ collection, adult and pediatric reference ranges, interpretation (differential diagnosis of diseases, drugs and spurious causes), follow-up, reimbursement codes, and more. Frequently updated and expanded Seamless links from differential diagnosis to drug information ...
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Spurious in Biological News

Vanderbilt scientists invent world's smallest periscopes

...when working at the low light levels involved. Being able to pinpoint actual light sources in two or three dimensions allows the researchers to reject spurious signals. This should be useful in quantitative fluorescence or bioluminescence studies: Cells can be genetically modified to glow in the dark to provi...

BioScience tip sheet, January 2009

...owing rivers, but also on the actions of ecosystem engineers. Understanding this complexity can help allocate water within the Okavango watershed. spurious Certainty: How Ignoring Measurement Error and Environmental Heterogeneity May Contribute to Environmental Consequences. Reinette Biggs, Stephen R. Ca...

Statin does not appear helpful for children with learning disabilities caused by genetic disorder

...meliorate the cognitive deficits associated with NF1. Further studies to evaluate a longer treatment period and whether the object assembly finding is spurious may be warranted," the authors conclude. ...

Claims of sex-related differences in genetic association studies often not properly validated

...unclear. Appropriate documentation of gene-sex interaction was recorded in 55 claims (12.7 percent); documentation was insufficient for 303 claims and spurious (not valid) for the other 74. Data for reanalysis of claims were available for 188 comparisons. Of these, 83 (44.1 percent) were nominally statistical...

Scientists discover a genetic code for organizing DNA within the nucleus

...ode: The intended sites are found in nucleosome-free segments, thereby allowing them to be accessed by the various transcription factors. In contrast, spurious binding sites with identical structures that could potentially sidetrack transcription factors are conveniently situated in segments that form nucleos...

Biased reporting found in cancer prognostic studies

...may have helped to fabricate the strong prognostic factor/cancer association in these studies, according to the authors. "These biases may create a spurious knowledge base of cancer predictors that may be of no use and may be potentially harmful," conclude the authors. However, they caution that their stud...

Researchers seek to discover what really happens when a virus enters the body

...tensity signal. The noise she refers to is not audible to the human ear. From an electrical engineering standpoint, noise in this example includes the spurious artifacts that appear in the image due to the microscope's uneven source illumination. Noise can also result from the spectral overlap of the fluoresc...

Spurious in Biological Technology

Brand protection in the age of customer engagement

...p planners searching for evaluations of vacation venues and hotels around the world. Getting swift-boated, blog style In the political arena, spurious attacks have been made against Barack Obama alleging that he went to school in a madrassa in Indonesia. On the other side of the aisle, a new politi...

Phosphorescence lifetime measured using the SPEX phosphorimeter

...eptide-terbium complex with and without 0.67-M fluorescein, without and with a 50-s delay between excitation with a xenon flash lamp. Again, the spurious fluorescence at 363 nm is removed by delaying the sample window for 50 s. Curves 3-b and 3-c directly compare fluoresceincontaining and fluoresc...

Small-Molecule Quantitation Using Automated Single-Shot Averaging MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry

...ximum peak height limits that satisfied a signal-to-noise (S/N) standard relative to the base peak intensity. The S/N criterion was included to reject spurious peaks resulting from sodium and potassium adducts and noise spikes. A single-shot spectrum was accepted and averaged only if all of the acceptance cri...

A Robust LC/MS/MS Method for the Quantitation of Very Long Chain Fatty Acids for Research into the Characterization of Peroxisomal Disorders

...ptible to contamination from external sources. (During sample preparation, detergents used for glassware washing can contaminate samples, resulting in spurious peaks. The chromatographic process used in this method helped to prevent false attributions of VLCFA.) Finally, the method presented in this study was...

Use of the DCode System to Detect the Food-Borne Bacterial Pathogen Listeria monocytogenes

..., a technique referred to as Hot Start. 6 Another technique, referred to as Touchdown, was also used to reduce the formation of spurious byproducts. 8 This involved setting the annealing temperature (T a ) 10 C higher than the calculated primer melting temperatur...

Separation of 16S rRNA PCR Products From a Model Community Using Temporal Temperature Gradient Gel Electrophoresis, Rev A

...a list of potential organisms in the mixture. This can result in spurious pattern matches because a combination of patterns from two or mo...with mixtures this method yields highly ambiguous results due to spurious matches. These ambiguities are prevented if the PCR products are...

Microbial Diversity in Ground and Surface Water Analyzed by Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Using the DCode System

...ure and then 20 additional cycles at the actual annealing temperature of 55 C. This touchdown procedure reduces the formation of spurious by-products during the amplification process. 4, 5 DGGE was performed with the DCode system. The polyacrylamide gels (7.5%) con...

Analysis of Microarray Data

... of the problems associated with hierarchical clustering such as irrelevance of gene expression data as clustering progresses or spurious results due to errors in assigning clusters initially in the analysis (2). K-means clustering of all the elements of the HCI arr...

Amplification of Epstein-Barr Virus Exon C with Difficult Primers Using Eppendorf Mastercycler gradient

...cted at 56C. No bands were observed at higher temperatures while spurious product of lower molecular weight product began to generate at t...er (Fermentas). At temperatures below 54C, lower molecular weight spurious product became evident. Amplification of Exon C was shown to be ...

Optimizing DNA Amplification Protocols using the Eppendorf Mastercycler

...ield, but rather produce an increase in spurious priming and, thus, greater amounts of nonspecific ... primer concentration increases the probability of spurious priming and leads to the generation of ... (1991). "Touch down" PCR to circumvent spurious priming during gene ampification. Nucleic Acids Re...

Spurious in Biological Definition

Genetic fingerprinting

...Considerations when evaluating DNA evidence In the early days of the use of genetic fingerprinting as criminal evidence, juries were often swayed by spurious statistical arguments by defence lawyers along these lines: given a match that had a 1 in 5 million probability of occurring by chance, the lawyer wou...

Spurious in Biological Dictionary

Gene amplification

...h "PCR" redirects here. ... 'Touchdown' PCR to circumvent spurious priming during gene amplification " ... gene amplificatio....com. gene amplification n. A cellular ... Touchdown' PCR to circumvent spurious priming during gene amplification " ... Gene amplification . Defin...

Binding site

... protein can be used to identify ... transcription factor binding site motifs throughout 52 fully sequenced genomes ... average proportion of spurious binding sites found relative to the expected ... meric to CTCF- binding site (2.6% of genes) or contain in ... (A) A chromosomal view of the...