FDA Acts to Protect Public Health from Electronic Cigarettes
WASHINGTON, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has acted to protect public health from so-called electronic cigarettes by seeking to block importati...Carbohydrate acts as tumor suppressor
LA JOLLA, Calif., July 6, 2009 Scientists at Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered that specialized complex sugar molecules (glycans) that anchor cells into place act as tumor suppressors in breast and prostate cancers. These glycans play a critical role in cell adhesi...U.S. Senate Acts to Protect Kids, Save Lives by Increasing Federal Tobacco Taxes
Statement of Matthew L. Myers President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids WASHINGTON, Jan. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Senate today delivered a tremendous victory for children's health by voting to increase federal tobacco taxes, including a 61-cent increase in the cigarette t...U.S. House Acts to Protect Kids, Save Lives by Increasing Federal Tobacco Taxes
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following statement of Matthew L. Myers, President, Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, was released today: (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080918/CFTFKLOGO ) The U.S. House of Representatives today delivered a tremendous victo...Access Pharmaceuticals Provides Update on ProLindac Clinical Development Program
... proprietary nanopolymer delivery technology based on the natural vitamin B12 uptake mechanism; Angiolix(R), a humanized monoclonal antibody which acts as an anti-angiogenesis factor and is targeted to breast cancer; and Thiarabine , a new generation nucleoside analog which has demonstrated both pr...New Powder Speeds Healing of Difficult Foot Wounds
...ons, such as open wounds and ulcers, can be one of the most difficult ailments for a podiatrist to treat. However, a new wound dressing powder, which acts very much like a layer of skin, is proving to speed the healing time and reduce the amount of pain that a patient suffering from a serious foot ulcer ...Cordex Signs European Development Partnership for ATPotent(TM) Sperm Motility Drug
...titutes the source of energy for all bodily functions. ATP is released from cells under physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions; extracellular ATP acts as a local physiologic regulator by activating cell surface receptors called P2 receptors. Extracellular ATP plays an important role in sperm maturati...SpideRX® Embolic Protection Device
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LIVERMORE, Calif. - The most abundant material on Earth exhibits some unusual chemical properties when placed under extreme conditions. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory scientists have shown that water, in hot dense environments, plays an unexpected role in catalyzing complex explosive re...Deep in the ocean, a clam that acts like a plant
How does life survive in the black depths of the ocean? At the surface, sunlight allows green plants to "fix" carbon from the air to build their bodies. Around hydrothermal vents deep in the ocean live communities of giant clams with no gut and no functional digestive system, depending on symbiotic...Navigating in the ocean of molecules
...of Molecular Physiology in Dortmund aim to facilitate the search for suitable pharmaceutical substances. The program, which is called Scaffold Hunter, acts as a tool for navigating chemical space. It generates maps of chemically-related structures and links them to biological activity, that is, to their p...AGU journal highlights -- Aug. 6, 2009
...ions.shtml 1. Ozone depletion reduces ocean carbon uptake The Southern Ocean plays an important role in mitigating climate change because it acts as a sink of atmospheric carbon dioxide. Most current models predict that the strength of the Southern Ocean carbon dioxide sink should increase as at...University of Hawaii at Manoa researchers reveal ocean acidification at Station ALOHA
...er than it is. However, this beneficial role of the oceans as a CO 2 "scrubber" does not come without undesired consequences. When dissolved, CO 2 acts as an acid, and lowers seawater pH. Since the beginning of the industrial age, CO 2 -driven acidification of the surface oceans has already caused a ...The way you eat may affect your risk for breast cancer
...ancer Prevention Center at the Jewish General Hospital, both in Montreal. This study "contributes to accumulating evidence that caloric restriction acts by altering hormone levels rather than by directly starving cancers of energy. In particular, lower levels of insulin are associated with reduced food...Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find
RIVERSIDE, Calif. A game of billiards may never get smaller than this. Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings can act as an atomic-scale billiard table, with electric charges acting as billiard balls. ...Sheet of carbon atoms acts like a billiard table, physicists find
RIVERSIDE, Calif. A game of billiards may never get smaller than this. Physicists at UC Riverside have demonstrated that graphene a one-atom thick sheet of carbon atoms arranged in hexagonal rings can act as an atomic-scale billiard table, with electric charges acting as billiard balls. ...Sanofi-aventis U.S. Introduces BenzaClin(R) Carekit
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