UN environmental agency steps up battle against marine pollution
Coastal pollution, including plastic waste, discarded lead-acid batteries and used oils and lubricants, will come under renewed attack under a new agreement signed by the United Nations environmental agency and an international treaty body controlling hazardous wastes. The Memorandum of Understanding, signed last week in Nairobi, Kenya, by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Regional Seas Program...'Dating agency' boosts hunt for disease genes
Doctors and scientists nationwide will today for the first time be able to join together over the internet to start the search for genes that underlie a range of chronic diseases. Patients across Britain with cancer, heart and other common diseases have been providing blood samples for research since 2000. They are part of a project hosted by The University of Manchester that will allow m...Researcher to study astronaut bone loss for space biology agency
Roger K. Long, MD, an endocrinology research fellow at the San Francisco VA Medical Center and the University of California, San Francisco, was one of only three scientists named in January 2007 as 2006-2008 Postdoctoral Fellows by the National Space Biomedical Research Institute (NSBRI). Long's NSBRI research project will focus on the causes and possible methods of treating or preventing...EraGen's SARS test validated by Chinese agency
MADISON - , a Madison-based genetic diagnostics and drug discovery company, announced Tuesday that the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention has validated its molecular diagnostics in writing. EraGen President and CEO Irene Hrusovsky showed the company's SARS diagnostic test to Beijing officials while on Gov. Jim Doy...Victorian Initiative: Coffers Are Ringing For an Upcoming Cancer Agency
The Victorian Government has taken on the onus of improving the treatment for cancer patients, and as a first step, a new cancer agency// with a $15 million funding will be instituted. The detailed statement by the government, to be announced soon, during the pre-budget statement, will also outline the other medical initiatives on the anvil, along with details of financial assistance...European Medicines Agency (EMEA) Recommends Herceptin For Early Stage Breast Cancer
The European Medicines Agency (EMEA) has recommended the use of breast cancer drug Herceptin in early stages of the cancer in a record 27 days review//. A license for the drug is to be issued in three months time. The National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence in the UK will decide now if Herceptin can be recommended in the NHS. The drug, which costs £20,000 a year, is already...Alcohol Agency Probe If Lohan was Served Alcohol Before Car Crash
The agency that controls alcoholic beverages in California has got in touch with the Beverly Hills Police Department to find out whether an underage Lindsay Lohan was served alcohol before a weekend car crash. California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control investigators also want to know if Lohan or others were served after hours, agency spokesman John Carr said....'Daronrix', Glaxo's Bird-flu Vaccine Approved by European Medicines Agency
London – 'Daronrix', Glaxo's bird-flu vaccine, will hold a pride of place in the annals of preventive medicine, to be the first experimental bird-flu //vaccine to receive certification by the European Medicines Agency, for its use in protecting people in the event of a bird-flu pandemic. This first generation vaccine can be used only after the WHO or the European Union officially de...Results of Research Depends on Funding Agency
There are many agencies which are involved in different kinds of research. //People should be wary of such research findings. Each agency may come out with different results on health and nutrition based on the funding agency. In this connection, Dr. David Ludwig of Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard University says that there are numerous groups which conduct such researches. When...