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Judge orders FDA to let 17-year-olds use Plan B (Update)
Medicine & Health / Medications
Mar 23, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration let politics cloud its judgment when it denied teenage girls over-the-counter access to the Plan B morning-after pill, a federal judge said Monday as he ordered the FDA to let 17-year-olds ...
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Chemists Develop Easier Way To Find Platinum, Other Rare Metals
Sep 25, 2007 |
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Finding uses for palladium and platinum-rare precious metals coveted by the automobile, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries as catalysts in chemical reactions-proves easier than finding the scarce materials themselves.
Cholesterol-busting bug with a taste for waste
May 14, 2009 |
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A novel species of bacteria with cholesterol-busting properties has been discovered by scientists at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain. Dr Oliver Drzyzga and colleagues isolated the new bug, called Gordonia ch ...
Microbes point to method for isolating harmful forms of drugs
Apr 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at MIT and Brown University studying how marine bacteria move recently discovered that a sharp variation in water current segregates right-handed bacteria from their left-handed ...
FDA OKs first generic version of Trileptal
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Oct 10, 2007 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of the first generic versions of the anti-convulsion drug Trileptal (oxcarbazepine).
Marine microbes creating green waves in industry
Aug 07, 2009 |
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New technology designed to analyse large numbers of novel marine microbes could lead to more efficient and greener ways to manufacture new drugs for conditions such as epilepsy, diabetes, flu and other viruses, as well as ...
Bacteria manage perfume oil production from grass
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Oct 31, 2008 |
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Scientists in Italy have found bacteria in the root of a tropical grass whose oils have been used in the cosmetic and perfumery industries. These bacteria seem to promote the production of essential oils, but also they change ...
Drug industry embraces new business strategies after tough year
Dec 09, 2009 |
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As they pop the champagne corks to celebrate New Year's Eve, drug industry executives will likely be glad to put 2009 behind them. That's because pharmaceutical companies who make top-selling drugs for heart ...
Medical journalists need improved conflict-of-interest standards, say Dartmouth researchers
Nov 19, 2008 |
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Two Dartmouth researchers call for greater scrutiny of the relationship between medical journalists and the health care industries they cover. Their study was published online today, Nov. 19, in the British Medical Journal, or BMJ ...
The evolving manager stereotype: Gender a factor in measuring a team's performance
Nov 16, 2009 |
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Although women have made strides in the business world, they still occupy less than two percent of CEO leadership positions in the Fortune 500. Not surprisingly therefore leaders still tend to be thought of as men and most ...
New chemical reaction offers opportunities for drug development
Nov 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at University College Dublin have solved a chemistry problem which has stumped researchers worldwide for more than a decade. The results have earned the group the cover story of the leading scientific ...
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