President Bush has “never paid much attention to public opinion. Or legal opinion. Or expert opinion. Or scientific opinion,” a Eugene Register-Guard editorial says. It therefore is “no surprise” that Bush is “plowing full speed ahead” with a proposed HHS conscience
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President-elect Barack Obama’s campaign pledge to reverse President Bush’s 2001 restrictions on federal funding for research on new embryonic stem cell lines “is certain to provide a psychological boost” to scientists, and it “may also inspire a round of collaborations between government scientists and those in the private sector,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
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It tripled the patient’s chances for surviving to hospital discharge in a retrospective study; discharge was five times more likely if there was also bystander cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Heartwire
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On the reduction of VAT to 15%, as announced in the Chancellor’s Pre-budget Report, Raj Nutan, Head of Business Development at the National Pharmacy Association, said: “HMRC has confirmed that there is no legal requirement for pharmacies to pass on these savings, as pricing decisions to consumers are made by individual [...]
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Provectus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC BB: PVCT), a development-stage oncology and dermatology biopharmaceutical company, announced today that the first fifty percent (40 of 80) of melanoma subjects have been treated in its Phase 2 clinical trial of PV-10. Evaluation of new subjects continues at the trial’s active centers in Adelaide, Brisbane and Sydney, Australia, as well [...]
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It’s a parents worst nightmare, a newborn baby going under the knife to repair a heart defect. If the baby survives, that’s when the real work begins for parents. University of Alberta nursing professor Gwen Rempel has seen hundreds of babies on the brink as a former pediatric cardiology nurse; she wanted to find out [...]
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Vitamin K slowed the development of insulin resistance in elderly men in a study of 355 non-diabetic men and women ages 60 to 80 who completed a three-year clinical trial at the Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University (USDA HNRCA). “Men who received vitamin K supplementation had [...]
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The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) invites leaders from the biotechnology, chemical and agricultural industries to submit proposals for panels and individual papers for the 2009 World Congress on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioprocessing. This unique conference will be held July 19-22, 2009 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Now in its sixth year, the conference will [...]
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Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA) today announced that its subsidiary, Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc., has signed an agreement with AstraZeneca to settle patent litigation involving Teva’s U.S. generic version of AstraZeneca’s Pulmicort (Budesonide) Respules® including all claims for patent infringement and damages. Teva launched its generic budesonide respules in the U.S. on November 18, [...]
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Avalon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq:AVRX), today announced that on November 20, 2008 it received a Deficiency Notice from The NASDAQ Stock Market, LLC notifying the Company that it is not in compliance with NASDAQ Marketplace Rule 4450(a)(3) because the Company’s stockholders’ equity, as reported in the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended [...]
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