The Food and Drug Administration said it would continue allowing the widespread use of a class of powerful antibiotics in food-producing animals, making a last-minute reversal after calling the practice a public-health risk in July.
The agency’s bid this summer to ban many uses of cephalosporin drugs in cows, swine, chickens and other animals came under fire from the industry. Agriculture groups and animal-drug makers, including Pfizer Inc., said Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese woman has died from bird flu in a Beijing hospital, the government reported Tuesday, but the World Health Organization said the case did not appear to signal a new public health threat.
China’s Ministry of Health said Huang Yanqing, 19, died Monday and tests confirmed she had the H5N1 bird flu virus. The official Xinhua News Agency said Huang became ill after buying and cleaning nine ducks in December at a market Read the rest of this entry »
Some of North End’s sparkle was missing at Coventry on Saturday, even though they managed a point to keep their unbeaten start going in the league and equalled the club’s best start for almost 20 years.
And Irvine was concerned he might have overdone the fitness sessions during the fortnight’s rest from league action.
“I am going to find out if they were tired and I do hope that isn’t the case,” he said after a stuttering display at the Ricoh Read the rest of this entry »
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to use new computer technology to simulate how some drugs in development are supposed to work, helping researchers and regulators spot safety and effectiveness issues before late-stage tests on humans are completed.
Entelos Inc., a Foster City, Calif., company that has developed the technology, said it will enable researchers to obtain computer-generated test results in a matter of days or weeks, compared Read the rest of this entry »
Sen. Clinton Must Fight Bush Administration ‘Conscience’ Rule Before Leaving Office, Editorial Says
Before Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) leaves office to take a position as President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of state, she “needs to help preserve the abortion rights and access to birth control that the Bush administration is trying to restrict on its way out of power,” an
editorial states, adding that “[a]ny help she can get from the rest Read the rest of this entry »
Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. Sets FDA Meeting Date for Proposed Phase
IIb Oxycyte Clinical Trial
COSTA MESA, Calif.–(
)–Oxygen Biotherapeutics, Inc. (OTCBB:OXBO) today announced that the
company is tentatively scheduled to meet with the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) during the week of Oct. 20, 2008 to discuss any
remaining issues that the agency has about the use of Oxycyte
in a proposed Phase IIb clinical Read the rest of this entry »
An operation by the Police, the National Drug Authority and URA has impounded counterfeit medicinal products worth millions of shillings.
The organisations have as a result placed 38 pharmacies in four districts under investigation for sale of fake products, including un registered medicinal lotions, creams and ointments betamethasone, clobetasol picked mainly from Kikuubo in Kampala, Police spokesperson Judith Nabakooba announced yesterday.
Surprisingly, Read the rest of this entry »
- Magellan Health Services, Inc. (Nasdaq:MGLN) announced today that Rene Lerer, M.D., president and chief executive officer of the Company, will present at the Oppenheimer 19th Annual Healthcare Conference on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Lerer is expected to provide a general overview of the Company and discuss its business strategy and outlook.
11:20 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday, November 4, 2008. Investors and the public are invited to access the conference Read the rest of this entry »
The Smyrna boy whose mother took him to Nebraska to find help for behavioral problems should be back in Georgia today —- the same day a custody hearing may determine whether the boy rejoins his family or becomes a foster child.
The 12-year-old was scheduled to fly this morning from Lincoln, Neb., to Atlanta, said Joe Kelly, attorney for Lancaster County, Neb. The county includes Lincoln, where Tysheema Brown ended her 1,000-mile drive Saturday Read the rest of this entry »
If enough people improve their performance, then improvement becomes
the status quo. Brain-boosting drug use could become a basic job requirement.
Ritalin and Adderall, now ubiquitous as academic pick-me-ups, are merely the
first generation of brain boosters. Next up is Provigil, a “wakefulness
promoting agent” that lets people go for days without sleep, and
improves memory to boot. More powerful drugs will follow.
authors write, “cognitive
enhancements Read the rest of this entry »