commissioner, Dr. Andrew C. von Eschenbach, said Tuesday that he would resign on
Day, Jan. 20, part of a parade of expected departures at the nation’s crucial public health agencies.
Leaders of these agencies have sometimes straddled administrations, but the
is expected to make a clean sweep in part because of repeated assertions that the Bush administration allowed politics to play an unusually forceful role in science policy, and because Read the rest of this entry »
BEIJING, Jan. 14 (Xinhua) — China has for the first time started using
dogs to sniff for drugs on flights to Beijing.
The dogs were put to work at Terminal 3 of Beijing’s Capital International
Airport.
Wearing uniforms and leather shoes, two golden Labrador retrievers, Weite
and Haige, boarded a plane from the United Arab Emirates Monday.
Traffickers hiding drugs leave a distinct smell on their seats that is
detectable for up to two Read the rest of this entry »
Dec. 23 (Bloomberg) –
is looking to widen
its share of the $94 billion market for biotechnology drugs by
developing generic versions of those therapies, following U.S.
rivals Merck & Co. and Eli Lilly & Co.
The London-based company is investigating the creation of
so-called biosimilars to expand in medicines made from living
cells, treatments that currently make up about 30 percent of its
pipeline. AstraZeneca’s facilities and technology may Read the rest of this entry »
Washington (ECN) – The FDA has given approval to Galashiels-based pharmaceutical company, ProStrakan for a patch for chemo patients.
The patch is known as Sancuso, and is an anti-nausea and vomiting patch for chemotherapy patients.
This is going to allow the company to expand the product into the U.S., and to garner more revenue.
They hope to launch the new patch to help chemotherapy patients before the end of the year.
They expect peak sales Read the rest of this entry »
LOS ANGELES—Documents show Dennis Quaid and his wife have agreed to a a $750,000 settlement with a hospital that gave his newborn twins an overdose of blood thinner.
A petition filed in Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday shows the Quaids and Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have agreed on the parents’ damages, but can still pursue claims for their children.
The documents state Cedars-Sinai is not admitting wrongdoing as part of the settlement. Read the rest of this entry »
London (PTI): Mushrooms could soon become the latest weapon in winning the battle of the bulge worldwide, if researchers are to be believed.
A new study has found that mushrooms are not only a good source of Vitamin D but a diet rich in the popular fungus could help people shed the flab, according to reports in the British media.
In the study, volunteers who ate mushrooms rather than meat in four otherwise identical meals a week shed almost 6 Read the rest of this entry »
Hoping to encourage small employers to keep their health care coverage and to reduce the ranks of the uninsured, lawmakers advanced a bill Friday that would allow Utahns to pick cheaper plans that offer fewer benefits.
Starting next year, insurance companies could start offering plans that exclude diabetes management, adoption coverage and the use of specialists like pediatricians and ob-gyns as primary-care doctors.
But insurance companies say Read the rest of this entry »
– A man suspected of trying to fake his death by parachuting out of a plane before it crashed likely will stay in the hospital over the weekend, the U.S. Marshals Service said Friday.
Financial manager Marcus Schrenker was found Tuesday at a campsite near Quincy, Florida, after ditching his plane over Alabama.
Authorities said they discovered him incoherent and bleeding profusely from apparently self-inflicted cuts to his wrist and left forearm Read the rest of this entry »
BAMAKO, Dec 21 (Reuters) – Nine Malian government troops and 11 Tuareg rebel fighters were killed when a rebel column attacked an army post in a weekend raid linked to drug trafficking, Mali’s defence ministry said on Sunday.
The attack early on Saturday on the Nampala post, near the Mauritanian border 400 km (250 miles) northeast of the capital Bamako, took place despite a five-month-old Algerian-mediated ceasefire between the government and the Read the rest of this entry »
WASHINGTON, Sept 17 (Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration appears to be giving priority to projects that
benefit the pharmaceutical industry rather than helping
consumers, a top Democratic lawmaker said on Wednesday.
The head of the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight and
Government Reform Committee questioned how the FDA set its
priorities given recent controversies over its handling of
safety issues, including tracking tainted Read the rest of this entry »