Protecting Breast Feeding From Breast Milk Substitutes
...monitoring agencies can take four steps to prevent commercial pressures being placed on mothers. Firstly, Costello advocates that governments should incorporate the articles of the code of marketing substitutes for breast milk into national legislation. Secondly, he suggests that monitoring for overt violation...Chemists Closing In On Commercial Potential Of Alkanes
...designing a catalytic processthat could be used in commercial operations. An obstacle has been that thereaction takes place within 230 nanoseconds (billionths of a second). To slowit down for detailed study, Bergman and Bradley Moore, another chemist who alsoholds a joint Berkeley Lab-UC Berkeley appointment,...Intralase Will Develop Laser Systems For Eye Surgery
...dical devices and pharmaceuticals, has developed a commercial ultrafast laser for clinical applications and is developing an ophthalmic drug delivery system. Escalon has headquarters in Skillman, N.J., and manufacturing operations near Milwaukee, Wis. Funding for IntraLase is being provided by the Enterpr...Affordable, Hand-Held Biosensor For Diagnostics
...his new technology. We are hopeful that we willsee commercial applications within two to five years." "One can envision something like a Star Trek medical ?tricorder' that anurse might bring to the bedside of a patient," said Michael Sailor, Ph.D.,professor of chemistry and biochemistry at UCSD, and co-......s and acoustics that have beenapplied to naval and commercial vehicle propulsion systems, drag reductionin ships, planes and land vehicles, ship, submarine and airplane propellerdesigns, pump and fan designs and other applications ranging from the U.S.Space Shuttle to vacuum cleaners to heart valves. Besides ...