Flu pandemic coming, US not prepared
...events so long as they follow standard medical and manufacturing procedures. A fund should be established to cover ...season. Also, the United States does not have the manufacturing capacity to produce enough vaccine and antivirals to meet its needs in a pandemic. Tax credits shou...New substance that improves the photodetection of bladder cancer gains market approval
...ocal or distant metastasis. Exploiting a cellular manufacturing cycle Van den Bergh and Wagnires' group developed this molecule by exploiting naturally occurring cellular processes. Protoporphyrine IX (PPIX), a naturally occuring photoactive porhyrine produced normally as an intermediate step in the cellular man...Binghamton University launches microelectronics research center
...d industry partners to help speed microelectronics manufacturing research and development in a roll-to-roll (R2R) f...at a lower cost. The expected R2R microelectronics manufacturing will be key to critical next-generation applications in areas such as medical diagnostics and treatm...Complementary and alternative therapies and conventional medical therapies
...ent quality-control standards for each step of the manufacturing process and to enforce more accurate labeling and disclosures and other consumer protections. In addition, the broader regulatory scheme for supplements should be revised to create incentives for privately funded research on the effectiveness of pro...Entrepreneurism Center at UC San Diego funds commercialization of lung, shock, other devices
...ntional steel, while maintaining a price point and manufacturing process that should model conventional steel. Amorphous steels of the present design will find broad commercial application, potentially enabling civilian and military vehicles of significantly reduced weight (and therefore higher fuel efficiency and...FDA grants accelerated approval of TYSABRI, formerly antegren, for the treatment of MS
...material issues, delays or failures related to its manufacturing and supply. For more detailed information on the risks and uncertainties associated with TYSABRI and the companies' drug development and other activities, see the periodic and other reports of Biogen Idec Inc. and Elan Corporation, plc filed with th...Hong Kong think tank calls for pollution standards
...0 percent of the pollution in the region is due to manufacturing goods for export," said David Streets, a senior sc...llution controls in China. "This includes not only manufacturing facilities, but generating the electricity that goes into the factories and the trucks that transpor...Panel offers recommendations for monitoring adverse events from dietary supplements
...counting Office estimates that there are some 1500 manufacturing and repacking facilities for dietary supplements in the US. These facilities produce approximately 29,000 unique formulations that are packed into more than 75,000 distinctly labeled products and made readily available to the public through supermark...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...e may no longer be a factor when it comes to large manufacturing applications that can benefit from electron beam welding. (Paper: JI1B.004. Contact: Ady Hershcovitch, hershcovitch@bnl.gov , 631-344-4531,) Taming Plasma Bursts to Ensure Fusion Chamber Survival Creating a fusion 'sun' on earth, in plasma fusion ...Advances in plasma physics at Annual APS Meeting
...e may no longer be a factor when it comes to large manufacturing applications that can benefit from electron beam welding. (Paper: JI1B.004. Contact: Ady Hershcovitch, hershcovitch@bnl.gov , 631-344-4531,) Taming Plasma Bursts to Ensure Fusion Chamber Survival Creating a fusion 'sun' on earth, in plasma fusion ...FOSRENOL (R) maintains bone health status of end-stage renal disease patients
...y of pharmaceutical research, product development, manufacturing and commercialization, the impact of competitive products, including, but not limited to, the impact on Shire's Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) franchise, patents, including but not limited to, legal challenges relating to Shire's ADH...Biopharmaceutical manufacturing efficiencies signal reduced healthcare costs
...ted with advances in large-scale biopharmaceutical manufacturing will play a role in reducing healthcare costs, acc... according to ex-FDA Commissioner Mark McClelland, manufacturing can constitute half of a pharmaceutical company's expenses, so it is a prime target for cost reducti...Techniques for making Barbie dolls can improve health care
... proven successful in the relatively unfashionable manufacturing sector, predicts a leading expert. "By the en...cteristic of operations research that are found in manufacturing have already begun finding their way into delivering medical care, maintaining health, arranging for...'Science of better' convenes operations researchers in Denver
...ucture of the firm to tackle issues such as global manufacturing site location and sourcing, inventory management, supply chain design, and strategic decision making. Since being a finalist in an earlier INFORMS competition, Procter & Gamble's Global Analytics organization has delivered modeling and analysis techn...Experts debate benefits, dangers of chlorine in C&EN point-counterpoint
...ne-third [of global chlorine production] goes into manufacturing polyvinyl chloride." ... "PVC is extremely hazardous for multiple reasons. Space permits me to consider only the dioxins hazard associated with PVC combustion." ... "There are more than one million accidental fires each year in the U.S. alone. As mor......en aged under 6 months.' 'So, how bad are Chiron's manufacturing troubles for potential recipients of influenza vac...out vaccine supply. It is not sensible to restrict manufacturing licences, in the case of influenza vaccine and especially in the USA, to two suppliers. At a blow, h...Child health improvement through computer automation
...in medical care for children marries the high tech manufacturing "just-in-time" concept with increased parental participation in the health-care process to produce care guidelines for pediatricians individualized for each patient and delivered when they can do the most good -- at the time of the office visit. A n...New system would vastly improve heart defibrillation
... what is needed today, opens up the possibility of manufacturing even smaller devices that would last longer and be more comfortable to wear. This would spare cardiac patients the discomfort and danger of having to have a device replaced frequently. The largest killer of Americans is heart disease, claiming one m...World's largest scientific society holds regional meeting Sept. 29 - Oct. 2 in Fort Worth
..., including innovative industrial processes, green manufacturing and related topics. There will also be a session on nanotechnology in bioscience and electronic materials. The following awards will be presented at the meeting: Patrick Cassidy of Texas State University in San Marcos will receive the ACS ...Lord Sainsbury praises the work of the UK's Innovative Manufacturing Research Centres
...earch feed directly into exciting new products and manufacturing processes," said Lord Sainsbury. "Through excellen...at the forefront of driving forward innovations in manufacturing and improving competitiveness. There are two important sides to knowledge transfer 'science base pu...