Salk's legacy, current and future challenges to vaccine development topic of briefing
...lk polio vaccine and its impact on today's vaccine industry and research agenda and discuss current and future challenges to developing vaccines for such viruses as HIV and avian flu. WHEN: 12 p.m., Monday, April 11 WHERE: Room 701, University of Pittsburgh Alumni Hall, 4227 Fifth Ave. Reporters may ...Exposed: Tobacco companies efforts to influence industry privatisation
...fluence plans to privatise the state-owned tobacco industry in Moldova. Moldova, a small, agriculturally depen...cine, UK) and colleagues analysed internal tobacco industry documents on Moldova made public through litigation. The documents suggest that although a competiti...Competition in health care may not result in better quality
...everal decades, competition within the health care industry has been touted as the way to curb rising prices b...y and quality of care. For example, the automotive industry is highly competitive, but certain elements such as emissions, fuel efficiency and safety measures a...Nature provides inspiration for important new adhesive
...l licensees." A few years ago, the forest products industry in the U.S. and Canada was spending more than $2 b... a year on wood adhesives, and the wood composites industry is one of the largest manufacturing sectors in the United States. "Based on the successful commercia...To boost efficiency, hospitals borrow principles from factory floor
BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Many health-care industry bottlenecks can be eliminated, resulting in major improvements in efficiency, cost savings and patient care when hospitals borrow principles from production lines on the factory floor, according to researchers in the School of Engineering and Applied...Researcher sheds light on ghostwriting in medical journals
...er experience for JGIM instead. The pharmaceutical industry relies on ghost-written publications in peer-reviewed journals as part of their marketing plans, said Fugh-Berman. Physicians rely on information in the medical literature to make treatment decisions, so hidden sponsorship of articlesand lectures at...Scottish health minister launches major new clinical trials project to boost business and health
...ountry. It is great to see academics, the NHS and industry working together to benefit the nation." "I am pleased to announce an additional 12.8m to NHS research and development budgets over the next two years to support and enhance its capacity to conduct clinical trials. This will provide the infrastructur...Measuring enzymes at end of cancer pathway predicts outcome of Tarceva, Taxol
...een possible by measuring gene expression, but our industry collaborator has provided a way that lets us test real enzyme activity within a human tumor sample," he says. "Our hope is to be able to use this system as a molecular marker to assess whether an anti-cancer therapy is working." ABSTRACT # 1670 Se...American Society of Travel Agents urges healthy travel for consumers
...bers worldwide through effective representation in industry and government affairs, education and training, and by identifying and meeting the needs of the traveling public. The Society is the world's largest and most influential travel trade association with over 20,000 members in 140 countries. ASTA does n...World-leading scientific databases now accessible via handhelds
VIENNA, AUSTRIA In an industry first, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) demonstrated the delivery of chemical information, including structures, via live interaction using BlackBerry and other handheld devices at the CAS European conference in Vienna this week. More than 20 handhe...Counting the human cost of international trade
...f 15.6m from its investment in Africa. Captains of industry are excited about international trade because of its potential to increase profits. But if businesses had to pay the full social and environmental costs of transport then trade would be much less efficient and they would show little enthusiasm for it...Genetic screening for iron blood disorder feasible in the workplace
...the authors achieved with the Australian insurance industry to ensure mutation carriers were not discriminated against. Dr Allen concludes: "Health economic considerations are vital to decisions regarding screening programmes. An economic analysis of this programme is currently ongoing. If genetic screening i...The power of drug advertising: Patients often get what they ask for
...DTC) prescription drug advertising a $3.2 billion industry in the United States not only sways patients to ask for certain medications, but profoundly influences the way doctors make initial treatment decisions, according to an April 27 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association . University ...Role of soy foods in addressing obesity to be topic of Illinois forum
...erson's weight. The forum will bring together food industry representatives, health-care professionals, dietit...ience and human nutrition at Illinois. The soybean industry and Illinois Soybean Checkoff Board are helping to fund the forum. Topics will include the challenge...Too many doctors fail to follow guidelines and to prescribe best treatments for heart patients
...tors at the national level, health authorities and industry need to work together to make sure that these guidelines are implemented, with incentives towards medial practices that apply evidence-based medicine in their treatment schemes. Otherwise, many patients will continue to suffer unnecessarily," said Pr...Jefferson scientists create plant factories churning out antibodies against tumor cells
...e to produce. The Jefferson scientists are seeking industry partners to begin mass production of the antibody. The next step in the work, Dr. Koprowski notes, would be to conduct a phase 1 clinical trial of the monoclonal antibody in colorectal cancer patients. In the meantime, they are studying the effective...Recombinant DNA technology may enable oral, rather than injectable, delivery of protein drugs
... technology has and will enable the pharmaceutical industry to produce safer, more pure and more effective versions of therapeutic proteins, Shen adds. "Since recombinant therapeutics utilize human proteins, they do not induce an unwanted immune response like products created from non-human sources often do....Green laser pointer can cause eye damage
...t objects in the night sky and by the construction industry and architecture educators to point out details of structures in daylight Dr. Robertson conducted the eye exposure test with a consenting patient two weeks before eye removal due to ring melanoma. The patient's vision was 20/20, and the macular reti...New research raises questions about buckyballs and the environment
...rate those into human safety regulations, then the industry is going to be better off and the environment is going to be better off." The American Chemical Society is a nonprofit organization, chartered by the U.S. Congress, with an interdisciplinary membership of more than 158,000 chemists and chemical engin......are & Medicaid Services, physicians and ophthalmic industry leaders. "More than 2.2 million cataract surgeries are performed each year on patients age 65 and over," said J. Andy Corley, co-founder, chairman and CEO of eyeonics. "Yet as vision technologies advanced, Medicare reimbursement did not keep pace....