Shark cartilage shows no benefit as a therapeutic agent for lung cancer
...a pharmaceutical as opposed to a compound sold for profit that is available over the Internet, for example,"...n shark cartilage products that are being sold for profit and have no data to support their efficacy as cancer-fighting agent." Patients who are currently t...The appetite-regulating peptide leptin influences alcohol craving for some alcoholics
...s. They have different long-term courses and they profit significantly differently from different pharmaceutical compounds. Therefore, it is very important to define basic workings of these different craving mechanisms in order to develop better models to proof new medications. These four mechanisms of ...Study of US restaurants shows no healthier foods without healthier profits
...em and that the items will contribute to sales and profit growth. Limited service chains (fast food) indicat...d to serving healthier foods only if they generate profit through high sales or other benefits to the restaurant...Many companies are reluctant to increase he...Leading advocates express support for microbicide research, despite disappointing trial results
...was underway in Nigeria. Both sponsors are not-for profit research groups dedicated to advancing health in developing countries. At the recommendation of their respective Data Safety Monitoring Boards both sponsors chose to discontinue their CS trials after findings from the CONRAD trial suggested that CS m...In stroke, negative studies less likely to get published
...s detected was modest, it is concerning. Corporate profit incentives and academic concerns must be overridden by our ethical obligation to the people who participate in these studies, future patients and the scientific community. Rapid publication of negative studies may spare patients from exposure to usel...Clean water project hit by funding drought
...r us to demonstrate that local people could make a profit from our water filters,' he said. 'To be sustainable, we need to spread knowledge and educate people. This would involve local potters showing each other how to make the filters, which is contrary to the commercial principle of keeping your methods s...Big companies should provide HIV treatment to employees
...r responsibilities run deep and extend well beyond profit and loss." ...Is it time to give the NHS more independence?
...lists whose faith in markets, competition, and the profit motive as the sole path to effective public service is unshakeable," he writes. "Paradoxically, an NHS agency could spearhead the crusade." In the final article, two US health experts believe that the NHS has the inherent capability to become the g...For-profit research ethics committees: How are they performing?
... delay in approval by an IRB affects the sponsor's profit margins." Lemmens and Elliot say that the countries that have allowed private IRBs to flourish have also failed to regulate them carefully: "Anyone who can bring together five people, including a community representative, a physician, a lawyer and ......, they should extract their costs and reinvest the profit in the fight against underage drinking."...CT angiography 'highly accurate' for detection of high-grade artery stenosis
...s with high-grade stenoses of the extracranial ICA profit from thromboendarterectomy, an operation that involves opening the artery and removing the occlusion. In addition, the morphology of the stenosis, especially the detection of ulcerated plaques and thrombi, is crucial for the planning of intervention...Mega-brands have mega influence on dietary behavior
...ega-brands in consumers' diets. "In the razor-thin profit business of supermarkets," says Tillotson, "profit...es and higher sales volumes, but also their larger profit margins," adds Tillotson. "Mega-brands are inherently the most-wanted by consumers, so supermarkets ...Microbicide field praises agreement to license new AIDS drugs
...be made available to the developing world by a non profit entity, these companies bring us closer to the time when we can put new prevention tools into the hands of those who need them most." Henry Gabelnick, Ph.D., executive director of CONRAD and board member of IPM agrees, "This is great news for all of...US Congress blocked opportunity to make food aid more effective
...s of US farmers and cargo-ship firms who currently profit from government-donated aid. The Lancet comments: "Congress has squandered valuable presidential will to address one of the world's most persistent humanitarian issuesLast week, the WFP called for a redoubling of efforts to fight hunger from all nat...New microfluidic devices found to be effective method of in-vitro fertilization in mice
...ed a company called Incept BioSystems and stand to profit from commercialization of the products....Quality of care in hospitals varies among regions and within individual hospitals
...st, Midwest, South, Northeast), urban setting, for profit or not-for-profit, and membership in the Council of Teaching Hospitals among others. Jha and colleagues found that hospitals that provided high quality care for heart attack also did well in providing good care for congestive heart failure. However,......), and the single biggest variable influencing the profit margin of a fabrication line is the number of good die per wafer. That yield depends on maintaining precise, uniform temperatures across the entire heating-zone elements during processing. The wireless Integrated Wafer system fulfills the need for a ...Medical journals are an extension of the marketing arm of pharmaceutical companies
... the budgets of their journals and for producing a profit for their owners. "An editor may thus face a frig...erest: publish a trial that will bring $100,000 of profit or meet the end of year budget by firing an editor." How can the cycle of dependency between journal...Microbicide partners receive $5.7 million from Gates Foundation
...s critical to getting microbicides to women. Where profit motives are insufficient to attract private sector investment, as is the case with microbicides, success depends on sustained public investment and community good will. The Gates Foundation grant will facilitate the testing of microbicides by support......of the UK government. In 2003, CDC made a pre-tax profit of 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 muc...