A revolution in the monitoring of unborn babies
...nd held computer. The device has now passed all EU regulatory safety standards and is currently undergoing clinical trials. Dr Barrie Hayes-Gill expects the device to go on sale in October this year. To date we have successfully completed over 33 per cent of the clinical trial. We expect to complete clinical...Why GNEP can't jump to the future
...ly regarding waste volumes, site specific impacts, regulatory requirements and life-cycle costs." Or as Alvarez has put it more bluntly in conversation, "You cant just park some of the most highly radioactive wastes in the world at a landfill and assume that by so doing you have kept them safely removed from...Listen to your heart: Researchers discover a physiological indicator of vulnerability to temptation
...populations with more serious consequences of self regulatory failure (say, alcoholics) HRV feedback could be helpful to determine when those critical relapses in regulation will happen....National experts and nonprofit organizations call to end FDA user fees and to improve drug safety
...ganizational culture, and unclear and insufficient regulatory authority. Unlike other user fee programs in the federal government, PDUFA is negotiated with representatives of fee payers in this case, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA). Under this arrangement, the risks of drugs...On a diet? You'll spend more on impulse purchases
... unspent money was theirs to keep. Even a small regulatory exercise the attempt to suppress an innocuous thought about a white bear caused the participants who had exercised mental self-control to spend and buy more. Those who had just tried to control their thoughts spent an average of $4.05. Those who h...Acrux and Oreganon further expand their collaboration
...ganon will undertake and fund all clinical trials, regulatory submissions, manufacturing and commercialization e...ayments totalling US$12 million as development and regulatory milestones are achieved. Acrux will also earn royalties on worldwide sales of the product. ...Flu experts call for mandatory shots for health care workers
...ed resources. Improve the financial, legal, and regulatory environment for developing anti-flu products. New ...companies back into the anti-infectives field. The regulatory approvals process needs to be streamlined and standardized among international partners. Update pl...New quartz references for workplace safety
...y and Health Administration (OSHA) enforces strict regulatory limits on the emission of respirable crystalline silica in the work place. Monitoring silica dust in the workplace typically is done by collecting samples over a period of hours on a special air filter and using X-ray diffraction (XRD) to determine...ACS News Service Weekly PressPac -- January 3, 2007
...ean Union moves ahead with implementation of a new regulatory system for industrial and commercial chemicals. Th...e article, Michael P. Walls, managing director for regulatory and technical affairs at the American Chemistry Council (ACC), argues that TSCA remains a solid, pro...World's largest clinical trial into rare bone cancer 'well underway' conference hears
...ng forward in a climate of increasing economic and regulatory pressure', represented a unique gathering of experts in the field of the type of cancer called sarcomas. Professor Stefan Bielack, the co-ordinator of the EURAMOS trial, told the meeting, "While sarcomas are rare, accounting for less than one per c...Exposures to the insecticide chlorpyrifos in pregnancy adversely affect child development
...ontrol across the United States. Despite a recent regulatory ban on residential use of chlorpyrifos in the U.S., agricultural applications continue in the U.S. and abroad." Frederica Perera, DrPH, director of the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health noted that, "By identifying environmental exp...Regulatory pathway in brain development possible basis for malformations
...cine, and his colleagues have identified a genetic regulatory pathway that controls a neural precursor cell's de...tified as a co-factor in two distinct signaling or regulatory pathways that mediate neuronal differentiation. The new work proposes that Zfp423 actually acts as ...Baylor Research Institute receives $6.2 million grant to establish Center for Lupus Research
...system, which leads to abnormal levels of numerous regulatory proteins. This information will allow us to discover immune system markers of disease activity and to measure responses to therapies that we are developing. We expect to have a clear picture of how a lupus patient's immune system is 'reprogrammed' t......ld mean re-submitting a drug for evaluation by the regulatory authorities. And because a lot of current manufacture is driven by demand, many drug companies would not have stockpiles to cover the re-authorisation period, which according to the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Authority could take...UCLA cancer researchers develop quality measures for colorectal cancer surgery
... been developed for many diseases. They're used by regulatory agencies such as the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to evaluate quality of care in a variety of diseases. Until now, no quality of care indicators had been developed for colorectal cancer other than the NCI's practice guidelines. Ko an...Quality care assessment examines surgical quality for colorectal cancer patients
... the quality of care for a variety of diseases. No regulatory agencies have currently adopted quality of care measures for colorectal cancer surgery, but practice guidelines for this surgery were created by a consensus panel sponsored by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 2000. Marcia L. McGory, M.D., of...ICON issues survey of nanotechnology practices
...al properties of nanomaterials, as well as nascent regulatory guidance regarding the proper environmental, health and safety practices that should be used with them," said Kristen M. Kulinowski, director of the International Council on Nanotechnology, a coalition of academic, industrial, governmental and civil ...Georgetown establishes leading institute for global and national health law
...ystem that is up-to-date and rational, that closes regulatory gaps and eliminates overlaps, and that is responsive to modern public health concerns rather than century-old public health crises. Studying the ethical and legal questions raised by use of brain scanning and other biotechnologies to assess and c...Doctors working overseas face having licenses removed
...ut the difficulties of my working conditions." A regulatory authority for doctors working overseas would have the experience to know what is going on and to spot problems that primary care and hospital trusts might miss. The system would also provide greater transparency for doctors getting back into UK pract...... Their regimen is based on the hypothesis that the regulatory system responsible for maintaining cerebral blood flow, which may be dysfunctional in people with a concussion, can be restored to normal by controlled, graded symptom-free exercise. "The treatment program is well tolerated by patients" Willer said...