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FDA targets illegal pharma websites
The FDA has issued 22 Warning Letters to website operators as part of its International Internet Week of Action, a week-long international effort aimed at curbing illegal actions involving medical products. Comment?
Nigeria: Aflasafe Application Improves Grain Quality
... Union's MycoRed project. Researchers and regulatory officials from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) see the improvement in grain quality as a welcomed development. "We are impressed with the results on the ... Comment?
Implant-Based Cancer Vaccine Is First To Eliminate Tumors In Mice
Main Category: Melanoma / Skin Cancer Also Included In: Immune System / Vaccines Medical Devices / Diagnostics A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week in the journal Science Translational Medicine. Comment?
American Dental Association Petitions FDA To Classify, Regulate Tooth-Whitening Products
The American Dental Association asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to establish appropriate classifications for tooth-whitening chemicals. Comment?
Nexus6 Receives 510(k) Clearance for SmartTrack Electronic...
SmartTrack is intended for single-patient use as an electronic data capture system In clinical practice, where health care professionals need to be able to confirm poor patient medication adherence as a cause of suboptimal respiratory disease control In clinical trials, where researchers require accurate medication compliance information to ... Comment?
Integrative Therapeutics Natural Medicines First in USA to Achieve...
The manufacturing facility at Integrative Therapeutics, Inc. has been awarded the Drug Good Manufacturing Practice Certification by the UK Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency GREEN BAY, WI, November 27, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Wisconsin-based, Integrative Therapeutics, Inc. Comment?
Do You Believe in Miracle Berries?
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... files scattered on the floor. Soon afterward, Harvey's company was dealt a death blow. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration denied its petition to deem miraculin "generally recognized as safe." Without that designation, the company couldn't add ... Comment?
NACDS expresses support of FDA enforcement against rogue pharmacy Web sites
ALEXANDRIA,A Va. Nearly one week after the Food and Drug Administration's enforcement actions against the operators of Web sites selling illegal and misbranded medical products, the National Association of Chain Drug Stores sent a letter to the agency appaluding its efforts. Comment?
Fingernail-sized implant successfully eliminates tumors in mammals
A polymer implant, 8.5 mm in diameter, is embedded with chemical signals that encourage immune cells to attack tumors In a world first, scientists have successfully eliminated tumors in mammals using a cancer vaccine carried into the body on a fingernail-sized implant. Comment?
Use of cochlear implants stirs controversy in deaf community
... years, with regard to cochlear implantation. Bilateral implants have become the norm. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved bilateral implants (one implant for each ear) in 2007. Since then, the Let Them Hear Foundation - which was forced ... Comment?
Surgery for Mental Ills Offers Hope and Risk
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... and this year, for the first time since frontal lobotomy fell into disrepute in the 1950s, the Food and Drug Administration approved one of the surgical techniques for some cases of O.C.D. While no more than a few thousand people are impaired enough ... Comment?
Herbal Supplements May Raise Blood Lead Levels
... may pass from a woman's placenta and breast milk to developing fetuses and infants. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not specify safe lead limits, or even routinely test for this toxin in herbal supplements. Buettner's team found that ... Comment?
The truth about artificial sweeteners
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... Equal has generated an enormous amount of controversy over the years. Complaints to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) claim the use of aspartame accounts for about ninety different conditions including headaches/migraines, dizziness, seizures, ... Comment?
Winnipeg researchers working on hand-held H1N1 detector
... to prove the device works before it is approved by agencies such as Health Canada and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Joel Kettner, Manitoba's chief public health officer, said such diagnostic devices have potential benefits, as long as ... Comment?
Community responses to contaminants: using basic ecological...
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An SPR-based method, Calibration Free Concentration Analysis can be used to accurately determine the concentration of active protein in a sample, relating to the specific binding activity of the protein, and without the need for a standard. Comment?
Baby Your Baby: Preventing Problems with Premature Babies
... 60, and then thousands of Utah babies over several years, all under the watchful eye of the Food and Drug Administration. "We wouldn't ever recommend a study for a baby that we wouldn't perform on our own child or our own grandchild, and we wouldn't ... Comment?
Boston Scientific Gets Clearance for Esophageal Stent
Boston Scientific Corp. recently received 510 clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and CE Mark approval to market its WallFlex Fully Covered Esophageal Stent in the U.S. and Europe. Comment?
Recently, Gen-Probe Inc. announced that it has received the green light from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to market ProParaflu Plus assay. Comment?
'China will snatch our market from us'
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... facing in the US, with two of your manufacturing facilities being under the scanner of the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA), and not having permission to export to the US? Even without those problems, the focus would be India. How do you rate ... Comment?
FDA accepts NDA for new Aricept formulation
WOODCLIFF LAKE,A N.J. Eisai and Pfizer announced that the Food and Drug Administration has accepted for review Eisai's new drug application for its Alzheimer's disease treatment. Comment?