| Current Illness, Injury & Treatments Articles |
|---|
 |
Chemistry World
May 3, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Judge reverses jury decision over $6.5m Takeda payout A judge has thrown out the jury's verdict in a case between Japanese drugmaker Takeda and a US man who claims that the company's drug caused his bladder cancer.   |
Chemistry World
May 1, 2013
Emma Stoye |
Wellcome Trust announces new head Jeremy Farrar, professor of Tropical Medicine and Global Health at Oxford University, has been named as the next director of the Wellcome Trust. |
Chemistry World
May 1, 2013
Dinsa Sachan |
High lead levels in Indian children blamed on paints Old lead paint around Delhi may go some way to explaining the high levels of lead in the blood of the capital city's children |
Registered Rep.
April 12, 2013
Mark Miller |
Retirement and Health Care: Bad Rx You and your clients are likely underestimating how much will be spent on health care during retirement. Here's how to predict the costs. |
AskMen.com
April 29, 2013
Chris Aung-Thwin |
Intermittent Fasting Study There's been a lot of debate over the benefits of intermittent fasting. Some health experts swear by it, while others are wary of the actual results. |
Chemistry World
April 29, 2013
Michael Parkin |
Food safety test for harmful dye It may soon be easier to protect consumers from dangerous condiments thanks to an electrochemical method developed by Chinese scientists that can spot the toxic azo dye, Orange II. |
Chemistry World
April 23, 2013
David Bradley |
A sweet switch for an ageing heart Studies revealing how the protein elastin -- found in heart tissue and blood vessels -- responds electrically to glucose could offer new clues to problems that arise as we get older, including loss of elasticity in major blood vessels and arteriosclerosis. |
Chemistry World
April 22, 2013
Rebecca Brodie |
Quicker checks for safer water Scientists in the Netherlands have developed and tested a new method that uses Raman spectroscopy to quickly identify harmful bacteria in drinking water. |
Chemistry World
April 17, 2013
Mark Peplow |
Sanofi launches malaria drug production On 11 April, the Paris-based pharmaceutical company Sanofi officially launched a new production facility in Garessio, Italy, to make artemisinin -- the precursor to artemisinin-based combination therapies, the most effective drugs against the deadliest malaria parasite. |
Chemistry World
April 15, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Polymer lubricant may stave off knee surgery A synthetic polymer could make a better replacement lubricant for joint cartilage in people with arthritis, US researchers claim. The polymer is not broken down in the body like currently used replacement lubricants. |
Chemistry World
April 10, 2013
Hayley Birch |
Yeast to make malaria drug on demand A natural biochemical pathway that produces the antimalarial drug artemisinin in the sweet wormwood plant has been fully reconstructed in yeast. |
Food Processing
April 2013
Harris Bixler |
Refuting Myths About Carrageenan Recent resurrection of a link between carrageenan and poligeenan (and the latter's connection to cancer) are unfounded. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
Chinese scientist arrested for attempted research theft Hua Jun Zhao is alleged to have used his position as an assistant researcher at the Medical College of Wisconsin to illegally acquire patented cancer research, and to pass it to Zhejiang University in China. Other Chinese scientists have also been involved in research theft. |
Chemistry World
April 9, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Morning sickness drug reintroduced to US Diclegis (doxylamine succinate and pyridoxine hydrochloride), contains the same active ingredients as Benedictin, which was produced by Merrel Dow and withdrawn from the market in 1983 after a string of lawsuits claiming it caused birth defects. |
Chemistry World
April 8, 2013
Emma Stoye |
New culprit for red meat health risks Gut bacteria may convert a nutrient found in red meat into a compound that can damage the heart |
Chemistry World
April 7, 2013
Laura Howes |
Beer filtration could add arsenic Researchers at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, have found that the material used to filter beers might add arsenic at the same time as it removes yeast. |
Chemistry World
April 5, 2013
Phillip Broadwith |
Roche to release Tamiflu trial data Swiss pharma company Roche has finally agreed to give independent researchers access to data on all 74 clinical trials it ran on the antiviral influenza drug Tamiflu (oseltamivir). |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2013
Emma Stoye |
New diagnostic test lights up bacteria UK researchers have developed a faster way to detect Staphylococcus aureus bacteria using a fluorescent probe. The method holds promise as the basis for a new rapid diagnosis kit to identify infections in hospital patients. |
| There are 2208 old articles available for this category. |
