December 2007

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• Monday 31 December 2007 @ 5:46 pm
  Early Fine-Tuning of Neural Connections May Turn Destructive Later in Life   Health Care (0)

  If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Early Fine-Tuning of Neural Connections May Turn Destructive Later in Life The immune system helps to prune excess connections between neurons in the developing brains [...]

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• Sunday 30 December 2007 @ 7:21 pm
  Two Contracts Awarded to Expand Domestic Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity   Health Care (0)

  Two Contracts Awarded to Expand Domestic Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity The two cost-reimbursable contracts totaling $132.5 million over five years are to retrofit existing domestic vaccine manufacturing facilities on a cost-sharing basis and to provide warm-base operations for manufacturing pandemic influenza vaccines. In warm-base operations, the contractor does not [...]

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• Saturday 29 December 2007 @ 9:46 pm
  Carbamazepine Prescribing Information to Include Recommendation of Genetic Test for Patients with Asian Ancestry   Health Care (0)

  Carbamazepine Prescribing Information to Include Recommendation of Genetic Test for Patients with Asian Ancestry The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced that the manufacturers of drugs containing the active ingredient carbamazepine have agreed to add to the drugs’ labeling a recommendation that, before starting therapy with the drugs, patients with [...]

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• Sunday 23 December 2007 @ 4:42 pm
  Smoking Rates Highest Among People with Disabilities   Health Care (0)

  Smoking Rates Highest Among People with Disabilities Health Disparities Persist Among People with Disabilities Source: www.cdc.gov
  ATSDR Press Release: Marine-Base Housing Contained Drinking Water Contaminated with Tetrachloroethylene (PCE) for Nearly 30 Years Says Federal Health Agency ATLANTA - Water in the drinking water system for the Tarawa Terrace family housing area at U.S. Marine [...]

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• Saturday 22 December 2007 @ 5:23 pm
  FDA Mandates New Warning for Nonoxynol 9 OTC Contraceptive Products   Health Care (0)

  FDA Mandates New Warning for Nonoxynol 9 OTC Contraceptive Products FDA issued a final rule today that requires that manufacturers of over-the-counter stand-alone vaginal contraceptive and spermicidal products containing the chemical ingredient nonoxynol 9 (N9) include a warning. Source: www.fda.gov
  December 13th Press Briefing Related to CDC Testing of Occupied [...]

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• Friday 21 December 2007 @ 8:42 pm
  NIEHS Allocates $74 Million to Study Environmental Causes of Disease   Health Care (0)

  NIEHS Allocates $74 Million to Study Environmental Causes of Disease As part of the new Exposure Biology Program, NIEHS today announced $74 million in grant opportunities for the development of new technologies that will improve the measurement of environmental exposures that contribute to human disease. The three grant opportunities will support research to develop portable, [...]

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• Thursday 20 December 2007 @ 9:23 pm
  Recalls and Safety Alerts: Caution on Viracept in Children and Pregnant Women   Health Care (0)

  Recalls and Safety Alerts: Caution on Viracept in Children and Pregnant Women Pfizer is advising healthcare professionals to avoid treating certain children and pregnant women with the antiretroviral drug Viracept (nelfinavir mesylate). The company says that patients taking Viracept [...]

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• Wednesday 19 December 2007 @ 9:42 pm
  FDA Approves New Beta Blocker to Treat High Blood Pressure   Health Care (0)

  FDA Approves New Beta Blocker to Treat High Blood Pressure The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Bystolic (nebivolol) for the treatment of high blood pressure. Bystolic is a beta blocker, a well-established class of medications that reduces blood pressure by reducing the force with which the heart pumps. It is [...]

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• Wednesday 19 December 2007 @ 2:23 am
  How Safe are Color Additives?   Health Care (0)

  How Safe are Color Additives?Color additives give the red tint to your fruit punch and the green hue to your mint-flavored toothpaste. …Source: www.pueblo.gsa.gov
  Two Contracts Awarded to Expand Domestic Vaccine Manufacturing Capacity The two cost-reimbursable contracts totaling $132.5 million over five years are to retrofit existing domestic vaccine [...]

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• Tuesday 18 December 2007 @ 4:23 am
  FDA Strengthens Boxed Warnings, Approves Other Safety Labeling Changes for Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESAs)   Health Care (0)

  FDA Strengthens Boxed Warnings, Approves Other Safety Labeling Changes for Erythropoiesis-Stimulating Agents (ESAs) These new statements address the risks that the drugs Aranesp, Epogen and Procrit pose to patients with cancer and patients with chronic kidney failure. Source: www.fda.gov
  FDA Launches E-mail Alert Subscription Service Through Public Web [...]

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