Temperature assurance packaging provider Sonoco ThermoSafe, a unit of Sonoco, has launched a new shipping solution for temperature-sensitive products called Envoy Direct series. Sonoco has developed the series to reduce dimensional ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today that GlaxoSmithKline Vaccines has agreed to pay a civil penalty of $172,900 to resolve a Clean Air Act violation associated with the company’s failure to submit a risk ...
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Main Countries Demanding for Dried Glands and Other Organs for Organ Therapeutic Uses, Extracts of Glands or Other Organs, Heparin and Its Salts, Human or Animal Substances (HS: 3001) from Jan. to Mar. in 2013 (By Import Value) ...
Note: HS Code Product Name 3001 Glands and other organs for organ therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organ ...
The medtech jobs picture looked rosy in 2013, with the top 15 device makers in hiring mode, according to an EP Vantage report out this week. Excluding pharmaceutical spinoffs, these companies expanded their collective workforce by 6%, the ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued updated draft advice on fish consumption. The two agencies have concluded pregnant and breastfeeding women, those who might become pregnant, and ...
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Recent equine rabies cases should serve as reminders that the disease is a real threat to the lives of horses, and that the disease can surface at any time. While the total number of equine cases is still being tallied for 2013, the number ...
Zoetis announced the addition of ONE SHOT® BVD to its comprehensive vaccine portfolio. The new vaccine helps provide combined respiratory protection against Mannheimia haemolytica and bovine viral diarrhea (BVD) Types 1 and 2 viruses in ...
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Scientists who study past pandemics, such as the 14th century Black Death that devastated much of Europe, might soon be turning to an innovative biological detection technology for some extra help. The apparent first use of this ...
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An alliance that helps developing nations said it will support vaccination of 1.5 million girls in Rwanda, Uganda and Uzbekistan against cervical cancer. The GAVI Alliance, which brings together developing country and donor governments, ...
Discovery by North Carolina researchers described at biophysical society meeting may advance development of vaccines to fight global, mosquito-borne scourge Dengue fever, an infectious tropical disease caused by a mosquito-borne virus, ...
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Improving access to pediatric check-ups may increase parental awareness of human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines, a new nationwide study reveals. HPV is a sexually transmitted disease that infects about 14 million people aged 15 to 59 years ...
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Our response to societal pressures about vaccination has a direct effect on the spread of pediatric infectious diseases in areas where inoculation is not mandatory, says new research published this week in Proceedings of the Royal Society ...
It's still not too late to get a flu shot, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday. Flu activity often peaks in January or February and can last well into May, and a flu shot protects you as long as flu viruses are ...
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TUESDAY Feb. 4, 2014, 2014 -- A downward trend in antibiotic use among children may have leveled off in certain areas of the United States, a new study shows. Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School reviewed ...
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