23andMe, the Mountain View, CA–based consumer DNA testing company that got in hot water with FDA over its lack of PMA approval for its testing for various medically significant genes, now seems to have backed off in its claims enough ...
Tags: Health, Medicine, FDA, certification
Afrezza hopes that its inhalable insulin product will be a gamechanger for diabetics. (Image courtesy Afrezza). Insulin injections may soon be a thing of the past if Mannkind Corp.'s inhalable insulin product, Afrezza, is approved by ...
Scientists and regulators investigating the mysterious spread of a deadly virus plaguing the U.S. pork industry are stepping up their scrutiny of what the nation's hog herd eats. With a dearth of solid leads, investigators are exploring ...
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Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) today released a statement saying that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently proposed changes on product label of processed food sold in the US market. The main ...
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In the past 25 years, India has achieved a remarkable and considerable pace in the chemical production and most of the growth has been driven by India from all Asian countries in chemical industry. With the structured operations and well ...
Canadian packaging products manufacturer Cascades has designed EVOK brand polystyrene foam food tray for poultry processing firm Exceldor. Designed for packaging meats, poultry, fish and seafood, as well as fresh fruit and vegetables, ...
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Evonik recently opened its expanded production for precipitated silica in Rayong, Thailand. With this investment, Evonik increased its capacity for precipitated silica for the automotive industry, food and animal feed industry as well as ...
iMedia Communications, Inc. announced this week that Kelly Thompson, SVP, Merchandising, Merchandise Planning, and Marketplace, will keynote its inaugural iMedia Commerce Summit this June in Salt Lake City, Utah. Thompson manages a ...
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The US Food and Drug Administration(FDA)has issued alert on certain Simply Lite brand dark chocolate products as they contain milk,which is not mentioned on the label. The agency found more than 3,500 parts per million of milk protein ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration allowed marketing of Cefaly -- a battery-powered plastic headband that is a preventative treatment for migraine headaches. Christy Foreman, director of the Office of Device Evaluation at the FDA's ...
University of Utah chemists discovered how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to predict chemical reactions and thus design better catalysts to speed reactions that make medicines, industrial products and new materials. "The ...
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A US financial regulator warned consumers Tuesday that using the online currency Bitcoin is fraught with risks including theft by hacking and fraud. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority issued the general warning amid a spate of ...
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A team of U.S. researchers says it discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health. Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery of the University of Notre Dame said the new class of antibiotics ...
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a method for modifying organic molecules that significantly expands the possibilities for developing new pharmaceuticals and improving old ones. "This is a technology that ...
Doctors in the United States are writing more prescriptions for sedatives than ever before, and the frequent use of these powerful drugs in combination with narcotic painkillers may be causing medication-related deaths, a new study ...
Tags: prescriptions, Health&Medicine, care visits