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Swedish Match's Proposal Has Not Been Accepted by a Panel of US FDA Advisors
Apr 16, 2015Swedish Match’s proposal to ease warning labels related to snus tobacco packaging has not been accepted by a panel of US FDA advisors. Snus is a moist tobacco powder put under the upper lip. Swedish Match wants the FDA to allow it ...
Tags: Snus Packs, FDA Panel, moist tobacco powder
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Drinking Coffee May Be Associated with a Lower Risk of Developing MS
Mar 5, 2015Drinking coffee may be associated with a lower risk of developing multiple sclerosis (MS), according to a study from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. The study, published in February 2015 and to be presented at ...
Tags: Drinking Coffee, Coffee
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Schutt to Offer Sensor-Enhanced Football Helmets Starting with The 2015 Season
Jan 13, 2015Schutt Sports, a leading manufacturer of football and lacrosse helmets, and Brain Sentry, a leader in the emerging wearable impact sensor market, today announced that Schutt will offer sensor-enhanced football helmets starting with the 2015 ...
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Scientists call for the effort on the label on the heat of burning
Oct 21, 2014Researchers, from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore claim that it takes a four mile run to burn off a bottle of fizzy drink and a 5.6-mile hike to shake off a double cheeseburger. They feel that putting that ...
Tags: Calorie-Burning Effort, Labels
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Medical Supply Companies Are Reaching From Minnesota to West Africa to Help Fight The Ebol
Aug 25, 2014Medical supply companies are reaching from Minnesota to West Africa to help fight the Ebola epidemic. Maplewood, MN–based 3M Co.and St. Paul, MN–based Ecolab announced upcoming donations of millions of dollars worth of health ...
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Dal-Tile Interior Design Scholarship Presented by The ASID Foundation, Have Been Announced
Apr 1, 2014The panel of judges for the third Dal-Tile Interior Design Scholarship, presented by the ASID Foundation, have been announced. This year's scholarship competition, titled "Operation Renovation," challenges students to find a residential ...
Tags: Construction
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Tested The Application of a Novel Microarray
Mar 11, 2014Scientists 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 ...
Tags: Ancient Human Remains, Microbial Detection, Array Detects Plague
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NASDAQ: ISIS Provided an Update on Its Ongoing Open Label, Multiple Dose Phase 2 Study
Feb 27, 2014Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ISIS) today provided an update on its ongoing open label, multiple dose Phase 2 study of ISIS-SMNRx in infants with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). To date, all four infants in the 6 mg cohort have been ...
Tags: ISIS, SMA, Infant, respiratory assistance
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Findings Suggest Similar Origins of Some Cases of Schizophrenia and Autism in Humans
Feb 26, 2014Findings suggest similar origins of some cases of schizophrenia and autism in humans Johns Hopkins researchers report that fetal mice — especially males — show signs of brain damage that lasts into their adulthood when they ...
Tags: Immune Response, Prenatal Exposure, journal Brain, maternal infection
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Visits Considered 'Window of Opportunity' to Ensure Preventive Care
Feb 25, 2014Visits considered “window of opportunity” to ensure preventive care Medical associations widely recommend that women visit their obstetricians and primary care doctors shortly after giving birth, but slightly fewer than half ...
Tags: Obstetricians, window of opportunity, Medicaid, complicated pregnancy
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New Drugs to Decrease Excessive Fat Production and Its Associated Conditions in People
Feb 25, 2014Studying a cycle of protein interactions needed to make fat, Johns Hopkins researchers say they have discovered a biological switch that regulates a protein that causes fatty liver disease in mice. Their findings, they report, may help ...
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Mysterious Workings of Jazz Players' Brains While They Improvise Music Are Revealed
Feb 19, 2014The mysterious workings of jazz players' brains while they improvise music are revealed in a new study. Researchers used functional MRI scans to monitor the brain activity of 11 male jazz pianists, aged 25 to 56, while they performed ...
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Valproic Acid Is One of The Most Widely Prescribed Drugs for The Treatment of Epilepsy
Feb 18, 2014Valproic acid is one of the most widely prescribed drugs for the treatment of epilepsy. It has also been shown to be effective for the treatment of mood disorders and migraine headaches. What prompted your research into valproic acid ...
Tags: Valproic Acid, Health, Medicine
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CMB Is Made of Photons That Have Been Scattering Since The Universe Was 400,000 Years Ago
Feb 18, 2014The faint background glow that exists throughout the Universe, called the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB), is made of photons that have been scattering since the universe was just 400,000 years old. Now in a new paper, physicist Liang Dai ...
Tags: Consumer Electronics, Electronics
