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Study: Youth Prescriptions Nearly Double Since 1994
Adolescents and young adults are most likely to abuse prescription medications, which after marijuana is their illicit drug of choice. Yet prescription rates for controlled medications have nearly doubled for those age groups in the past 14 years, according to a study published online in the journal Pediatrics. Overall, a controlled medication was prescribed for…
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Laser Measurement Device Deployed for Europe Wind R&D
Denmark’s National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, known as Risø DTU, has developed a laser-based instrument package to measure conditions at wind power farms, and that device will now be used across Europe at European Energy Research Alliance research stations and commercial installations. Just one of the devices, called a WindScanner (pictured right) , can produce…
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Texas Health Center Studying Newborns Strep Test
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston is studying a faster lab test for Group B Strep (GBS), a common cause of life-threatening infections in newborns. The lab test is made by NanoLogix Inc., a biotech company in Hubbard, Ohio. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), GBS is…
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Alsace, Québec Consortia to Collaborate on Drug Discovery
Alsace BioValley, in Illkirch-Graffenstaden, France, a health science cluster and Québec Consortium for Drug Discovery in Nuns’ Island, Québec, Canada, signed in Paris today an agreement for a bilateral partnership to benefit Alsatian and Québec research centers and industries in the health and life sciences. The agreement calls for co-financing of R&D collaborative projects in…
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New Process Developed for Bio-Plastic Feedstocks
Chemical engineers at University of Massachusetts in Amherst have developed a way to produce high-volume chemical feedstocks from biomass, such as waste wood, agricultural waste and non-food energy crops. This method, that the authors say is economically competitive to current processes using fossil fuels, can produce industrial materials such as benzene, toluene, xylenes, and olefins,…
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Review Ordered of Research Protections for Human Subjects
President Barack Obama yesterday (24 November) asked Amy Guttman, chair of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, to review protections afforded human subjects taking part in federally-funded research. The review stems from disclosures of U.S. Public Health Service (PHS) studies on sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala from 1946 to 1948 involving the…
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Science Business Named to Top 50 Researcher Blogs
We received a holiday goodie from Samantha Reno and Alba Collazo, when they named Science Business as one of their Top 50 Blogs by Scientific Researchers. Samantha and Alba published the top 50 list in their Clinical Research Blog earlier this month. It’s gratifying to get recognition, particularly from fellow bloggers, for our service that gives…
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University Licenses Nanoparticle Drug Delivery Technology
The University of British Columbia (UBC) and the Centre for Drug Research and Development (CDRD), both in Vancouver, Canada, said today that Covidien, a Dublin, Ireland provider of health care products, has licensed a drug-delivery platform technology invented by UBC researcher, Pieter Cullis. CDRD provided the development facilities and commercialization services that led to this…
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U.S., Greece Collaborate on Invasive Weed Defense
One U.S. export not appreciated overseas is the silverleaf nightshade, an invasive weed from the Americas that has spread to southern Europe, Africa, India, Australia, and elsewhere. The Agricultural Research Service (ARS) of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Benaki Phytopathological Institute in Athens, Greece are working together to find a natural way to…
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Testing Labs Score Well Finding Heavy Metals in Seafood
The European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Brussels, Belgium released results today of a study that benchmarks the abilities of laboratories around the world to measure heavy metals in fish and seafood. The labs, located mainly in Europe but also in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific countries, took part voluntarily in the study and generally…