Lee Biosolutions has increased its capacity to an industrial scale of over 150 million units per batch size.
Lee Biosolutions supplies Porcine Liver Esterase and other stable high purity enzymes and related proteins to major diagnostic companies used in urine tests as an indicator of blood or urine infection. Porcine liver esterase is also used on [...]
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The Land O’Lakes Purina Feed plant in Fremont, Neb., has initiated a limited voluntary recall of two lamb feed products due to higher than acceptable levels of copper.
The products and lot numbers involved in the recall were produced at the Fremont, Neb., feed plant only, and are described as:
LC59 – 1311317 – Lake Country Honor [...]
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Aesthera Corporation’s Isolaz painless acne therapy has been featured, issue of U.S. News %26amp; World Report, a leading national weekly news magazine. The publication describes Isolaz acne therapy as %26quot;an advance against acne%26quot; and reports that the Isolaz is the first treatment device FDA cleared to treat comedonal and pustular acne, in addition to mild [...]
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Compendia Bioscience the leading provider of cancer profiling data and analysis tools, today announced the central role of their flagship product Oncomine in the discovery and identification of SPINK1 as a key new therapeutic target and biomarker for prostate cancer.
Oncomine is a rapidly growing compendium of nearly 26,000 gene expression and DNA copy number arrays [...]
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Amylin Pharmaceuticals, Eli Lilly and Company, and Alkermes announced results from a 52-week open-label clinical study that showed the durable efficacy of exenatide once weekly, a long-acting release formulation of exenatide. Patients taking exenatide once weekly over the course of one year sustained a similar improvement in glucose control [A1C: -2.0%+/-0.08; fasting plasma glucose (FPG) [...]
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Twice as many Americans live with schizophrenia than with HIV/AIDS, but a major report by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) reveals most Americans are unfamiliar with the disease.
%26quot;Americans are not sure what to think about schizophrenia,%26quot; said NAMI executive director Mike Fitzpatrick. %26quot;They know schizophrenia is a medical illness affecting the brain, but [...]
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ETHEX Corporation has voluntarily recalled a single lot of morphine sulfate 60 mg extended release tablets (Lot No. 91762) due to a report of a tablet with twice the appropriate thickness.
Oversized tablets may contain as much as two times the labeled level of active morphine sulfate. The lot was distributed by ETHEX Corporation under [...]
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Two long-term, large-scale and independent studies evaluating cardiovascular (CV) outcomes in people with type 2 diabetes enrolled more than 9,300 patients taking AVANDIA (rosiglitazone maleate) and provide more than 20,000 patient years of additional experience with AVANDIA. The Veterans Affairs Diabetes Trial (VADT), through two separate analyses, concluded that based on results from VADT, there [...]
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Older people are especially at risk from heat-related health problems such as heatstroke and heat exhaustion. With the heat wave we are currently experiencing, now is not the time to do chores, run errands or weed your garden.
%26quot;Heat can be miserable for all ages, but potentially life threatening for older persons,%26quot; according to Lois Aronstein, [...]
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The Tomato Crisis of 2008… Can one even begin to measure the immense impact the latest vegetable panic will have on the economy?
The answer is yes. Just ask the Spinach, the leafy green panic of 2006! Just two years ago the Spinach industry was decimated by microscopic bacteria, E-coli. The [...]
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The Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of Hong Kong Department of Public Health urged members of the public to be vigilant against Enterovirus-71 (EV71) infection following the confirmation of three cases by laboratory test yesterday.
A spokesman for the CHP said the cases involved two girls and a boy aged between two and four. Laboratory tests [...]
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If you are suffering from a serious medical condition during your trip, you will need immediate attention. While visiting the United States, you must take a visitor or travel health insurance plan in order to secure yourself during the trip.
You cannot predict when you might have a medical emergency and may even be in a [...]
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Two recent reports associate lack of health insurance coverage with less access to health care services and worse health outcomes.
One study is written by Jack Hadley of the Urban Institute and published by the Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured, the other by an Institute of Medicine (IOM)committee, with support from the Robert Wood [...]
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