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A new study finds that perfluorinated compounds (PFCs), widely used in manufactured products such as non-stick cookware, waterproof clothing, and fast-food packaging, were associated with lowered immune response to vaccinations in children. It is the Tuesday, January 24, 2012
More than 32 million people in the United States have autoantibodies, which are proteins made by the immune system that target the body’s tissues and define a condition known as autoimmunity, a study shows. The first nationally representative sampl Friday, January 13, 2012
Recent findings in mice suggest that blocking the production of small molecules produced in the body, known as epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), may represent a novel strategy for treating cancer by eliminating the blood vessels that feed cancer tumo Monday, December 19, 2011
A data partnership between the National Database for Autism Research (NDAR), and the Autism Genetic Resource Exchange (AGRE) positions NDAR as possibly the largest repository to date of genetic, phenotypic, clinical, and medical imaging data related Monday, December 12, 2011
NIH, EPA, and FDA collaborate to move science forward A high-speed robotic screening system, aimed at protecting human health by improving how chemicals are tested in the United States, begins today to test 10,000 compounds for potential toxicity. T Wednesday, December 07, 2011
A study just published by a Dartmouth team of scientists in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) advances our understanding of the sources of human exposure to arsenic and focuses attention on the potential for consuming harmful Monday, December 05, 2011
NIH-funded study shows 30 percent decline in severe casesCooking stoves with chimneys can lower exposure to indoor wood smoke and reduce the rate of severe pneumonia by 30 percent in children less than 18 months of age, according to a new air polluti Thursday, November 10, 2011
An international effort to replace smoky, inefficient household stoves that people commonly use in lower and middle income countries with clean, affordable, fuel efficient stoves could save nearly 2 million lives each year, according to experts from Thursday, October 13, 2011
The Therapy Cool Path Duo? Ablation Catheter or the Safire BLU Duo? Ablation Catheter is a steerable, deflectable, irrigated catheter (a long, thin, flexible tube) used to treat a certain kind of abnormal heart rhythm (arrhythmia2) called typical atr Thursday, February 02, 2012
The Food and Drug Administration Modernization Act of 1997 (FDAMA) added the "De Novo" classification option as an alternate pathway to classify certain new devices that had automatically been placed in Class III due to lack of a pr Sunday, January 29, 2012
A 180-day supplement is a request for a significant change in components, materials, design, specification, software, color additive, and labeling to an approved premarket application or premarket report. Saturday, January 28, 2012
The M-Vu Algorithm Engine is a software application designed to process digitized film images of the breast. The software analyzes the images and marks suspicious areas consistent with breast cancer for review by a radiologist. The results are displa Friday, January 27, 2012
These are Premarket Approvals (PMA), Product Development Protocols (PDP), Supplement and Notice Decisions for December 2011. Wednesday, January 25, 2012
