Dental Lab Industry Launches Web Site To Inform Consumers On Lead Scare The National Association of Dental Laboratories has launched a Web site to inform consumers concerned about recent reports of lead contamination in dental crowns imported from overseas. The Web site, http://www.whatsinyourmouth.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comGenetic Factor In Brain Development Revealed In the earliest days of brain development, the brain's first cells - neuroepithelial stem cells - divide continuously, producing a population of cells that eventually evolves into the various cells of the fully formed brain. Now, scientists have identified a gene that, in mice, is critical for these stem cells to divide correctly. Without it, they fail to divide, and die.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comWis. Appeals Court Upholds Punishment Of Pharmacist Who Refused To Refill Oral Contraceptive Prescription A three-judge panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeals in Wisconsin on Tuesday upheld the ruling of the state Pharmacy Examining Board against a pharmacist who refused to refill a woman's oral contraceptive
prescription because of moral objections, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comValuable Cancer Diagnostic And Disease-Staging Tool Found In PET The recent release of data by the National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR) showing that positron emission tomography (PET) produced scans revealing disease at a molecular level, which then caused physicians to change treatment plans for more than one-third of participating patients, has corroborated decades of nuclear
medicine research.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comSan Francisco Mayor Discusses Potential Lawsuit To Block Medicaid Payment Reductions San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday said that an impending 10% reduction in Medi-Cal reimbursements to physicians is "unconscionable" and discussed details of a potential lawsuit to block the cut, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Medi-Cal is California's Medicaid program.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comAnne Arundel County, Md., Program To Reduce Infant Mortality Rate Loses Federal Funding The fate of the Anne Arundel County, Md.,
Healthy Start program, which seeks to reduce the county's infant mortality rate, is "unclear" after the loss of $610,000 in federal funding, the Annapolis Capital reports. Whether the program "can be reconstructed with county dollars" is unknown, according to the Capital.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCalifornia Pharmacy Board Delays Deadline For Drug Tracking Requirement The California Pharmacy Board on Tuesday voted unanimously to delay by two years the deadline for implementing an electronic drug tracking system that the state Legislature approved in 2004, the New York Times reports. The new deadline is Jan. 1, 2011 (Pollack, New York Times, 3/26).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comIndian Generic Drug Maker Strides Acrolab Receives Tentative FDA Approval For Combination Antiretroviral FDA on Tuesday announced that it has given tentative approval to Indian generic pharmaceutical company Strides Acrolab for its fixed-dose antiretroviral drug that contains lamivudine, nevirapine and stavudine, Reuters/Yahoo! Malaysia News reports (Reuters/Yahoo! Malaysia News, 3/26).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comBuildCleanTM Studies Radon Levels In Natural Stone Countertops BuildCleanTM, a not-for-profit organization seeking to educate consumers and the building industry about the
health, safety and environmental risks and benefits of indoor building products, announced today it is offering free in-home radon tests in the Greater Houston area to determine whether using
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