Sexual Harassment 10 Times More Likely In Casual And Contract Jobs Women employed in casual and contract jobs are up to ten times more likely to experience unwanted sexual advances than those in permanent full time positions, a University of Melbourne study has found.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comCircassia Achieves Successful Phase II Clinical Results With Toleromune(R) Anti-Allergy Technology Circassia Ltd, a specialty biopharmaceutical company focused on controlling immune system responses, announced positive results from a phase II clinical study of its anti-allergy technology, ToleroMune(R), in the field of cat allergy. The trial showed that ToleroMune treatment can substantially reduce allergic reactions to the allergen that causes most cat allergies, and importantly was well tolerated by all patients.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comLink Discovered Between A Mother's Stress And Her Child Becoming Overweight A mother's stress may contribute to her young children being overweight in low income households with sufficient food, according to a new Iowa State University study that is published in the September issue of Pediatrics, the professional journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics. The study analyzed data collected from 841 children in 425 households in the 1999-2002 National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comTakeda Reigns Supreme Among Japanese Pharma Companies The Business Intelligence firm La MerieS.L. conducted an analysis to compare and rank Japanese pharmaceutical companiesregarding sales, net income, R&D expenses and biologics sales in the fiscal year 2007,ended March 31 2008. The study revealed the supremacy of Takeda Pharmaceutical Coover Japanese fellow pharma companies. Takeda not only posted record sales of US$12.5 bln in 2007, but also received top net income in absolute figures (US$ 3.3 bln) andas a percentage of sales (26.4 %).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comNew Jersey Health Commissioner Should Improve Prenatal Care Resources To Address Racial, Economic Disparities, Editorial States The prenatal care report released last week by New Jersey
Health Commissioner Heather Howard that found "wide economic and racial disparities" is "startling and ominous" and "requires immediate attention and action," an Asbury Park Press editorial states (Asbury Park Press, 9/9).
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comClinical Trial Offers Hope To Thousands Of Women With Incontinence And Could Save The NHS Millions Pounds Per Year Tens of thousands of women every day suffer from the misery of stress incontinence, a condition which costs the NHS in excess of £400m a year to treat. Now a new clinical trial of a simple medical device offers hope to women worldwide.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comChina Sky One Medical, Inc. Announces 26 New Drugs In Clinical Trials China Sky One Medical, Inc. ("China Sky One Medical" or "the Company") (Amex: CSY), a leading fully integrated pharmaceutical company producing over-the-counter
drugs in the People's Republic of China ("PRC"), announced that it successfully developed 26 new
drugs that are currently in clinical trials. Heilongjiang Tianlong Pharmaceutical, Inc.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comMcCain Ad Criticizes Obama For Supporting Age-Appropriate Sex Education In Illinois State Senate The campaign of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.) on Tuesday released a television advertisement that criticizes Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) for supporting age-appropriate sex education beginning in kindergarten while he served in the Illinois Senate, the AP/Google.com reports.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comFertility Preservation Using Cryopreservation Techniques Emerging cryopreservation techniques are increasing hope of restoring fertility for women after diseases such as ovarian cancer that lead to destruction of reproductive tissue. The same techniques can also be used to maintain stocks of farm animals, and protect against extinction of endangered animal species by maintaining banks of ovarian tissue or even nascent embryos that can used to produce offspring at some point in the future.
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