Posts tagged ‘approves’

December 26, 2014

FDA Approves New Meningitis Vaccine

FDA Approves New Meningitis Vaccine
"Recent outbreaks of serogroup B meningococcal disease on a few college campuses have heightened concerns for this potentially deadly disease," Dr. Karen Midthun, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, said in an agency …
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FDA Recommendations Aim to Make Liquid Acetaminophen Safer for Children
In August 2013, for example, the Consumer Healthcare Products Association (CHPA) petitioned FDA to make it easier to label over-the-counter (OTC) acetaminophen products in such a way as to make it easier to provide accurate doses to those same …
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December 20, 2014

Pesticides linked to depression in farmers, USDA approves a GMO potato: Food

Pesticides linked to depression in farmers, USDA approves a GMO potato: Food
Diamond in the rough: Geophysicists have been trying to simulate conditions near the Earth's lower mantle and in the process have been figuring out ways to manufacture diamonds, including, with peanut butter. Potato, potato: The USDA has approved a …
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Cooper Tire Begins Testing Tires Made with Guayule Component
The consortium received the BRDI grant in 2012 from the USDA and the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to conduct research aimed at developing enhanced manufacturing processes for the production of solid rubber from the guayule plant as a biomaterial …
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Paiutes win grant to USDA grant
Since the beginning of the Obama Administration, the RBEG program has helped create or save more than 90,000 rural jobs, provided more than $ 54 million in economic development assistance, improved manufacturing capability, expanded health care and …
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