Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA articles from April 2004

Medical Letter on the CDC & FDA archives from April 2004

Progress in development of blood substitutes reported.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists are making progress in the development of blood substitutes. "Chemically modified or genetically engineered hemoglobins (Hbs) developed as oxygen therapeutics (often termed 'blood...

Fibroblast cell lines susceptible to TSE agents.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Common fibroblast cell lines are susceptible to transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) agents. "The risk of contamination of tissue culture cells with transmissible spongiform encephalopathy...

Mefloquine-artesunate effective for treating uncomplicated malaria.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Mefloquine-artesunate is effective for the treatment of uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum malaria. "We assessed the efficacy of mefloquine monotherapy and mefloquine-artesunate (MQ-AS)...

Research ethics and placebo use debated.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The debate on research ethics and placebo use is explored in a recent issue of the journal Medecine Sciences. According to a researcher in Canada, "The question of the use of the placebo is one of...

Cases of spotted fever rickettsioses in U.S. travelers summarized.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers summarize the cases of spotted fever rickettsioses in United States travelers returning from Africa in a recent issue of the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. According...

Acetyl and phosphate groups quantified in vaccine polysaccharides.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have quantified O-acetyl, N-acetyl and phosphate groups in bacterial vaccine polysaccharides by high-performance anion-exchange chromatography with conductivity detection (HPAEC-CD). ...

Study: Alcohol treatment meds, behavioral therapy effective for cocaine addiction.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of a study funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), U.S. National Institutes of Health, suggest that disulfiram, a medication used to treat alcohol addiction, is effective in...

Babies born to alcoholic mothers may suffer permanent nerve damage.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Newborns whose mothers drank alcohol heavily during pregnancy had damage to the nerves in the arms and legs, according to a study by researchers at the National Institute of Child Health and Human...

FDA-licensed anthrax vaccine supplied to Taiwan.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- BioPort Corporation announced the sale of U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA)-licensed anthrax vaccine, BioThrax, to the Taiwanese government, marking the company's entry into the commercial market...

FDA approves Cecure anti-bacterial spray for poultry.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) and Safe Foods Corporation announced the notice of approval by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Cecure, an anti-bacterial spray for...

NIOSH approves mask for protection from biological, chemical, and nuclear attack.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The first gas mask intended to protect emergency personnel from chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agents was approved by the U.S. National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health...

Black women in U.S. more likely to have delayed diagnosis, treatment.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A new study finds African American women are more likely than white women to have delays in diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. Researchers from The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer...

Pharmaceutical company makes significant strides in 2003.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (IBPI) reported financial and operating results for the fourth quarter and year ended December 31, 2003. "We have made significant progress in 2003, advancing our...

FDA-approved X-ray imaging accessory to aid in image-guided cancer treatment.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Varian Medical Systems, Inc., (VAR) has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance of its On-Board Imager accessory for the company's Clinac and Trilogy medical linear...

FDA meeting to discuss RIGScan CR49 development.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Neoprobe Corp. (NEOP), a diversified developer of oncology and cardiovascular surgical and diagnostic products, has scheduled a meeting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on April 15,...

U.S. orders halt to sales of the supplement andro.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. government ordered an end to sales of the steroid-like supplement andro, made famous by baseball's Mark McGwire, in the latest crackdown on over-the-counter pills that claim to help people get...

Licensing agreement for fentanyl patch inked.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Noven Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (NOVN) and Endo Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings, Inc., (ENDP), have signed an agreement under which Noven will license the...

Martin Leon to lead studies of Rubicon Filter.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rubicon Medical Corp. (RMDC), a Salt Lake City-based developer and manufacturer of medical devices and products, announced that Martin Leon will serve as the company's principal investigator for its...

First VanB vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolated in Spain.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have characterized the first VanB vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolated in a Spanish hospital. "We report the detection and characterization of the first...

Adsorption and clay-catalyzed degradation of erythromycin A reported.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists report the adsorption and clay-catalyzed degradation of erythromycin A on homoionic clays. "Erythromycin has been widely used in food-producing animals and in humans, and is frequently...

U.S. plans public health study on an Ohio power plant's emissions.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. federal government is starting a public health study to determine whether air emissions from a [power] plant that recycles used oil and commercial fuels pose a health risk. The U.S. Agency...

New drug application submitted for Sanvar IR.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- H3 Pharma, Inc., a Montreal, Quebec-based pharmaceutical product development company, announced the submission of a new drug application to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Washington, DC, for...

Poor diet, physical inactivity may soon overtake tobacco as leading cause of death.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- About half of all deaths in the U.S. can be attributed to largely preventable behaviors and exposures, with tobacco use and poor diet/physical inactivity accounting for the majority of preventable...

Indicator organisms for safety and quality reviewed.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists review indicator organisms for safety and quality in a recent issue of the Journal of AOAC International. "Indicator organisms have been used for nearly a century to assess the...

Method to confirm chloramphenicol in seafood validated.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have validated a method to confirm chloramphenicol in shrimp and crabmeat by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. According to a study from the United States, "An existing...

Method to determine putrescine and cadaverine in shrimp developed.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have developed a gas chromatographic method for the analysis of putrescine and cadaverine in shrimp. "A gas-liquid chromatographic method developed for the determination of putrescine...

Report: FDA needs seafood safety fixes.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The safety of imported seafood is improving but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must act more quickly to stop shipments of potentially bad fish, said a congressional report released in...

FDA approves generic version of Claritin-D 24-Hour.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- IMPAX Laboratories, Inc., (IPXL) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted final approval to the company's abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) for a generic version of...

CDC reports that OraQuick test produces fewer false positive HIV-1 results.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- OraSure Technologies, Inc., (OSUR) announced that its OraQuick Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Test was reported to produce substantially fewer false-positive results than traditional lab-based HIV tests or other...

IND filed with FDA for phase Ib/IIa trials for HIV viral entry inhibitor.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Adventrx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., (AVRX) announced that it has filed an Investigational New Drug Application (IND) with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin its clinical program for...

FDA authorizes a clinical study with Alferon LDO for HIV.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc., (HEB) announced the authorization by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to conduct a clinical trial with Alferon LDO in HIV-infected patients. The submission of the...

Southern states cautioned to keep tabs on HIV outbreaks among college students.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- U.S. federal health officials are urging Southern states to be vigilant for signs of campus HIV outbreaks like the one that recently surprised health officials in North Carolina. But so far, little...

U.S. senator pushes AIDS compensation for veteran families.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- United States Senator Norm Coleman is urging Congress to provide compensation to infected relatives of veterans who contracted HIV and AIDS in service-related blood transfusions. Under current...

U.S., U.N. launch anti-AIDS project for army in Tajikistan.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The United States and the United Nations on March 9, 2004, launched a program to fight the spread of AIDS in Tajikistan's military, handing over 200,000 condoms to Tajik soldiers. The 6-month...

Emtricitabine is option for once-daily antiretroviral therapy.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Emtricitabine is a new nucleoside analogue for once-daily antiretroviral therapy. According to recent research from Argentina, "Highly active antiretroviral therapy has resulted in a dramatic...

Nigeria's AIDS treatment program back on track.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nigeria's AIDS treatment program, hit by drug shortages in recent months, is back on track with drug stocks replenished and local production underway, the Health Ministry said Friday. The program,...

HIV-1 Nef delivery to dendritic cells may stimulate immune response.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Delivery of HIV-1 Nef to dendritic cells using an adenoviral vector shows promise as a method to induce an immune response against HIV-1. "The Net gene is a major determinant of HIV-1 pathogenicity....

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awards contract to supply hyperbaric chambers.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Environmental Tectonics Corp. (ETC) has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, worth approximately $1.6 million, to supply an ARA-MED Model 6/2/6 Multiplace Hyperbaric Chamber and...

Obesity leads to high blood pressure in the young.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It takes about 10 years for high blood pressure in young people to develop after they become overweight, and obesity is on a steady upward climb in the young, according to researchers presenting at the...

Rosiglitazone reduces acute inflammation.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Rosiglitazone, a ligand of the peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma, reduces acute inflammation. "Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) are members of the nuclear hormone...

FDA issues approvable letter for ESTORRA.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Sepracor, Inc., (SEPR) has received an approvable letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its new drug application (NDA) for ESTORRA brand eszopiclone 2 mg and 3 mg tablets for the...

Medical device manufacturer reports conclusion of FDA inspection.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- On February 11, Utah Medical Products, Inc., (UTMD) publicly disclosed a comprehensive inspection of its Utah facility by three U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) inspectors from Minneapolis,...

Pfizer and Aventis seek approval to market Exubera in Europe.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) reported that Pfizer, Inc., and Aventis announced that the European Medicines Evaluation Agency has accepted the filing of a marketing authorization application for Exubera...

African Americans unaware of high kidney disease risk.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Although kidney failure and its leading causes disproportionately affect African Americans, they are largely unaware of their high risk and of preventive measures, according to the first U.S. National...

EPA examines link between microwave popcorn and lung disease.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is studying the chemicals released into the air when a bag of microwave popcorn is popped or opened. Exposure to vapors from butter flavoring in...

Report says U.S. Defense Department failed to bill private insurers for millions.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) is failing to collect at least $44 million a year from private insurance companies for healthcare services provided to military-related patients, according to...

Trimethyltin induces apoptosis via caspase activation in PC12 cells.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The neurotoxin trimethyltin induces apoptosis via caspase activation, p38 protein kinase, and oxidative stress in PC12 cells. According to published research from the United States, "Acute exposure...

FDA gives favorable review for OmegaTech DHA.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Martek Biosciences Corp. (MATK) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has completed a favorable review of the company's "generally recognized as safe" (GRAS) notification for use of...

FDA to consider petition for more extensive health claims for calcium.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Marine Bio Co., Ltd., of Japan, a worldwide supplier and producer of coral calcium material, has been informed by its U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration) attorneys, Emord & Associates, PC, of Washington,...

Obesity could top smoking as No. 1 cause of preventable death in the U.S.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- More Americans soon will be dying of obesity than from smoking if current trends persist, which would make being fat the nation's No. 1 cause of preventable death, the government says. A poor diet...

FDA clears new biologic bone paste.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Exactech, Inc., (EXAC) has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to produce and market a new demineralized bone matrix (DBM) based human allograft bone paste that will...

FDA clears monitoring system.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aspect Medical Systems, Inc., (ASPM) has received 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for the BISx system, a bispectral index (BIS) monitoring solution that provides the...

New Center for Medicare Management administrator named.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Veteran healthcare executive Herb Kuhn will head the Center for Medicare Management (CMM) of the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Acting CMS Administrator Dennis Smith announced in...

Hong Kong health chief apologizes over SARS crisis handling.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Hong Kong's health secretary apologized Saturday for his handling of last year's deadly SARS epidemic and acknowledged that the territory's medical system had been ill-equipped to deal with the crisis....

Research shows growing challenges in controlling STDs among gay and bisexual men.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Findings from late-breaking research presented at the 2004 National STD Prevention Conference in Philadelphia adds to the growing body of evidence regarding the impact of sexually transmitted diseases...

Bush Administration weighs condom warning.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Bush administration is considering requiring warning labels on condom packages noting that the contraceptive devices do not protect users from all sexually transmitted diseases, a U.S. Food and Drug...

New inoculations show promise.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Tests of an experimental smallpox vaccine have produced encouraging results in monkeys and mice. The discovery may lead to an alternative for humans unable to receive current smallpox vaccines. ...

Recommendations issued on development of drugs for vaccine side effects.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued draft guidance for the development of drugs to treat the side effects of vaccination against smallpox with vaccinia virus. The need for drugs to...

Altastaph receives FDA fast track designation.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Nabi Biopharmaceuticals (NABI) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has determined the company's investigational product, Altastaph [Staphylococcus aureus Immune Globulin (Human)]...

U.S. lawmakers want to ease stem cell research restrictions.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The Bush Administration's restrictions on stem-cell research are putting up a roadblock against scientific breakthroughs and leaving America at a competitive disadvantage with other countries, U.S....

Folic acid fortification may have lowered stroke deaths.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Fortifying enriched grain products with folic acid in the 1990s appears to have been followed by a decline in stroke and ischemic heart disease deaths, U.S. government researchers reported at the...

Antibodies to tick salivary antigens detected in patients from Spain.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers report results of a study to detect antibodies to tick salivary antigens among patients from a region of Spain in a recent issue of the European Journal of Epidemiology. "With a view to...

Miniaturized heart pump for children approved by FDA.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- MicroMed Technology Inc. has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) approval to provide transplant centers with the DeBakey VAD (ventricular assist device)...

Unique proteins identified in Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists have identified unique proteins in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. According to a study from Germany, "Sequencing of the genomes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis provides...

Prospects for new tuberculosis vaccines reviewed.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review prospects for new tuberculosis vaccines in a recent issue of the International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. According to recent research from Switzerland, "Research...

Expression of exogenous genes in Trypanosoma cruzi improved.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Investigators have improved the expression of exogenous genes in Trypanosoma cruzi. "To improve transfection efficiency in Trypanosoma cruzi, we developed a new electroporation protocol and...

Skin substitutes and wound healing reviewed.
April 4, 2004... 2004 APR 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers review skin substitutes and wound healing in a recent issue of Wounds - A Compendium of Clinical Research and Practice. "Bioengineered skin substitutes have emerged over the past 20...

Vitamins reduce risk for congenital anomalies other than neural tube defects.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Vitamin supplements reduce the risk for congenital anomalies other than neural tube defects. "Randomized trials, supported by many observational studies, have shown that periconceptional use of...

Serology used to determine prevalence of infection with waterborne pathogens.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Serology is an effective method of determining the prevalence of infection with waterborne pathogens in very young children. "Water and sanitation interventions in developing countries have...

Recent advances in Cryptosporidium taxonomy reviewed.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Scientists review recent advances in Cryptosporidium taxonomy in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews. According to a study from the United States, "There has been an explosion of...

Replication kinetics of Chimerivax-DEN in Aedes aegypti determined.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Replication kinetics of the Chimerivax-DEN 1, 2, 3, 4 tetravalent virus mixture in Aedes aegypti were determined using real-time reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction. According to...

SARS preparedness checklist developed for state and local health officials.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Researchers have developed a SARS preparedness checklist for state and local health officials. "In March 2003, the number of cases of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was increasing daily...

Consistent condom use reduces transmission of gonorrhea and chlamydia.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Consistent condom use reduces the transmission of gonorrhea and chlamydia. "This analysis examined the importance of differential exposure to infected partners in epidemiologic studies of latex...

FDA clears LaparoShield system for minimally invasive abdominal surgery.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Pall Corporation (PLL) announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance to market its new LaparoShield Conditioned Insufflation Gas (CIG) System. By conditioning the carbon dioxide...

Deficits associated with prenatal alcohol exposure can be seen as early as infancy.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Alcohol-exposed babies respond more slowly to their environment, and take longer to calm down, according to a new study. Most of the research on arousal and attention deficits caused by prenatal...

Company announces new biodefense-related contract work.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Commonwealth Biotechnologies, Inc., (CBTE) (CBI), a life sciences contract research organization and biotechnology company, announced execution of two major biodefense-related contracts valued at...

U.S. to stockpile new vaccine.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. government is planning to stockpile enough doses of an experimental new anthrax vaccine to inoculate 25 million people. Studies designed to prove whether this new vaccine is safe are...

Public health monitoring of autism spectrum disorders is ongoing.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Public health monitoring of autism spectrum disorders is ongoing. According to researchers in the United States "Developmental disabilities (DDs) are conditions characterized by physical,...

CDC removes Hong Kong from bird ban.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has removed Hong Kong from the jurisdictions included in an importation ban on birds and bird products. The decision to remove Hong Kong is...

Chinese delegation visits Delaware to discuss avian influenza.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Delaware officials met March 16, 2004, with a delegation from the Chinese embassy to explain what the state has done to control an avian flu outbreak and request that China lift an import ban on...

Skeletal imaging agent approved by FDA.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Draximage, Inc., the radiopharmaceutical subsidiary of Draxis Health, Inc., (DRAX) (DAX), has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to produce and market a new formulation...

Allomatrix Injectable Putty receives FDA clearance.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Wright Medical Group, Inc., (WMGI) announced receipt of marketing clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Allomatrix Injectable Putty containing demineralized bone matrix....

U.S. expands mad cow testing to cover 221,000 animals.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- The U.S. Agriculture Department will expand its testing for mad cow disease after the single U.S. case in December to more than 221,000 animals, 10 times the number tested last year, officials say. ...

NDA filed with FDA for nanoparticle-based Abraxane.
April 11, 2004... 2004 APR 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- American Pharmaceutical Partners, Inc., (APP, APPX) and American BioScience, Inc., (ABI) announced that ABI has completed the filing of a New Drug Application (NDA) to the U.S. Food and Drug...