All Chemistry World articles in Archive 2004-2009 – Page 80
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Business roundup: May 2008
Experts’ damning Vytorin verdict Already troubled by disappointing clinical trial results and an ongoing investigation, US drug giants Merck and Schering Plough’s combined cholesterol treatment Vytorin has now received a damning review from leading cardiologists. Source: © MERCK / SCHERING-PLOUGH PHARMACEUTICALS Trials show Vytorin’s dual action works ...
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EPA probes its own dismissal of expert scientist
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched an internal enquiry on its decision to remove toxicologist
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Water footprint could foil energy plans
The Indian Academy of Sciences is to investigate after Chemistry World alerted it to a possible instance of plagiarism by an Indian chemist
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Regulator's doubts grow over bisphenol A
Canada's national public health agency, Health Canada, has become the first regulator in the world to label bisphenol A (BPA) as 'toxic'
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Note book: May 2008
EU funding opportunities The European parliament has given the green light to a €400 million Eurostars programme aimed at small and medium enterprises (SMEs) conducting market-oriented R&D (see also Chemistry World, March 2008, p46). Meanwhile, the European Commission has developed a draft guide to help researchers select and combine ...
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Environmental scientists report political interference
Hundreds of EPA researchers say they were told to alter their work
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Drug costs cut on World Malaria Day
Novartis has reduced the price of its antimalarial drug Coartem, potentially boosting supplies to developing countries
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Radiochemicals firm first to recycle tritium
World's biggest supplier to re-use all its waste, thanks to humble wire mesh rings
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Bitter melon yields sweet results for diabetes
Chemicals from the warty Asian vegetable could inspire drugs for diabetes
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Global fluoride and arsenic contamination of water mapped
Swiss researchers have made maps showing the estimated levels of two important contaminants in groundwater
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EPA probes its own dismissal of scientist
Agency to investigate its own removal of toxicologist Deborah Rice amid a congressional enquiry
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Canada may brand bisphenol A 'toxic'
Retailers pull BPA bottles, as separate US study suggests 'some' concerns over cancer links
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World's first therapeutic cancer vaccine approved
US biotech Antigenics wins Russian approval to market kidney cancer treatment
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The shortest recipe for Tamiflu
Chemists announce most efficient synthetic route yet to flu-busting drug