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Cheap feed reduces use of hog growth drug in U.S., opens markets

2015-12-11 22:33:00| Food - Topix.net

Dec 11 Cheap grain has encouraged some U.S. hog farmers to switch away from a controversial drug to bulk up their animals, giving them the added benefit of being able to sell to big customers such as China, which have banned the supplement. Ractopamine, known by the brand name Paylean, cuts the total cost of producing a hog by at least $2, or about two percent, experts said.

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Portland Police Bureau: Drug training aid procedures strengthened, recently improved practices should continue (5/20/10)

2015-12-09 01:41:16| PortlandOnline

An audit of the Police Bureau's use of training aids with drug detection dogs PDF Document, 424kbCategory: 2010 Reports

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Teva Gets FDA Approval For Cancer Drug

2015-12-08 17:23:41| Biotech - Topix.net

Israel's Teva Pharmaceutical Industries said the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved an injectable and infusion version of its cancer drug bendamustine. The drug, sold under the brand name Bendeka, is approved for treating cancer patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia and indolent B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

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Dompe's investigational biotech molecule receives orphan drug...

2015-12-08 10:08:14| Biotech - Topix.net

The Dompe biopharmaceutical company announced today that the Committee for Orphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency has officially designated recombinant human Nerve Growth Factor - the investigational biotech molecule developed by Dompe based on research by Nobel Laureate Rita Levi Montalcini - as an orphan drug for the treatment of neurotrophic keratitis. NGF is the first neurotrophic factor to be identified and purified, and represents one of the most interesting topics being studied in medicine today and specifically in ophthalmology.

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