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New Cholesterol Drug Cuts Heart Risk in Half
2014-08-31 19:24:02| Biotech - Topix.net
An experimental cholesterol-lowering drug from Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceuticals roughly halved the number of heart attacks and strokes in a clinical trial, researchers reported on Sunday.
Pests Pose Increasing Risk to Food Security
2014-08-31 16:03:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Climate News Network: Coming soon to a farm near you: just about every possible type of pest that could take advantage of the ripening harvest in the nearby fields. Wherever pests can make a living, they will. None of this bodes well for food security in a world of nine billion people and increasingly rapid climate change By 2050, according to new research in the journal Global Ecology and Biogeography, those opportunistic viruses, bacteria, fungi, blights, mildews, rusts, beetles, nematodes, flies, mites, spiders and...
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Takeda, Lilly lose bid to overturn $9 billion award for hiding cancer risk
2014-08-30 03:04:00| Biotech - Topix.net
Takeda Pharmaceuticals and Eli Lilly & Co lost a bid to overthrow a combined $9 billion punitive-damage award by a U.S. jury for hiding cancer risks associated with their Actos diabetes drug, according to a court ruling.
EPA Releases Three Final Chemical Risk Assessments
2014-08-29 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA released final risk assessments for specific uses of 3 chemicals found in common household products. Risk assessment for Dichloromethane, which is widely used in paint stripping products, indicates health risks to both workers and consumers who use these products, and to bystanders in workplaces and residences where DCM is used. Risk assessments for antimony trioxide used as a synergist in halogenated flame retardants, and HHCB uses as fragrance ingredient in products did not show ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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Whirlpool: TCE pollution near Boys & Girls Club poses no risk
2014-08-29 04:50:48| Appliances - Topix.net
Whirlpool Corporation said in a statement Thursday that previously detected TCE contamination near a south Fort Smith Boys and Girls Club facility that originated at its shuttered facility posed no risk and was not detected in the majority of water samples taken at the club's property.
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