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Sat 26 May 2012

Former inspector says organic study lackingInteresting criticism of organic claims:“Organic farms are spread out all over the continent,” Popov tells Brownfield Ag News, “So, if you’re an organic farmer in the middle of a sea of conventional farmers, you’re benefitting from all the pest control they’re doing.” Conversely, he says, if there were wall to wall organic farmers, pest control would be nearly impossible.The biggest...

Consider, evaluate, act: Green Party support for anti-science activism is troubling - don't destroy researchA must read from @prateekbuch"Mark Henderson's outstanding book The Geek Manifesto urges professional scientists and those who want to promote a scientific approach to public policy to unite and to make our presence felt in medicine, in journalism, in the environmental movement and above all in politics. The risks of not doing so have been laid bare all to clearly in the ongoing battle to defend a...

Long Waits to See a Doctor Are Tough to CureEfforts in the medical world to reduce the amount of time patients spend waiting for appointments can have unintended consequences.

Tranzyme Pharma and Norgine Announce Top-Line Data From ULISES 008, the Second of Two Phase 3 ...

ChemoCentryx Presents Data on CCX168, an Orally Administered Small Molecule Inhibitor of C5aR, ...

News digest – clinical trials, bowel cancer screening, coffee and cancer, and moreSunday was International Clinical Trials Day. To mark the occasion, Gareth Griffiths, Scientific Director of our Wales Cancer Trials Unit, wrote us an article about the world-class clinical trials being carried out there. Nearly one in five cancer pa...

Environmentalism and anti-science, how GMOs prove any ideological extremity leads to anti-scienceDenialism blog has a say about the schermozzle looming at the Rothamsted UK agricultural research unit about the organic farming protest mob Take the Flour Back's threat to sabotage legitimate science experiments:Today I read about two individuals who decided on political defections over perceived anti-science amongst their former political allies- one due to climate change, the other for anti-GMO...

Fri 25 May 2012

States should stop diverting stop-smoking moneyThe states and cigarette industry have a symbiotic relationship. Tobacco companies have paid states close to $250 billion in settlement money since 1998, and much of that money was meant to go on stop-smoking programs. But only 3 percent of the funds...

The Impact of Seed Policy Reforms and Intellectual Property Rights on Crop Productivity in IndiaAbstract. The growth of private investment in developing-country agriculture, new advances in the biological sciences, and rapid integration of developing countries into the global trading system has heightened interest in the topic of seed market and intellectual property rights’ (IPRs) policies among public policy-makers, corporate decision-makers and other actors in the agricultural sec...

Luddite Greens repeatedly and viscerally anti-science - Take the Flour Back is the latest incarnationAdam Rutherford in the comments at Comment is free does a better job than Sunny Hundal, so let's accept Sense About Science's Tweeted suggestion and promote him to top billing:Dear Sunny,Some interesting points, and a considered pov, as usual. A couple of things worth noting. I'm interested in the longview of opposition to biotechnology that is based on recombinant DNA. Since its discovery/inventi...

Thin trading and thinner appreciation, never long over a weekend End of Day, Cause and Effect EOD Commentary: RegMed stocks … extended their losses in thin trading, Friday as investors … hesitated to stay long … over the 3 day Memorial Day holiday weekend amid ongoing worrie...

Michigan VC Report Highlights Positive TrendsOn the heels of Renaissance Venture Capital announcing earlier this month that it had its first close of $60 million on its second fund, the Michigan Venture Capital Association (MCVA) released its annual report on the state of Michigan’s venture e...

Inner workings of planet helped boost oxygen in atmosphereThe influence of the ground beneath us on the air around us could be greater than scientists had previously thought, [...]

Small towns benefit from self-employedPeople in rural counties who work for themselves may add a boost to local economies, improving income and job growth, [...]

Babies Learn from Experiences That Are Not Too Simple, Not Too Complex, but ‘Just Right’Long before babies understand the story of Goldilocks, they have more than mastered the fairy tale heroine’s method of decision-making. [...]

Mass. Moves to Require End-of-Life TalksWBUR radio and Kaiser News report that the Massachusetts Senate has quietly approved a measure requiring doctors and nurses to discuss end of life options with patients who have a terminal illness. The Palliative Care Awareness bill was included as p...

What to Do if You Have a Question about Your Certified EHRThe ONC Certification Program staff receives comments and questions by phone and email that are related to the adoption, use, and implementation of certified EHR, as well as questions related to CMS’ Medicare and Medicaid EHR Incentive Programs. Th...

Deals Of The Week Jump Starts The Summer Reading List

High on the New York Times List of Bestsellers (in the hardcover advice & miscellaneous category) this spring has been the book “Innovation: Create Far From Home, Win Everywhere.”It’s by two well-known Dartmouth business school professors,...

Takeda Continues Emerging Market Emphasis With Acquisition Of Brazil’s MultilabAlready a player in Brazil, the Japanese pharma will improve its distribution network there thanks to Multilab’s relationships with regional wholesalers and small and mid-size pharmacies.

Vertex's Cystic Fibrosis Drug Kalydeco Given Green Light By EU's Scientific Advisory PanelVertex's cystic fibrosis product Kalydeco is one of five new molecular entities given a positive opinion by Europe's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use on May 25, which also included Almirall's novel COPD therapy aclidinium and Novo Nordi...

I have the appreciation arrows, where is the bent bow to aim them? The 6 W’s: Who, what, where, when, why and what of it Mid-Day: The NASDAQ is DOWN -1.50 (-0.05%) to 2,837.88 while the Dow is also DOWN -36.97 (-0.29%) to 12,492.78. Mid-Day Market Commentary: RegMed stocks are fluctuating to the low sid...

'American Idol' Winner Undergoes Surgeries During ContestBy Celebrity Diagnosis We all know that "American Idol" can be a grueling experience for its contestants. But imagine undergoing eight surgical procedures over the course of it... We were aware that Season 11 winner Philip Phillips had bee...

Novo Nordisk receives positive opinion on recombinant factor XIII from the European regulatory ...

Summit Corporation PLC : Summit Announces Initiation of Phase 1 Trial for the Treatment of ...

FDA Advisory Committee Finds Data Support Effectiveness of Tafamidis Meglumine, Pfizers Novel ...

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