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Health Tip: Preparing Baby Formula

-- Proper preparation and handling of baby's formula can help keep your child from getting sick. The foodsafety.gov website offers this advice: Always wash your hands before preparing formula or hand...

Rerun: Analyzing infant formula marketing

The Health Business Blog is taking a break and re-running some posts from 2008. If you’d like to comment, please do so on the original post. I’ve posted before about the marketing of infant for...

Bacteria Found in More NECC-Made Drugs

Health officials say samples of betamethasone and cardioplegia solution produced by NECC test positive for bacterial contamination; Ameridose recalls raise question of drug shortages. Medscape Medic...

The Risk of Powdered Infant Formula and Cronobacter

William R. Jarvis, MD, comments on a recent study of powdered infant formula and then recommends the exclusive use of breast milk and/or ready-to-feed formula for young infants. Learn why. Medscape...

UN limits melamine in formula after China scandal

A U.N. commission has set a recommended limit on the amount of melamine allowed in liquid infant formula after a 2008 scandal in China in which six babies died from drinking formula and milk products...

More Bacteria, Fungi Found in NECC Products

Federal health officials report finding additional bacteria and fungi in unopened vials of NECC-made betamethasone, cardioplegia, and triamcinolone solutions. Medscape Medical News

Physicians Formula Goes To Wet N Wild Owner Markwins For $75 Mil.

Markwins International has acquired Physicians Formula Holdings, offering roughly $10 million more than previous suitor Swander Pace Capital. The merger “will strengthen the combined portfolio of br...

Some Newborns Benefit From Early Formula, Helping Mothers To Breastfeed Longer

Recent public health efforts have focused extensively on reducing the amount of formula babies are given in the hospital after birth. But in the first randomized trial of its kind, researchers at UC S...

Protecting the aged heart during cardiac surgery: The potential benefits of del Nido cardioplegia.

OBJECTIVE: Aged hearts are more vulnerable than mature hearts to reperfusion injury during cardiac surgery because of altered cardiomyocyte Ca(2+) homeostasis. Inasmuch as immature cardiomyocytes have...

Electrophilic substitution of the nido-dicarbaborate anion 7,8-nido-C(2)B(9)H(12)(-) with sulfenyl chlorides.

Sulfenyl chlorides RSCl (R = p-C(6)H(4)OMe, Ph, p-C(6)H(4)NO(2), CN or 2-C(5)H(4)N) react with 7,8-nido-C(2)B(9)H(12)(-) with asymmetric substitution on the pentagonal C(2)B(3) face to give 9-RS-7,8-n...

Acid-Induced Opening of closo-B(10)H(10)(2-) as a New Route to 6-Substituted nido-B(10)H(13) Decaboranes and Related Carboranes.

Protonation of the polyhedral anion [closo-B(10)H(10)](2-) under superacidic conditions apparently generates an electrophilic intermediate, [B(10)H(13)](+), that forms 6-R-nido-B(10)H(13) (R = aryl, a...

Cardiomyocyte apoptosis after antegrade and retrograde cardioplegia during aortic valve surgery.

Retrograde delivery is associated with inadequate perfusion of cardioplegia to all regions of the heart, but the effects on cardiomyocyte death and functional outcome remain unknown. We compared anteg...

Symmetrically Substituted nido-Carboranylphthalocyanines: Facile Synthesis, Characterization, and Solution Properties. Evidence for Intra- and Intermolecular H(+)/K(+) Exchange.

The direct, non ex post synthesis of a novel phthalocyanine decorated with eight thiohexyl-nido-carborane functions, nido-[H(2)MCHESPc]K(8), where the anionic polyhedra are in the form of K(+) salt, i...