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Drug Approvals

In order to become availible to pateints, drugs need to undergo a number of phases of clinical trials to test their efficacy and safty and to then be authorised by the drug approval organistion in e...

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Drug Discovery - news, views, blogs and reports

In the fields of medicine, biotechnology and pharmacology, drug discovery is the process by which drugs are discovered and/or designed. In the past most drugs have been discovered either by identi...

Gulf SAFE: AF Care in Gulf Region Is Subpar

One-year data from the Gulf SAFE registry show generally poor outcomes for patients with atrial fibrillation in the countries around the Persian Gulf. Heartwire

Brain Changes Could Contribute to Gulf War Illness: Study

THURSDAY, March 21 -- Many of the soldiers who served in the first Gulf War suffer a poorly understood collection of symptoms known as Gulf War illness, and now a small study has identified brain chan...

BP selling some Gulf oil properties for $5.55B

BP PLC is selling some deep-water Gulf of Mexico oil and gas properties to Texas-based Plains Exploration & Production Co. for $5.55 billion.The U.K.'s BP is selling off assets as it is still in the...

Gulf War Illness Causes Brain to Process Pain Differently

Turns out that Gulf War Illness may be in sufferers’ heads after all — specifically in the parts of their brains that process pain. For years, thousands of veterans who served in the 1990-91 Pers...

BP sells some Gulf of Mexico assets for $5.55 bil

Oil company BP said Monday it is selling some deep-water assets in the Gulf Mexico to Plains Exploration & Production Co. for $5.55 billion, a big step in BP's drive to cover the cost of its oil well...

Gulf bacteria consumed a majority of the Deepwater oil spill

According to a new study that measured the rate at which bacteria in the Gulf of Mexico ate the oil and gas discharged by the broken Deepwater Horizon well, at least 200,000 tons of hydrocarbons we...

Bahraini Insulin Facility to Benefit Gulf Region's Health, Economy

  MANAMA, Bahrain, June 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Bahrain is investing $93 million in a Gulf Biotic facility to produce insulin devices and the growth of diabetes in the Gul...

Gulf of Mexico oil companies start evacuations

Oil companies are evacuating some Gulf of Mexico oil rigs in advance of Tropical Storm Isaac.For now the storm is close to the Dominican Republic and Haiti. But oil installations would be at risk if i...

Gulf oil spill. Panel draws ambitious road map for Gulf restoration.

Gulf braced for the big clean-up.

Earlier oil spills suggest the Gulf may be in for the long haul to recover from this year's disaster. Nigel Williams reports.

Rickettsia parkeri and Candidatus Rickettsia andeanae in Gulf Coast Ticks, Mississippi, USA.

TO THE EDITOR: Rickettsia parkeri, a spotted fever group Rickettsia (SFGR) bacterium, is transmitted by Amblyomma maculatum, the Gulf Coast tick (1). The prevalence of R. parkeri in Gulf Coast ticks h...

Seafood Contamination After the BP Gulf Oil Spill and Risks to Vulnerable Populations: A Critique of the FDA Risk Assessment.

Background: The BP oil spill of 2010 resulted in contamination of one of the most productive fisheries in the United States with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). PAHs, which can accumulate in...

Trace element concentrations in surface estuarine and marine sediments along the Mississippi Gulf Coast following Hurricane Katrina.

Hurricanes are relatively frequent ecological disturbances that may cause potentially long-term impacts to the coastal environment. Hurricane Katrina hit the Mississippi Gulf Coast in August 2005, and...