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JCAHO to study hospital smoking-cessation practices; JCAHO panel to examine cultural, linguistic issues; South Florida partners promote healthy habits in schools
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A trade association representing the drug testing industry has lodged concerns with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services over flaws the trade group says are in proposed changes to federal drug testing programs.
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According to the Arlington Heights, IL-based American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, hearing loss affects more than 28 million Americans, and the number is rising.
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Evidence suggests that Erythropoietin acts by stimulating neuroprotective pathways, including the protein kinase B cascade and the transcription factor nuclear factor-kB pathway, to activate antiapoptotic and antioxidant factors.
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Leflunomides immunomodulatory activity derives from its action as a competitive inhibitor of the rate-limiting enzyme necessary for pyrimidine synthesis.
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Sources of funding for pharmaceutical research has come under scrutiny in the last decade as academic and government sources of funding have become increasingly scarce and the pharmaceutical industry has become the main source of research dollars. But the issue of objectivity has been raised, and some have even suggested that negative studies, that is studies that show a drug in an unfavorable light, may never be published. The American Medical Association has recently tackled this issue.