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...trial, funded by the Otzberg, Germany-based diet food company Tavartis, which supplies the researchers with food packages, is still in its early, difficult stages. "One big problem we have," says Schmidt, sitting uncomfortably on a small, wooden chair in the crammed tea kitchen of Kämmerer's lab, "is that we are only allowed to enroll patients who have completely run out of all other therapeutic options." That means that most people in the study are faring very badly to begin with. All have exhausted traditional treatments, such as surgery, radiation and chemo, and even some alternative ones...
...women opened their season in dominating fashion on Saturday, as the Crimson’s A- and B-squads helped it to a top finish at the Women’s Mans-Lab Trophy at MIT. The A-division team of junior skipper Megan Watson and sophomore crew Ali Beyer competed against some particularly strong competition, and totaled just 63 points through 10 races at the two-day event, including two wins...
Their solution is a three-part safety plan, announced Sept. 5: a federal requirement to make safety testing mandatory; new, industry-wide standards for testing procedures; and certification for independent labs. Keithley says the labs may devise a logo to be stamped on toys indicating that they meet federal standards. Most large companies in the U.S. use both internal and third-party testing, but there is no legal requirement and therefore no uniform method of testing or seal of approval that might restore consumers' trust. For many products, including toys and children's jewelry, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC...
...holiday advertising. Hasbro has reduced the number of contractors it uses, to keep tighter control of the production process, and it too has increased the number of spot checks. That's good news for the checkers. "Our phones are ringing off the hook," says DeRagon of the STR testing lab, which tracks toys from initial design to batch testing of wet paint to audits of contractors' factories...
...last year, however, Indonesia has refused to share samples, claiming that international drug companies were using Indonesian H5N1 strains to produce vaccines, which they would then sell at prices developing countries couldn't afford. Though Jakarta sent samples from one of the new cases to a WHO-affiliated lab at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta - a move some experts say was done to send the signal that nothing was being hidden on Bali - the larger dispute has yet to be settled. "I think there's progress on this, but we'd suggest a greater urgency," says John Rainford...