The Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (Tobacco Control Act) requires that cigarette packages and advertisements have larger and more visible graphic health warnings. FDA issued a proposed rule, Required Warnings for Cigarette Packages and Advertisements, proposing to modify the required warnings that appear on cigarette packages and in cigarette advertisements. These new required [...]
Nov 20 2010 | Posted in
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Xgeva (denosumab) on Thursday to help prevent skeletal-related events (SREs) in patients with cancer that has spread (metastasized) and damaged the bone. Skeletal-related events include bone fractures from cancer and bone pain requiring radiation. Xgeva is a monoclonal antibody that targets a protein involved in cancer-related bone destruction [...]
Nov 20 2010 | Posted in
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October 13, 2010 (FPRC) — Water has always been the biggest necessity of all men, indeed all attentive beings. Water is stored and its responsibility for all the men who can really save it in a good way. Ace Duraflo has introduced the best repiping service for water leakage reduction that covers the repair or [...]
Nov 20 2010 | Posted in
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HOUSTON — NASA Television will air the Thanksgiving Day return to Earth of three crew members from the International Space Station and the preparation, launch and docking of the newest trio of station residents three weeks later. Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin, NASA Expedition 25 Commander Doug Wheelock and NASA Flight Engineer Shannon Walker are scheduled [...]
Nov 20 2010 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — Looking to make a difference? NASA, Google, Microsoft, The World Bank and Yahoo! are inviting software developers, independent computer experts and students to participate in the Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) event on Dec. 4 and 5 in several locations around the world. RHoK is a global event that will use technology to [...]
Nov 20 2010 | Posted in
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HOUSTON — NASA managers have postponed a launch status meeting and news conference planned for Monday, Nov. 22. The events were rescheduled after a Space Shuttle Program meeting Thursday determined more analysis is needed before proceeding toward the launch of space shuttle Discovery on its STS-133 mission. The Program Requirements Control Board (PRCB) identified the [...]
Nov 19 2010 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — The EPOXI mission’s recent encounter with comet Hartley 2 provided the first images clear enough for scientists to link jets of dust and gas with specific surface features. NASA and other scientists have begun to analyze the images. The EPOXI spacecraft revealed a cometary snow storm created by carbon dioxide jets spewing out [...]
Nov 18 2010 | Posted in
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MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. — News media are invited to attend a signing ceremony to commemorate a new collaborative relationship between NASA’s Ames Research Center and the State of Alaska. The ceremony will begin at 2 p.m. AST on Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, at the Alaska Aerospace Corporation’s Kodiak Launch Complex on Kodiak Island, Alaska. After [...]
Nov 18 2010 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — NASA and the U.S. Department of the Interior presented the William T. Pecora Award to Marvin E. Bauer of the University of Minnesota for his pioneering work in remote sensing of natural resources. Bauer received the award today at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing meeting in Orlando, Fla. The two [...]
Nov 17 2010 | Posted in
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WASHINGTON — NASA has awarded the Test Operations Contract at Stennis Space Center, near Bay St. Louis, Miss., to Lockheed Martin Services, Inc. of Houston. The Test Operations Contract is a performance based, cost-plus-award-fee contract, valued at $95.7 million with a five-year period of performance consisting of a base period of 30 months and one [...]
Nov 16 2010 | Posted in
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