resistant; and recently, this has risen to 80%. Microciona prolifera, or red sponge, contains substances with antibiotic capacity that could kill or slow down the growth of a strain of S. aureus bacteria suggesting possibilities for creating novel drugs to treat the infectious skin disease. This study aims to determine the most efficient antibiotic solution of ectyonin extract from Microciona prolifera against Staphylococcus aureus bacteria. Statement of the Problem General Problem
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Ebola virus disease Key facts * Ebola virus disease (EVD), formerly known as Ebola haemorrhagic fever, is a severe, often fatal illness in humans. * The virus is transmitted to people from wild animals and spreads in the human population through human-to-human transmission. * The average EVD case fatality rate is around 50%. Case fatality rates have varied from 25% to 90% in past outbreaks. * The first EVD outbreaks occurred in remote villages in Central Africa, near tropical rainforests
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Food Policy 36 (2011) 412–420 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Food Policy journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/foodpol The China melamine milk scandal and its implications for food safety regulation Xiaofang Pei a, Annuradha Tandon b, Anton Alldrick c, Liana Giorgi b,⇑, Wei Huang a, Ruijia Yang a a West China School of Public Health, Sichua University, Chengdu, China The Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences, Austria c Camden BRI Food
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clothing line of Stella McCartney which was to be introduced in 2005 was Kate Moss. H&M did not hesitate to drop Kate Moss late in 2005 when allegations regarding drug abuse began to surface about this renowned personality of the glamour world thus sending a clear signal about its corporate stand on dubious and avoidable matters as drug addiction. This action of the company immediately generated enormous amounts of goodwill in entire western world and positioned the brand at an enviably high perch
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anti-depressant team was formed to find and develop a drug that would be the successor to Prozac. The strategic issues and problems they faced were developing a new drug to replace Prozac, meeting the company budget constraints to perform clinical trials, and finally launch the new drug by mid-2001. The analysis and evaluation revealed that the pharmaceutical industry is changing fast and it usually takes a long time and millions of dollars to develop a new drug. The recommendation for Eli Lilly is to take
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– inability to profit from the drug might have a negative effect on shareholder’s value, but taking the stand on “doing the right thing” might have a favorable effect on company’s reputation and increase the value of the stock Various healthcare organizations – Merck is one of the leaders in the industry whose actions or inactions may affect the state of the industry as a whole One way to rank stakeholders in importance is by their level of benefit from the drug putting people suffering from the
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Executive Summary In an effort to follow-up its success with Prozac (see Appendix A), Eli Lilly and Company saw a market for an anti-migraine drug that similarly targeted serotonin levels. Their prior research and development involving such neurotransmitters put them at an advantage over their competitors. Their goal was to find a neurotransmitter (i.e. serotonin) that matched the receptor that they felt was the key to relieving the migraine. (Appendix B provides a basic overview on how receptors
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Petra Trivunovic Professor Satire ENG 1102 7/25/2015 The Sweet War of Sucralose Would you intentionally eat a substance that when directly exposed to your eyes, burns them and turns them bright red? Or how about a substance that has been used as a chemical warfare agent during World War I and the Iraq war? Well, each and every day many individuals are doing this very thing, only they have absolutely no idea they are consuming this toxic substance. In fact, this very same substance is claimed to
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treatment for diseases apart from pharmaceutical drugs. The second reason is because it is an ongoing practice that involves many people today, which is why its possible future should be predicted and studied. Contributions of the study: Chinese traditional medicine has contributed many things. It mainly helped in discoveries, studies, and developments. Chinese traditional medicine discovered the many medical uses of plants and animals. They discovered that Astragalus roots can be used
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Does Beauty Have a Cost? The Ecological Footprint of the Cosmetics Industry Alexandra Noelle Penny Brown University 2008 Environmental Studies Senior Thesis May 8, 2008 1 Acknowledgements To Caroline Karp, my thesis advisor and primary reader, for her boundless suggestions, ideas, encouragement, and support as I attempted to creatively apply a structured environmental policy analysis to a new problem. To Catherine Goodall, Amit Sheth, and ShaSha at Environmental
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