News tagged with food companies

Drug discovery, Netflix style?

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the last 10 years, the growth of the Internet has made ranking algorithms one of the hottest topics in computer science. The most famous ranking algorithm is Google's, which determines ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 14, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Why certain flavor combinations melt in your mouth

Do all cuisines thrive on kindred flavors? New research suggests that some cuisines may be based on combinations of dissimilar ingredients, but critics say the work is not filtering out flavors that may be ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Australia proposes tough cigarette packaging rules

(AP) -- Tobacco companies in Australia will be forced to strip all logos from their cigarette packages and replace them with graphic images such as cancer-riddled mouths and sickly children under legislation unveiled Thursday ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Shedding light on why it is so 'tough' to make healthier hot dogs

In part of an effort to replace animal fat in hot dogs, sausages, hamburgers and other foods with healthier fat, scientists are reporting an advance in solving the mystery of why hot dogs develop an unpleasant tough texture ...

Chemistry / Other

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 5

Cut down on salt, government says -- and calories

(AP) -- You should eat less salt, the government says. A lot less. It won't be easy. Consumers will need help from food companies if they are going to meet the government's ambitious new goals, announced ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 31, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Cloned beef traced to Wisconsin cow

Mark Rueth's Holstein cow Paradise had just been crowned supreme champion of the World Dairy Expo in Madison, Wis., in 2000 when a biotechnology company salesman approached him ringside and offered a cut-rate deal to clone ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Aug 17, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Drug companies share data to speed brain research

(AP) -- In an unusual step, a dozen competing drug companies have agreed to share data on thousands of Alzheimer's patients in hopes that the extra information will spark new ideas for treatments.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 11, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Drug industry presses FDA to allow more online ads

(AP) -- As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

FDA panel unanimously backs Regeneron eye drug

(AP) -- A panel of federal health experts voted unanimously in favor of a new eye drug from Regeneron, bringing the company one step closer to competing against a blockbuster Roche drug that currently dominates the market.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sanofi to deliver swine flu vaccine in October

(AP) -- Sanofi-Aventis SA will begin delivering the first doses of its new swine flu vaccine in the United States by mid-October, the head of France's largest pharmaceutical company said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Sep 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Assessing positive outcomes of phase III trials

Randomized phase III studies should be designed to find out whether a new drug or treatment makes a meaningful difference in patients' survival or quality of life, according to a commentary published online December 3rd in ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

University of Minnesota licenses sensor technology to a startup

United Science, a Minnesota startup company, has licensed sensor technology developed at the University of Minnesota that could prevent toxic byproducts of mining and other industries from ending up in the environment and ...

Technology / Engineering

created Dec 03, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Meltdown 101: Package sizes at the grocery store

(AP) -- Your eyes are not deceiving you in the grocery store. Yes, your bag of Doritos just got bigger. No, the price didn't change.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jul 26, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Project Zero Delay accelerates drug's path to clinical trial

A phase I clinical trial enrolled its first patient only two days after U.S. Food and Drug Administration clearance of the experimental drug for a first-in-human cancer trial, a milestone that normally takes three to six ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Crusading NY health chief picked to head CDC

(AP) -- For seven years, Dr. Thomas Frieden has been the nagging conscience of the nation's biggest city, the man who made sure New Yorkers couldn't smoke in bars or eat french fries cooked in artery-clogging ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0