Maglio & Company added Robert Wilkinson as regional sales manager. He has more than 15 years in the produce industry across food service, wholesale and retail, and will help build customer bases and train the sales team.
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Grandpop and Prostate Cancer in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania physicians are using Grandparents Day to urge older men to talk with their doctors about the pros and cons of prostate cancer screening. The Pennsylvania Prostate Cancer Coalition estimates 28 men in the state are diagnosed and four die each day.
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Single animal to human transmission event responsible for 2014 ebola outbreak
NIH-funded scientists led by Pardis Sabeti used genomic sequencing to trace the 2014 West African Ebola outbreak to a single animal-to-human infection and to track how the virus changed as it spread between people. The WHO then counted 2,473 infections and 1,350 deaths.
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APEC Ministers outline new partnership framework on oceans
APEC ministers issued the Xiamen Declaration, a regional framework covering coastal and marine conservation, the role of oceans in food security, marine science and the Blue Economy. Members committed to protect at least 10 percent of coastal and marine areas by 2020.
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GMO News - Jeffrey Smith at GMO Education Conference, Portland, OR September 13, 2014
A notice for the Justice Begins with Seeds conference in Portland, Oregon on September 12 and 13, 2014, where Jeffrey Smith speaks on documented health risks of GMOs and Roundup. Organizers expect over 700 attendees for sessions on labeling and banning GMOs.
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United Fresh to Honor Rep. Doc Hastings at The Washington Conference
United Fresh will present its Congressional Leadership Award to Rep. Doc Hastings of Washington on September 9 at The Washington Conference, citing his House Specialty Crop Caucus co-chairmanship and work on immigration reform and Farm Bills. He will also speak on legislative priorities.
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NIH to launch human safety study of ebola vaccine candidate
NIAID will start the first human safety trial of an Ebola vaccine it developed with GlaxoSmithKline, testing safety and immune response in healthy adults at the NIH Clinical Center. Related trials are planned in the United Kingdom, Gambia and Mali.
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All notices appear on the Public Calendar on CPSC's website
A weekly CPSC notice listing the agency's public calendar for the week of September 1, 2014, including staff meetings with outside parties and how to attend; no Commission briefings or decision meetings were scheduled.
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Medtronic Receives Clearance for the SHILLA(TM) Growth Guidance System
Medtronic announced 510(k) clearance and launch of the SHILLA system for children under 10 with severe, progressive early-onset spinal deformities. A non-locking set screw lets the rod slide as the spine grows, which the company says reduces the need for repeated lengthening surgeries.
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Defendants Settle FTC Charges Related to “Your Baby Can Read” Program
Robert Titzer and his company settled FTC charges that they made baseless claims about the program and misrepresented that studies proved them. The order bars unsubstantiated reading claims and use of the name, and imposes judgments over $185 million, suspended after he pays $300,000.
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APEC News - Interview: APEC economies tackling oceans-related challenges
In an APEC Bulletin interview, Oceans and Fisheries Working Group Lead Shepherd Greg Schneider says member economies have merged conservation and fisheries work, and are focused on climate change, food security, trade liberalization and sustainable development.
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APEC Ministers gather to develop new partnership on ocean cooperation
APEC ministers gathered in Xiamen to shape a partnership on ocean cooperation covering marine environmental protection, disaster mitigation, the ocean's role in food security, marine science and the blue economy. APEC economies account for over 80% of global aquaculture output.
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Maglio & Company announces new regional sales manager
Maglio & Company hired Scott Hoerman as regional sales manager for its Midwest distribution region. Hoerman has worked in the produce industry since 2002, with sales experience in both foodservice and retail.
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UPDATED: CloverSnare™ 4-Loop Vascular Retrieval Snare Recall
Cook Medical recalled 696 CloverSnare 4-Loop Vascular Retrieval Snares because the loop can separate from the shaft. Six customers reported separations after lateral force was applied to reshape the device, and four required intervention to retrieve the fragment.
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NIH-funded study provides a neural explanation for why some skills are easier to learn than others
In a monkey study published in Nature, learning came more easily when neurons rearranged existing activity patterns than when they had to generate new ones. Pitt and Carnegie Mellon researchers paired brain-computer interfaces with machine learning as the animals moved a cursor by thought.
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Policy's implementation is key to accelerating biomedical discoveries
NIH finalized its Genomic Data Sharing policy, posted in the Federal Register on August 26, 2014. Starting with the January 25, 2015 application deadline it covers all NIH-funded large-scale human and non-human projects that generate genomic data, replacing the 2007 GWAS policy.
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Studies reveal powerful commonalities in biological activity, regulation among species
Researchers comparing human, fly and worm genomes report in Nature that the three species share key genomic processes, including gene expression patterns, regulatory proteins that help set cell fate, and the way they package DNA and control access to it.
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Florida Citrus Industry gets needed help to fight the Citrus Greening Disease
ScoringAg says its TreeSteamer machine uses thermotherapy to heat-treat citrus trees against greening disease, lowering pre-harvest fruit drop and slowing the trees' decline. The release notes spraying has failed worldwide and the bacterial disease can kill a tree in three to five years.
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