Six former students joined the Tyrus R. Timm Honor Registry in Texas A&M's agricultural economics department at a San Antonio ceremony, with Texas Agriculture Commissioner Todd Staples giving the keynote. The registry is the department's highest honor.
Section archive
Page 44 of 86
Miscellaneous
Other health and consumer news.
- All desks
- Abortion
- Accutane
- Acetaminophen
- Acid Reflux
- Acidic Foods
- Acne
- Acrylamide
- Acupuncture
- Additives
- ADHD
- Adiposity
- Advisories
- Aerobic Exercise
- Aflatoxin
- Agave
- Agent Orange
- Aging
- Agriculture
- AIDS
- Air Pollution
- Airline Passengers
- Airport
- ALA
- Alcohol
- Alcoholic Beverage
- Alerts
- Allergy
- Alli
- Aloe Vera
- ALS
- Alternative Medicine
- Aluminum
- Alzheimer's
- Amalgam
- AMD
- Ampyra
- Amygdala
- Anal Cancer
- And
- Anemia
- Angiogenesis
- Animal Protein
- Animals
- Anorexia
- Anthocyanins
- Anthrax
- Anti-Angiogenesis
- Anti-Obesity
- Antibacterial
- Antibiotic
Miscellaneous
Stem Cells to Replace Animal Tests
Researchers converted human stem cells into skin cells grown in 3-D culture, reporting in Stem Cell Reports another possible replacement for animal testing. Skin samples yield limited cells, while the stem cell method may scale to many cultures per sample.
Miscellaneous
Urgent: Help stop rabies experiments in Taiwan
A letter from PCRM president Neal Barnard asking readers to sign a petition urging Taiwanese officials to cancel planned rabies experiments on beagle puppies and other animals, which the group says in vitro alternatives could replace.
Miscellaneous
Giovanni Food Co. Inc. Earns Gluten-Free Certification from NSF International
Giovanni Food Co. earned NSF International gluten-free certification for its Greenview Kitchen organic pasta sauce, pizza sauce and bruschetta, verifying less than 20 parts per million of gluten, the FDA limit whose compliance date was August 5, 2014.
Miscellaneous
NCNM to Offer Master’s Program in Nutrition in 2014
National College of Natural Medicine will launch a Master of Science in Nutrition in summer 2014, built around whole, unprocessed food and paired with training in cooking, teaching and nutritional counseling, which it calls a departure from most nutrition programs.
Miscellaneous
Dallas' Enchanted Fairies Studio Announces Call for Entries for 2015 Calendar (PR)
Dallas studio Enchanted Fairies is taking reservations through May 31, 2014 for children's photo sessions for its 2015 calendar. A $25 donation per child to the North Texas Food Bank buys a free session and an 8x10 portrait; the studio has set a $100,000 goal.
Miscellaneous
stock pic
This archive entry carries no article text.
Miscellaneous
Five Tips for Safe Mobile Banking
Password-protect the phone or tablet, refuse any email or text request for account or Social Security numbers, call the number on your card if one arrives, turn off auto-login, delete old bank texts, and report a lost device to your carrier and bank immediately.
Miscellaneous
Top 10 Consumer Complaint Categories for 2012
The FTC logged more than two million consumer complaints in 2012 for the first time. Identity theft led with 369,132, followed by debt collection and banks and lenders; nearly half the identity theft reports involved tax or wage fraud.
Miscellaneous
Ten Tips on a Tax Credit for Child and Dependent Care Expenses
An IRS tax tip setting out 10 rules for claiming the Child and Dependent Care Credit, covering who counts as a qualifying person, the requirement that care let you work or look for work, the earned income and filing status tests, and which providers cannot be paid.
Miscellaneous
Bill Gates: One of the World's Most Destructive Do-Gooders?
Mercola criticizes Bill Gates's plan to fight world hunger with genetically engineered crops, citing Gates Foundation ties to Monsanto and arguing Golden Rice founders on low-fat diets: one study suggested a woman would need 16 pounds a day for enough vitamin A.
Miscellaneous
Toyota Announces Voluntary Safety Recalls of Certain Camry, Venza and Tacoma Vehicles
Toyota is recalling about 70,500 Camry and 116,000 Venza vehicles to replace stop lamp switches, where grease raised electrical resistance and can stop the car starting, lock the shift lever in Park or disable the stop lamps. About 495,000 Tacomas are also recalled for steering wheel spiral cables.
Miscellaneous
How to save $800 on your new car?
A UC Riverside marketing professor surveyed more than 1,400 car buyers and reports they can save up to $800 by learning the dealer invoice price, visiting two dealerships, bargaining and comparing prices. The first two steps alone were worth about $230.
Miscellaneous
New Scholarship available for Healthcare Students (PR)
An outreach email from NursingHomeAbuse.net announcing a $5,000 scholarship for U.S. students pursuing degrees related to combating nursing home abuse, with applications open January 15 through February 15.
Miscellaneous
Commentary on Institute of Medicine's Dec. 15 Chimpanzees
PCRM's John Pippin reviews the Institute of Medicine report finding no current area of medical research for which chimpanzee use is demonstrably necessary. NIH suspended funding for new chimpanzee proposals and will review its 37 existing protocols against the recommendations.
Miscellaneous
Three tips for women
A forwarded internet chain message, attributed to the Michigan attorney general's office, warning women not to stop for roadside car seats and not to use their wipers if eggs are thrown at the windshield.
Miscellaneous
Holiday Tip of the Day: Buy Safe Toys
The Consumer Product Safety Commission advises matching toys to a child's age and skill, avoiding small parts, sharp edges and electric toys that heat up, discarding plastic wrapping at once, checking toys regularly for breakage, and buying safety gear alongside bikes and skateboards.
Miscellaneous
Hydrogen fluoride may be the major cause of coal burning endemic fluorosis (PR)
Professor Handong Liang's group at China University of Mining and Technology reports that hydrogen fluoride is the form fluorine takes first when long-term air-exposed coal burns, which they say may change how coal-burning endemic fluorosis is understood.
1542 stories