Affinor Growers announced it has acquired a 49% interest in Good to Grow, a medical marijuana dispensary and grower on Washington's Olympic Peninsula, and says its $600,000 investment will scale up the 5,000-square-foot site ahead of an I-502 licence it expects in January 2015.
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Drugs, disease, healthcare, government and lifestyle: health news beyond the plate.
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Miscellaneous
3rd International Duty of Care - Protecting Workers Overseas Conference, London
Quaynote Communications holds its third Duty of Care conference on protecting workers and students overseas on 17-18 February 2015 at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel in London, covering new threats from the Islamic State and how the Ebola outbreak changed things.
Miscellaneous
APEC News - 25 Years of Progress in the Asia-Pacific
An APEC bulletin marking 25 years: real GDP across the 21 member economies doubled from $15 trillion in 1989 to $30 trillion in 2012, per capita income rose 36%, and total trade grew more than sixfold, two-thirds of it between members.
Environment
Radiation exposure linked to aggressive thyroid cancers
Among nearly 12,000 Belarusians exposed as children or teenagers to Chernobyl fallout, higher estimated thyroid radiation doses were associated with more aggressive tumor features. Lydia Zablotska says those exposed young, including after Fukushima, should probably be screened regularly.
Miscellaneous
Risk Sciences Group Hosts 23rd Annual Partners Conference for Clients
Risk Sciences Group held its 23rd annual Partners Conference in San Diego, drawing more than 80 attendees to over 20 training sessions on its DMITRI risk management application, report library and the RSG ESP set of benchmarking and predictive analytics tools.
Disease
Hepatitis C Reaches Historic Highs
A press pitch offering an expert on hepatitis C, citing CDC estimates of 3.2 million infected Americans and WHO figures of 130-150 million chronic infections worldwide with 350,000 to 500,000 deaths a year. Most carriers are unaware, and treatment can reach $1,000 a pill.
Miscellaneous
Johns Hopkins University, USA in cooperation with IIHMR University, Jaipur commences 2nd batch of Master of Public Health
IIHMR University in Jaipur began its second Master of Public Health cohort, run with the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Students from India, Nepal, Bangladesh and Pakistan take 30 of 80 credits from JHU faculty and spend two weeks in Baltimore.
Miscellaneous
LEADING CANCER CENTERS TO PRESENT DATA FROM DELCATH'S CHEMOSAT/MELPHALAN HDS AT ESSO CONGRESS
Delcath Systems says three abstracts on its CHEMOSAT/Melphalan hepatic delivery system will be presented at the European Society of Surgical Oncology congress in Liverpool, drawing on percutaneous hepatic perfusion work at Moffitt, Leiden and Southampton.
Miscellaneous
Vocera Launches New Product Enhancements to Integrate More Deeply with EHRs
Vocera added deep integrations between its clinical communication system and electronic health records, letting Epic Haiku and Rover users start voice calls and secure texts from inside the EHR app and syncing care team assignments. Two patient-experience products also launched.
Miscellaneous
Medtronic Begins Global Clinical Study of Investigational Pericardial Surgical Aortic Heart Valve
Medtronic began its PERIGON pivotal trial of an investigational surgical aortic heart valve made from bovine pericardial tissue, with the first US patient implanted in Toledo. The trial will assess ease of implantation, durability and blood flow performance.
Miscellaneous
Shur-Green Farms Issues Voluntary Nationwide Recall of Lascadoil/Soyoil Due to Possible Lasalocid Contamination
Shur-Green Farms of Ansonia, Ohio recalled soyoil containing Lascadoil, an industrial waste oil meant for non-food uses or biofuel that may have been used as a feed ingredient. State and FDA investigations of turkey deaths uncovered the problem.
Miscellaneous
Food & Water Watch Urges USDA to Rethink Equivalency Standards for Imported Meat
After E. coli O157:H7 turned up in beef from a Canadian plant tied to that country's largest-ever meat recall, Food & Water Watch asked USDA to reassess equivalency for privatized inspection systems. A test-and-hold policy kept the contaminated lot out of U.S. commerce.
Miscellaneous
Salada Tea brews hope and encourages cancer research
Salada Tea gave $25,000 to the American Cancer Society and is carrying special-edition packaging and inserts about the society's research, education and prevention work. It will donate $1 for each person who pledges through an app on its Facebook page.
Disease
Alzheimer's disease found in 32% of old adults who died in 2010
Rush University Medical Center researchers report that 32 percent of older adults who died in 2010 had Alzheimer's disease, about 600,000 people aged 65 and over. They expect the share to reach 43 percent, or an estimated 1.6 million Americans, by 2050.
Environment
What Effect Does Your Hamburger Have on The Environment? A Lot Says This New Movie
A review of Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret, a documentary arguing that environmental groups ignore animal agriculture's role in deforestation, methane and ocean degradation, and catching representatives of the NRDC and Oceana off guard on camera.
Miscellaneous
Dow Chemical Co. got the green light
EWG reports that EPA approved Dow's Enlist Duo, which combines 2,4-D and glyphosate, for use on genetically engineered crops, and asks for donations to keep fighting. It links 2,4-D to Parkinson's disease, non-Hodgkin lymphoma and suppressed immune function.
Environment
EWG Action Alert: Flame retardants
EWG urges readers to back the Children and Firefighter Protection Act, which would ban 10 flame retardants from children's products and upholstered furniture. An EWG-Duke study found a biomarker of the retardant TDCIPP in all 22 mothers and 26 children tested, averaging five times higher in kids.
Government
FDA News for Health Professionals - 10-22-2014
An FDA bulletin for health professionals rounding up October 2014 alerts, including recalls of Assured brand naproxen boxes that held ibuprofen, Saba Shark Cartilage Complex over possible salmonella, and Hospira lidocaine injection for particulate matter.
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