Newly-Published Study Reinforces Role of Antiepileptic Drug Vimpat(R) ...

Newly-Published Study Reinforces Role of Antiepileptic Drug Vimpat as an Add-on Treatment that Significantly Reduces Partial-onset Seizures in Adults with Epilepsy - Vimpat demonstrated significantly greater seizure reduction versus placebo when added to other antiepileptic drugs .

Movement disorder symptoms are lessened by an antibiotic

Discovery of an antibiotic's capacity to improve cell function in laboratory tests is providing movement disorder researchers with leads to more desirable molecules with potentially similar traits, according to University of Alabama scientists co-authoring a paper publishing March 10 in the journal Disease Models & Mechanisms.

Maine Budget Gap Shrinks Anew

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Powder in envelope that led to evacuation at Montana Department of Labor was crushed pain pill

The white powder that caused a scare at a state office building this week was actually a pain relief tablet that apparently fell into an envelope before a woman mailed in some paperwork, Helena police said.

OSHA Notifies Panama City Businesses of High Injury and Illness Rates

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration surveys employers to collect workplace injury and illness data it uses to identify employers whose injury and illness rates are considerably higher than the national average.

Les Schwab settles sex discrimination lawsuit for $2 million

Les Schwab Tire Centers, one of the largest automotive businesses in the West, has agreed to pay $2 million to settle claims it refused to hire qualified women who applied for jobs changing tires.

ACC Reaffirms Support For TSCA Reform In Hearing Calls For Open...

American Chemistry Council President and CEO, Cal Dooley, recently submitted a statement for the record to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health hearing on business perspectives for reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act .

EPA launches environmental justice video contest

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is sponsoring an environmental justice video contest that challenges professional or aspiring filmmakers to create videos that capture the faces of the environmental justice movement.

Pellet mill owner meeting with OSHA officials to discuss mill explosion citations

Geneva Wood Fuels LLC of Strong faces six citations and proposed fines of $27,000 after an explosion rocked the mill last August.

AVEO Raises 23% Less Than Sought in First U.S. Biotechnology IPO of 2010

AVEO Pharmaceuticals Inc. , which is developing a treatment for kidney cancer, sold $81 million of shares in its initial public offering, raising 23 percent less than it sought after delaying its IPO by one day.

A Case Comment on Pfeiffer v. Toll: State Corporate Law Derivative Suits Against Inside Traders

Eight members of Toll Brothers board of directors sold significant amounts of the company's stock between December 2004 and September 2005.

SEC head urges Congress to act on derivatives

In this June 22, 2009 file photo, U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission Chairman Gary Gensler testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, before the Senate Banking Committee.