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- Is the US Food and Drug Administration's 2006 initiative to gain approval for old drugs that predate the current approval process boosting safety or just inflating the cost of such medicines, asks linkurl:an article;http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-unapproved-drugs18-2010jan18,0,7696622.story in the LA Times. - Researchers have launched linkurl:an open access database;http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2010/WTX058219.htm of more than 520,000 small molecule

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- Is the US Food and Drug Administration's 2006 initiative to gain approval for old drugs that predate the current approval process boosting safety or just inflating the cost of such medicines, asks linkurl:an article;http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-unapproved-drugs18-2010jan18,0,7696622.story in the LA Times. - Researchers have launched linkurl:an open access database;http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/Media-office/Press-releases/2010/WTX058219.htm of more than 520,000 small molecules and drugs -- a resource for both the biopharma industry and academic chemical biologists -- containing information on compounds' binding properties, toxicity and absorption, and effects on biological systems. The database, called ChEMBLdb, belonged to the Belgian biotech company Galapagos NV but was transferred to the public domain with the help of a grant from the Wellcome Trust and is now hosted by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory's European Bioinformatics Institute. -A physical chemist has been tapped to run France's chief national research agency, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Alain Fuchs, who has served as the director of Chimie ParisTech since 2006, may be confirmed as soon as Wednesday, linkurl:ScienceInsider reports.;http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2010/01/chemical-engine.html - The National Institutes of Health has put out the call to small businesses to apply for one of two categories of translational grants -- the Small Business Innovation Research grants and the Small Business Technology Transfer program. See the announcement linkurl:here.;http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PA-09-080.html -Finally, Elsevier is considering shutting down its journal Medical Hypotheses after AIDS researchers complained about an article it ran by AIDS denialist Peter Duesberg which stated that there was "as yet no proof that HIV causes Aids," linkurl:according to the Times Higher Education.;http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=409997 The journal, which is not peer reviewed, linkurl:aims to publish;http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/623059/description provocative ideas. The papers it publishes are chosen by its editor.
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[ 20th March 2008]*linkurl:[CNRS reform opposed;http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/22643/
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