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Tobacco-chewing may damage crucial gene
Doctors have long blamed chewing tobacco for causing oral cancer. And let's admit this: It's a pretty gross habit. But researchers in India now believe that it also causes genetic damage, India Today
Medicago, BU design tobacco vax factories
Efforts to speed up vaccine manufacturing have shifted into overdrive now that flu season is here. Tobacco and virus-like particles are currently in the headlines for efforts geared at developing
DARPA efforts tweak tobacco-based vax making
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is funding four efforts to develop vaccine manufacturing processes based on fast-growing tobacco plants. Under its Blue Angel initiative, begun in May
GSK asks FDA to block smokeless tobacco
Smokeless tobacco foes just got a new ally. GlaxoSmithKline has asked the FDA to pull R.J. Reynolds' dissolvable tobacco products off the market completely. The products--Camel Orbs, Camel Sticks and
Senate hands FDA tobacco powers
Congratulations, FDA. You now have the dubious honor of regulating tobacco. Yesterday, the U.S. Senate gave its final stamp of approval to a bill that gives the agency power to regulate cigarettes
House votes to give FDA tobacco powers
The FDA is one step closer to getting another industry to regulate. The House voted yesterday to give the agency the pleasure of supervising tobacco. FDA would be allowed to reject new tobacco
FDA tobacco bill advances in Congress
Just when the FDA is getting plenty of criticism for lackluster oversight of food and drugs, it could be facing a new challenge: regulating tobacco. The House Committee on Energy and Commerce is set
New push for FDA power over tobacco
You can't fault the new Congress for lack of zeal. Already, lawmakers are pushing for a big tobacco bill that would charge the FDA with regulating cigarettes . Sponsored by Sen. Ted Kennedy--after
House votes to treat tobacco as a drug
If the U.S. House gets its way, the FDA soon may have even more power -- to regulate tobacco as a drug. Reps voted overwhelmingly to charge the agency with overseeing the tobacco industry, in spite
