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Southwark Crown Court, in London, has sentenced a former CEO of a major British sports good retailer JJB Sports to five years in prison for three fraud offences, totalling around GBP1 million, and for two offences of ‘furnishing false information’. Christopher Ronnie’s co-defendants, David Ball and David Barrington, owners of Fashion and Sport Ltd, a company that sold clothing brands and supplied stock to now dissolved JJB, were each sentenced to 18 months in prison for attempting to pervert the course of justice.…

CHINA’S huge cosmetics market remains a battleground for the world’s multinational personal care product players and they are still more than holding their own against local manufacturers and brands, especially in higher end segments.

The country’s overall cosmetics and personal care product market was worth Chinese Yuan Renminbi CNY274 billion (USD44 billion) in 2013, according to data provided by market analysts Euromonitor International.…

ADAPTIVE licensing methods such as that proposed by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) are indeed useful in the development of medicines for rare diseases, Martin Andrews, the senior vice-president at GSK Rare Diseases, has told the World Orphan Drugs Congress 2014.…

A EURO EUR7.8 million, largely European Union (EU)-funded research project is analysing anonymised clinical data from nearly 2,000 epilepsy sufferers to work towards the personalisation of medicine for the condition. The goal is to create genome-based biomarkers to indicate potential success for epilepsy medicines, and the development of diagnostic tests.…

DEVELOPING medicines that reverse or even slow Alzheimer’s disease has proved to be a tough task for the world’s pharma sector, and it is looking for ways to ensure regulation does not pose an additional and maybe insurmountable barrier. A workshop on Alzheimer’s disease (AD), at the London headquarters of the European Medicines Agency (EMA), has heard from specialists debating the latest advances in understanding of the pathophysiology of Alzheimer’s and the discovery of disease-modifying treatment targets.…

NURSES should be well informed about the Ebola virus: how it is spreads; how it is transmitted; how they can protect themselves; what the preventative measures are; and above all, how to put on and take off the personal protective equipment.…

Remote sensing playing an ever increasing role in upstream oil and gas as operators and contractors seek to contain capital and operational expenditure and get more safe and economic productive life out of existing assets.

Sensors assist in the monitoring of wells, blowout preventers, processing and the structural integrity and functioning of assets such as pipes, risers, pipelines, valves and pumps.…

One of the biggest expanding markets for cosmetics and personal care products is sub-Saharan Africa. A key exporter to the region, L’Oréal has estimated that the overall African beauty and personal care market generated EUR6.93 billion (USD8.61 billion) in 2012, growing at between 8% and 10% annually, compared to a global market growth rate near 4%.…

Oil and gas companies are facing increasing risks related to corruption. However, there are numerous ways in which a business in the sector can avoid being exposed to graft. And new laws are tackling such problems more effectively. Jonathan Dyson reports.…

THE UK oil and gas industry has been warned by a joint head of fraud at the UK’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) that it may face an increase in prosecutions because of the UK Bribery Act, which came into force in 2011.…