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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.…

TRANSPORT projects are a key focus of a major European Union (EU) investment programme announced last week – which is designed to inject EUR315 billion into the EU economy between 2015 and 2017. The plan, launched on Wednesday (Nov 26) by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank (EIB), is being rolled-out at break-neck speed in EU terms.…

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.…

THE RESPONSIBILITIES of Singapore accountants to report suspicions that their clients maybe involved in money laundering or terrorist finance have become tougher since November 1. New guidelines released by the Institute of Singapore Chartered Accountants (ISCA) have strengthened requirements for accounting firms to establish anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) controls.…

Rising incomes and a continued tightening of food safety enforcement is boosting demand in China for commercial packaged oils, with consumers moving away from the bulk oils that have dominated past markets.

Overall, while year-on-year growth in global oils and fats production has averaged 3% in each of the past two years vegetable oils sales in China will rise an average 16% per year in the period 2014-2018.…

AROUND 140 billion cubic metres of associated natural gas from oil production is still burned off annually, according to World Bank analysis of satellite images from the United States’ (US) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Flares light up the night sky in regions such as the Arabian Desert and America’s Bakken formation in North Dakota, where shale oil production is booming.…

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.…

REPRESENTATIVES of the European Parliament and the European Union’s (EU) Council of Ministers agreed on a provisional deal tonight to reduce the use of lightweight plastic bags in the Union. However, the agreement still has to be confirmed in unanimity by EU member states’ top diplomats meeting in the so-called ‘Coreper’ committee on Friday, 21 November, after the European Commission, the initiator of the legislation, vetoed the measures laid down in the deal.…

ALMOST two years since its establishment in January 2013, the European Cybercrime Centre (EC3) created as part of Europol, has delivered on its objectives, but still faces numerous resource challenges. Set up by the European Commission to support the 28 European Union (EU) countries in cybercrime investigations targeting online intrusion, fraud and child sexual abuse and to disrupt the operations of organised crime networks that commit a large share of cybercrimes, the EC3 is now receiving more requests for support that it can handle, its head, Troels Oerting, told Fraud Intelligence.…

A controversy in Germany over potential carcinogens in tea is threatening the benefits offered by an incoming European Union (EU) geographical indication protection for Darjeeling Tea. 

The claims made by a German consumer magazine Warentest have damaged confidence in Indian tea and hit sales.…