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In the context of globalization, quality control of these products has become an increasingly important issue not only for the consumers but also for regulators and manufacturers. Laws, regulations and guidelines stipulating requirements of good manufacturing practice (GMP) of herbal products differ ...
Upon a determination that a batch, lot, or other quantity of a product licensed under this section presents an imminent or substantial hazard to the public health, the Secretary shall issue an order immediately ordering the recall of such batch, lot, or other quantity of such product. An orde...
"China has the world's largest population of smokers and is the largest producer and consumer of tobacco," said Jiang Yuan, former director of the tobacco control office, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention (China CDC). Statistics from the World Health Organization showed there are...
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is facing a flurry of new products coming to market over the next few years that willbe based on biotechnology. The agency will have to deal with state-of-the-art drugs and devices utilizing biotechnology asthe developmental base. Also, many universities...
The delivery of good outcomes from human health research is entirely dependent on the proper functioning of the attendant regulatory systems. This article focuses on the processes of regulation themselves, and how these might be better understood, so that regulators and other stakeholders have a stron...
miRNAs are capable of being released into body fluids and plasma either in a vesicle-free form or packaged in extracellular vesicles, highlighting that these marked miRNAs could be utilized as non-invasive diagnostic tools and predictors of health and diet-associated diseases.134,135Ultimately, dietar...
BEIJING, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) -- China's National Health Commission (NHC) has issued a set of instructions on updating a state-level medicine catalog to ensure rational drug use. The mechanism aims to monitor chemicals and biologi...
Disturbed cholesterol homeostasis plays critical roles in the development of multiple diseases, such as cardiovascular diseases (CVD), neurodegenerative diseases and cancers, particularly the CVD in which the accumulation of lipids (mainly the cholestery
However, during insulin resistance (IR), when insulin signalling is blunted and accompanied by hyperinsulinaemia, the promotion of hepatic DNL continues unabated and hepatic steatosis increases. Here, we show that WD40 repeat-containing protein 6 (WDR6) promotes hepatic DNL during IR. ...