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Merck & Co spent more than 160 million in 2000 for their pain reliever called Vioxx on advertising the drug, which gained the approval from FDA. However, they later found out that their drug could possibly raise the risk of heart attacks, the company chose…

Farhana Chowdhury Last four digits of ID#: - 2148 CHEM 26200 -4PS- Mr. Haoran Zhao IDENTIFYING THE PURITY OF A COMPOND USING MELTING POINT AIM The purpose of this lab is to identify unknown compound by measuring melting point. TABLE OF PHYSICAL PROPERTIES AND HAZARDS PHYSICAL PROPERTY BENZHYDROL COLOR/TEXTURE White, fine crystals or dry powder ODOR Odorless BOILING POINT 297-298 °C MELTING POINT 65-67 °C DENSITY 1.31 g/mL HAZARDS SKIN, EYE, AND RESPIRATORY IRRITATIONS Irritation FIRE…

Boys Scouts of Americas has come under heavy scrutiny about its ban to allow openly gay scouts into the organization and has finally decided to lift it. In a statement by Wayne Perry, BSA President, he said “While people have different opinions about this policy, we can all agree that kids are better off when they are scouting.” The decision to lift the ban was a move in the right direction towards progression and acceptance. Originally, W.D. Boyce founded Boys Scouts of America (or BSA) in 1910…

What Makes a “Best” Company for Minorities? A company who embraces workplace diversity and inclusion makes a “best” company for minorities. Workplace diversity entails recognizing and understanding the positive values, skills, and ideas an individual can bring to the workplace based on his or her ability, and not being judged or discriminated against because of his or her disability, age, beliefs, ethnic and cultural background, gender. “An inclusive workplace is one where the human rights…

reagents Analytical grade bentazon was purchased from Sigma-Aldrich. Acetonitrile, methanol, ethanol, chloroform and acetic acid were purchased from Merck and were analytical or HPLC grade. Methacrylic acid (MAA) as the functional monomer, ethylene glycol dimethacrylate (EDMA) as the cross-linker and α,α′-Azoisobutyronitrile (AIBN) were purchased from Merck (Hohenbrunn, Germany). MAA was distilled under vacuum to remove the inhibitor prior to polymerization. To clean the inhibitor from EDMA, it…

Basic leadership could be characterized as the way toward picking the best option out of a few ones keeping in mind the end goal to satisfy the goal of the association and to build the shareholders' riches. The way toward picking the best option from a given arrangement of tasks includes different quantitative and subjective investigation of the accessible arrangement of choices, to settle on the practicality of the undertaking or ventures that will be picked by the administration. One vital…

Parenteral formulation of an anticancer drug candidate – Tackling poor solubility 1 Introduction Cancer is the number one cause of death in Singapore , and has been on an increasing trend over the years . Hence, the search for anti-cancer drugs and better treatment regimens are widely studied but there are many challenges. One potential cancer treatment strategy is to induce apoptosis in cancer tissues by the modulation of nitric oxide production . Nitric oxide is a reactive, gaseous molecule…

2. Materials and Methods: 2.1. Materials: Natural red, propidium iodide (PI), acridine orange and phosphate-buffered saline (PBS) were obtained from Sigma-Aldrich (St.Louis, MO). May–Grunwald–Giemsa stain was procured from Merck (Darmstadt, Germany). Fetal calf serum, Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DEMEM) and RPMI 1640 were bought from GIBCO/Life Technologies Inc. (Gaithersburg, MD). 2.2. Isolation and Proliferation of MSCs Bone marrow derived MSCs were isolated as described previously…

reportedly worth millions. Their new self-tan lotion will be available world-wide by December and marketed under the name “Jersey Shore Orange Glow” and “Jersey Shore Orange Glitter”. Stock analysts are predicting an all time investment high for Merck & Co., Inc, the parent company of Coppertone. + Several members of the fitness center that “The Intimidation” and “The Gemini” frequent are prepared to testify under oath that the boys always appear to have a healthy natural looking tan, and that…

i. The two companies that were selected are Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson. First of all, Pfizer, Inc. is a research-based, global biopharmaceutical company which it focuses in improving the health standards locally or globally by manufacturing vaccines and injectable biologic medicines. Basically Pfizer operates under a few business segments such as Global Pharmaceutical, Global Vaccines, Oncology and Consumer Healthcare and Global Established Pharmaceutical. Unlike Pfizer, Johnson & Johnson is…