News in the World of Natural Products 2002

FDA Rules that Aloe and Cascara are Not Safe as Stimulant Laxatives
MSK website Nov.5, 2002
IUPAC Issues Bioprospecting Guidelines
RFA for the International Cooperative Biodiversity Group Available
link October 28, 2002
UIC Medicinal Plant Garden Dedicated
UIC Press Release July 15, 2002
Roche and Kosan to Jointly Develop Kosan’s Epothilone D as an Anti-Cancer Agent
press release September 23, 2002
Iowa State Awarded Botanical Center Grant
press release July 24, 2002
Bristol Myers Squibb, Phyton Catalytic Renew Deal
Pharmacy Today article July 23, 2002
CSIRO spins off insect drug screening
press release July 22, 2002
Sarawak MediChem Pharmaceuticals Initiates Clinical Trial of Calanolide A in Combination Therapy for HIV
press release July 8, 2002
Pezzuto named Purdue Pharmacy Dean
press release July 11, 2002
Lead Contamination Leads to Nettle Recall
ConsumerLab notice July 1, 2002
Germany Revokes Manufacturers' Kava Registrations
press release June 17, 2002
HHS Announces Plans to Study Ephedra; Steps Up Enforcement of Illegal Ephedrine Marketing
press release June 17, 2002
Sir Jack Baldwin honored with Nakanishi Prize from Chemical Society of Japan
June 2002
Cerylid Biosciences and Anadys Pharmaceuticals in Strategic Partnership
press release June 7, 2002
29 State Attorneys General Sue BMS over Taxol
press release June 4, 2002
Genzyme, Albany Molecular Research Sign NP Screening Deal
press release June 4, 2002
Kosan Biosciences Receives SBIR Grant for Discovery of Epothilone Analogs
press release May 8, 2002
Galileo Acquires Phytera
press release March 27, 2002
Boyd Leaves NCI to Start New Cancer Center in Mobile
press release March 7, 2002
Bristol Myers Squibb, Albany Molecular Research in NP Collaboration
press release February 19, 2002