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China Cracks the Whip Against Drug Manufacturers Who Fail Quality Norms

As reports of the allegedly substandard Chinese products make constant headlines in the western media, the emerging Asian giant has decided to crackdown. For starters it has suspended the sale of a drug used to treat acute leukemia and rheumatoid arthritis. In the past wee...

MEN as Partners to MEND Maternal Health A World Population Day Initiative

...gret! In a remote town in Uttar Pradesh, a man allegedly threw his six year old daughter in a river with a motive to kill; the little girl was battling a kidney ailment for 3 years. The father of six children was burdened with medical expenses and many mouths to feed. He thought it best to end his problem ...

Three Doctors Charged So Far in the UK Bombing Case

...M card was found in Sabeel Ahmed's car. Haneef had allegedly given it to him before he moved to Australia last year so his cousin could take advantage of remaining minutes of call-time. .Meanwhile, Jordanian doctor Mohammed Asha, 26, and two trainee doctors aged 24 and 27, whose identities have not yet emerg...

Inquest of Date-rape Drug Victim Attracts Wide Attention in Australia

...t the men had spent most of the time on the cruise allegedly propositioning a number of female passengers of va... According to police witness statements, Silvestri allegedly said to another cruise passenger, Allison McKain, that "The b----- is dead, the f---ing b---- is dea...

Manufacturer to Pay $20 Million for Improperly Promoting a Sleep Disorder Drug

... attorney in San Francisco is investigating it for allegedly engaging in off-label marketing of its drug Natrecor. Although the FDA has approved Natrecor's sale to people with congestive heart failure who have trouble breathing while doing minimal activity, Scios has been accused of improperly promoting freq...

Chemical Compound in Turmeric Helps to Fight Alzheimers

...her Asian countries as a dietary supplement, which allegedly cures stomach problems and other ailments. Earlier research has shown that curcumin, an antioxidant found in turmeric, can help prevent the formation of tumours. Writing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Milan Fiala of the ...

Dog Fighting in the US: Bloody, Illegal and Booming

The indictment of a US football star this week for allegedly organizing illegal dog fights has put the spotligh...dog fights since 2001. As part of the dog fights allegedly staged by Vick and his associates, losing dogs were sometimes drowned, hung, shot or electrocuted, a...

Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

...ing some 6.5 billion dollars in damages for deaths allegedly stemming from drug trials. Hours after dropping...to the tests of an antibiotic called Trovan, which allegedly killed 11 children. Another 181 children reportedly suffered side effects such as deafness, paraly...

Al Gore's Son Charged With Possession of Controlled Substance

...pulled over south of Los Angeles on July 4. He was allegedly driving faster than 100 mph. Since there was the smell of marijuana inside the car, the police carried out a search and recovered prescription drugs including Xanax, Valium, Soma, Vicodin and Adderall from the vehicle. The police said that Albe...

Wine Packaging: Bag-in-box, Plastic Bottles, Cork Comeback?

...d. Amorim was astounded to see French supermarkets allegedly misinforming customers by telling them screw caps were an eco-friendly option, because cork meant felling trees. Also up for discussion at Vinexpo was the problem of brand identification, with 30-year-old Guillaume Halley, for instance, taking a revo...

Domestic Abuse Led Wife Killing Her Preacher Husband

...husband's 12-gauge shotgun at him shortly after he allegedly tried to silence their crying infant daughter by suffocating her. She said all she said remembered was catching a whiff of gunpowder before she fled the room and returned to find her husband lying on the floor, bleeding from the nose and mouth. Win...

Tamil Nadu Doctor Denies His Teenaged Son's Surgery feat; Terms It Conspiracy

A doctor in Tamil Nadu, who allegedly tried to get his 15-year-old son into the record books by allowing him to perform a caesarean operation , today said the accusation was a ploy by his detractors to defame him. Dr. Murugan rubbished the media reports that he made a video recording of...

Sex Offender Honored Twice by Texan Lawmakers

...relative of a woman he once dated. The young woman allegedly tried several times to seduce the doctor when he was divorced and lonely, Lockhart said. "He's not a predator at all," she said. Tallant is now remarried. He practices medicine part time on a fill-in basis and enjoys volunteer work, including the...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

... Nigeria filed a lawsuit June 4 against Pfizer for allegedly administering a test antibiotic called Trovan without authorisation or parental consent among children at a field hospital in the heart of the epidemic in Kano. A similar suit was filed a couple of weeks earlier by authorities in Kano, Nigeria's la...

Woman Army Officer Commits Suicide in Jammu and Kashmir

...ndian Army captain posted in Jammu and Kashmir has allegedly committed suicide in her home here. Police sources here said Captain Megha Razdan of the Engineering Regiment was found hanging by her husband Captain Chetanya Razdan at their home in the army quarters at Kunjwani on the outskirts of this winter c...

NRI Threatens to Move US Congress for Justice in India

...of the Calcutta High Court against the WBMC, which allegedly kept him in the dark about information he had sought under the RTI....

Court Seeks Explanation from Hospital for Childs Amputation

...lood blockage, they should inform us," the doctors allegedly told the parents. The newspaper reported a doctor as saying, "Jai suffered because his parents did not inform us in time." Refuting the allegations, Ram Babu told the newspaper that as soon as he saw a boil peeping out of the plaster, he rushed h...

The Plot Gets Thicker In The Woolmer Case

...ed champagne. Former leg spinner Mustaq Ahmed is allegedly an activist of Tablighi Jamaat, an Islamic religious outfit, and former skipper Inzamam-ul Haq had come under criticism for taking Ahmed on as a bowling coach....

Major Medicare Fraud Detected in Florida

...als charged by this strike force to 42 defendants, allegedly responsible for more than $142 million in fraudulent billings to Medicare." These are not your standard over-billing cases, it is pointed out. Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt described it as wholesale theft in which people set up s...

Killer Anesthetist Sentenced To 1933 Years In Prison

... of Spain during 1988 to 1997. During this time he allegedly infected 275 persons with Hepatitis C. Maeso who carries the virus too , did so by giving himself shots of morphine, and them injecting the rest into patients in order to sedate them for various clinical procedures. The court heard that Maeso wa...

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