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Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...rcover in some countries. There is currently a US ban on federal funding of human cloning efforts but no law prohibiting private efforts. Opposition to cloning occurs on many fronts. Because the technology is not yet perfected many believe that the process should not even by attempted on humans. It took...

Emphasis to ban Drugs ads by Doctors

...has prompted the doctors to urge the government to ban prescription drug ads from television, news papers...sed resolution asks the AMA to petition the FDA to ban "direct to consumer" drug ads, as this much curb the doctor-patient relationship. But the FDA's med...

A need for new stem cell lines

...rapeutically cloning a human embryo. It would also ban the importation of products derived from therapeutic cloning. Vogels said such a ban could mean that regenerative medical applications will never occur and people with terrible diseases...

Arthritis Drug May Cause Liver Damage

...ty, Wolfe said. He wants the FDA to go further and ban Arava's sales. The FDA said it would carefully consider Wolfe's petition. A spokeswoman for Arava manufacturer Aventis Pharma said she had not seen the petition and declined comment about liver damage. Lise Geduldig said Arava was ``an important the...

Consumer group seeks Sibutramine ban

...has petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the prescription diet drug sibutramine. Public Citizen says the drug, sold as Meridia, is associated with 29 deaths, including 19 from// cardiovascular causes such as heart attacks. But obesity experts say it's difficult to determine if people died b...

Clean air protects lives

...lin and Boston// centered their research on a 1990 ban on coal in Dublin. They studied the death rates in the six years before and after the ban was implemented. After the ban, the amount of black smoke decreased by about 65 percent. There was a...

Herbal supplement ephedra posing threat to people's health

... health and experts are calling for authorities to ban or restrict access to the supplement. The study used data gathered by the American Association of Poison Control Centers. Researchers claim that out of the total calls received, an// estimated 80 per cent of calls were taken from the general public. ...

Canada stunned as mad cow discovery leads to beef ban

...a and several other countries have put a temporary ban on Canadian beef. The industry has ground to a halt. Meanwhile, Canadian authorities have moved swiftly to quarantine nine other ranches where the cow may have lived. The first question investigators are struggling to answer is how the animal contrac...

SARS research confirms link to animals

...for a time banned the sale of civet cats, but that ban was lifted last month. Henry Niman, a Harvard University professor and SARS researcher, said the new study is important because it moves researchers closer to finding the original source of the virus.He said the study also suggests that Chinese offi...

Senate assures ban on smoking

...rns, and nightclubs, and voted to lift the state's ban on Sunday liquor-store sales as the House and Sena... Services. The lifting of the Sunday liquor sales ban and the sales tax holiday were part of a compromise "stimulus" package containing more than $100 mil...

Justifying the use of letrozole for inducing ovulation

...troller can introduce a new drug for marketing, or ban a particular drug from being sold but should not be given the right to designate a particular drug for a particular disease, to be prescribed by a particular section of doctors. Letrozole could be prescribed only for treating breast cancer and not ...

Anthrax Scare In Tamil Nadu State of India

...ong the health officials. Kerala has also imposed ban on farm animals from Tamil Nadu. The worst hit is ...sands of cattle are bought and sold. Following a ban of cattle due to anthrax scare in neighboring Kerala cattle traders in Tamil Nadu feel it will lead ...

Anthrax Scare In Tamil Nadu State of India

...ong the health officials. Kerala has also imposed ban on farm animals from Tamil Nadu. The worst hit is ...sands of cattle are bought and sold. Following a ban of cattle due to anthrax scare in neighboring Kerala cattle traders in Tamil Nadu feel it will lead ...

Beef, Pork Ban Hit Bhutan Restaurateurs

...rdering India's northeastern state of Assam. "The ban is likely to be in force for maybe another month," said Samdrup Jongkhar district livestock officer, Tshewang Gyeltshen. "We have kept the infected cattle aside, besides inoculating the unaffected ones with ring vaccinations." Red meat is popular ...

New Stem Cells lines will be required

...rapeutically cloning a human embryo. It would also ban the importation of products derived from therapeutic cloning. Vogelstein said such a ban could mean that "regenerative medical applications will never occur and people with terrible disease...

Genetic failure in cloned animals

...d. The new study is "further scientific grounds to ban all human reproductive cloning," he told UPI. "This definitely raises a red flag for anybody who would want to use cloning for reproducing humans." The cloning process -- which involves transferring DNA from a single cell of an animal into an egg ce...

Couples in Britain can have “designer” babis

...enerations as part of a reappraisal of the blanket ban on altering the genetic structure of embryos. The public consultation document published by the UK department of health also raises the possibility of allowing research on human embryos such as the creation of animal human “chimeric” embryos. The min...

Indian Pharmaceutical Industries Stops Manufacturing And Sale Of Valdecoxib

...drug Valdecoxib from the Indian market after USFDA ban the sale of Valdecoxib formulation products and the recent notification issued by // the health ministry of the government of India asking the pharma companies to stop selling and production of Valdecoxib. Ranbaxy as already withdrew the drug from th...

Toxic chemicals found in domestic products poisoning newborn babies

...s legislation was effective and called for a wider ban on potentially toxic chemicals’. Professor Andrew Shennan, consultant obstetrician and a spokesman for Tommy's - the baby charity - said: "It's not that surprising that we find in the blood things that are in the environment. Professor Andrew added...

High Court Issues Notice To Centre On Smoking Ban In Films

...petition by filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt challenging the ban on smoking in films and TV that is scheduled to come into effect Oct 2//. A division bench comprising judges Mukul Mudgal and H.R. Malhotra issued notice to the union government, the health ministry and the information and broadcasting ministry. I...

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