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Scientists plan human cloning clinic in the United States

...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 277 attempts to clone Dolly, who was created from a ma...

South Africa Wins landmark case against pharmaceutical giants

...ourt when an attempt by the firms to strike down a law permitting South Africa to import cheap AIDS drugs was beaten off by the court. Health experts and AIDS activists say that this would lower the cost of medicines to ordinary South Africans suffering from the disease but the expensive anti retroviral...

FDA may speed review of new drugs

...FDA’s review of their products since 1993, under a law called the Prescription Drug User Fee Act, or PDUFA. At the same time, it is costing more to review ever more complex drugs - and companies are discovering fewer of them, meaning the FDA is getting fewer industry payments. The result is a shortfall t...

FDA changes rules on testing drugs for children

...e studies. The FDA said it wants to see if the new law makes the old mandate, which drug makers hated, un...Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act, signed into law in February, reauthorized the financial incentives, plus set up a grant program to allow taxpayer do...

Marijuana 'gateway' theory strengthened by study of twins

...ncluding access to drugs, willingness to break the law and likelihood of engaging in risk-taking behavior that might lure one to harder drugs....

Traffic Violations Result in Safer Drivers

...et was issued. According to researchers, "Traffic law enforcement effectively reduces the frequency of fatal motor vehicle crashes in countries with high rates of motor vehicle use. Inconsistent enforcement, therefore, may contribute to thousands of deaths each year worldwide." As road deaths rise up t...

Indian pharma industry upbeat on WTO drug deal

...The drug accord will plug a gap in the world trade law and allow poorer countries, unable to manufacture medicines domestically, to override international patents and import cheap generic drugs when required. ''The WTO drug deal is an historic agreement. Now people from the smaller and poor nations will...

Senate assures ban on smoking

...ight's action ensures that the ban will become the law of the Commonwealth starting July 5, 2004, with vi...ting the Commonwealth's Sunday liquor sales ban, a law rooted in the state's Puritan past, lets individual communities decide whether they want to allow Su...

Doctors' decisions are affected by fear of lawsuits- says a study

...ors, especially for those who are more afraid of a law suit than their colleagues. These physicians may be prescribing more tests for patients even when they are at low risk from serious health complications. The research have shown of the millions of people admitted to hospitals for emergency heart rel...

Mercy killing for newborn with incurable disease in Netherlands

...f doctors, lawyers, and ethicists. Such euthanasia law board exists for adults, now a need as raised for euthanasia law system for newborn. Newborn babies with severe spina bifida, brain damage and sever hypoxia are the ...

Clampdown On Fake Drugs Manufacturers In India – New Bill Enacte

...nces would be seriously dealt with. The existing law provides for punishment for imprisonment not less ...rug manufacturing when there is already sufficient law under trademark and copy rights to handle such cases....

DNA Directory Under Construction For Indian Criminals !

...stem is in line with the fundamental principles of law and order. Infact, when cases were reopened in various countries based on DNA evidence, many persons who were convicted were found to be innocent based on DNA profiling. Every person leaves traces of his DNA at the crime scene. It is the gathering of...

Couples in Britain can have “designer” babis

The British government may approve the fertility law so that couples in UK can choose the sex and possi... the UK governments are possibly approving the new law which allows scientists to alter the genes of future generations as part of a reappraisal of the bla...

Specialized Clinics For Manipur's AIDS Patients

... MSF in Manipur, said in a statement. "Due to the law and order situation, many rural health facilities are in a vulnerable state." The northeast has been declared one of India's high-risk zones with close to 100,000 people infected with HIV. The number of HIV/AIDS patients in India is believed to be ...

US Senate Votes against Testing of Pesticide on Humans

...an testing seemingly in a bid to circumvent a 1996 law that made it more difficult to use animal tests to meet agency standards for protecting vulnerable populations such as children from pesticide residues. The EPA now considers human testing data on a case by case basis, rejecting only experiments deem...

A first for India - IVF baby born of surrogacy

...elf". While Amit Banerjee is not worried about the law having benefited from surrogacy, legal experts said he would have to adopt the son despite being his biological father. Till the time the baby is adopted by Banerjee, his parenthood would not be recognized by Indian laws. In that case the child woul...

Ruling On Non Disclosure Of HIV Positive Status Is Not Ethical

...to inform you of his/her HIV status, but as far as law goes, you don't have a legal stand on this. Even h...l sex. The case was Dalley's second brush with the law over his HIV status. In June he was sentenced to 300 hours' community work for having unprotected se...

Lawmakers alerted on new tobacco control policies by research team

...ter than those of highest-taxing states. 2. Urge law enforcement to actively implement existing laws that prohibit retailers from selling tobacco to minors by conducting frequent compliance checks to identify retailers who sell tobacco to minors, and to penalize violators with a graduated series of fin...

Home Based Rapid HIV Test Kit to be approved by US – OraQuick Test Ki

...eat interest and we are looking for a change in UK law to allow and regulate home testing for HIV, but we need a test which combines sensitivity and simplicity, as currently, many people in the UK buy illegal home test kits for HIV over the internet and these are often of low quality and can give false r...

India preparing to counteract bird flu threat

...l patents during emergencies as provided under the law and the issue will also be discussed with the Directorate-General of Health Services and the Drugs Controller of India.” Source: The Hindu...

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