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Nigeria Files New Lawsuit Against Pfizer

Nigeria filed a new lawsuit Friday against US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer claiming some 6.5 billion dollars in damages for deaths allegedly stemming from drug trials. Hours after dropping its original suit claiming seven billion dollars in damages, government lawyer Babatunde Irukera prese...

Teachers in Lucknow Protest Against New Book on Sex Education

School teachers in Lucknow have reacted strongly against a new syllabus book incorporating sex education, b...e not taken any action. They are not taking action against the booksellers. The books are available in the market and the children are buying them. If July goe...

Indian, Iraqi Medics may Face Terror Stigma Overseas

... incidents being used as an excuse to discriminate against overseas doctors who are a part of the United King...a coverage of the events could compound prejudices against doctors from abroad that they say already exist. Although, they admit that criminal checks may be ...

Four Percent of American Youths are Requested to Post Sexual Snaps on Web

...rchers at the University of New Hampshire's Crimes against Children Research Center have found that one in 25 youth who use the Internet got a request to send out a sexual picture of themselves during the course of the year. This study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, poses a new threat for ...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

... number of cases brought by the Justice Department against pharmaceutical makers that accuse them of misbranding, a broad statute that makes it a crime to put false or misleading information about a drug on its label or in ads, or to promote it for unapproved use. Some drug industry critics said Thursday ...

UK Reports Psychiatric Reactions to Weight-loss Drug Rimonabant

... Agency (EMEA) warned patients on anti-depressants against taking weight loss drug rimonabant, the Department of Health's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in UK said it had received reports of psychiatric reactions to drug, marketed as Acomplia. "Three hundred and sixty-four (36...

Al Gore's Son Charged With Possession of Controlled Substance

...s car. If convicted on all the charges levelled against him, Albert may be sentenced to imprisonment that may extend up to three years and eight months. However, the Orange County District Attorney's Office says that the State law makes Albert eligible for a drug diversion program instead of incarcerat...

US Companies Cut Junk Food Ads on Kids' Shows

...B), a self-regulating business group, as sentiment against junk food in the United States rises and Americans' waistlines bulge. The others in the group include Campbell Soup Company, General Mills, Hershey Foods, Kraft Foods and Unilever. Studies show a steep increase in overweight children, with 20 per...

Afghanistan Hopes to Eradicate Polio in Two Years

...ion children in Afghanistan needed to be immunized against polio and education programs on polio immunization is also needed, as few families know about vaccination, fearing the vaccine might cause harm, said Muhammed Amin on the KL-OIC Health Ministerial Conference 2007 held in Malaysia. In order for a co...

AIDS Patient Helps Others Lead a Positive Life

...d. Six years later, she is fighting discrimination against HIV positive people and teaching them how to live with the disease . Associated with the NGO ActionAid for the last three years, 27-year-old Hina from Davangere district in Karnataka works among HIV positive people, counselling them on how to overc...

Experts Warn Against Side Effects of the New Weight Loss Drug

... the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recommended against approval of the diet drug Acomplia, which has been approved in Europe but increases the risk of suicidal thoughts. At a Weight Watchers meeting in San Jose on Thursday, Stephanie Vose, 23, said that she and her friends had tried numerous diet fads ...

African AIDS Epidemic Slows Down: World Bank

...social immune system, discourage habits which went against AIDS prevention, and rectify social activities and individual behaviour so as to prevent the spread of the disease more effectively....

Alcohol Consumption may Help to Protect Against Rheumatoid Arthritis

... researchers have found that alcohol might protect against rheumatoid arthritis . The study was conducted b...se data now show not only that alcohol can protect against RA and reduce the risk conferred by smoking or susceptible genes, but also gives an idea of the rele...

Wine Woos World as Trade Fair Opens

...olitres would be soaked up by sales, and cautioned against the European Union's current focus on intensive pulling up -- or grubbing up, as it is known -- of vines as part of its new reform package. Beynat believes the matter must be decided on a regional basis. Other predictions for 2010 from the study in...

Gay Pride Attracts Tens of Thousands in Rome

...liament. Pope Benedict XVI has recently spoken out against hedonism and the "worrying disorientation" of society, with marriage and the family under attack. He also upheld the traditional values of fidelity in marriage and chastity for priests. Top Italian Archbishop Angelo Bagnasco recently received a bul...

Boffin Identifies Gene Causing Otosclerosis

...t a more active variant of this gene is protective against the disease," she added....

Pureed Products Unnecessary and Harmful for Babies UK Expert

... nutrients derived from breast milk, which protect against common infections and allergies, says Gill Rapley, deputy director of UNICEF UK's Baby Friendly Initiative. Spoon-feeding them pureed products could also delay their chewing ability, cause them to become fussy eaters and increase the likelihood of ...

Climatic Change Cause of Dafur Conflict-UN

...orthand - an ethnic conflict pitting Arab militias against black rebels and farmers," Ban wrote in The Washin...n Darfur since 2003. The local rebels took up arms against the Sudanese government, accusing it of decades of neglect. Sudanese leaders are accused of unleashi...

Questions Raised Over Safety of In-vitro Fertilization

... that IVF really 'works'. Others, however, caution against attributing too much significance to this happy event. The treatment that led to Louises birth, they point out, was very different from today's. Doctors waited until one of her mother Lesley's eggs had ripened, collected it and then fertilized it i...

World Epilepsy Week - 2007

...scientific issues of epilepsy. Global campaigns against epilepsy, such as the Out of the Shadows movement, spearheaded by celebrities like Amy Lee, Grammy-winning singer, exist. According to Lee, negative stereotypes like: People with epilepsy are broken; People with epilepsy can't hold jobs; or People wi...

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