Cervical Cancer Vaccine Show Promise In Prevention
...ed interest in the launch of the vaccine following approval by the FDA. The process of approval would be monitored by such organizations. Adequate knowledge about the availability of the vaccine a...Drug Firms To Produce Single Pill AIDS Treatment
...n the pill, and it is expected to receive a formal approval towards end 2006. //As many as 40 million people across the world are infected by AIDS, with the poor nations accounting for most of the numbers. The US is reported to have 1 million AIDS patients. The new single pill treatment will also bring in ...Novel Technique Can Enhance Stem Cell Multiplication By 30 Fold
... gene therapy has to a large extent restricted the approval of any gene-therapy clinical trials. The study has led to an improved understanding of the stem cell biology, stem cell therapy and research. The researchers are further interested in knowing whether similar results can be obtained for human cord b...Medical education to sky rocket: in terms of fees!
...gone into it because the college is yet to receive approval from the Government of India and the Medical Council of India. Some other quotations are as follows:- S Nijalingappa Medical College in Bagalkot had wanted Rs 8.02 lakh but has been allowed only Rs 1.13 lakh. Navodaya Medical College in Raichur q...FDA Gives Its Approval For Inhaler
... regulating the blood sugar level has received the approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). // This inhaler will be a source of relief to those people who are suffering from diabetes. The hand-held Exubera inhaler is a rapid-acting, dry powder human insulin that is inhaled through the mouth pr...Designer Babies- To Create Or Not To Create!
...Fertilization and Embryology Authority to consider approval of the ‘designer baby’ concept to save their sick child. Diamond Blackfan anemia is a rare, potentially fatal // genetic disorder that requires regular, painful treatment. Stem cell transplantation from a sibling with a perfect tissue match is the on...Ricin Vaccine protection against bio-warfare and bioterrorism
... clinical study in 15 human subjects after ethical approval as shown considerable increase in antibodies against the toxin with minimum side effects of headache....GlaxoSmithKline launches diabetes and cancer drugs
...drug in the pipeline would be soon getting its FDA approval and would surely help in the treatment of patients and will have important health advances in treating patients....Cancer Patient Protests Before Assembly
...tute of Clinical Excellence (Nice) has to give its approval for the procedure before Gibbons can enforce it. As at present, the doctors concerned will have to decide upon whether the patients will benefit from the drug before prescribing it. In the meantime, other women who suffer from the disease have joined...A brush with the U.S. Regulators can cost a fortune
... any amendments. This provoked the FDA to withhold approval of Clarinex, a blockbuster allergy drug. To solv...all the plants. They found more problems and the approval of the drug Clarinex was delayed by more than a year. The company also paid a fine of about $500 m...Congestion for Use of Clarinex-D 12 Hour cleared – FDA Gives the No
...edrine, and can be consumed twice a day. The FDA approval was close on the heels of two clinical trials involving 1,200 people or more who suffered seasonal allergies. The trails involved comparison of the treatment with Clarinex-D 12 HOUR extended-release tablets with pseudoephedrine alone and desloratadin...The Publication Of Surgeon Specific Death Rates Raises Controversy
...ion is said to have sparked the issue. Following approval by Kevin Dunion, Scotland's information commissioner, the official figures have been released, based on the Freedom of Information Act. Similar reports for cardiac bypass surgery have already been published in England and Wales. However the latest Sc...Inhaled Insulin Could Rock The Drug Market Soon
Following approval of Exubera, an oral insulin formulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and the European Commission, the sales of the new treatment // modality is expected to soar in the next couple of months. The drug is a combined effort of three major ph...Better Communication With FDA Could Speed Up Approval Of New Drugs
...ller companies had a tough time getting regulatory approval for their products, "Large, U.S.-based companies have the highest first-cycle approval rate, at approximately twice the rate of small biotechnology companies with no prior FDA approvals,"...AIDS drug GS 9137 Shows Promise
...s has attained immunity to other medicines. An FDA approval for the drug will be sought by Merck in the year 2007....Generic Products Compete With GlaxoSmithKline
.... The regulators will be called upon to give their approval for seven more medicines also, which is inclusive of an anti H5N1 bird flu vaccine. The organization is also seeking to make some acquisitions during the course of the year. The consumer healthcare business of Pfizer is reported to be one among the t...Sale Of Bird Flu Vaccine to US Planned: Australian Firm
...nitiation of clinical trials in the U.S. following approval by the Food and Drug Administration authority. The company has also initiated expansion of the existing drug manufacturing plant. This would ensure an adequate supply of the vaccine for the forthcoming 2007-08 flu season. More than 20 million shots a...Warts: Spanner in Lover's Works!
...ved with development of a vaccine that is awaiting approval from the Therapeutic Goods Administration , after which the best solution would be to vaccinate all children at puberty, regardless and before they embark on their sex lives ....Momentum of Stem cell research impeded by legal challenges
... to begin stem cell research in the state with the approval of 61% of voters passing the Proposition 71. But the legal challenges have impeded the initiative. // The officials now say that it would take spring 2007 before the project will be initiated. Zach Hall, president of the California Institute for Re...... implement these new tests, “We are looking to get approval for the breast cancer test by the end of the year,” Harpal Karlcut, chairman of the ABI genetic working party, said. But a team of scientists and campaigners are to meet the government asking it to ban such applicatios....