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New Chemistry Approach Promises Less Expensive Drugs

...health." Most drug molecules that pharmaceutical companies produce can exist in two different forms, which ar...ood and Drug Administration now requires that drug companies create only the beneficial enantiomer during the manufacturing process. While this requirement keeps...

United Biotech Launches New Oncology Division

...any is also in talks with four other global pharma companies for strategic tie-ups for its oncology business. With this launch, the company intends to manufacture and market molecules that are currently being exclusively marketed by multinationals. The company also intends to offer the products at a much l...

New York City Plans to Promote Circumcision

... Dr. Frieden also said he thought health insurance companies might agree to pay for preventive circumcisions since they already covered them for infections and urinary blockage. City hospitals also offer the operation in those cases. Whatever the case, activists urge any widespread campaign to promote circum...

Gels, Wax or Paste: New Styling Products for Men's Hair

...an series of hair care products. The other large companies also produce pastes that make it easy to re-shape hair to achieve the desired form. Schwarzkopf makes a series of products in the "Got2b" range that promise "flexible stability." Its styling gel "Rubber Cement Glued Jelly" claims to live up to its ...

People Before Patents

... mere US dollars 130. Novartis was one of the 39 companies that took the South African government to court five years ago, in an effort to overturn the country's medicines act that was designed to bring drug prices down. Now Novartis is up to it again and is targeting India. (The MSF and other organizatio...

500 Million US Dollars to Fight Childhood Obesity

...ir packaging and ingredients, and three soft-drink companies said they would no longer supply sweetened drinks to school cafeterias and vending machines. Several states have mandated changes in school menus, increased physical education requirements and begun reporting students’ body mass index scores to pa...

Government Entreated To ‘Haggle’ To Save Money For Medicae

...ars if it goes about some bargaining// , with drug companies supplying to Medicare. Based on information from the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the group: Campaign for America's Future, says that the savings from cheaper prices could be diverted to either enhance coverage or pay for other healt...

All U.S. States To Begin Names-Based Reporting of HIV Cases by End of 2007

...igmatization and potential disclosure to insurance companies and family members." The state in 2006 began using a names-based system. Under the new system, staff members who have access to the database must take an oath of confidentiality and undergo special training. The names also are stored on a stand-al...

Most Pediatricians Do Not Hire Professional Interpreters for Bilingual Patients

...hey are burdened with the cost." Most insurance companies do not cover interpretation services, and only a few states provide doctors reimbursement for providing the services for patients covered under public health insurance. Kuo said, "This is about training interpreters to do medical interpreting well. ...

Ranbaxy Develops New Compound for Respiratory Inflammation

...signed multi-year agreement signed between the two companies in 2003, Ranbaxy will further profile this drug candidate through pre-clinical studies and take it through an Investigational New Drug (IND) application. Ranbaxy will also be responsible for conducting phase I and phase II clinical studies through ...

A Project to Map the Health Care Needs of a District in Kerala

...vernmental organization for the purpose. Pharma companies too would stand to benefit as a result of the elaborate mapping, it is pointed out. SRM/L...

GlaxoSmithKline Signs Outsourcing Deal With TCS

...cing and operational excellence. Like many global companies GSK has been seeking to tap into India's pool of high-quality IT and scientific talent and is aiming to trim costs through outsourcing. GSK is also involved in research collaboration with India's Ranbaxy Laboratories, to jointly develop drugs in are...

Tumour Grown Human Body by Chinese Scientists

...ncer research," he said. He also noted that drug companies and researchers often found the treatments tested on a simple culture of cancer cells did not work well on the tumor itself. “Now they will be able to work with a complete, three dimensional tumor and examine how it reacts, metastasize or grows whe...

FDA Announces Voluntary Withdrawal of Pergolide Products

...his additional post-market safety information, the companies that manufacture and sell pergolide will stop shipping pergolide for distribution and, in cooperation with FDA, will withdraw the products from the market. Permax was approved in 1988 for Eli Lilly and Company as an adjunctive therapy with levodopa...

Bird Flu Vaccine - Indonesia Attracts WHO Attention

...ation and creates a seed strain for pharmaceutical companies to produce vaccines. This process went on unhindered till Indonesia, the country faced with virulent bird flu attacks, withdrew from the prior arrangement of sharing virus samples with the WHO; instead they signed an agreement with a U.S drug compa...

Web Page to Warn Against Online Purchase of Isotretinoin

...d with iPledge, which FDA administers jointly with companies that sell the drug. The Web page was launched as FDA officials' felt that some are purchasing the drug on line to avoid involvement in iPledge. The Web page has links to other info about the drug, including a link to iPledge. The Web page gets co...

Toolkit Released To Employers Of Expecting Mothers

...e pregnancy every ten years. It was also seen that companies with less than ten staff were the hardest hit financially ,when a worker became pregnant. In response, the EOC has produced a toolkit for employers containing practical advice on how to manage pregnant women and new parents, which was designed with...

Corporates To Help Combat HIV/AIDS

...nter were issued by NACO. This is said to help the companies to set up such units. In addition to these measures, India Inc is also involving employees of major organizations like HLL, Pepsi, Coca-Cola, SRF group, Bilt, Apollo Tyres and Transport Corporation of India in programs to fight against the spread o...

Indian Pharma Industry Wants Customs Duty on Life-saving Drugs to Go

...efit Tax (FBT) the expenses incurred by the pharma companies while hosting scientific and technical conferences...s personnel, they are outsiders and hence the drug companies should not be burdened with the FBT, the memorandum pleads. Gpl...

FDA Cites Challenges of Generic Biotech

...missioner Janet Woodcock's testimony could benefit companies such as Amgen Inc. and Genentech Inc, which have n...oduced, it will be more difficult for generic drug companies to safely reproduce them. Woodcock said that while FDA can currently establish the safety between ...

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