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Panama Official Arrested Over Tainted Medicine Deaths of 100

...antine, said the investigation showed the overseas companies that bought the diethylene glycol misused it, thin..., the Chinese said that toothpaste produced by two companies in eastern China and exported to Panama contained levels of the toxin that were not harmful to human...

Long Island Seniors Rally for Rx Affordable Prescription Drugs and Cell Phone Protections

...g out of time is not acceptable". Pharmaceutical companies spend over $7 billion a year on gifts, such as mea...armaceutical industry to doctors by requiring drug companies to report all gifts to doctors over $75. Last year, the bill passed overwhelming in the Assembly w...

Nexavar Significantly Extends Survival of Liver Cancer Patients

...n reaction. Based on the strength of the data, the companies are now in the process of preparing applications to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and European health authorities for a supplemental indication for Nexavar in treatment of patients with liver cancer."Although much progress has been ma...

Manipur Pharmacies Shut Down Fearing Separatist Threats

...cent weeks, offices of four more private insurance companies in Manipur have closed as well following similar demands. "It is very likely the LIC might have to wind up its operations here if such threats persist," a senior official said. Militants in Manipur have reduced the government and security agencie...

Astrazeneca's Investigational Cancer Therapies Revealed at ASCO

... It is one of the world's leading pharmaceutical companies with healthcare sales of $26.47 billion and leading positions in sales of gastrointestinal, cardiovascular, neuroscience, respiratory, oncology and infection products. AstraZeneca is listed in the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (Global) as well as th...

China Repudiates Warning on Its Toothpaste

...rt. Panamas death toll leads directly to Chinese companies that made and exported the poison as 99.5 percent ... the Panamanian port of Coln, back through trading companies in Barcelona, Spain, and Beijing, to its beginning near the Yangtze Delta in a place local people ca...

Vaccine-Induced Autism Victims in the Thousands Will Finally Get Day in Court

... parents are the close ties between pharmaceutical companies and government regulatory agencies. A July, 2003 U...DC currently has 28 licensing agreements with companies and one university for vaccines or vaccine-related products. It has eight ongoing projects to ...

Environment Groups Appeal for Ban on Cleaning Chemicals

...launderers and other washer-men. Some large U.S. companies including Procter & Gamble and Unilever have voluntarily stopped using them. Last year, Wal-Mart named nonylphenol ethoxylates as one of the chemicals; it is planning to phase out. But legal experts state that the EPA has limited authority to ban c...

Fate of France's Cheeses in Doubt as Producers Cite Health Risks

...ntarily withdrawn from an AOC. Spokesmen for the companies said the reason for the unprecedented move is the ...ut of purely business motives. And they fear the companies may yet use their commercial weight to get AOC regulators to change the rules -- placing the future ...

InfoLogix, Inc. the Leading Healthcare Technology Company SaysHealthcare Informatics

... Healthcare Informatics 100-the annual list of top companies by healthcare IT revenue. InfoLogix was ranked #...ump represented the third-greatest move of all the companies among the Top 100 healthcare IT revenue producers, and extends the company's rapid ascension up this...

A Novel Target for Type-2 Diabetes Atk2

...that target PGC-1a and Akt2/PKB. We hope that drug companies will look for new ways to modify fat metabolism in type 2 diabetics using these possible targets, says Birnbaum....

APEC Agree to Share Bird Flu Samples

...rned about the possibility that multinational drug companies would use an Indonesian bird flu virus to develop vaccines that poor countries cannot afford. Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott said he had considerable sympathy for Indonesia's position but that research should not be hindered because the pos...

Make-or-break Exams Stress China Youth

...n part on massive redundancies at many state-owned companies amid China's economic transformation. Yet students, parents and the government still go to great lengths in pursuit of a smooth gaokao. Parents in the eastern province of Anhui successfully lobbied for an airport in the tourist city of Huangshan to...

China Turning Tables on the US on Food Import

... products shipped by three American companies. The companies are K-Max Health Products Co. of Industry, Calif.,...learns, it could follow up with inspections of the companies and its own sampling and testing, Acheson said. Previously, the agency hasn't known of any problems ...

Researchers Find New Target to Treat Type 2 Diabetes

...s of the fat metabolism genes. We hope that drug companies will look for new ways to modify fat metabolism in type 2 diabetics using these possible targets, Birnbaum said. The findings of the study were published in Nature....

UK Researchers Call for Safety Studies of New Anti-epilepsy Drugs for Children

...only were new trials important, but pharmaceutical companies should be encouraged to carry out "clinically relevant" trials prior to the original granting of a license. "Obviously it's an area of concern, and when you are prescribing a drug 'off license' to a child, it's important to let the family know exa...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

...avels frequently to Ukraine. "The pharmaceutical companies don't tell anyone. They're desperate not to raise alarm over possible pharmaceutical fakes in case the market for their products drops like a stone," Anderson said. Government checks, he added, are also "wildly open to corruption." But officials ...

The Production and Marketing of IBS Drug Halted by the Chinese Government

...ure. The Novrotis Drug was manufactured by three companies in China and is available in more than 20 provinces with thousands of users. A review of data from 18,000 patients taking the medicine conducted by Novartis AG, Switzerland's largest drug maker, showed that a significant number had experienced card...

Residents Of Gas Patch In Colorado Suffering In Silence

...fference. According to Rada, some of the energy companies operating in the area have also adopted measures to reduce emissions."Some companies are trying to route gas to combustors instead of burning off the gas above ground. While there are s...

Ages Eases the Pain of Migraine

...eir medication when they need it because insurance companies often limit the number of migraine pills people are allowed each month. Trip tans work most effectively when taken at the first sign of a migraine, but patients hold off, not wanting to "waste a pill," the doctors said. Dahlof says early managemen...

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