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Brain Tumor Drug in Frogs A New Report

...uffering from cancer and other dismal diseases.The company is now working on pre-clinical trials of Amphinase with a view to beginning clinical trials in the future....

US Supreme Court Could Protect Medical Equipment Manufacturers from Law Suits

...ng negligent design and breach of warranty. The company maintained that Mr. Riegels surgeon should not hav...reviewing the same medical device made by the same company have reached two different conclusions about whether patients could bring a lawsuit. Lawyers invo...

Brazil Government New Health Offer

...is new AIDS program angered the international drug company Merck. Merck offered to cut the price of its AIDS drug Efavirenz to about $1 per pill but Temporao decided to break Merck's patent and buy a cheaper substitute from India. His blunt style is reaching beyond national borders as he tries to spread Br...

Peregrine Pharmaceuticals Initiates Patient Enrollment In New Cotara(R) Brain Cancer Trial

...(Nasdaq: PPHM), a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing targeted monoclonal antibodies for the treatment of cancer and hepatitis C virus infection, today announced initiation of a new clinical trial designed to evaluate the safety and efficacy of its tumor necrosis therapy (TNT) agent Cotara(R...

Novagali Pharma Presents Phase III Clinical Trial of Vekacia(R) for Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis

Novagali Pharma, an emerging pharmaceutical company specialized in ophthalmology presents positive results of its pivotal phase III clinical trial positive results from the Phase III clinical study of Vekacia(R) in children suffering from Vernal Keratoconjunctivitis (VKC) at the XIV Afro-Asian Congre...

Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer

...ce suit against the world's biggest pharmaceutical company Pfizer to court Tuesday, as the US giant demanded the charges be dismissed. But the government's case suffered an early setback when the court rejected a request to allow it to submit "additional facts", before presiding judge Babs Kwewumi adjourn...

Japanese Firm Unveils Artificial Hand With 'air Muscles'

...t we aim at delicate work as a human hand can do," company president Mikio Shimizu said. During a demonstration, the prototype hand grasped a pen and picked up a raw egg without breaking it. The firm plans to ship some 50 prototypes to research institutes and firms, with plans to market them overseas in ...

New Drug Could Keep High Blood Pressure Under Control for Several Months

A bio-technology pharma company from Zurich, Switzerland has developed a drug that can reduce high blood pressure for several months at a time . The drug cleans up angiotensin II, a natural peptide that raises blood pressure by contracting vessels, by inducing antibodies. In th...

US Lawmakers Considering Legislation to Restrict Payments by Drug Companies to Doctors

...m. Vermont officials disclosed Tuesday that drug company payments to psychiatrists in the state more than doubled last year, to an average of $45,692 each from $20,835 in 2005. Antipsychotic medicines are among the largest expenses for the states Medicaid program. Over all last year, drug makers spent $2...

Giant Microwave That Recycles Plastic Back into Diesel, Gas

A US company is taking recycling to another level turning back plastics into the oil they were made from, and gas. Global Resource Corporation (GRC) claims the process requires only a finely tuned microwave that uses 1200 different frequencies within the micr...

Novel Investigational Drug May Help American Women Suffering from Breast Pain

...dent and CEO of FemmePharma Global Healthcare, the company sponsoring the study. "We hope news of this trial will compel women with breast pain associated with fibrocystic breast disease who have been previously diagnosed to seek a study center in their area." Physicians at centers nationwide will enroll w...

Hong Kong's Shopping Spree Surges On, and on

...t has in Paris or New York. MTR Corporation, the company running Hong Kong's underground rail network, is hoping to cash in on the boom with a giant shopping centre beside Tsim Sha Tsui, to be called Elements. It will provide the retail portion of a sprawling new development that will also include the ci...

Experts Critical of a New OTC Product to Treat Psoriasis

... vice president for Preval Health, the Maine-based company behind SkinZinc, says that the system is the bestselling over-the-counter treatment for psoriasis in the U.S. and Canada. "Some people try it without success, but a lot of people are very loyal to it," he says. "Some of the letters and pictures we ge...

Avicena to Advance Huntington's Disease Clinical Program into Phase III

... Bulletin Board: AVGO), a late stage biotechnology company that develops central nervous system therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases, announced today the selection of the optimal dose of HD-02, its novel drug candidate for the treatment of Huntington's Disease. This dose was determined in an open-l...

Apple Launches IPhone; New Yorkers Line Up to Buy Gadget

...uary, when he unveiled the glitzy gadget, that the company hopes to claim a one percent share of the worldwid...bandon their current phones and buy an iPod. The company recently marked the sale of its 100 millionth iPod personal music device, making it, in Apple's word...

Sanofi Withdraws Anti-obesity Drug in US

... rimonabant file to the FDA at a future date," the company said, adding that it will "undertake the necessary discussions with the FDA to determine the required modifications to its file." The FDA's expert panel concluded that suicidal thoughts appeared to be a side-effect of taking Acomplia, which has bee...

Indian Wine Major Indage Celebrates 25th Anniversary

...s the first sparkling wine producing and exporting company of India. Indage exports its different varieties of wine to 69 countries like the US, Japan, UK, Switzerland, Germany, U.A.E, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Philippines, Fiji and Singapore....

Public Places in England Go Smoke Free

...sed or partially enclosed places of work, and most company vehicles have become no-smoking areas in England. Individuals will, however, still be able to light up outside buildings, in gardens and in the backyards of eateries. Ireland became the first European country to impose a smoking ban in March 2004...

A Lucky Number? 7/7/07

...s double the peak figure in a normal year, and the company estimates some 65,000 - 70,000 weddings across the country on July 7. Even those impulsive types seeking to elope in the US wedding capital Las Vegas are likely to be disappointed, with the city's wedding chapels all booked up, according to the me...

A Blood Test Developed in Australia to Repair DNA Damage

...ap, with a $650 price tag applied by the Reach 100 company which has commercialized the procedure. Reach 100 director Tim Edwards admitted it was an expensive procedure, but felt the cost would come down significantly as it became more widely taken up. It was also hoped private health funds and the Feder...

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