Former FDA Commissioner Accused in Criminal Case
...d by the Center for Reproductive Rights in federal court in New York over the delays. The case was allowed to proceed bestowing the center with the right to interview top FDA officials, including Crawford. The criminal investigation was revealed during the trial of the lawsuit....Australian Government To Fund For A Stem cell Research Center
...embryos for stem cell research. But former federal court judge John Lockhart recommended last year that therapeutic cloning should be permitted. It is widely spoken that the Federal Parliament is likely to have a conscience vote on the issue, as it did with the abortion pill RU486. Mr. Abbot stated that th...A Boy Undergoing Treatment For Cancer Gets AIDS At AIIMS
...e victim. The boy was then nine-years-old. The court is know asking them to explain as to why the hospital is not ready to disclose details of the donor whose blood was transfused into the victim. Justice Vikramjit Sen while stating that the issue of blood transfusion concerns the public at large, he s...AIIMS Counsel Claims Cancer Patient Got HIV Through Needle
... after undergoing blood transfusion in 2001. //The court has also asked for an explanation on why the relevant documents were not being made available despite repeated requests. Justice Vikramjit Sen ruled that the blood transfusion was the business of the public at large and the inability or unwillingn...Government Questioned On Providing Unhygienic Food In Train
...hygiene conditions in its kitchens. However, the court appointed a four-member committee comprising the t...he corporation's kitchens and file a report to the court about the conditions prevailing there and suggest measures to improve them. The bench also directe...Marathon Kid Budhia’s Health Not Compromise
...took the boy to the hospital. "I will approach the court to appeal against such harassment. I have been taking him to the best of doctors," Das said. Das and his wife adopted Budhia after rescuing him from a slum. He had been sold to them for a paltry sum of Rs.800 by his impoverished mother. Das helped...Supreme Court Quashed Reservation Quotas For PG Medical Courses
...Subramaniam pointed out that under an earlier apex court judgement, the 50 percent all-India quota was free...petitioners contended that under the previous apex court judgement, 50 percent of post-graduate medical seats were reserved for the all-India quota and 50 pe...Restore Ban on Weight Loss Aid, Ephedra – FD
...e Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has urged the court to restore the ban on diet supplements that contains low levels of the weight loss aid, Ephedra// . The ban is said to have been lifted by a federal judge owing to gross misunderstanding of the law. Ephedra was banned two years back due to reports ...Court Rejects Case of Negligence by Disabled Children against the Doctors
...for negligence against their mothers' doctors. The court compared an existing life with that of a non-existing life. Justice Susan Crennan said that one cannot prove the actual loss. But Justice Michael Kirby said that this wrongful life was mainly due to the negligence who would not otherwise have existed...Bulgarian Nurses Involved In Infecting Libyan Children with AIDS Undergo Retrial
...dren have died. All six accused appealed and the court ordered a retrial, and scrapped the death sentences. Sofia and Tripoli have seeked help and raised funds to help the infected children. Spokesperson Idriss Lagha said that the AIDS-infected children would be sent to French (Paris and Marseille) and I...Long Patient Waiting Times Force NHS Patients To Seek Treatment Abroad
...gery (£3,900) from Bedford Primary Care Trust. The court apparently ruled that she could claim the money if she could prove the delay in provision of treatment. Such legal decisions should be made on the basis of the merits of the treatment and the condition of the patient. Owing to such case that have c...£300,000 Compensation For Family After Death Of Daughter Following Deliver
...Cwmavon, Port Talbot, had been linked in five-year court proceedings. ‘I watched my beautiful daughter die in agony. Had the doctors got it right she would still be with me, her partner Craig and the children. I feel incredibly angry that the people supposed to be looking after her didn't do their job. We ...Dishman To Buy Solutia's Pharma Services Biz For $74.5 Mn
... to regulatory approvals, including the bankruptcy court overseeing Solutia's re-organisation, it added....Dental Complaints Service Launched By GDC In UK
... out problems, and avoid the expense and delays of court action," said Hew Mathewson, the GDC president. "The service will also help dental professionals to improve the quality of service they provide." Currently many patients are turning towards the private sector after a paucity of dentists in the NHS. ...Mass Leave By Doctors Leaves Patients Helpless
...ing a petition filed by advocate Ashok Thakur, the court asked the centre to define the OBC tag and the basis on which it has decided to implement 27 percent caste-based reservation. On Tuesday, the faculty at the All India Institute of Medical Science (AIIMS) has planned to go on a daylong hunger strike...Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos
...olicy would divide the country on caste basis, the court sought response from government as to what would b...erious social and political ramifications and this court will deal with it appropriately," the Bench said while deciding to examine the effect of the impleme...Supreme Court Warns Medicos of Contempt Action
...end their agitation on the reservation issue. The court expressed that if they fail to do so contempt// ac...otwithstanding the "clear indication" given by the court that the OBC quota issue is being examined by it. "Surprisingly, contrary is happening. Ultimately ...Supreme Court Verdict Gives Hope to Striking Medicos
...olicy would divide the country on caste basis, the court sought response from government as to what would b...erious social and political ramifications and this court will deal with it appropriately," the Bench said while deciding to examine the effect of the impleme...Supreme Court Orders Striking Medicos To Call Off Agitation Immediate
...policy// , and resume work within three days. The court - which accepted a petition from the striking medi... (OBCs) in institutions of higher education. The court order came even as out-patient departments (OPDs) in government hospitals and several private health......a self-proclaimed AIDS healer, was produced before court on charges of swindling six people of Sh1.6 million.// The money was obtained by telling the people that they would be cured of HIV/AIDS through prayers. The Nairobi Principal Magistrate, Margaret Muigai, denied her bail since Central Police Statio...