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Multi billion-dollar suit filed against cell phone firm for causing brain tumours

...that he is dragging Vodafone to court in a billion dollar suit. He is claiming compensation to cell phone users who are said to have developed brain tumours after using the instruments made by Verizon wireless. This case has raised eyebrows not only because of the high profile names involved but also becaus...

Now AIDS treatment comes dirt-cheap

...ion for AIDS treatment would cost less than a U.S. dollar a day. Not to be left far behind rival firm Ranbaxy announced plans of its own production of anti retroviral drugs for AIDS treatment. This development brings to a head a series of developments in a year that has seen people all over the world gangi...

Biotechnology industry expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002

... in India is expected to grow into a three billion dollar industry by 2002 according to a Rabo India finance report. The big leap is expected to triple the industry's size from its 1999 value of one billion dollars. Biogenerics, biopharmaceuticals, agriculture, food and nutrition sectors are all poised fo...

India becomes a member of IARC

... Dr. Manmohan Singh has approved for a six million dollar scheme to join the International Agency// for Research on Cancer (IARC). It helps to prevent and improve cancer treatments in the country. This membership will help in the development of cancer vaccine in India and help us recognize the environmen...

Increase In Health Insurance Premium Likely In Australia

...aikerwal, President of AMA. "These increases, in dollar terms, wipe out the contribution of the government's rebate, even at the higher levels now provided for older Australians," said Labor health spokeswoman Julia Gillard. "No one likes to see premiums go up in this sector. The funds are only allowed ...

Australian Health funds stand accused

...ase over the past five years. 'These increases, in dollar terms, wipe out the contribution of the Government's rebate, even at the higher levels now provided for older Australians,' Ms Gillard said. Australian Health Insurance Association chief executive Michael Armitage said an increase of 5-7 per cent w...

Rehabilitate Sex Workers - Mata Amritanandamayi

... Rehabilitation project run by her is a 23 million dollar undertaking, covering a broad range of relief efforts in India and Sri Lanka. Though the relief fund earmarked for Sri Lanka is a mere 30 million rupees, her followers have undertaken projects for nearly 2 billion rupees. Her hermitage is a place f...

Rip Off: Care Less about Medicare $90m Fraud Deals?

... These phony deals have cost a mammoth $90 million dollar a year, according to agency reports.// The agency has reported a case of a Victorian, recently in the docks for permitting his foreigner father to use his Medicare card, to pocket the claim of $3300 for laser eye treatment. A Sydney woman found...

Arkansas Governor Explains New Health Plan Insurance On Radio Show

...yield considerable revenue to the federal Medicaid dollar program, targeted at provision of health insurance to employees. Currently, only about 1 in 4 small businesses offer health insurance in Arkansas, according to official reports of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Higher income work...

Nicaraguan Doctors Strike To Be Continued For Five Months

...ion of Health Workers. The doctors make 200 to 500 dollar monthly salaries and they consider themselves the worst paid in the Latin American region. The protest affects 32 public hospitals and 3,000 medical staff members from the Medical Federation are only assisting emergencies. Edited IANS...

Chess Champion Anand to Champion HIV/AIDS for Avahan

...ernational sports figure. Avahan is a 200-million dollar HIV prevention initiative for India that has been created by the Foundation led by Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates. Avahan’s programme will initially work on six high HIV/AIDS prevalence states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Mahar...

Epidemic Of Cholera Continues To Sweep Over Angola

...2. The oil-rich Angola is in the midst of a petrol dollar fuelled building boom, currently spending billions of dollars rehabilitating infrastructure and communications. Cholera is often transmitted through water and food that has become contaminated with feces. It can also be transmitted through direct ph...

Health Insurance Plans Varies among States

...nia, also tend to get more value for their premium dollar than those in rural states, according to this first ever state by state estimate of the cost of the adjusted price of health insurance. When authors adjusted premium costs for the quality of benefits, Maine, West Virginia, Wyoming, and Wisconsin we...

Ankur Drugs To Raise $16 Mn Via Fccbs

...nd Pharma Ltd today said it would raise 16 million dollar through the issue Foreign Currency Convertible Bon...// The company would allot 16,000 FCCBs of 1,000 dollar each to three investors and the bonds would be listed on the Singapore Stock Exchange, Ankur Drugs i...

Bird Flu Campaign Kick Starts In Indonesia

... in case of a pandemic outbreak. The multimillion dollar campaign, sponsored by the Japanese government and supported by USAID, may enable Indonesia to gain control of the H5N1 strain of avian flu that has struck 33 provinces of the country in the past two years . Indonesia, with a population of 238 ...

Sun Pharma Allots Shares Upon Fccbs Conversion

... 724.30 per share upon conversion of FCCBs of 1000 dollar each, the company informed the Bombay Stock Exchange. Consequently, the paid up equity share capital has increased to 18.60 crore with equity shares of Rs 5 each, it said. The shares of the company engaged in the manufacture of speciality pharmaceu...

Patency On Two Drugs From Merck & Pfizer’s To Expire Soo

... the companies have already launched multi-billion dollar cost-cutting efforts and have also already begun encouraging bioteches on an effort to improve their new-drug pipelines. Any market analysts though believe that with the loss of patency, Zocor might threaten the sales of Lipitor, which is another a...

YES Bank To Set Up India Health Care Fund

...ed private equity house to set up a 75-100 million dollar health care fund catering to the Indian market within the next nine months. // The Netherlands-based equity house will run the fund, for which YES Bank would be the advisor. This would be its first Asian foray for the fund-house, which is currentl...

Advantage India: Growth Pills Abound For Pharma Companies

...d as major beneficiaries to tap on a multi-billion dollar sales vacuum created by the patent expiry of two biggest blockbuster drugs in the US -- cholesterol- cutting drug Zocor and antidepressant Zoloft -- within the span of a week. Merck's patent for Zocor that contributed USD 4.4 billion in the company'...

Lab Tests And Diagnostics - Next Wave Of Outsourcing

...athology laboratory business is around 864 million dollar and is growing at a rate of 20 per cent annually. Those in the business say big Indian lab companies are either in talks with or already are partnering with hospital chains overseas for long-term outsourcing contracts. Some Indian lab companies hav...

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