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Boy Refused Compensation For HIV Infection Following Hospital Admission

...other forms of medical expenses incurred. A case filed earlier by the child turned out to be unsuccessful following refusal of the blood center to submit the medical records for verification, in an effort to retain confidentiality of the medical record. The positive infection status was identified in N...

Bill to Ban Abortion In Indiana Introduced

Indiana state Rep Troy Woodruff (R) said he had filed a bill (HB 1096) that would make abortion illegal in the state unless delivering the baby// would endanger the life or health of the mother. The bill will change state law to make performing an abortion a Class C felony, carrying a two- to eight-ye...

Reach Of The Morning-After Pill Treatment Inadequate Among Sexual Assault Victims

...ue to sharing needles or syringes ( A legal case filed by a gay couple in Britain recently has sparked an international debate on whether or not governments can be held responsible for not fully adopting this treatment regimen to fight against the spread of this deadly disease. The lack of transparency r...

Kellogg Warned Against Its Marketing Strategies

...d, if its demands were not met, a lawsuit would be filed asking a Massachusetts court to stop the companies from marketing junk foods in venues where 15 percent or more of the audience is under age 8, and to stop promoting junk foods through Web sites, toy giveaways, contests and other techniques aimed at ...

Gutka Baron To Be Jailed

...ith a fine of Rs.5,000, acting on a 1997 complaint filed by a health laboratory in the municipality. The complaint also named M.M. Joshi, the owner of Goa Gutka, which is another major brand and a rival of Manikchand. The Central Government is currently mulling a ban on gutka, or chewing tobacco. Maharas...

Apple Accused Of Causing Hearing Impairment

A suit has been filed against Apple Computer in a California court. The ...f damaging the hearing of users. The case has been filed by John Kiel Patterson of Louisiana. // Patterson's lawsuit contends that the iPods sold in the U...

New Chemical May Halt HIV Infection

...igham Young University and Vanderbilt have jointly filed a patent on the compounds. The research is still at its early stages, and many years may pass before clinical trials are conducted. Edited (IANS)...

French fries by McDonald's fries in another controversy

...fries! Going by stats at least three lawsuits were filed in United States over its use of wheat and milk as...han previously estimated. The three lawsuits were filed by consumers after they had French fries from the fast food giant’s shops and exhibited allergic sym...

UCI Liver Program jinxed with 4 more lawsuits

... Superior court has been a witness to three claims filed by the families of patients who died just waiting for the transplants; the fourth, a patient who never received a liver. The liver transplant program transparent to gross mismanagement has to also battle the 50 plus lawsuits that have been filed. ...

HIV Infected Body Parts Stolen: Biomedical Tissue Services To Face Legal Action

...tion of bone tissue, according to lawyers who have filed a legal case against the company. The victim is believed to have contracted HIV following cervical fusion surgery (bone graft implantation into the neck) that had taken place last March at Sacred Heart Hospital, Pensacola. The New York based compan...

Stage Set For Final Hearing On India’s Biggest Ever Medical Compensation Clai

... see the end of this case," he added. Saha had filed a Rs.770 million ($17 million) claim against a Kol...s and cross-examinations in the case. Saha had filed case against three doctors - Baidyanath Halder, Abani Roychowdhury and Sukumar Mukherjee - besides t...

ViroPharma Shares Fall As FDA Moves Towards Generic Vancocin

... as Vancocin. ViroPharma has intimated that it has filed a petition to stay the action with the F.D.A and added that it would file many more petitions to support "vigorous opposition to any approach that does not require rigorous scientific methods to demonstrate a rate and extent of drug release to the si...

Patients Have Right To Access Medical Case Papers: Bombay High Court

... Angered by the above situation, Ragunath G Raheja filed a writ petition against some doctors and the Maharashtra Medical Council. This new judgment that has re-established the patient’s right to have access to medical case papers has for sure has brought in a ray of hope and relief to the embarrassed pati...

Could Long Tern Vioxx Users Suffer From Heart Attacks?

...Vioxx users. About 10,000 lawsuits that have been filed against Merck over Vioxx drug complications. The commoners say that the drug company knew about the drug increased heart risks before they withdrew the medicine from the market. But the company failed to adequately warn users because of the profit th...

HIV Patients Opposes Patenting Of AIDS Drug

...ng with HIV/AIDS have opposed a patent application filed by global pharma major GlaxoSmithKline for Combivi...submitted their opposition to a patent application filed at the Kolkata patent office by GlaxoSmithKline. The opposition is based on technical and health g...

NGO Files Pre-Grant Opposition Against Anti-HIV Drug, Combivir

A pre-grant opposition has been filed against the anti-HIV drug, Combivir, manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline, a leading pharmaceutical company //. The Manipur Network of Positive People (MNP+) and the Indian Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS have lodged the complaint at the Kolkata pa...

Doctor Grilled In Court For False Report About Vioxx Health Risk

...cks. More than 10, 000 different lawsuits has been filed against the controversial Vioxx, on grounds of product liability. The product, originally intended for arthritis treatment was withdrawn from the market in the September of 2004. The case was taken up for hearing recently. Attorney Mark Lanier ques...

Lawsuit Against Sunscreen Makers For False Claims of Protection Against Skin Cancer

A consumer lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court accuses sunscreen ma...obbins LLP and Abraham Fruchter & Twersky LLP have filed the lawsuit, but no claim is made on a personal injury basis. Johnson & Johnson Inc., Schering-Ploug...

New Method Developed To Cut Down Chemotherapy Deaths

...ivering the drug. A patent application has been filed on the drug delivery system, and drug companies across the world are expected to express great interest in the new technology. Dr Perera has been working closely with David Coleman and Jennie Solbé from the University's Research Innovation Services d...

Fraudulent Dentist Jailed For Three Years

...this fraud for more than six years during which he filed around 3,500 cases of false claims for payment. ...The Hull Crown Court was told that the claims were filed for treating dead patients or for work, which was never done. The dentist has earlier pleaded guilty...

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