Viread To Retail In India For $1
...harmaceutical majors even though some of them have filed oppositions to the Gilead patent filings. He said: "We are in very advanced stages of discussions with other pharmaceutical companies, including Ranbaxy and Cipla, and are very positive that they will see value in our offer." Source: Indo-Asian N...Calgary Couple Laud Health Review Process
...ill begin the process next month. Rick Lundy had filed a complaint after a shortage of beds in the emergency room at he Peter Lougheed centre caused his wife Rose to miscarry on July 18. The couple said the review is a good step forwards and that no one should go through the problems that they had to fac...Medicos Suspends Anti-quota Stir
...s of resident doctors were detained and police had filed a case of rioting against them. "The general body meeting is going decide the course of action till the winter session," said Arun Pal Singh, a senior resident doctor of UCMS. A majority of resident doctors at AIIMS have already joined work, muc...Gestiva – the pre-term birth drug probed by FD
...perts would recommend whether the drug application filed by the company should be approved by the FDA or not. The drug may cause an increase in miscarriage and stillbirth rate, said the FDA. Will the drug need further research, will be one of the questions posed to the panel. As per FDA rules, the pharmac...Wyeth Embroiled in a Lawsuit over its Hormone Replacement Therapy
...atment. This is the first trial of 5,000 lawsuits filed against Wyeth for Prempro. Reeves, 67, and her lawyer told the jury at the U.S. Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas that consuming Prempro caused the growth of a breast tumor, for which she had to undergo a mastectomy. Prempro is a combinati...GSK Seeks Permission to Market Breast Cancer Pill Tykerb
GlaxoSmithKline PLC has filed for permission with European medicine regulators to begin selling its new breast cancer pill Tykerb//. This follows a similar move in the US last month, and comes slightly earlier than some commentators were expecting. The drug is foreseen to be on...Carcinogens found in Grilled chicken
... lawsuit against the restaurants. The lawsuit was filed under California's Proposition 65 in The Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Los Angeles to compel McDonald's, Burger King, Chili's, Chick-fil-A, Applebee's, Outback Steakhouse, and TGI Friday's to warn consumers of the carcin...Anthrax Vaccine to be Made Mandatory for Troops-Pentagon
... safe and effective. However the attorneys who had filed the initial lawsuit against mandatory vaccination and had it halted, are determined to take the case further and file a suit challenging it. According to them, the order does not have a scientific basis and its legality remains in question. MAL...New Biomedical Device to Monitor Hip Implant Healing
...advance technology transfer and commercialization, filed a provisional U.S. patent application for the work. Source-Newswise SRM...Manufacturer of birth control patch runs into rough ‘patches
Several law suits were filed at the San Francisco Superior Court by forty women who encountered medical// complications following the use of an accepted birth-control patch. The manufacturer, Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Co., and distributor, McKesson Corp have been sued follow...US calls 'interrogation techniques' national security secrets
...top-secret and could not be discussed.In documents filed in a US court last week, the government expressed concern that allowing prisoners who had been held at CIA prisons to have contact with lawyers would jeopardize the secrecy of the interrogation techniques used on them.A CIA official writes in the cou...Apollo doctors Summoned in Rahul Mahajan case
...on 177 of the IPC. Delhi Police on Wednesday had filed a chargesheet accusing Apollo Hospital's Managemen...eged drug abuse by Rahul Mahajan. The chargesheet filed before the Additional Chief Meteropolitan Magistrate alleged that the private hospital and its six d...Shoaib Akhtar files appeal against ban
Fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar has filed an appeal with the Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) to... given a one-year ban by the same doping tribunal, filed his appeal to the tribunal Monday. Both the players were banned from all forms of cricket by a PCB ...Garlic compound may help treat cancer
...this set of compounds is new. The inventors have filed a patent for their invention. Once granted the patent will be in the name of Kerala's Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology where the work was carried out. "Our findings are mainly at the laboratory level and we really have no clue as to how effect...Maharashtra Cracks Down On Fake Doctors
...e government that legal notices have been formally filed against 2,493 fake doctors //in the State of Mahar...case of negligence, public interest litigation was filed against a fraudulent doctor by a Govandi resident, Mariappa Gangau. His pregnant wife had died follo...Bombay HC Refuses Mandatory HIV Tests
... policy for the same. The court was hearing a PIL filed by an NGO, Maharashtra Law Graduate Association. ...or HIV. The Joint Director of Health Services had filed an affidavit which stated that the policy stressed on the adequate availability of voluntary testing...Indian Scientist Sues International Genetic Centre for $5 Million
...yer Vineet Bhagat told IANS that the case is being filed before the Tribunal of the International Labour Or... 10 years came from his group and that he has also filed seven patents. The group had secured total grants of more than $1 million since 1992, mostly from...Children's Killer Preyed On Victims For Two Years
...attitude to the missing person complaints they had filed as they were poor. The businessman owner of the house Mohinder Singh and his domestic help Surendra Kohli, alias Satish, were arrested Friday on charges of molesting and murdering children. Police stumbled on the skeletons while investigating the ...More Americans Die Due To Side Effects From Prescription Drugs Every Year: Report
... of personalized medicine.” Already, a number of filed lawsuits claim physicians can be liable for not re...ons, and the first such lawsuits have already been filed against a drug manufacturer. “There will likely be an initial calm until there has been a breakthr......ohns Hopkins Technology Transfer Office, they have filed an application for a U.S. patent covering this class of compounds. Source-Newswse SRM...