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Indian American Doctor Fights for Information

...ght to Information (RTI) Act, 2005. The petition filed on Jan 11 also named WBMC president Ashok Chowdhury, its registrar D.K. Ghosh as well as the West Bengal Information Commissioner, charging them with violating the act. Saha's wife Anuradha had died from alleged medical negligence during a trip to ...

11 Percent Increase of Addictive Nicotine in Cigarettes: Report

... imperative. Proposed federal legislation has been filed by Senator Edward Kennedy (D-Ma.) that would addre...s regulations have required an annual report to be filed with the MDPH by all manufacturers of cigarettes sold in Massachusetts. The reported data include ma...

Drop Patent Petition, Activists Ask Novartis

...engupta told reporters. In May 2006, Novartis had filed two cases against the government of India and the Cancer Patients Aid Association (CPAA) challenging the rejection of its patent application under the Indian Patent Law. The company's application for a patent on Gleevec was opposed by the CPAA and ...

Kiss – and Not Tel

... women. According to an agreed list of admissions filed with the court, Smith tested HIV positive and was informed about his infection on Nov. 26, 2003. He was asked to inform his sexual partners about this and to use a condom during any form of sexual contact, by Public Health nurses. One of the nurs...

Reservation For SC/ST Candidates Under 50% All India Quota

In the application filed before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, the Central Gove...While disposing of this application for directions filed by the Central Government in Buddhi Prakash Sharma case Vs Union of India, WP 18/2006, Hon’ble Supre...

Ban on Non-iodised Salt Challenged

... and Justice R.V. Raveendran admitted the petition filed by Academy of Nutrition Improvement and asked the government to file its response in four weeks. The petitioner contended that the ban on non-iodised salt across the country was arbitrary and discriminatory. It violated the citizens' Fundamental Ri...

AIIMS Official Files Complaint Against Venugopal

...fter the institute's chief public relation officer filed a police complaint against him. B.K. Dash, cons...protocol and public relation officer of AIIMS, has filed a police complaint Feb 6 in the Defence Colony police station here accusing Venugopal of harassment,...

Indian Doctors in Britain Lose Legal Battle

...ase for a judicial review of affecting doctors was filed by BAPIO, which represents the large number of doc...the Indian subcontinent working in the NHS. It was filed jointly with Imran Yousaf, a doctor who had been affected by the changes and who reportedly committe...

Wyeth Pharma Wins Law Suit

...eth Pharma was given a favorable verdict in a case filed against the company regarding its hormone replacement drug. This case was filed by Helen Rush of Little Rock.// According to Rush, the hormone replacement drugs premarin and prem...

Indian Doctors Return Home from Britain, More on the Way

...team is working on the appeal petition that can be filed within three weeks of the February 9 ruling. Raman said that BAPIO had decided to file the appeal before March 2 and had launched another fund-raising drive among Indian doctors to meet legal costs. Raman added that a major reason for the large num...

Verdict Against Wyeth Pharma in Prempro Case

...lacement drug prempro. Jennie Nelson of Ohio had filed a case against the pharma giant accusing their drug prempro to have caused breast cancer in her. Prempro is intended as a hormone replacement therapy in menopausal women. Nelson has been taking this drug for six years. She later developed breast canc...

Cyberkinetics Requests FDA to Sell Nerve Growth Stimulation System

...icipation in a clinical study. Cyberkinetics has filed an application for Humanitarian Use Device status from the FDA. If the application is successful, Cyberkinetics could market the device commercially in late 2007. Basically, the new humanitarian exemption would mean that they could actually sell th...

Glaxo Files Cancer Drug For Approval With FDA

... breast cancer drug from Glaxo Smithkline has been filed for approval with America’s FDA and European regulators//. The result of this approval will be known by March 13 and by September in US and Europe respectively. According to the company sources, this drug is expected to generate ￡ 1 bn a year not o...

Indian Doctors File Appeal Against British Court Ruling

...Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (BAPIO) filed the appeal on Thursday. The Department of Health and the Home Office have three weeks to respond to the appeal, after which it will be listed for hearing. The new rules announced in April 2006 made it virtually impossible for doctors from outside t...

Government Tries To Change Nursery Admission Cut Off Age

...lhi Education Act. The court was hearing a PIL filed by Delhi government seeking modification of the order. On February 28, the high court had asked the Delhi government to reduce the two-year nursery period for children seeking admission to schools to one year, saying only four-year-old children sho...

FDA Decision Encourages Lamictal Generics

...citizen's petition from a patent attorney that was filed in June 1995. However, even if rival drug makers were to file an application for the drug, the respective company could still face a patent suit from Glaxo as the patent in the US is not due to run out until 2009. Lamictal already faces generic co...

British Indian Doctors Win Another Reprieve

...isa came up for renewal before this date and hence filed for and obtained this injunction. Raman Lakshman, vice-chair (Policy), said: "We had many doctors writing to us expressing concern that they will be refused an interview even though they had been shortlisted. We therefore had no option but to file ...

No Carrier Necessary: This Drug Delivers Itself

...actant-based delivery systems. A patent has been filed on this work. "In this case, the drug itself acts as its own carrier," said Haridas Pudavar, Ph.D., UB research assistant professor of chemistry and a co-author. The nanocrystals present a major advantage over methods of delivery involving other ...

Private Clinics on Public Land Must Treat Poor Free: Court

...uncing the judgement on a public interest petition filed by a voluntary organization, Social Jurist, the court said, "Non-compliance of the directions would attract contempt of court." "Free treatment means both consumable and non-consumable. No money should be charged from the poor patient, who are belo...

Public Interest Litigation Filed Favoring Mineworkers Against Silicosis

...silicosis. The public interest litigation (PIL), filed by an NGO, Health, Environment and Development Consortium (HEDCON), pleaded that the labor force needed to be protected from silicosis, which is rife due to the inaction of the state government and the malpractice of the mine owners. "We had examin...

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