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Cell Genesys Reports Additional Data From Phase 2 Clinical Trial of GVAX Immunotherapy for Pancreatic Cancer

...enesys continues to hold an equity interest in its former subsidiary, Ceregene, Inc., which is developing gene therapies for neurodegenerative disorders. Cell Genesys is headquartered in South San Francisco, CA and has its principal manufacturing operation in Hayward, CA. Statements made herein about the ...

India Committed to Sustainable Development: PM

... Energy Research Institute (TERI), Prodipto Ghosh, former environment and forests ministry secretary, Sunita Narain, head of the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), and Ratan Tata, Chairman, Investment Commission....

China is Cracking Down on Food Safety

...inese-produced food and medicines. Zheng Xiaoyu, former head of the State Food and Drug Administration was convicted on charges of taking bribes and of dereliction of duty. The verdict came as the government announced plans for the first ever recall system of unsafe food products. Analysts believe that ...

Drugs Lure Hong Kong Youth Across China Border

...ng people from Hong Kong in the 10 years since the former British colony was handed back to Beijing. Shenzhen is cheap, it's vibrant and it's close -- and crucially for many of those who regularly make the weekend trip, it's a good source of recreational drugs. "I'm so used to going to Shenzhen," said Ah ...

Ozzy Found Nicotine Addiction Hardest to Quit

...onquer his addictions to drugs and alcohol . The former hellraiser, who quit his nicotine addiction in the late 1990s, is satisfied that he has not gotten hooked to smoking again.He revealed that before he had kicked the butt, he used to cover himself with nicotine patches. "They're all a b**ger to kick...

India to Propose Global Fund for Clean Energy Technologies

...e-linking of energy and economic growths where the former has been expanding by 2.76 percent, while the gross domestic product has been growing at over 8 percent. "In all major energy intensive sectors - steel, aluminium, fertiliser, paper, cement - levels of energy efficiency in India are at global level...

Mozambique Set to Liberalise Abortion Law

...after-effects." Abortion was first outlawed in the former Portuguese colony in legislation dating back to 1886, a ban reaffirmed in a 1981 law six years after the southeastern African country gained independence. However Justice Minister Esperanca Machavela has confirmed that a review is being drawn up an...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

..."wildly open to corruption." But officials in this former Soviet republic have vowed to stamp out the fake medicine problem as part of a drive for Ukraine to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Health authorities have established a network of 27 laboratories for testing and legislation making medicin...

Fake Drug Found in Chinese Hospitals, Outlets: Report

...the report said. The scandal comes after China's former top drug administrator Zheng Xiaoyu was sentenced to death last month for accepting bribes in return for granting approvals for hundreds of medicines. His arrest and trial has prompted a nationwide crackdown on China's chaotic food and pharmaceutic...

US Veteran Benefit System Needs Overhauling

...ery day, the VA's system for evaluating and rating former service members' disabilities should be as up to date as possible," said Lonnie R. Bristow, former president of the American Medical Association. "Right now, the rating schedule is out of sync with...

SKorea Launches Campaign to Curb Hard-drinking Culture

..., he said. In a landmark case reported in May, the former boss of a South Korean woman was ordered to pay her 30 million won compensation for forcing her to go drinking with the rest of the staff after work....

A Milky Alternative to Alzheimer Drug

...p Alzheimer's, cautioned Dr. Lauren Constantini, a former Harvard scientist now with the company Accera Inc. that is developing the drug. To stop Alzheimer's brain decay, most scientists are depending on drugs that promise to prevent sticky goo called beta-amyloid from clogging up patients' brains. And M...

10 Year Sentence for Teen Sex Repealed

...ex offender. Several prominent people, including former President Jimmy Carter, publicly supported Genarlow Wilson's appeals, and state lawmakers voted to close the loophole that led to his 10-year term. But the ruling does not ensure freedom just as yet to Wilson. His familys joy soon turned to disapp...

Traders Smell Something Fishy in Tokyo Market Move

...o could be better used. He has proposed making the former fish market the main media centre for a potential 2016 Tokyo summer Olympics, the governor's pet project. "The site is narrow, dangerous, not really clean, and asbestos is used in various spots in the facilities, although they are sealed up," Ishih...

No Foul Play, Woolmer Died of Naural Causes, Say Jamaican Police

...spect to the Pakistan cricket team. But Pakistan's former captain Imran Khan said he was shocked there was no apology to the national side. He said Pakistan's cricket board should sue those responsible for the "humiliation that the Pakistan team went through". "Bob Woolmer had diabetes, he had blood press...

American Patriots Treated To Toxic Water

...ased at Camp Lejeune. Among these, at least 850 former residents of the base have filed administrative claims, which call for almost four billion dollars, as compensation for exposure to the toxins. The toxins include the industrial solvents T-C-E (tetrachloroethylene) also known as P-C-E, which are dry ...

Therapist Arrested For Breaking Lives

...spending the rest of his life behind bars. The former respiratory therapist, who worked at Rady Children...t the convalescent facility, and was considered by former colleagues as an engaging, hardworking therapist who volunteered for extra shifts, reassured parents...

Wearing Shorts, Sleeveless Clothes Could Make You Prone to Skin Cancer

... should not feel complacent either," said Verma, a former head of Delhi Cancer Registry. Adding his weight to the debate, Ramesh Sarin, senior oncologist at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, said: "Though whites are more prone to skin cancer, yet repeated exposure to the sun on anybody is harmful. "The...

Body Parts Industry Of U.S Under Investigation

...d of FDA employees who met in secret. According to former FDA attorney Areta Kupchyk, an expert in the tissue industry, while some of the proposals are good, the report "doesn't provide the extra layer of protection. It doesn't address the issue that started the whole thing. Says Robert Rigney, executive di...

Jaipur Foot All Set to Launch Its Centre in Columbia

...ccidents or war. Its chief patron is D.R. Mehta, a former head of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). It was only after the Afghan war in the late 1970s that the use of the limb spread outside India. Russian land mines in Afghanistan had then disabled thousands. The International Committe...

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