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Gays and Lesbians can Obtain asylum in US on Grounds of Harassment and Abuse

...nment does not disclose a breakdown of reasons for granting asylum petitions, but legal advocacy groups in several major U.S. cities said they have won dozens of cases. Homosexuality, once a de facto condition for barring foreigners from entering the country, is now officially recognized by the U.S. governm...

Sharon Stone to Raise AIDS Awareness in Dubai

...ls discriminated against prisoners with HIV by not granting commuted sentences or parole that other prisoners with similar records had received'. Gay people on tour have been asked to be careful about their sexuality during the visit to UAE, for the country has strict laws for homosexual activities. Accor...

Church Weddings for Gays Soon a Reality in Sweden

...lowed gays and lesbians the right to civil unions, granting them the same legal status as married couples. But gay and lesbian associations have long been pushing for the last distinction between heterosexual marriages and homosexual unions to be eliminated. The issue took a leap forward on March 21 when ...

US Denies Granting Patents on Yoga Postures

...nt Indian practice of yoga overseas, the US denied granting patents on yoga positions. In the same breath, the US embassy said here that it has granted patents on "new and non-obvious devices that may be used in conjunction with yoga". However, those patents would not include any yoga positions, the embas...

UK Researchers Call for Safety Studies of New Anti-epilepsy Drugs for Children

..."clinically relevant" trials prior to the original granting of a license. "Obviously it's an area of concern, and when you are prescribing a drug 'off license' to a child, it's important to let the family know exactly the implications of this. "However, it is often possible to find data, either from jou...

Fake Drug Found in Chinese Hospitals, Outlets: Report

...eath 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 pharmaceutical industries, where a series of public health scares have surfaced due to poorly made or fake products....

Philippine Nurses Re-sit Scandal-tainted Exams

... The US Commission had placed a temporary ban on granting work visas to the 2006 graduates pending a re-sitting of papers that dealt with medical surgery and psychiatric health care. The scandal which followed placed a question mark over the 17,000 students who passed the exam in June 2006 and brought into ...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

...llenging the decisions of the Patent Controller in granting or denying patents since 2005. According to an estimate, there are about 20 patent related cases to be decided in various courts. Only on April 2 the government issued the notification on declaring that the provision in the Patents (Amendment) Act...

Constipation Drug Linked to Heart Attack Pulled Out

...ember 2004. Interestingly right at the time it was granting approval, the FDA had warned of diarrhea risks associated with the drug. It said then that it had received several complaints of ischemic colitis, a condition resulting from reduced blood flow to the intestines, which in some cases can cause seriou...

E.U. Panel Backs Novartis' Mock-up Pandemic Flu Vaccine

...it has adopted a positive opinion recommending the granting of a marketing authorization for Focetria, from Novartis //AG (NVS) Vaccines and Diagnostics unit. Focetria is a mock-up pandemic influenza vaccine, intended for the prevention of influenza during an officially declared pandemic situation, once th...

Merck Announces Plans for Licensing Atripla Widely in Developing World

...ed dose combination will be impossible without the granting of compulsory licenses for rival versions. Although Merck will be able to import Atripla into eleven countries on the basis of US Food and Drug Administration registration, licensing in other countries may take several years in some cases owing to...

Drug Companies Should Not Have a Monopoly Over Clinical Trial Data

Data exclusivity—the granting of exclusive rights to commercial companies over clinical and preclinical trial data—could jeopardize efforts to create generic versions of// life-saving medicines and harm public health, says Karin Timmermans of the World Health Organization (WHO) i...

Expectant Mothers No More Welcome in Hong Kong

... babies due to:escape from China’s one-child norm, granting of Hong Kong residency permits, better infrastructure and medical facilities and the overall prosperity of the country, much attractive to would-be immigrants. The tiny island once a British colony,is now part of China, but still has autonomous imm...

Indian American Scientist at Work on Multi-targeted Drug

...to undertake further tests on cats and dogs before granting permission for human clinical trials. Chakrabarty, who holds five patents in the US, is keen that the proposed Indian research centre should study whether the candidate drug would be effective for cervical cancer, which is more prevalent in India. ...

XVI International AIDS Conference To Be Held In Toronto In August

... support a direct fact-based involvement and their granting of funds from the Gates Foundation, instead off just talk with the pretence of making it a national policy. Stating that, “This is one of the conferences that is to be all things to all people,” Dr. Mark Wainberg, director of McGill University's AI...

Patent for Seminal RNAi innovation Cleared in Australia

...ld of RNAi, and we are pleased that the process of granting a patent in Australia will now move forward. We look forward to companies in Australia licensing this intellectual property, and anticipate similar developments in other countries in the future." The patent, known popularly as the Fire and Mello pa...

Gujarat High Court Stays PG Admissions In A Private Dental Collage

... the on 25th June which was nothing but a show for granting admissions. The court, had issued a nine-page order on Wednesday, with directions that the stay on admission should continue and has asked the Gujarat University (GU) to check it from giving way admissions to PG students. The private college in Wag...

Seizure of Low Quantity of Heroin is No Ground for Bail: HC

...ia of "proportionality" of a sentence period while granting bail in cases concerning the Narcotics Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act (NDPS) Act. The ruling comes in the wake of the recent heroin-cocaine consumption controversy involving Rahul Mahajan, son of late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan. According ...

Foreign Fresher Students Offered Scholarship By Fudan

...fering scholarships for foreign freshman students, granting them to take an opportunity //to take the general knowledge education with their Chinese peers beginning this fall semester. The objective of the Fudan foreign freshmen scholarship is to award 14 foreign students who have excelled in the university...

MP Junior Doctors Continue Strike

...ich will prevent the Medical Council of India from granting permission to do so. Source:PTI News...

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