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Activists Urge Greater Medical Support for Gulf War Veterans Exposed to Sarin Gas

...mbers was ended in 2002, critics charge. Several lawmakers who were briefed on the White team study say the Department of Veterans Affairs is now obligated to provide increased neurological care to veterans who may have been exposed. But Dr. Michael E. Kilpatrick, deputy director of the Force Health Prote...

Long Island Seniors Rally for Rx Affordable Prescription Drugs and Cell Phone Protections

... Island AARP members gathered today to rally state lawmakers to pass legislation before the end of the 2007 Legislative Session in Albany that will help make prescription drugs more affordable and help assure that their cell phone works in an emergency. The AARP members took their message directly to their le...

New AMA Survey Finds Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Seniors

...ng a full-page ad in Capitol Hill papers to remind lawmakers of the urgent need for action. The AMA ad features a Medicare patient with high blood pressure, cholesterol and blood sugar levels with the headline, "This patient thinks she's healthy. A doctor would tell her she's not. Too bad she may not have a do...

Australian Catholics Rebel Over Stem Cell Vote Warning

Catholic lawmakers in Australia rebelled Wednesday against threats fr...d he was not threatening to excommunicate Catholic lawmakers who voted in favour of the bill, but indicated he was considering refusing them holy communion. Bo...

Germany Pledges 5.4 Billion Dollars for AIDS Fund

...s and malaria. US President George W. Bush asked lawmakers last week to set aside 30 billion dollars over five years to fight AIDS worldwide, doubling the funding for his President's Emergency Program for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). German Chancellor Angela Merkel is hosting the meeting as the chairman of the G8, ...

Australian State Approves Therapeutic Cloning

...George Pell, caused outrage after warning Catholic lawmakers they faced "consequences" if they voted in favour ...ated he was considering refusing holy communion to lawmakers who did not toe the line but stopped short of threatening to excommunicate them. The archbishop wa...

Ukraine Struggles Against Fake Drug Trade

...es in Ukraine and the EU. As in Ukraine, Russian lawmakers are also discussing proposals to toughen penalties against medicine counterfeiting. But the authorities have been criticised for poor enforcement of existing laws. Last year, a company called Bryntsalov-A, which is owned by a member of Russia's p...

10 Year Sentence for Teen Sex Repealed

...cly 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 disappointment when the Georgia Attorney General Thurbert Baker said Monday afternoon that he ha...

Thailand Unfazed As US Worries Over Copyright Violations

...ton on May 21 to explain Thailand's position to US lawmakers and other government agencies, according to official sources. In an annual report released this week, the US trade office said it was concerned by "an overall deterioration in the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in Thaila...

More Than a Toothache

... says. In the Maryland General Assembly this year, lawmakers are considering a bill that would set aside $2 million a year for the next three years to expand public clinics where dental care remains a rarity for the poor. Providing such access, Tinanoff and others say, eventually pays for itself, sparing chi...

Smokers to Be Taxed to Fund Healthcare for Uninsured

...e of collapse in the final days of the session, as lawmakers disagreed on the amount of the cigarette tax and even suggested that the money should go for property tax relief instead of health programs. "This is a terrific bill and we're extremely enthusiastic about it," Roob said. GPL/L...

Overseeing Agency Indifferent to Workplace Safety in US

... Two days ago a top official at the agency told lawmakers at a Congressional hearing that it would prepare a safety bulletin and planned to inspect a few dozen of the thousands of food plants that use the additive. That response reflects OSHA’s practices under the Bush administration. Across Washington, p...

Execution by Lethal Injection Questioned

...humane alternative to the electric chair, Oklahoma lawmakers adopted this method. The three injections are supposed to produce unconsciousness and then death due to respiratory and cardiac arrest. The study has found that the drug is not working as intended. The anesthesia was insufficient to reduce sufferin...

Moratorium Proposed on Advertisements of Newly Approved Drugs

...s and risks. That raises health and safety issues, lawmakers and consumer groups say. The intent of the legislation is to give physicians more time to review the safety and effectiveness of new drugs before consumers have a chance to see advertisements. The changes are a response to Merck & Co 's 2004 reca...

FDA Cites Challenges of Generic Biotech

A top drug regulator told lawmakers Monday it could be a decade or more before science is available to safely approve generic versions of biotech drugs // in the way the agency approves knockoffs of traditional drugs. Food and Drug Administration deputy commissioner Janet Woodcock's ...

Losing Sleep Over Sleep Inducing Drugs

...ed into a security barrier near the building where lawmakers meet. Mr. Kennedy reports that he had taken a sleep medicine earlier in the night. He said he was also being treated with a stomach sickness drug that can cause sleepiness. Though the FDA had not reported any sleep driving incident, the New York T...

Call for Organ Transplant Regulations in China

...rocedures and encourage people to become donors,// lawmakers said on the sidelines of the annual session of the National People's Congress (NPC). NPC deputy Li Bangliang, board chairman of East China Pharmaceutical Group Corporation, said a proper law is needed to guide the public how to donate their organs ...

Heart Disease, Stroke Prevention Efforts Among Women

A group of female lawmakers -- including Sens. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Reps. Barbara Cubin (R-Wyo.) and Lois Capps (D-Calif.) -- earlier this month introduced// legislation (S 573, HR 1014) that aims to improve heart disease education among w...

Sponsor to Pull Measure Mandating HPV Vaccine

..."It did have support," Britt said of the number of lawmakers who co-sponsored the legislation. "But I think the [negative] reaction came unexpectedly. Now I see this as an opportunity to do more education." The decision to drop the measure comes as questions are being raised about drugmaker Merck & Co.'s inv...

Indian MPs to Attend AIDS Conference in Lahore

...thy (Biju Janata Dal). "The conference, in which lawmakers from all the SAARC countries would be participating, is to discuss the role of elected representatives in combating AIDS," Seelum told IANS. Jagannath said: "We will also be discussing why the disease spreads in our region as well as the prevention...

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