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Clinton Foundation Eases Over-Pricing Of AIDS Drugs Once More

... one-pill-a-day drug. Cipla and Matrix agreed to price their drugs on a cost-plus basis and collaborate w...ng- companies will not live or die because of high price premiums for AIDS drugs in middle-income countries, but patients may. The former US president stat...

Ranbaxy Labs Extends Roots in South Africa

... help to provide quality medicine at an affordable price to the Southern African market, but will also mean a further investment of approximately R100 million in the local economy." Ranbaxy is also planning a major upgrade of the Be-Tabs manufacturing facility to bring its factories in line with new stan...

Higher Gas Prices Leave Many Workers Running on Empty

Few have been unaffected by the rapidly increasing price of gas, which has inched its way up toward $4 a ga...). Sixty percent of employees confirmed that the price of gas has significantly reduced the amount of money they have to spend on other things, while 45 pe...

India is Uncorking Its Wine Market: Expert

...of "price sensitivity" was introduced. "However, price sensitivity does not necessarily mean selling the cheapest wine," Subhash Arora, president of the Delhi Wine Club, told delegates at the three-day fair Wednesday. India already has a well developed domestic industry that also exports the commodity,...

Government Plans to Set Up Drug Banks in All Districts

...the number of scheduled drugs under the government price control from 74 to 354. "This will reduce the price of drugs in the market." "The government is trying to reduce prices of 886 varieties of drugs but ...

Thailand Will Not Issue Compulsory Licenses for Patented Drugs

...s and Thailand failed to reach an agreement on the price of Abbott's antiretroviral drugs Aluvia and Kaletr...lier this week offered to sell Aluvia at a reduced price in Thailand on the condition that the country agrees not to allow generic versions of the drug into ...

Quality Improvement Effort Pays Off in Diabetes Care

...tive passed all these standards. Even at twice the price and with the benefits deeply discounted, the value added by the program exceeded commonly accepted standards. "Since diabetes is so common and is increasing rapidly, whatever enhances diabetes care is worth looking at," Huang said. A study releas...

UK too Will Insist on Folic Acid in Bread

... could cause difficulties for bakers and raise the price of bread. To minimise health risks, the FSA said it would introduce controls on the voluntary fortification of foods such as breakfast cereals, and guidance on folic acid supplements. It would also exclude wholemeal flour and bread from the program...

A Non-profit Drug Firms Injection to Fight Kala Azar Included in WHOs Model List

...assured quality and adequate information, and at a price the individual and the community can afford. Many international organizations, including UNICEF and the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), as well as other nongovernmental organizations and international non-profit supply agencies, have ado...

FDA Approves Wyeth's Oral Contraceptive Lybrel

... expects to begin sales of Lybrel in July, but the price has not been determined, according to a spokesperson for the company....

Medical College Students Help Change Global Health Policy

...icine will be sold at a fraction of their original price tag. The drug will cost as little as $40 per year per person -- 10 cents a day -- down from nearly $1,200 a couple of years ago. The announcement comes on the heels of Cornell University's new Africa Initiative, a university-wide movement to promo...

Brazil Slashes the Price of Contraceptives to Stop Illegal Abortions

...rnment has announced a 90 percent reduction in the price of contraceptives in a bid to stop clandestine abortions and the rising number of deaths caused by them. The discounted birth control pills will be sold at 3,500 "people's pharmacies," where the government offers subsidized medicines. The new p...

Multinationals Exploit Groundwater Sources, and People Suffer

...so sought to be shortchanged by Nestle. At a shelf price of $10.32 per gallon, 1,600 acre-feet would gross $5,380,451,712. If Nestl nets one-fifth of what that water sells for, it would make over $1 billion a year. But it will pay the community a despicably measly 000087 cents per gallon for the water it t...

Tobacco Menace and What can Be Done About It

...reases raise prices and it is estimated that a 10% price increase reduces consumption by 4% in developed countries and 8% in developing countries. Poor and youth are more price-sensitive and high prices deter youth from starting to smoke. But at the end of the day what is required is political will t...

Young Indians Say Cheers to White Spirits

...es to gain acceptance as a growing brand even in a price competitive set-up. "High tariffs and other barr... ranging between 200-450 percent, the vodka retail price is prohibitive. As a result, the grey market continues to thrive and deprive the exchequer of billio...

New AMA Survey Finds Medicare Cuts Will Hurt Seniors

...an't sit idly by and let America's seniors pay the price for a short-sighted government payment policy with reduced access to care -- Congress must act."...

Export of Herbal Products to Reach Rs.120 Billion by 2012: Study

...their quality ingredients, availability factor and price competitiveness with virtually little side effects," said Assocham president Venugopal Dhoot. "Secondly, swadesi herbs and medicines meet all the WHO prescribed standards and norms and thus encounter no restrictions in overseas markets to have ins...

Maninder Singh Hospitalised After Suicide Attempt

...grams of the contraband, with international market price of about Rs 5,000, was found in his possession at the time of arrest from his Gagan Apartments flat in Defence Enclave in Preet Vihar by the Narcotics Branch of Delhi Police. A case was registered against Singh, who played for India in the 1980s be...

Maninder Says Wrist Injuries Were Sustained Accidentally

...grams of the contraband, with international market price of about 5,000 rupees, from Singhs possession at the time of arrest from his Gagan Apartments flat in Preet Vihar. A case was registered against Singh, who played for India in the 1980s before retiring in 1993, for allegedly consuming drugs....

Single Embryo IVF Increase Chances of Having Child Sans Risky Multiple Births

...t an ideal outcome. People think it is two for the price of one, but the risks are real and we see heartache time after time. I would encourage every clinic to look at our results, Timesonline quoted him, as saying....

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