Same-sex Marriage: Shahzina Tariq Vows to Live With groom
...stered with the Jhang Bazaar police station on the request of her father Tariq Husain, she said Khalid Bhatti and others nominated in the case had nothing to do with the matter. They had been implicated in the case only for grudge, she added. Justice Khwaja Mohammad Sharif of the Lahore High Court had sent...Pfizer Says Nigerian Court Lacks Jurisdiction to Hear Drug Case
...early setback on June 26 when the court rejected a request to allow it to submit "additional facts", before presiding judge Babs Kwewumi adjourned the trial to July 20. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared Trovan for adult use in 1997 and the drug swiftly became established as one of the most ...More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens
...iverpool, England. Dr Haneef was detained at the request of British police in connection with the foiled bombings at Glasgow airport and outside a London nightclub five days ago. Federal Attorney-General Philip Ruddock said today several items had been taken by police for further examination, including m...A Savage Murderer in Canada Gets Sentenced to Life
... offenders registry and also agreed to the Crown's request for a lifetime firearms ban....Inaccuracies in Cardiac PET-CT Scanning
...e, Gould recommends they seek a second opinion and request review of their PET-CT scans for these errors in matching the PET and CT images. Alternatively, traditional or pure PET without the CT component is less subject to this problem. However, Gould cautioned: Alternative non-invasive technologies such s...BioCryst Receives Special Protocol Assessment for Fodosine
...cell lymphoma. A Special Protocol Assessment is a request for feedback from the FDA that allows a company to receive official evaluation and guidance on the design of pivotal trial protocols. BioCryst requested the formal assessment, late in the first quarter of 2007, because the pivotal trial is intended t...More Cancer Testing Urged in Australian TV Studios
... staff passed a number of resolutions, including a request for faster payment of compensation for those diagnosed with the disease and free medical testing for male employees. Dave Waters from the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance says workers also want all electronic equipment to be tested. "Staff a...No Progress in France on 'skinny Model' Charter
...s require a government-registered licence and must request special authorisation for models aged under 16, who undergo regular medical check-ups. The French working group includes fashion, advertising and media representatives as well as consumer groups and health disorder experts, and is headed by child p...Galvus Soon To Be Seen On European Shelves
...Galvus to U.S. regulators until mid-2009, due to a request for more safety data. Galvus is said to work in a similar way to Merck & Co. Inc.s recently launched Januvia, though the latters path to market has been delayed by worries over skin toxicity. Both Galvus and Januvia are so-called DPP-4 inhibit...Four Percent of American Youths are Requested to Post Sexual Snaps on Web
...nd that one in 25 youth who use the Internet got a request to send out a sexual picture of themselves during the course of the year. This study, published in the Journal of Adolescent Health, poses a new threat for young people produced by the synthesis of digital photography and the Internet, say the auth...Wounded British Troops Wait Hours to Reach Hospital
...ted as writing. "A Casevac (casualty evacuation) request has to go through too many layers of command. "There seems little point in providing high technology in-hospital care when our patients still take several hours to travel a few miles to us. "We use support or anti-tank helicopters that are re-roled o...Autism Case Hearing Still to Produce Clinching Evidence on Vaccine Linkage
...ounts in 1999 of the Centers for Disease Control's request that the drug industry stop selling vaccines containing the preservative. Perhaps one in 500,000 children who receives the MMR vaccination suffers a severe brain inflammation that can lead to lifelong mental disability -- presumably including autis...Generic Competitor for Plavix Blocked in US
...24 cents to $41.59. Last year, Stein had granted a request by Sanofi-Aventis to stop Apotex from producing the generic drug, which had gained a majority of market share after its launch last summer. The judge had allowed Apotex to continue selling a six-month supply of product that it already had shipped to ...Vietnam Plans Human Trial of Bird Flu Vaccine
...son said the UN body was "looking favourably" at a request to grant the IVAC project up to 2.5 million dollars. Avian influenza has so far tended to infect people in close contact with H5N1-positive birds, but experts fear the virus could mutate to be more easily transmitted from human to human, triggering...Nigeria Launches Seven Billion Dollar Case Against Pfizer
...uffered an early setback when the court rejected a request to allow it to submit "additional facts", before presiding judge Babs Kwewumi adjourned the trial to July 20. Government lawyer Babatunde Irukera had asked to be allowed to introduce additional documents to the court, which would make it impossible...Johns Hopkins Medicine Honors U.A.E. Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al Nahyan
..., Uganda. Johns Hopkins is respecting the donors request that the amount of the gift not be disclosed. This transformational gift is a testament not only to the generosity of Sheikh Khalifa and his family but to their vision, said Johns Hopkins University president William R. Brody. The care that will ta...FDA Requests Recall of All Shelhigh Medical Devices
...Administration (FDA) today issued a formal written request to Shelhigh, Inc. to recall all of its medical devices remaining in the marketplace, including hospital inventories, because of sterility concerns. On April 17, 2007, U.S. Marshals, at FDA's request, seized all medical devices including components...Bidi Workers Protest Against Using Skull and Crossbones Sign on Packets
...rs in Tamil Nadu was being threatened. "I kindly request you to defer the decision to introduce the skull mark to a better future and protect the livelihood of lakhs of beedi worker families," Karunanidhi wrote. Bidi smoking, like cigarettes and other nicotine products, is said to be injurious to health ...Gluten Intolerance Cases Diagnosed Late in UK
...rs to be more vigilant about this condition and to request the simple blood test which can clinch an early diagnosis."......ary infrastructure. The chief minister made the request after the signing of an MoU between Stanford University, the Andhra government and Satyam Computers' EMRI (Emergency Management and Research Institute) in California Thursday. Under the MoU, EMRI and Stanford University Medical Centre will come tog...