Change In Mental Makeup Could Prove Beneficial For Elders
... and the young about the social, medical and legal rights of senior citizens. The foundation has also recently started a helpline to find employment for the elderly as tutors, accountants and other tasks where their work experience and skills can be utilised with benefit to both sides. To focus on the i...Pfizer Acquires Worldwide Rights For New Overactive Bladder Drug
...er which it would be acquiring exclusive worldwide rights to fesoterodine, a new drug that can be a treatment option for an overactive bladder. // "Overactive bladder is a debilitating condition that affects up to 100 million people around the world," said Karen Katen, vice chairman of Pfizer Inc and presi...A Protein May Help In Weight Loss Treatment
... pharmaceutical company Regeneron already owns the rights to recombinant CNTF and had completed phase 3 clinical trials of its CNTF medication Axokine. But the trails were discontinued when patients developed antibodies to CNTF that neutralized the effect of the drug....Childbirth On Road Drew Public Attention In West Bengal
...s sought a report of the incident. The state human rights commission was also informed. According to reports, both the mother - who has been readmitted to the Siuri hospital - and the child are keeping well. Edited IANS...Executed Prisoner Organs For Sale In China: BTS Concerned
...y activity that transgresses an individual's human rights or involves the coercion of an individual to becom...rs without consent is considered a breach of human rights and is an unacceptable practice,' said Stephen Wigmore, Chairman, BTS ethics committee. It further d......hed medical ethics //and violates California civil rights law. The suit was announced to have been filed on ...vented them from complying with California's civil rights law. In addition they also objected to treating lesbian patients in the same way as they treat regu...UK Patients Seek Fertility Treatment Abroad Due To The Long Waiting List
...h as the level of patient confidentiality and what rights they would have if treatment goes wrong. Clare Brown, chief executive of patient support group Infertility Network UK, said that patients would not travel abroad for treatment if they could access it in the UK....Authority to Health Staff, To Scan Patient Medical Records
...roposal, as it might tantamount to stepping on the rights of individuals by scanning through their private medical records. To quote the report "We should pursue the creation of an electronic patient record for everyone living in Scotland as a matter of urgency. Using this record will improve our ability to...Former FDA Commissioner Accused in Criminal Case
...ollowing scientific and legal concerns. Abortion rights advocates, former FDA officials and other lawmakers claimed that the delays had resulted from politics. The FDA was sued by the Center for Reproductive Rights in federal court in New York over the delays. The case was allowed to proceed bestowing t...Cancer Research UK Offers New Hope To Cancer Patients
... biotech firms will keep the intellectual property rights to the molecules they had shelved. After CRT has d...be legal hurdles surrounding intellectual property rights and contracts. He explained that inevitably when discussing business or IP issues there will be diff...Marathon Kid Budhia’s Health Not Compromise
...e run, prompting concern about his health. Child rights activists and paediatricians expressing concern over Budhia's health said that by making the boy run long distances at such a tender age might affect his heart and kidney functions as well as his general health. Curious onlookers and media persons ...More Than 200,000 Miners In Rajasthan Suffer From Silicosis
...the government of Rajasthan continues to flout the rights of the miners by failing to ensure that they are p...by the departments concerned to secure the miners' rights with respect to their safety and compensation. --Edited IANS...Physicians Say No to Euthanasia
...g where it states that the doctors should be given rights to prescribe drugs that could end the sufferings of the terminally ill person. But the physicians of the royal colleges said that an alternative for terminally ill patients would be better palliative care. Five thousand doctors responded to the R...Rivals of the South Dakota Law Says No to Abortion
... fine and five years of imprisonment. The abortion rights supporters say that the law jeopardizes the health of the women and violates her right to make private health-care decisions. The Campaign for Healthy Families was seen in Sioux Falls, Rapid City and other smaller cities for amassing people to sign. ...Religious Leaders Come In The Way Of Euthanasia
...law was proposed by Lord Joel Joffe who is a human rights lawyer. He said that doctors should not complacently watch a terminally ill patient suffering unbearably. Hence he and his fellow supporters said that these terminally ill people should have the right to end their suffering. But the religious leade......e percentage has decreased from 20 % to 14%. Human rights legislation prevents hospitals from randomly searching patients so Chase Farm has brought in sniffer dogs to regularly sweep the wards. Nurses say that it is difficult to stop all illegal drugs entering the hospital. The sad situation is that ther...High Demand for Weight Mgmt Product in European Pharmacies
...ement with Laboratoire Physcience, France, for the rights to market LTP's satiety ingredient Olibra(R)//, as a single dose mini-shot, in France, Belgium, Spain, and Portugal, Physcience has successfully launched its Slim 10/10 product into these markets. ‘This is our most successful ever product launch in...HIV Positive People Seek Implementation of UNGASS
...eating a society free of stigma, protection of the rights of children with HIV. ‘Not one of these goals are being implemented globally and we would like to record our protest and offer charter of demands to the Union and state Ministries of Health, during the week-long protests to be held from May 20-26,’...First Generic Version of Lexapro permitted by US
...itator of the oral drug as per Reuters. Complete rights on the drug are retained by the Forest Labs till March 2012 and Teva has been sued for violation in the court. This copyright is illogical as per Teva. Lundbeck, a Danish pharmaceutical whose sales in the latest quarter were $464 million accepts ro......izens and its possession ensures a large number of rights and privileges. Plan India, as per the National Population Policy, has set the goal of achieving 100 percent registration of births by 2010. Source:IANS...