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Heroin Addicts Chained For Cure

...en live separately with the Dousel family. Human rights organizations initially filed cases against Dousel...as all such publicity has led to NGOs filing human rights abuse cases against him. The home's popularity, however, has grown with Dousel having to turn away...

Disabled Children Claims For NHS Funded Wheelchairs

...es for children agrees, but discouraging the basic rights of them was really disappointing to all – fired Ruth Owen, the chief executive of Whizz-Kidz charity. ‘NHS always says ‘wait’ for wheelchairs, but taking no actions regarding that and some (60 per cent) were forced to use unsuitable and others stil...

Students to Evaluate the Performance of Teachers

...d would empower the students to stand up for their rights and judge the performance of teachers. 'This was a longstanding demand of the students. Only this year the vice chancellor and other members of the committee agreed to include it,' said Nayak, who is also a member of the reforms committee. The m...

Pharmacy Board Says Pharmacists Have Right To Refuse Morning-After Pill

...on//. But the governor, some lawmakers and women's rights organizations are furious with this decision. Ro...hafer said. 'We are professionals who have as many rights as anybody else.' C.J. Kahler, past president of the association felt that the rule will respect bo...

To Ape or Not To Ape? Bridging Missing Links in Medical Research

... and humans is similar. Rick Bogle, a keen animal rights champion, has always praised the advanced cognitiv...use in medical experiments. Consequently, animal rights activists contend that all animals merit the same rights as humans, which does not exclude freedom f...

Medical Role In Interrogations Curtailed By Pentagon

...tions and this has drawn a lot of flak from human rights groups and medical ethicists. They charge that doctors have been used unethically at the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to force-feed detainees who are on hunger strikes and also to provide medical advice to interrogators. William Winkenwe...

Parents Battle Put 8-Year Old Boy In Trouble

...The AP, couple's 2003 divorce decree has given the rights to decide on the boy’s circumcision to his father. The mother's attorney, Mr Tracy Rizzo, said since the boy's father ex-wife is concerned with Jewish religion, he too. But the Judge, Jordan Kaplan ordered to submit additional arguments in wri...

12 Chinese Firms Appeal Against Court Ruling On Viagra

...rt ruling protecting US drug giant Pfizer's patent rights // in the world's most populous nation which has some 80 million impotent men. In a last-ditch effort to protect their investment in Viagra-style drugs, the firms yesterday handed their appeal to the Beijing High People's Court. They are calling ...

Growth Hormone Stimulant Packs Healthy Aging

...rocess as a disease, getting license and marketing rights are too difficult to reach, Merriam adds. In a study with 133 women volunteers aged between 20-43, 64-67, and 100-102 years, Dr. Agnieszka Baranowska-Bik and colleagues at the University of Poland found a high level of protein called adiponectin i...

Patency On Two Drugs From Merck & Pfizer’s To Expire Soo

...er respectively are to be removed of their patency rights this month. // Zocor, which is a cholesterol-reducing drug from Merck and Zoloft, antidepressant from Pfizer is both going off patent this month. It was reported that Merck's patent for Zocor expires Friday while Zoloft loses patent protection on J...

Girl Students Sexually Harassed by Security Forces in Nepal

...the name of combating Maoist guerrillas, say child rights activists here. // Children as Zone of Peace, an umbrella of 36 rights organisations, says it has been urging the new government of Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala to...

A syndicate formed to spruce up mental health

...gether for a single motto, that of championing the rights of people to solicit the best in mental health services. A nationwide drive is on the anvil to highlight the deficient areas in mental health. According to the syndicate, the present mental health system is many steps retrograde. Politicians have be...

Plea to TN govt Dharmapuri

...t to ensure that Health was also included as basic rights of human beings. (Source:PTI)...

AIDS: Why the pandemic outpaces us

...icon. NGOs are also outraged that critical women's rights issues that are central to the goal of halting the pandemic - such as the right to health and the right to live free of sexual coercion and violence - are now perceived to be 'controversial'. Said Anandi of India HIV/AIDS Alliance: "The countries...

HIV/AIDS Activists Plan Demonstration Outside Indian Embassy

...ent Trade-Related aspects of Intellectual Property rights (TRIPs) regulations, part of World Trade Organization rules, do not include data exclusivity clauses and thus India is not obligated to impose data exclusivity laws." The World Health Organization has additionally affirmed this view, yet pressure fro...

Steps to End Discrimination of AIDS Patients

...meeting of parliamentary committees to protect the rights of HIV/AIDS patients and prevent crimes against women, he said a comprehensive bill in this regard was under the consideration of the government. The government and the public should jointly strive to check spread of AIDS and crimes against women a...

New Law On HIV/AIDS To Be Implemented At The Monsoon Session Of Parliament

...o pass a law that would protect HIV/AIDS patient's rights to privacy, work, and admission in a hospital, alo...t the protection of children affected by HIV, like rights to property and education, with the states forming special schemes for the children infected by HIV....

HIV/AIDS Policy Needed at Workplace: Experts

...p today. Respresentatives of trade unions, human rights organisations, universities, businesses and various NGOs who participated in a workshop on 'HIV/AIDS -- A Workplace Issue: Areas of Intervention' here, outlined the steps needed to frame effective HIV/AIDS policies in offices. The participants under...

Bayer to Market Biocon Insulin in China

...tion pharmaceutical market in China. The marketing rights and trademark agreement covers three formulations of insulin: fast-acting (R), intermediate-acting (N), and mixed-acting, in both vials and cartridges," Lowinski pointed out. The formulations apply to both type-1 and type-2 diabetes. The investment...

Patent for Seminal RNAi innovation Cleared in Australia

...nt and Trademark Office in 2003. Additional patent rights in the United States and elsewhere are pending. To date, the Carnegie Institution, acting upon behalf of itself and the University of Massachusetts Medical School under an interinstitutional agreement, has granted approximately 50 non-exclusive licen...

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