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Drug Firms Meet Annan, Pledge on AIDS Medicines

...n AIDS vaccine research, guarded their drug-patent rights from generic manufacturers. The copyright standoff kept expensive AIDS medicines out of reach of regions where the AIDS epidemic was worst, such as Africa. But recently, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved several generic AIDS dru...

Doctors Warn on Pregnancy Counselling

...ed to do. "This is an important health and human rights issue." Linking the item number to mental health training implies that women who are counselled have a mental health problem, Dr Haikerwal said. "We don't believe pregnancy is a mental illness," he said. "GPs are highly capable of providing ful...

XVI International AIDS Conference To Be Held In Toronto In August

...ent interruption trial. It was reported that the rights of women and girls, poverty, and sexual and reproductive health rights would be the agenda of the other set of priorities, as well as the findings of various ways to reach...

Voices of HIV-positive missing at AIDS conference

...AIDS conference in Toronto, meant to address their rights and unique needs.// Over five days, through hundreds of back-to-back sessions attended by 24,000 people, those most impacted by the raging epidemic were poorly represented. This despite the well-known fact that AIDS programmes cannot make a differen...

Viread To Retail In India For $1

...edient) and the tablets in perpetuity. While the rights to sell API will be limited to other pharmaceutical companies in India, tablets can be distributed in India, Thailand, Africa and 43 other countries. This offers the Indian licensees a huge business opportunity given the size of the market. In Afri...

US Approves the Sale of Morning after Pill Without Prescription

...ionally laden political debate that pitted women's rights and advocacy groups against religious conservatives who believe use of the pill is equivalent to abortion. (Source: IANS)...

AMA Backs Advance Care Planning by Patients

...and where it is kept. “The AMA upholds patients’ rights to make decisions about their health care in advance. “However, we also believe that making decisions in advance cannot always encompass every unforeseen possibility, option, or health care scenario. “While respecting the role of patient autonomy...

Global avian flu database

...a lot of effort put into the intellectual property rights issue to assure proper acknowledgment of the origin of the sequences and recognize the scientists and the public health workers in the country of origin of the virus." “A group within the consortium will focus on intellectual property issues”, Cox ...

Doctors Unaware If Pediatric Dosages Are Safe

...d of time that a company holds exclusive marketing rights for a drug -- thereby delaying the entry of competing generic drugs -- if the manufacturer conducts FDA-requested trials on its use in children. The researchers looked at how often the results of such studies were published in peer-reviewed scienti...

Despite High Literacy Rate Female Foeticide is on the Rise in Kerala

... Kerala have come as a surprise to politicians and rights leaders alike, mainly because of the state's high literacy rate.// "The number of girls in the 0-6 years category is coming down in Kerala and this has happened just because of female feticide and nothing else. The problem is that we are unable to t...

HIV Test Before Marriage To Be Made Voluntary In Goa

...wn after the local church and NGOs expressed human rights concerns. "Such testing should not be made compulsory...It should be purely voluntary", the Chief Minister said "The state has adopted holistic approach in the healthcare. We will be introducing tele-medicine facility in the rural areas which will ...

Remove Stigma to Defeat HIV/AIDS in India, says UN Envoy

...ising them glamorous careers and lucrative jobs, a rights group has said. "The situation is extremely seri...ina Kharbih, chairperson of Impulse NGO Network, a rights group working in rescuing women trafficked from the northeast. "But in reality, many of these wome...

Three Molecular Triggers Threaten Leukemia Patients

...tical firms and academic investigators holding the rights to different agents that are active in different molecular pathways, Kornblau and colleagues noted. This model, where alternative molecular pathways help cancer survive the targeting of one pathway by a drug, is common in cancer, an accompanying ed...

Ruling for AIDS Funding Challenged

...al Development, for violation of their free speech rights by a 2003 law that requires them to explicitly oppose prostitution and sex trafficking as a qualification for part of a $15 billion AIDS program. In May, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan taking sides with DKT, said that the funding conditions d...

Health Care Benefits for Immigrants Favored by MD Court

...eals voted unanimously that Ehrlich violated civil rights protections afforded by the state constitution when he cut $7 million from the program that provided health care for 4,000 children and pregnant women who were recent but legal immigrants. The court found "The failure to appropriate monies for medic...

Standards of Home Care for Elderly Needs Change

...so result in services that do not respect people's rights and dignity." Laws in England require that anyone with assets over ￡20,500 pay for their own social care, while those who come below that threshold has their care paid for by the state. The report found that the number of people receiving council-f...

IBS Sufferers Benefited by Non-Absorbable Antibiotics

...edars-Sinai by Pimentel. Cedars-Sinai holds patent rights to this discovery and has licensed rights to the invention to Salix. NLA...

Ranbaxy to Market Debiopharm's New Drug in India

...e agreement, Ranbaxy will have exclusive marketing rights for Sanvar in India, Bangladesh and Nepal. Sanvar has been granted orphan drug status in the US where it is presently undergoing Phase III clinical trials. Debiopharm expects to file Sanvar for approval in the US in first quarter of 2007. "We are...

Rape – a Common Crime in South Afric

...the previous 12 months up to March 2006. Women's rights groups say that official figures represent only a small percentage of cases because most rapes are not reported. Over recent years, the number of rape cases involving infants and children have risen considerably in the country where there is an add...

Compensation Demanded For Bengal's Blood Scam Victims

India's largest patients' rights body led by US-based AIDS researcher Kunal Saha has demanded compensation for the hundreds of thousands of people in West Bengal who are// feared to have received HIV contaminated blood as a result of faulty blood-test kits purchased by the state gov...

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