Alleged 40,000-year-old human footprints in Mexico much, much older than thought
Alleged footprints of early Americans found in volcanic rock in Mexico are either extremely old - more than 1 million years older than other evidence of human presence in the Western Hemisphere - or not footprints at all, according to a new analysis published this week in Nature. The study was conducted by geologists at the Berkeley Geochronology Center and the University of California, Be...Court Dismisses 143-Crore Claim Against Hospital In Kolkata For Alleged Negligence In Treatment
New Delhi, June 1: The apex consumer court in New Delhi on Wednesday dismissed the highest ever medical compensation case of claim that was filed by an Indian born// US scientist Kunal Saha for the death of his wife in 1998, which he alleged due to the wrongful treatment. Making a statement from Ohio Saha said that the judgement of the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (...Supreme Court Ruling On Health Care Not Respected. Alleged Physician
Jacques Chaoulli, a physician who emerged victorious in a historic Supreme Court case around a year ago says that the Quebec government has not complied with the ruling providing expanded access to private care//. 'Almost all services are still going to be prohibited from any (private) coverage. It’s a violation of the judgment. Just for political expediency, many Quebecers are going...Suspected AIDS Patient Allegedly Killed by In-laws
Bhubaneswar: A woman in Orissa suspected of having contracted AIDS was allegedly beaten to death by her in-laws, police said Sunday.// Sabita Behera, 30, a resident of Keutunga village in Puri district, 50 km from here, was allegedly murdered because the in-laws suspected she was an AIDS patient, police officer Guruprasad Shib Sankar Nanda told IANS. "The incident took pl...CELL THERAPEUTICS PAYS Heavily to Resolve Dispute FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL MARKETING OF CANCER DRUG
Cell Therapeutics Inc (Seattle WA) has agreed to pay the US $10.5 millon to resolve allegations of the company's alleged illegal marketing// of the anti-cancer prescription drug Trisenox, the US Justice Department announced earlier this month. According to the government's complaint, CTI promoted the drug for various uses that were unapproved by the US Food & Drug Administration (FDA)...