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OneWorld Health drug receives 'Orphan' designation from U.S. and European regulatory agencies

The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the U.S., announced today it has received Orphan Drug Designation from the two leading regulatory agencies in the world, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (EMEA), for paromomycin to treat visceral leishmaniasis (VL). VL, also known as kala a...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

Leading marine scientists for the first time have assessed dolphin and porpoise populations around the world which are severely threatened by entanglement in fishing gear and recommended nine urgent priorities for action in a report commissioned by the World Wildlife Fund. These nine projects highlight species threatened by bycatch that will most likely benefit from immediate action and will cont...
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The AIDS Pandemic May Orphan 18 Million African Children By 2010

If appropriate steps are not taken to restrict spread of the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa, it is predicted that more than 18 million African children would be orphaned // by the end of 2010. This would correspond to a 20% increase in just 4 years time. The following prediction was projected in the AIDS conference (London), attended by more than 150 health professionals and Gove...

Child Health: Orphanage vs. Foster Care, A Study

St. Louis: Are children that are raised in Foster homes better off than children from the orphanages? Researchers are suggesting that children from the orphanages don’t grow to their full capacity- physically, // emotionally and intellectually. But this is not irreversible - when the same children were put under foster care, showed remarkable improvement in the deficient areas. Romania’s...

Ker Govt To Adopt Orphaned Kids Of HIV Infected Parents

Eight-year-old twins Amal and Amrutha, who became orphaned after their HIV-infected parents died four years ago, will be formally adopted by the Kerala Government at a function here tomorrow //. The function, being organised by Cheruvathur Grama Panchayat to completely take care of the children's health, education and welfare, would be inaugurated by Health and Social Welfare Minister...

Kerala Govt To Adopt Orphaned Kids Of HIV Infected Parents

Eight-year-old twins Amal and Amrutha, who became orphaned after their HIV-infected parents died four years ago, will be formally adopted by the Kerala Government at a function here tomorrow.// The function, being organised by Cheruvathur Grama Panchayat to completely take care of the children's health, education and welfare, would be inaugurated by Health and Social Welfare Minister...

Court Fines Newspaper for Revealing AIDS Orphan's Identity

A Beijing court has ordered a local newspaper to pay compensation and apologise to a young woman orphaned by AIDS for revealing her identity and for unethical reporting.// Beijing Chaoyang District Court ordered the local China Times to pay the 19-year-old woman 20,000 yuan (2,500 US dollars) and issue an apology on its front page for a report published last December. The r...

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Description:ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, maj...
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Description:ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, maj...
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Description:ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, maj...
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Stadol (Butorphanol), Urine

Description:ARUP Laboratories is a national reference laboratory and a worldwide leader in innovative laboratory research and development. ARUP offers an extensive test menu of highly complex and unique medical tests in clinical and anatomic pathology. Owned by the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories' clients include more than half of the nation's university teaching hospitals and children's hospitals, maj...
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Sirion Therapeutics Receives Orphan Drug Designation for Ophthalmic Drug to Treat Viral Eye Infection

TAMPA, Fla., April 16, 2007 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirion Therapeutics,Inc., an ophthalmic-focused biopharmaceutical company, announcedtoday that it has received orphan drug designation from the Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) for its anti-viral therapy,ganciclovir, for the treatment of acute herpetic keratitis. Theproduct is currently marketed by Laboratoires Thea in Europe underthe brand na...

Allos Therapeutics' PDX Granted Orphan Medicinal Product Designation by the European Commission

WESTMINSTER, Colo., April 19, 2007 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --Allos Therapeutics, Inc. today announced that the Commission of theEuropean Communities, with a favorable opinion of the Committee forOrphan Medicinal Products of the European Medicines Agency (EMEA),has granted orphan drug designation to the Company's novelantifolate PDX (pralatrexate) for the treatment of patients withperipher...

DUSA Pharmaceuticals Receives Orphan Drug Desi gnation for Levulan PDT to Treat Esophage al Dysplasia

Researchers' Study Shows Promising Treatment for People Sufferingfrom Barrett's Esophagus, a Leading Cause of Esophageal Cancer WILMINGTON, MASSACHUSETTS--(CCNMatthews - May 17, 2007) - DUSAPharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ GM:DUSA) announced that the U.S. Foodand Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Orphan Drug Designationfor Levulan(R) (aminolevulinic acid HCl) Photodynamic Therapy (PDT)fo...

AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals and Lantibio Announce Positive Phase II Study with Novel Cystic Fibrosis Therapy

VIENNA, Austria and CHAPEL HILL, N.C., US, March 06, 2007/PRNewswire/ -- AOP Orphan Pharmaceuticals AG ("AOP Orphan") andLantibio, Inc. ("Lantibio") today announced positive final resultsfrom their placebo controlled, double-blinded Phase II clinicalstudy of Moli1901, an experimental compound to treat cysticfibrosis ("CF"). Moli1901 is being developed by AOP Orphan inEurope under a licen...
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