Labeling shift for Lily's Evista approved
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a package-labeling change for Eli Lilly & Co.'s osteoporosis drug Evista that will allow the company's sales personnel to refer to research studies
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Government to fund pollution control devices for foundries
The Union Governemnt will provide finances to foundries for installing pollution control devices and equipment, according to senior officials of the Union Steel
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Garbage transfer station inaugurated in city
For the first time in the country, a garbage transfer station was inaugurated at Lower Tank Bund, Hyderabad under the solid waste management project of the Housing and urban development corporation
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Pollution board orders closure of Lever unit
The State Pollution Control Board has orderd the Hindustan Lever Ltd. factory at Garden Reach to shut down immediately for failing to meet effluent treatment
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Europe says no to Indian groundnut
In a significant blow to oil seeds exports, Europe has refused to buy Indian groundnut this year due to fear of an aflatoxin virus. Europe normally contracts 50,000-70,000 tonnes of handpicked
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Indian born patents methods to make bandaging
An Indian born enterpreneur in the US's firm sells wound care material and will hit the market with the biofoods next year. The product that makes Manoj Jain's company hot is Kollagen, brandname for
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Brussels bans antibiotics in animal feed
The European Union faces legal action after its agriculture ministers banned the use of four antibiotics in animal feed amid fears of increasing human resistance to life-saving drugs. Rejecting
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SA asbestos victims can sue in England
The House of Lords gave the go-ahead for five South African asbestos victims to sue their former employer in the English High Court. The Lords, refused permission for Cape, a UK-based multinational,
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Monsanto to auction off cotton seed subsidiary
Life sciences firm, Monsanto Co., may have taken a giant step closer to the Governemnt approval of its deal to acquire cotton seeds maker, Delta & Pine Land Co., with its decision to auction off its
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Turtles abandon Gahirmatha Beach
The concentration of Olive Ridley sea turtles in Orissa's coastal waters has put a question mark on the possibility of test-firing of any missile from a newly constructed defence establishment in an
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Cheap drug to treat Hepatitis-B
An anti-viral drug lamivudine holds promise for treatment of hepatitis-B. The disease's spread has assumed alarming proportions, according to an expert.Lamividine is currently used with other drugs
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US and Canada call a truce as farm trade tensions grow
The US and Canada are expected to announce an agricultural trade agreement aimed at defusing tensions that earlier this year led to a blockade by several US states against Canadian grain and
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Female foeticide on rise in Usilampatti taluk
A two-day consultation programme of NGOs in Chennai has brought to light increasing instances of female foeticide in Usilampatti taluk of Madurai.This has been seen as a direct consequence of misuse
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83 fresh polio cases reported in State
Despite intensive pulse polio immunisation programmes in the state from last three years, 83 fresh cases have been reported in the current year with Gulbarga district, Karnataka alone recording 16
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Successful liver transplant at Apollo
Apollo Hospital in Delhi has conducted its first successful liver transplant and only the second in the country. The 42 year old patient, Bharat Bhusan, has survived the crucial one month period
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Apathy threatens historic skating rink
Pollution and environmental degradation has affected South Asia's only open-air natural ice skating rink in Shimla , as a result of which this unique 78-year-old ice field is threatened. Once, the
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Smog linked to lung cancer in men
Men who live and work in smoggy areas are more susceptible to lung cancer, according to a study published in the journal, Environmetal Health Perspectives. The study , conducted by researchers at
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Bottom trawlers decried as ocean clearcutters
An extremely common industrial fishing method, known as bottom trawling has the same devastating impact on the ocean bottom as clearcutting forests has on the Earth's surface, according to series of
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States asked to expedite land acquisition in GAP
The Centre has asked the state governments to take advance steps for the acquisition of land for the completion of the remaining seven schemes of the first phase of the Ganga Action Plan (GAP).
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IMA demands dengue control committee
The Indian Medical Association today demanded the formation of a high-powered dengue disease control committee headed by the Prime Minister and heads of all ministries which have civic involvement.