Kharge to keep off all-party team of UKP
Leaders of the Opposition in the Legislative Assembly M Mallikarjun Kharge has refused to accompany the proposed all-party delegation to World Bank-aided Upper Krishna Project and dubbed the visit as irrelevent and unwanted.
Brussels again ducks decision on toxic toys
The European Commission has again postponed a decision on whether to ban toxic chemicals contained in children's toys, raising concerns that eventual measures to protect consumers will be weak.
Wider use of RPR drug backed
The US Food and Drug Administration gave its approval for the expanded use of the anti-cancer agent taxotere, according to its manufacturer Rhone-Poulenc Rohrer, the pharmaceuticals subsidiary of France's Rhone Poulenc.
AIDS is on course to ravage Africa
AIDS is hitting so fiercely that it now rivals history's greatest and deadliest epidemics, United Naitons officials said. They also said the AIDS epidemics would worsen before it improved. The overwhelming majority of the 30 million people infected with HIV, are doomed to die because they live in countries that …
U.S. withdraws a drug, raising approval issue
For the second time in two weeks, the Food and Drug Administration has taken the rare step of pulling a prescription drug off pharmacy shelves, a move that is renewing questions about whether the agency's new emphasis on speeding up drug approvals is allowing unsafe medicines to reach patients.
Hoechst wins approval for tuberculosis drug
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first new tuberculosis drug in 25 years. The FDA said that it has approved rifapentine, which is marketed under the name Priftin by Hoechst Marion Roussell Inc. of Kansas City, Missouri. The U.S. is the first country to approve the drug.
Research links smoking with Alzheimer's
Smokers are more than twice as likely as non-smokers to develop dementia and Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study published in the international medical journal, The Lancet. The study of nearly 7000 people aged over 55 and living in Rotterdam, found smoking was a strong risk factor for both …
Malaria is a notifiable disease in Karnataka
In a bid to bring about better surveillance and to implement steps to control diseases spread by mosquitoes, the state government has declared malaria, Japanese encephalitis and dengue fever as notifiable diseases throughout Karnataka.
Kerala cancer patients' agony
No pain-killers: Thousands of cancer patients in the State are reeling under the impact of an acute shortage of morphine, the most commonly used pain-killer. According to reports,the Regional Cancer centre(RCC), the premier cancer institute in the State, received only three lakh tablets as against its requirement of eight lakh …
Dengue hits 19 Iloilo towns, kills 2 children, downs 64
Hemorrhagic dengue fever has claimed the lives of two children here and downed 64 others this month in 19 towns of Iloilo, records from the Iloilo Provincial Health Office showed. This brought to six the number of fatalities from dengue fever and 177 the number of patients since the start …
Clinton orders study of underage smoking habits
Stung by the defeat of tobacco legislation, President Bill Clinton on Monday sought to shame the cigarette industry and punish its political allies by ordering the government to track the brands favoured by underage smokers.The decision to study how well companies have penetrated the illegal youth market was designed to …
Biological E launches 2 new anti-cancer drugs
The Hyderabad-based Biological E Ltd has launched two new anti-cancer drugs Inron-Alpha and Betaxel. These two drugs will form part of a wide range of drugs manufactured by the company to help fight cancer.
Clinton squeezes cigarette makers
President Clinton announced that the federal government would begin conducting annual surveys to determine cigarette-brand share in the market for underage smokers-a defiant gesture aimed at tobacco companies and their supporters in Congress.
UP house seeks tobacco ban
The Vidhan Sabha on Monday unanimously passed a resolution seeking a legislation to impose a ban on use of tobacco and its related products in public places by Parliament.
Inquiry call on tobacco giant's plan
The Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria yesterday called for a federal inquiry into the tobacco industry after revelations that the tobacco giant Philip Morris had tried to derail Australia's anti-smoking lobby. Further pressure on the industry came with confirmation that thefederal Health Minister, Dr Michael Wooldridge, was demanding that it disclose …
Germany set to challenge EU move to ban tobacco adverts
Germany is set to launch a legal challenge against European Union plans to ban tobacco advertising, arguing Brussels is overstepping its legal powers. The move follows stiff resistance to the proposals from the German government and the the country's influential tobacco lobby.
Tolls on tobacco road
Behind the multibillion dollar war over tobacco-a battle that's roiling Washington and has lawyers scrambling for a payday : a report.
