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 Financial Times: AstraZeneca ties up with Indian drugmaker
The alliance with Torrent Pharmaceuticals is the first step in the Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical group's plans to rapidly expand sales of generic drugs
Financial Times: Patients' groups distrust 'big pharma'
Detailed rankings compiled from patient groups showed many continental European groups rated highly, while US and UK businesses were less well judged
Financial Times: Patients' groups distrust 'big pharma'
The majority of patients' organisations consider pharmaceutical companies untrustworthy, according to a survey conducted by a UK-based consultancy to be released...
Financial Times: Interest mounts in taking a Swiss view
A sudden surge in inquiries from finance, manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies wanting to move jobs to Switzerland has been triggered partly by a revolt over the...
Financial Times: More companies go for Swiss move
A surge in inquiries from finance, manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies wanting to move jobs to Switzerland has been triggered partly by a revolt over the 50p...
Financial Times: DFID cash boost for vaccines fund
The Department for International Development (DFID) has given £150m over the next decade to support the Global Alliance on Vaccines and Immunisations, a United...
Tobacco Stories: Genetically engineered tobacco plant cleans up environmental toxin
In a new research report appearing in the March 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists explain how they developed a genetically modified strain of tobacco that helps temper the damaging effects of toxic pond scum, scientifically known as microcystin-LR (MC-LR), which makes water unsafe for drinking, swimming, or fishing. This plant could serve as ...
Tobacco Stories: Cause and effect The costs of smoking
According to New York Citys Department of Health, about 1 million of the citys residents are smokers. And the latest research says about 7,400 New Yorkers die of smoking-related illness each year about 20 a day.The city is in its seventh year of a stop smoking campaign and has launched an advertising and publicity campaign aimed at increasing, from 70 ...
Tobacco Stories: Genetic Variant Raises Lung Cancer Risk : It doesnt matter whether you smoke a little or a lot, study finds
People with a particular genetic trait are at much higher risk of developing lung cancer from exposure to secondhand smoke than others, even if they rarely come into contact with it, a new study finds.Researchers also found that smokers with this variant are more susceptible to lung cancer, whether they light up a lot or a little."If you carried the inherite ...
AME Info: UAE healthcare workers to complete CME hours
The UAE's health ministry has said that all healthcare professionals in the country will be required to complete the stipulated hours of accredited continuing medical education for renewing their licences, the Khaleej Times has reported. Starting July 1, all doctors and dentists will be required to complete 30 training hours, pharmacists 20 hours, nurses 15 ...
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·Shop sales of tobacco challenged
An Auckland academic says smoking rates in New Zealand would plummet if tobacco products could not be displayed at shops.Dr Marewa Glover, of the University of Auckland, told a select committee yesterday that progress in tobacco control was poor and it was having a particularly bad effect among Maori.She said outside the hearing that she disagreed with tobacco industry giant British American Tobacco New Zealand that ...
·For Sake Of Maori Children Tobacco Must Go
Maori child lobby organisation Te Kahui Mana Ririki (TKMR) supports the Maori Affairs select committee enquiry into the impact of tobacco on Maori."For the sake of our children we support the prohibition of tobacco," TKMR Chair Dr Hone Kaa said today."44% of Maori smoke and this means almost half our children are being raised in smoking households. We know that second hand smoke results in poor health outcomes for ou ...
·Tobacco company fronts at select committee
A tobacco company manager has admitted nicotine is addictive and said no cigarette is safe.British American Tobacco (BAT) faced a barrage of questions at the Maori Affairs select committee into smoking. They defended their own marketing strategies, but said black market traders and dodgy retailers were spoiling the industry.Where theres smoke, theres fire, and it didnt take long for the panel to fire up at the com ...
·Tobacco company defends retail display rule
Amid a barrage of Maori people calling for tough controls and the eventual banning of smoking, a tobacco company today asked for current sale display rules to remain the same.As several people told emotional stories of losing loved ones to smoking-related illnesses, British American Tobacco New Zealand (BAT) told a Maori Affairs select committee inquiry into the tobacco industry in Auckland that visible tobacco stand ...
·Harawira fires a volley for the smoking battalion
A tobacco giant has been told there should be a statue to commemorate dead Maori smokers killed by "the enemy that lies within our midst".Maori Party MP Hone Harawira told British American Tobaccos managing director Graeme Amey at a select committee hearing on the tobacco industry yesterday that as many Maori died each year because of tobacco as died in World War II.He said a submission to the committee on Wednesday ...
·Family tells of smoking death pain
The parliamentary committee probing the tobacco industry got personal in Auckland yesterday with the family of a Maori smoking victim describing the impact of his addiction and death.The Te Kiri whanau of Hamilton wept as they told MPs of the pain tobacco smoking inflicted on their father before killing him in mid-life.They are among many families and organisations to tell the tobacco inquiry of how the smoking rate ...
·Genetically engineered tobacco plant cleans up environmental toxin
In a new research report appearing in the March 2010 print issue of the FASEB Journal, scientists explain how they developed a genetically modified strain of tobacco that helps temper the damaging effects of toxic pond scum, scientifically known as microcystin-LR (MC-LR), which makes water unsafe for drinking, swimming, or fishing. This plant could serve as a major tool for helping keep water sources safe to use, esp ...
·Cause and effect The costs of smoking
According to New York Citys Department of Health, about 1 million of the citys residents are smokers. And the latest research says about 7,400 New Yorkers die of smoking-related illness each year about 20 a day.The city is in its seventh year of a stop smoking campaign and has launched an advertising and publicity campaign aimed at increasing, from 70,000, the number of New Yorkers it estimates have quit smoki ...
·Years of Smoking Associated with Lower Parkinsons Risk, Not Number of Cigarettes Per Day
Researchers have new insight into the relationship between Parkinsons disease and smoking. Several studies have shown that smokers have a lower risk of developing Parkinsons disease. A new study published in the March 10, 2010, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, shows that smoking for a greater number of years may reduce the risk of the disease, but smoking a large ...
·Genetic Variant Raises Lung Cancer Risk : It doesnt matter whether you smoke a little or a lot, study finds
People with a particular genetic trait are at much higher risk of developing lung cancer from exposure to secondhand smoke than others, even if they rarely come into contact with it, a new study finds.Researchers also found that smokers with this variant are more susceptible to lung cancer, whether they light up a lot or a little."If you carried the inherited risk and then you smoked, it didnt matter if you were a l ...
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·UAE healthcare workers to complete CME hours
The UAE's health ministry has said that all healthcare professionals in the country will be required to complete the stipulated hours of accredited continuing medical education for renewing their licences, the Khaleej Times has reported. Starting July 1, all doctors and dentists will be required to complete 30 training hours, pharmacists 20 hours, nurses 15 hours and technicians 10 hours.
·Abu Dhabi launches newborn screening programme
A newborn screening program, targeting genetic, endocrinologic, metabolic and hematologic diseases has been launched by Abu Dhabi's health authority, Wam has reported. The Abu Dhabi Comprehensive Newborn Screening Programme includes parent education, a comprehensive newborn physical exam, screening tests, follow-up, diagnosis, counselling, management, treatment and evaluation.
·UAE Global Health Institute to address health problems
The United Arab Emirates University has announced the launch of the UAE Global Health Institute. The institute, which will be based at the UAEU campus in Al Ain, will conduct research with partners to address health problems for the nation and the region. The initial areas of research willbe epidemiology, ethnography, migrant health issues, epidemic disease and air transport and areas surrounding refugee health. The ...
·Saudi mulls draft law to curb smoking
A draft law aimed at curbing smoking in Saudi Arabia is being considered by the kingdom's Shoura Council, Arab News has reported. The proposed legislation includes a penalty of SR500 for smoking inside airports; a ban on the cultivation of tobacco and the production of products that contain tobacco; designating public places like mosque courtyards and sports venues as no-smoking zones; increasing tariffs on imported ...
·Ajman bans smoking in public areas
A smoking ban in public areas has been imposed by the municipality of Ajman in the UAE, in line with a presidential decree on banning smoking and the sale of tobacco and its products in public areas, Gulf News has reported.
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