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  • Malaria Takes Toll on Africa's Economies 20 Aug 2008 06:16 GMT
    ... malaria community from the East and Southern Africa regions came together in Lusaka, Zambia for their annual planning and review meeting. ... due to the dishonest practices of some pharmaceutical manufacturers that are producing fake or substandard ...

  • The Evidence Gap: Drug Makers' Push Leads to Cancer Vaccines' Fast Rise 20 Aug 2008 05:47 GMT
    ... Caleb Kenna for The New York Times "Merck lobbied ... major killer in the developing world, particularly Africa, where the vaccines are too expensive for ...

  • Drug Makers' Push Leads to Cancer Vaccines' Fast Rise 20 Aug 2008 05:38 GMT
    ... Caleb Kenna for The New York Times "Merck lobbied ... major killer in the developing world, particularly Africa, where the vaccines are too expensive for ...

  • Nigeria: Anambra to Develop Medical School 20 Aug 2008 04:45 GMT
    ... Awka, the governor said that departments of anatomy, physiology, biochemistry, pathology, community medicine and pharmacology would come in the first phase. The committee headed by Prof. Frank Akpuaka had ...

  • Race and Genetics: The Future of Personalized Medicine - Webcast 20 Aug 2008 03:31 GMT
    ... being used to personalize medicine and what pharmaceutical companies are doing to target the drugs ... eliminate the disproportionate burden of HIV/AIDS among African Americans. See for more details. ...

  • Bangladeshi ambassador: Army cannot do the job of politicians 20 Aug 2008 02:37 GMT
    ... garment market. We have a very strong pharmaceutical sector, also. I visited Minister of Health ... It is similar to Lesotho in South Africa. There are some issues there but this ...

  • Turkey and Kazakhstan have words left to say, says Kazakh ambassador 20 Aug 2008 02:37 GMT
    ... investment are energy, agriculture, public health and pharmaceuticals. I want to add that in the ... which later became the Middle East and Africa department. This department covered relations with many ... to the position of the ambassador to Egypt and accredited as non-resident ambassador to Syria, ...

  • Zambian doctors call off strike after death of President 20 Aug 2008 02:16 GMT
    ... Junior doctors and pharmacists of the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) in ... improved housing allowances, according to Times of Zambia. UTH management welcomed the call-off of the ...

  • Professionals' Fund Group announces changes to its family of mutual funds 20 Aug 2008 01:19 GMT
    ... emerging countries, particularly Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Its annual management ... du Québec and the Association québécoise des pharmaciens propriétaires. The members of the Fédération des ...

  • Popular cervical cancer vaccine fails to cure doubts 20 Aug 2008 01:06 GMT
    ... The vaccine makers have also brought attention to cervical ... have been invited to receptions catered with drug company money. Legislators in dozens of countries willingly ... major killer in the developing world, particularly Africa, where the vaccines are too expensive for ...

  • Medicine tailored to your genome, not your race: Venter 20 Aug 2008 00:15 GMT
    ... new compound, BiDil, is specifically designed for African Americans with Venter and three scientists from ... human genomes. Writing in the journal Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Venter and his colleagues looked ...

  • 'Pain treatment is a human right '¦ We should be able to guarantee it to anyone' 18 Aug 2008 23:56 GMT
    ... week. Thousands of scientists, doctors, nurses, dentists, pharmacists and patients have descended on the city ... and Vietnam. There are also programmes in Nigeria, Kenya and South Africa, but in other African countries there are ...

  • Cambridge research scientist turns to belly dancing 18 Aug 2008 22:15 GMT
    ... before taking a job at a leading pharmaceutical research company in the city. But after ... teacher, who is influenced by the modern Egyptian style, said she did not miss science ...

  • ViRexx Announces Encouraging Results From Its Lead Chimigen(TM) Therapeutic Vaccine Candidate for Treating Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infections 18 Aug 2008 22:12 GMT
    ... is endemic in Asia, (especially Southeast Asia), Africa, and the Middle East. About 5% of ... Mental Health, Medical and Healthcare - Nursing, Pharmaceuticals and Biotech - Biotech SUBJECT: HLT ...

  • Aboard Emirates' First A380 to New York 18 Aug 2008 20:16 GMT
    ... 10 time zones? Chris Iheanacho, a 51-year-old Nigerian, stands barefoot at the bar. His pantlegs ... Native New Yorker Leo Ohanian, a 38-year-old pharmaceutical entrepreneur whose company is registered in Dubai, ...

  • Nigeria sues Pfizer for $8.5bn 18 Aug 2008 20:07 GMT
    ... Kano - A court case brought by Nigeria against ... Pfizer resumes on Tuesday with the US drug maker saying it answered a call for help to save the lives of African children during a meningitis epidemic. Nigeria alleges ...

  • High hopes for TB vaccine 18 Aug 2008 20:07 GMT
    ... Worcester - Janine September extends her slender arm toward a ... Foundation, the non-profit group financing the South African trials with grants from the Bill & ... there is an upsurge of interest from drug companies, driven by evidence that TB and Aids ...

  • Goodbye Good Ole Boys, Hello Hollywood? How Will Obama Handle the Oil Industry? 18 Aug 2008 19:25 GMT
    ... instability in oil producing regions...Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Nigeria, Venezuela...and now Russia...isn't that timing interesting?) Two ... by oil companies, and even worse, Big Pharma and biotech...they test a new drug on you, ...

  • U.S. Retailers Demand End to Use of Forced Child Labor to Harvest Cotton in Uzbekistan 18 Aug 2008 18:51 GMT
    ... U.S. Retailers Demand End to Use of Forced Child ... exporter after the United States and sub-Saharan Africa, accounting for about 10 percent of world ... discount, catalog, Internet, independent stores, chain restaurants, drug stores and grocery stores as well as the ...

  • International Youth Foundation Honors 20 Youth Leaders as YouthActionNet(R) Global Fellows 18 Aug 2008 18:30 GMT
    ... community gardens. Bright Simons, 27, Ghana: Simons co-founded mPedigree to combat alarming rates of pharmaceutical fraud in Africa. Through the initiative, consumers verify the authenticity of the drugs they purchase through sending ...

  • Tech Briefs: Buggy iPhone, European VCs Stingier, Vodafone's Africa Grab 18 Aug 2008 17:52 GMT
    ... sale of German cancer drug developer U3 Pharma to Japan’s Daiichi Sanko. Vodafone reports it has ... had been some opposition in the West African country about selling a national asset to ...

  • A party at 19,340 feet 18 Aug 2008 17:50 GMT
    ... 61st birthday on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa. The Strasburg man will arrive at the ... degree from Ashland University. He is a pharmacist at Union Hospital at Dover. He has ...

  • Person Of Interest Sought In Frankford Attacks 18 Aug 2008 15:19 GMT
    ... Person Of Interest Sought In Frankford Attacks Philadelphia Police identified ... police she was raped behind a CVS drugstore in the 1100 block of Adams Avenue ... Colarulo said they are searching for an African-American male, in his late teens or early ...

  • Nycomed: Moving Ahead - Strong Results in Second Quarter 2008 18 Aug 2008 15:16 GMT
    ... In the Latin America, Canada and South Africa region (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Canada and South ... portfolio by transferring it to Bayer Schering Pharma and 4SC AG. Veltuzumab. On 14 July 2008, ...

  • Cambridge scientist turns to belly dancing 18 Aug 2008 14:50 GMT
    ... before taking a job at a leading pharmaceutical research company in the city. But after ... teacher, who is influenced by the modern Egyptian style, said she did not miss science ...


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