As part of its PR campaign to portray itself as a changed, responsible company, Philip Morris USA for the past two years has claimed that it has stopped opposing smoke-free workplace laws and the company?s web site advises that ?the public should be guided by the conclusions of public health officials regarding the health effects of secondhand smoke.?
Some HIV/AIDS advocacy groups are calling on pharmaceutical company Novartis to drop its legal challenge to the Indian government’s patent laws, saying that if the company wins the case it could restrict access to antiretroviral drugs for millions of people worldwide.
One Australian health insurance company HCF has disclosed its insurer’s details to a third party health care company – McKesson Asia Pacific.
Ravgen publishes study in the Lancet describing a non-invasive test for prenatal diagnosis based on fetal DNA in maternal blood.
A research team led by Prof. Claude Perreault, Universit? de Montr?al, is announcing a major discovery in Genomics. This will generate a fundamental impact on the treatment of blood cancers (leukemias and lymphomes) by means of peripheral blood T-cell grafts.
AkaRx, Inc., a Paramus, New Jersey biopharmaceutical company announced today that they have licensed from BeartownPharma, Inc., of Underhill, Vermont the patents for a new drug being developed for the treatment of patients with thyroid cancer.
Sir Richard Branson will launch his new business venture by offering parents the opportunity to store stem cells from their children’s umbilical cords.
Hundreds of Indian activists protested in New Delhi against a challenge to the India’s patent law by Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis, saying the move could leave millions without access to affordable medicine.
An Australian pharmaceutical company Imugene Ltd. announced successful preliminary trials of a vaccine that protects fowl from bird flu.
This statement has been issued in anticipation of the BBC Panorama programme, ?Secrets of The Drugs Trials? which is to be aired on Monday 29th January.