Ebola vaccine trial suspended after patients report suffering joint pain
A trial testing an experimental Ebola vaccine has been suspended amid concerns over potential side-effects. The decision to pause the Swiss clinical trial at the University of Geneva was taken after four volunteers reported suffering joint pain in.
Superbugs kill Indias babies and pose an overseas threat
While that is still a fraction of the nearly 800,000 newborns who die annually in India, Indian pediatricians say that the rising toll of resistant infections could soon swamp efforts to improve Indias abysmal infant death rate. Nearly a. Now, close to 100 percent of the babies referred to us have multidrug resistant infections. Its scary.. Newborns are particularly vulnerable because their immune systems are fragile, leaving little time for doctors to find a drug that works.
Morning Briefing | Kaiser Health News
With the enrollment deadline looming, the Obama administration and advocacy groups are ramping up efforts to sign up millions of Hispanics for health coverage through online exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act. Activists in states with high Latino.. The Massachusetts Democrat plans to introduce a bill next week that would require drug makers that break the law to send a percentage of their profits to the U.S. National Institutes of Health for five years.
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers as Obama Allies
WASHINGTON ��� As Americans shop in the health insurance marketplace for a second year, President Obama is depending more than ever on the insurance companies that five years ago he accused of padding profits and canceling coverage for the sick.
Bladder cancer crisis as thousands left without crucial drug over low supplies
At what level theyre in contact with us is slightly passing me by at the moment, he said. MSD issued a. But given that we are the only source of BCG in the UK and many other countries, and that BCG requires stringent and rigorous quality testing.
2/17/2014 Weekly e-Bulletin | Strategic Health Care
The Medicare Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) process needs immediate reform, according to a letter sent last week to HHS signed by 111 members of the U.S. House. The letter suggested that Congress and CMS consider��.
Video Replay and Transcript: Obama Announces Thaw In Cold War Relations With.
His Holiness Pope Francis issued a personal appeal to me, and to Cubas President Raul Castro, urging us to resolve Alans case, and to address Cubas interest in the release of three Cuban agents who have been jailed in the United States for over 15.
Keystone Pipeline Pros, Cons and Steps to a Final Decision
The United States was responsible for 5.5 billion tons of that (coming in second to China, which emitted 8.7 billion tons). Within the United States, electric power plants produced 2.8 billion tons of those greenhouse gases, while vehicle tailpipe.
TAC Open Letter to USTR Regarding Concerns with US.
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) of South Africa is extremely concerned with recent attempts by the US government to discourage and curb the globes supply of affordable generic medicines available from India.. of an ���AIDS-Free Generation���[3] affirmed by President Obama during his last State of the Union Address is heavily dependent on sustaining the supply of Indian-produced generic medicines that constitute the vast majority of drugs used by PEPFAR,��.
Assam attacks: IB, police took two hours to decipher key call because it was.
They sent out an alert to mobilise the forces. Since the intercept did not mention any specific place or time, there was little even the state police could do. The group struck at 5 pm in batches in four districts of Assam and carried out the killings.
Modis Baggage: Obama Meets Indias New Prime Minister.
Featuring fresh takes and real-time analysis from HuffPosts signature lineup of contributors. Hot on the Blog. Modi may also express concern about US trade policies -- for instance efforts to extend pharmaceutical patent protections that would be at the expense of medical systems like Indias that depend on cheaper generic alternatives. Obama, for his part, can welcome recent comments by Modi condemning sexual violence, promoting education, and health. But he��.
2012: September - December Political Notes - Richard.
Obama and Senate Republicans, helped by anti-human-right Democrats such as Feinstein, voted to reauthorize wireless wiretapping, and used the same fascist arguments that Cheney and Nixon used. 29 December 2012. Thatcher promised to preserve the UKs National Health Service, then proposed in secret to replace it with a system of US-style insurance. The current Tory... Indias legislature is working on a bill to make its unjust anti-terrorism law even worse. In most of the��.
Letter to PM about US-India Bilateral Relations on. - Kafila
Dear Prime Minister Modi ji, We, the undersigned, wish to share with you some of our concerns on Indias position on intellectual property (IP), particularly in the context of bilateral relations between the United States of America and India. We gather. As the Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP)s press release of 3 October 2014 mentions, there is already in operation an Indo-US Trade Policy Forum since 2010.. They may take some time to appear.
US-India Agreement on Stockpiles of Food Revives a Trade Deal
Analysts said the agreement with the United States would improve Indias negotiating position at the G-20 meeting and in other global talks. ���It is a move ahead both for multilateralism at the W.T.O. and for India, which was being viewed as.
India: A Race to the Bottom with Antibiotic Overuse - Global.
. Cure Tomorrow. The slogan was coined in honour of World Health Day, urging governments to ensure responsible use of antibiotics in order to prevent drug-resistant viruses and bacteria, or super bugs.. 3An analysis of national pharmaceutical sales data published in The Lancet Infectious Diseases last month found that Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa accounted for 76 percent of the increase in antibiotic use around the world. Western countries��.
Tax extenders finally passes ABLE also passes Jeb Bushs tax stance could.
Finance chief Ron Wyden voted against the measure, as did an eclectic group including Sens... Indias Finance Minister Arun Jaitley struck a deal with Indian states to create a goods and service tax that will be imposed nationwide, according to.
Braced for a Shift in Congress, Obama Is Setting a New Agenda
WASHINGTON ��� Whipsawed by events and facing another midterm electoral defeat, President Obama has directed his team to forge a policy agenda to regain momentum for his final two years in office even as some advisers urge that he rethink the way he.
Promote Indian drugs, US health groups urge Obama
NEW DELHI: Leading US health groups including AVAC, Oxfam America, amfAR, Health Global Access Project (GAP), TAG (Treatment Action Group)and others have written to Barack Obama urging him to support India in providing high-quality, low-cost .
Foreign drug makers urge government to review IPR think tank
Source: Economic Times 24 Nov 2014 NEW DELHI: Foreign drug makers are urging the government to review the membership of a think tank it has set up to formulate intellectual property rights (IPR) policy in the next few months, saying that it lacks. US urges India to pull down wall of protectionism ���. For that they dont need to be part of the core group,��� said DG Shah, secretary general, Indian Pharma Alliance, a grouping of leading domestic manufacturers.
Make In India ��� Slaves Of Globalization | Great Game India
This 123 percent increase during the Obama years demonstrates how, in addition to conventional wars and a CIA drone campaign, public diplomacy and extensive electronic spying, the US has engaged in still another significant and growing. Remember that this also coincides exactly the same time fancy concepts of Liberalization and Privatization were sold to India in the beginning of the 90s and later during the IT Boom cracking up the Indian market with Economic��.
Modis Baggage: Obama Meets Indias New Prime Minister
Obama, for his part, can welcome recent comments by Modi condemning sexual violence, promoting education, and health. But he could also raise concerns about shrinking space for freedom of expression and association in India. In a recent address during .
Gun rights advocates call on Republicans to defund the government
GOA finds this particularly egregious at a time when the ATF is still reeling from its failed ���Fast and Furious��� sting operation that let guns slip into the hands of Mexican drug cartels. ���We dont think ATF deserves a raise,��� Pratt said. ���ATF misused.
House on Brink of Spending Deal to Avoid Another Government Shutdown
���Just about every Republican candidate in the country campaigned saying if you elected us, we will stop President Obamas amnesty,��� Mr. Cruz said. ���What Im here urging my fellow Republicans to do is very, very simple: Do what you said you would do.���.
Senate Confirms Dr. Vivek Murthy as Surgeon General.
���As Americas Doctor, Vivek will hit the ground running to make sure every American has the information they need to keep themselves and their families safe,��� Obama stated. ���Hell bring his lifetime of experience promoting public health to bear on priorities ranging from stopping new diseases to helping our kids grow up healthy and strong.��� Vivek will also build on the progress weve made combatting Ebola, both in our country and at its source, Obama added.
Has Prime Minister Modi Conceded Ground To America On.
Unprecedented high profile engagement of the Indian Prime Minister with various interested groups during his recent visit to the United States under equally unprecedented media glare, has invited overwhelmingly more kudos than brickbats,. This was related to whether or not demonstrably tough minded Prime Minister Modi has yielded to enormous pressure created by all powerful American drug lobby against the current Intellectual Property (IP) regime in India.
Latin America and the U.S.: Building a Partnership for the.
The Obama Administration should propose concrete, achievableprograms to fight poverty, create jobs, and improve health andeducation in Latin America. It must also guard U.S. securityagainst the drug trade, illegal migration��.
Obama To Tout US Action On Climate At UN Summit
Podesta said he thinks the U.S. will be able to fully engage with China and Indias leadership despite this. This gathering of global leadership in one place at one time is unprecedented, Bob Orr, assistant secretary-general for policy coordination.
Iraq crisis: Obama announces increase in US military aid to.
Follow live updates amid reports that the US is demanding the resignation of the Iraqi PM as a condition for any US military intervention.. Iraq crisis: Obama announces increase in US military aid to combat Isis surge ��� live.. Hushams description of the militant opposition jibes with other reports on the many participating groups apart from Isis, but his characterization of the command structure of what he calls the revolution clashes with most descriptions of the��.
Economists View: Links for 12-08-14
For one, the difference in the wealth share held by Indias poorest 10 per cent and the richest 10 per cent is enormous; Indias richest 10 per cent holds 370 times the share of wealth that its poorest hold. [Graph]. Indias richest 10 per... The lost-pleasure analysis, which is criticized by some leading economists and public health groups, was tucked into new regulations published last month by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Reply Monday, December 08,��.
Obama Immigration Action Stirs Fierce Debate in Congress
CAPITOL HILL���. U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday fiercely debated the wisdom and legality of action by President Barack Obama to bypass Congress and shield millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation. The mere whisper of an imminent .
2012: March - June Political Notes - Richard Stallman
As Romney attacks Obamas health care plan, Massachusetts Governor Patrick praises the results of the similar Massachusetts law passed by... As your constituent, I urge you to oppose any further attempts to repeal or restrict this important law.. 29 June 2012 (War on Drugs promotes spread of HIV)... The result is a loss of billions for the US treasury; at the same time, this encourages the use of coal and consequent pollution of many kinds including lots of CO2.
Rewriting the War, Japanese Right Attacks a Newspaper
SAPPORO, Japan ��� Takashi Uemura was 33 when he wrote the article that would make his career. Then an investigative reporter for The Asahi Shimbun, Japans second-largest newspaper, he examined whether the Imperial Army had forced women to .