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Patent ordinance weak on eligibility, pre-grant rules
Financial Express - New Delhi,India
... As stated earlier there are over 4,700 Mailbox applications for patents, more than 15 times the total of new drugs approved by the central Drugs Controller ...
Unneeded 'Wonder Drugs'
Los Angeles Times (subscription) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
26: Rather than worrying about how to pay for all these expensive new drugs from big pharma, it is time society asked how much of this is necessary or even ...

INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
... drug approval process. We'll list categories of diseases where FDA can work with industry to help develop new drugs. We want to ...

Pfizer Wins US Pain-Drug Approval, May Face Limits (Update6)
Bloomberg - USA
... Hank McKinnell, battling a sliding stock price and fallout from a study linking Pfizer's Celebrex painkiller to heart attacks, is counting on new drugs such as ...

New patent rules threaten generic drugs for poor nations
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
New World Trade Organization rules that grant 20-year patents on new drugs could be disastrous for developing nations that need generic antiretroviral ...

New Cancer Drugs Offered Hope in 2004
American Cancer Society (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
... diseases. Most of the advances came in the form of new drugs, many of which can help people with advanced stages of cancer. Here ...

Challenges 2004-2005:'Pharma Crops' Threaten Food Safety
AllAfrica.com - Africa
... Worldwide, another 500 are in clinical trials. These are not always new drugs; many simply replace existing products, like insulin. ...

2004 brought setbacks to biotech industry
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
... The biggest stories were the pharmaceutical industry's ongoing struggle to develop new drugs, and the withdrawal of a blockbuster pain reliever, Vioxx. ...

The Dog of the Dow
Smartmoney.com (subscription) - USA
... "The problem with Merck is, it doesn't have a whole lot of [promising new drugs] in its pipeline," says Argus Research's Watkins, "and it doesn't have anything ...

State gets reprieve in federal mental health money cut
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
OLYMPIA, Wash. -- A planned $41 million reduction in federal mental health funding for Washington has been delayed by six months to give the Legislature time ...

Kingdom's Health Institutes Facing Enrolment Crisis
Arab News - Saudi Arabia
RIYADH, 31 December 2004 -- Health institutes in the Kingdom are going through a rough patch and need the government's support and cooperation to bail them ...

Experts Warn of Misjudging Health Dangers
Yahoo News - USA
Some public health experts watching the aftermath of the tsunami disaster fear the outpouring of emergency relief supplies and the rush to head off outbreaks ...

Health clubs see growing youth market
MSNBC - USA
NEW YORK - Lori Robinson was excited when she learned that her health club had another gym catering to children -- she thought it was an excellent idea for ...

Health Highlights: Dec. 30, 2004
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA
... spread by dirty water, mosquitoes and overcrowding, and the best medicine is large quantities of clean water, officials of the World Health Organization warned ...