MedImmune Asks For Right to Sue
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A lawyer for MedImmune Inc. asked the Supreme Court yesterday to let the company sue to overturn a patent owned by Genentech Inc. on a component of MedImmune's blockbuster drug Synagis, even though MedImmune is paying royalties to use it.
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A Guernsey GP who had affairs with patients pleads to be struck off the medical register.
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A federal appeals court let stand a ruling on Wednesday that reinstated a lawsuit challenging a Novartis AG  patent on the genital herpes drug Famvir.
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Biotechnology company InterMune Inc.  on Tuesday said it received a subpoena from the U.S. Department of Justice demanding information related to its key drug Actimmune, which is designed to spur the immune system.
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The Supreme Court is making it harder for consumers to sue manufacturers of federally approved medical devices.
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The widow and son of a Texas man who was taking a GlaxoSmithKline Plc diabetes drug at the time of his fatal heart attack has sued the drugmaker, claiming that it failed to warn of the drug's heart risks, according to court papers.
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DANVILLE, Pa. - A woman is suing a doctor who operated on her, accusing him of leaving a 4-inch metal instrument inside her uterus.  In her lawsuit, Lori Klinger, 35, said she experienced severe pain after Dr.
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A support group for Australian victims of contaminated medical products has demanded a royal commission into claims a former government agency knowingly released to the public polio vaccines contaminated by a monkey virus.
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By Tricia Bishop, The Baltimore Sun  Dec. 14--One of MedImmune Inc.'s major shareholders is urging the state's flagship biotech to put itself up for sale, suggesting management hasn't made the most from its assets, which include four products on the market and about 40 in the pipeline.
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In the first case of its kind in the UK, a woman is suing a hospital for allegedly infecting her with the MRSA virus.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit Thursday against flu vaccine suppliers ASAP Meds Inc., doing business as Meds-Stat, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
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The family of a pregnant Memphis, Tenn., woman who died while taking an experimental AIDS drug in a US clinical trial is suing the government, several hospitals, and the maker of the medicine.
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A U.S.-based Iraqi doctor, testifying   in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein on Monday, demanded   compensation from foreign companies she said supplied him with   chemicals he is accused of using to gas Kurdish rebels.
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Drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis , the target of a lawsuit seeking class-action status filed on behalf of shareholders, on Friday vowed to fight allegations it hid the side-effects of its anti-obesity drug Acomplia.
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The case of a jet-setting tuberculosis patient might soon shift from the hospital wards to the courts. The patient, Andrew Speaker, an Atlanta personal injury attorney, could sue the federal government for being quarantined on the basis of federal regulations that some scholars see as unconstitutional.
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After writing about hundreds of individual and class-action lawsuits that have been filed on behalf of consumers who developed cancer, suffered heart attacks or other medical problems from hormone replacement therapy drugs and Vioxx, an FDA employee now
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U.S. quarantine law is in dire need of an update to protect patient rights, say legal experts.