Rwanda launches key test of WTO drug patent waiver
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Rwanda plans to import a generic HIV/AIDS medicine made in Canada, making it the first country to test a World Trade Organization waiver on drug patents, the WTO said on Friday.
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The Food and Drug Administration will publish draft guidelines today that would encourage companies to submit voluntary safety evaluations of bioengineered food crops that sometimes
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The World Health Organization is urging drugmakers including GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Sanofi-Aventis SA and Chiron Corp. to join in developing a vaccine to stop Asia&#39;s deadly bird flu virus from triggering a pandemic.
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BRUSSELS, Aug 28 (IPS) - The European Union's top trade official has  called on Thailand to revise its efforts to provide cheap  medicines to people with AIDS over concerns that the country  could be undermining global rules on intellectual property.
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The initiative is part of an effort to ferret out unpublished research consucted by pharmaceutical companies that finds medications to be ineffective or dangerous.
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A United Nations conference approved a  proposal by African countries Friday to control trade in a rare  plant sought hungrily by drug companies for its  appetite-suppressing properties.
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Government regulators now look to approve as quickly as possible medicines whose benefits exceed their risks.
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NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 27: The Centre brought into effect key changes to its patent law on Monday to cover a range of products from drugs and chemicals to mobile phone and computer software, in line with commitments to WTO.
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The company faces a pivotal clinical trial.
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The world's four main pharmaceutical trade groups said Thursday that they will publish far more data about clinical drug trials than is now required by law.
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A new initiative will work on cell-based toxicity tests for chemicals.
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Description: A Bush Administration task force releases a report that finds importing drugs from countries with price-controls offers little savings and introduces safety concerns.
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Pharmaceutical firm Wyeth said Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration granted fast-track status to its experimental cancer drug temsirolimus as an initial treatment for patients with advanced kidney cancer.
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The government allows genetically modified potato trials in a bid to fight blight.
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The drug industry, fighting off  criticism for hiding data from negative studies, unveiled on  Tuesday a database for firms to voluntarily provide summarized  results of most clinical trials of medicines sold in the United  States.
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China has approved human testing of a domestically developed Aids vaccine and pledged to speed up approvals of new drugs to fight the disease.
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The world's biggest drug makers will  unveil plans on Thursday to publish more data about clinical  trials of their medicines in a bid to reassure patients about  their safety, according to industry sources.