HIV couple sue US drug firms in blood scandal
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Â· American judge says case is best heard in BritainÂ· Action may increase 1991 payouts to haemophiliacs.
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WASHINGTON -- US health officials told Ugandaâs government that a US-funded study there on using an AIDS drug to protect babies violated federal safety rules even though they didnât tell President Bush before he authorized shipping the drug to Africa.
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A couple that unknowingly adopted a child with HIV is suing Alameda County. They say health care workers should have tested their little girl for AIDS.
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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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City officials have filed a lawsuit against a prostitute with the virus that causes AIDS, asking a court to send her into treatment to get her to stop spreading the infection.
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A lawsuit has been filed against the makers of Vioxx, and more are expected to follow. Olga Sanchez of Pharr is claiming that a July 2001 heart attack resulted from her using Vioxx
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When a month&#39;s dose of medicines for HIV treatment still cost around Rp 8 million (US$860) in 1997, Febri, her husband Toro and their son Sandy (not their real names), who had all contracted the HIV virus, could not afford to buy medicines for the whole
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A HIV positive woman is being sued by the city of Amarillo, Texas, to force her to seek treatment and stop spreading the disease. The women, identified in court paper by the initials TT, has infected at least
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The government said Friday it was fining the American Red Cross a record $4.2 million for violating blood-safety laws. The violations include failing to reject donors who had traveled to malarial areas and allowing blood and related products to be distributed without proper testing, said Margaret Glavin, the Food and Drug Administration's associate commissioner for regulatory affairs.
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The five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were accused of infecting children with the AIDS virus in 1998.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party has accused top US officials of treating Africans like guinea pigs amid questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before a US-backed
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South Africa's leading AIDS  treatment lobby is taking the government to court, accusing the  authorities of falling behind their own targets to give drugs  to people with HIV, the group's lawyer said on Wednesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - A Toronto-based law firm filed another class-action lawsuit Friday against drug maker Merck and Co. Inc., the makers of the arthritis drug Vioxx.
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South Africa&#39;s ruling party has accused US health officials of using Africans as &quot;guinea pigs&quot; and covering up possible adverse effects of a drug used by pregnant women infected with the AIDS virus.
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Nine lots of heparin blood thinner -- the medicine at the center of a lawsuit filed by actor Dennis Quaid over an overdose given to his newborn twins -- were recalled by Baxter International Inc after an increase in reports of adverse reactions in patients.
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$7bn lawsuit against the drug manufacturer over claims an experiment left children dead or disabled.
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Washington - Scientists and patient advocates this week united to defend an HIV treatment against allegations that a key clinical trial of the drug was flawed.