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The New York State Legislature reached an agreement Tuesday to reform the Rockefeller Drug Laws. The bipartisan deal would reduce sentences for many drug offenders and ease possession rules used to determine prison time.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration yesterday gained broad new powers to ensure the safety of prescription drugs used by millions of Americans under a bill signed by President Bush.
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The department of state for Health and Social Welfare recently signed a total grant agreement of over US$ 19 million for malaria and HIV/Aids.
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Nigeria signed a deal with the Clinton Foundation to facilitate the supply of affordable and high-quality drugs to fight the deadly HIV/AIDS epidemic ravaging the country.
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Kansas joins three other states in a program that makes lower-cost drugs from abroad available to all residents. BY STEVE PAINTER.
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The state of West Virginia and the manufacturer of the controversial pain killer OxyContin have settled a lawsuit brought over the way the drug was marketed to the public, according to The New York Times.
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The US drug agency agreed to allow a drug currently used against advanced breast cancer to be prescribed to prevent the disease from recurring in women who have been treated for early forms of the disease.
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By Michael Christie MIAMI  - The most powerful drug lord everextradited by Colombia appeared before a U.S. judge on Monday,and his lawyer said he would fight U.S. charges that he ran hismultibillion-dollar business from a Colombian jail cell.
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The Bush administration signed a free-trade agreement with Colombia, despite strong Democratic Party objections that threaten to keep the pact from becoming law. The signing ceremony culminated more than two and a half years of work on the pact, which the White House sees as an important tool for promoting stability in the volatile Andean region. Leading Democrats criticized the Bush administration for signing the trade deal before addressing their concerns about the pactÂs protection for workers.
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na settlement that the New York State attorney general said would transform the drug industry, GlaxoSmithKline agreed today to post on its Web site the results of all clinical trials involving its drugs.
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The agreement between Purdue Pharma and West Virginia regulators involves a $10 million sum paid to drug abuse and education programs.
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Memorandum of understanding with four American and British trade associations aimed at enforcement of copyright.
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By Blankinship, Steve  A proposed settlement announced by the U.S. Justice Department in October between the U.S.
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Hundreds of lawyers who claim that people were injured or killed by the painkiller Vioxx plan to lay groundwork for a legal assault against the drug's maker, Merck.
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Biotechnology company Rigel  Pharmaceuticals Inc. RIGL.O has entered into a collaboration  pact with drugmaker Merck & Co. Inc. MRK.N to find treatments  for cancer and potentially other diseases, Rigel said on  Monday.
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â¢ President Bush : Signed a law giving the elderly prescription drug coverage under Medicare for the first time. Insurance companies and private health plans now have an expanded role in the program.
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THE United States helped negotiate the protocol under former President Bill ClintonÂ¡Â¯s administration. But President George W. Bush ditched the agreement shortly after coming