Maker Removes Generic AIDS Drugs From WHO List
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The move that could potentially affect tens of thousands of AIDS patients in poor countries who have only recently entered treatment.
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questions over testing of a key HIV/AIDS drug before a US-backed roll-out of the treatment across the continent. Ingelheim to hide adverse effects of nevirapine when used to try to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
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Two generic AIDS treatments by Indian manufacturer Cipla have been reinstated on the World Health Organisation&#39;s recommended list, six months after they were removed for further testing.
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The World Health Organisation yesterday lifted restrictions on the use of two antiretroviral drugs, signalling an important boost to affordable Aids treatment on the eve of World Aids Day.
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Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its  anti-AIDS drugs off the U.N.'s approved list, the World Health  Organization said on Tuesday, dealing a blow to efforts to make  cheaper medicines more widely available for the scrounge.
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Ranbaxy Laboratories today said the removal of its anti-AIDS drugs from the UN approved list will not have any impact on its top line or bottomline.
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The World Health Organisation is reinstating two generic AIDS antiretroviral drugs delisted earlier this year after the Indian manufacturer carried out new studies to confirm that they are as effective as their brand-name counterparts.
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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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Drug company Merck has removed its painkiller Vioxx because of data showing an increased risk of heart attack and stroke.
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has ordered 20 companies, including Novartis AG's Sandoz unit, to stop marketing a number of unapproved drugs used to fight headaches, the agency said on Thursday.
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Doctors and AIDS activists in Africa are worried governments may halt use of an AIDS drug that has protected thousands of babies from HIV infection in reaction to concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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Thailand issues a compulsory license to manufacture a generic version of Merck's patented AIDS drug.
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Geneva: India&#39;s top pharmaceutical group Ranbaxy has withdrawn all its anti-retroviral drugs from a World Health Organisation scheme setting minimum quality standards for cheaper anti-AIDS medication aimed at poor countries, the WHO said Tuesday.
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Health officials kept mum on flaws in research for nevirapine, sent to Africa to protect newborns. The drug: Nevirapine, an AIDS drug pronounced Nee-VERA-peen, is made by Boehringer Ingelheim Corp.
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Thailand's top pharmaceutical group slammed the government's decision to allow generic versions of AIDS and heart drugs, saying it damaged the nation's image in the global business community.
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LONDON: The World Health Organisation (WHO) has denied the global war on HIV/ AIDS is being held up by the lack of high-quality but cheap non-branded drugs and insisted that Indiaâs existing approved generic medicines are fighting the good fight.
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Health officials said on Friday they had dropped plans to keep a public list of prescription drugs with emerging safety concerns, one of the measures proposed after Merck & Co.'s 2004 withdrawal of its arthritis drug Vioxx.