Ranbaxy AIDS drugs off UN list
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GENEVA: Giving a severe blow to efforts to make cheaper medicines more widely available for the killer disease, the World Health Organisation has said that Indian firm Ranbaxy took all its anti-AIDS drugs off the United Nation&#39;s approved list.
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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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Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO&#39;s list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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Anti-retroviral drug treatments can dramatically reduce the level of HIV virus in the blood but transmission risks remain, United Nations health agencies said on Friday.
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Pfizer Inc., the world's largest drugmaker, said Wednesday it won a court ruling in the Netherlands preventing Indian rival Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. from releasing a generic version of the company's cholesterol-reducing drug Lipitor.
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The number of AIDS patients receiving  life-extending drugs in poor countries has jumped to 700,000  from 440,000 six months ago, U.N. agencies said on Wednesday,  but warned much more needed to be done.
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India's Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. has received the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's approval for clarithromycin, a generic form of Abbott Laboratories Inc.'s antibiotic Biaxin, the FDA said on Saturday.
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People on anti-HIV drug Viracept are being warned batches of the drug may have been infected with cancer-causing chemicals.
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India-based Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO&#39;s list of approved drugs following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday.
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Ranbaxy Laboratories on Wednesday 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 U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday ordered an end to the manufacturing and distribution of certain cough and cold medicines containing the expectorant guaifenesin that are sold without the agency's approval.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said  it would continue recommending use of the Viramune drug in AIDS  patients despite a U.S. regulatory warning, as the benefits  were greater than toxicity problems.
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Hetero Drugs has withdrawn all six of  its antiretroviral drugs from the WHO's list of approved drugs  following concerns about their laboratory tests, the World  Health Organization (WHO) said Friday.
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An HIV drug is being recalled after it was found to be contaminated with a substance that could cause cancer, the medicines watchdog said tonight.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said it would continue recommending use of the Viramune drug in AIDS patients despite a U.S. regulatory warning, as the benefits were greater than toxicity problems.
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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 new concerns about the drug's testing and effect on pregnant women.
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A major maker of generic AIDS medicines voluntarily removed all its antiretroviral medications from the World Health Organization&#39;s list of approved drugs yesterday, a move that could potentially