Health Watch

Monday, February 12, 2007

British company in talks with drugs giants to licence future cancer treatment

British company in talks with drugs giants to licence future cancer treatment

CATHERINE BOYLE

The Business

10 Feb 2007



SANOFI-AVENTIS and AstraZeneca, the pharmaceutical giants, have opened talks with Antisoma, a British biotech firm, to license its revolutionary new cancer treatment. Pfizer is also thought to be potentially interested in Antisoma’s product, which is... read more...

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A menace to science

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Monday, February 05, 2007

Expert attacks HIV sceptics

Expert attacks HIV sceptics

Jeremy Roberts

Australian

02 Feb 2007



ONE of the world’s top HIV researchers has branded as ‘‘ wrong, mischievous and harmful’’ claims by an organised group of HIV deniers that the virus does not lead to AIDS. David Cooper, director of the National Centre in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical... read more...

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The viral state

The viral state



The Gazette, Colorado Springs

04 Feb 2007



It’s one thing for public schools to require that students be vaccinated against communicable diseases that are involuntarily spread, such as measles, mumps or rubella. It’s another for the state to demand that teen girls be vaccinated against a... read more...

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FITNESS THROUGH THE AGES

FITNESS THROUGH THE AGES



Edmonton Journal

05 Feb 2007



HORIZONTAL PULL-UP This exercise is a variation of the traditional vertical chin-up which, frankly, few people can do. Tana Wold starts by lying on her back on a Smith machine underneath a weight bar positioning herself as if she was going to do a... read more...

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Thursday, February 01, 2007

Health care

Health care



The Windsor Star

30 Jan 2007



The Quebec government has raised eyebrows in Ottawa over a soon to be implemented law that allows for a mixture of public and private health care. Bill 33, passed by Quebec’s National Assembly in response to a Supreme Court ruling that health care... read more...

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Bush’s better health-care policy

Bush’s better health-care policy



The Washington Times Weekly

29 Jan 2007



If a liberal president proposed reforming the tax code to give working families a bigger tax break for health care than corporations and giving poor families direct assistance to buy health care to boot, the New York Times and rest of the mainstream... read more...

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