Wave Goodbye To Harsh Tennessee Law Targeting Pregnant Drug Users Huffington Post A controversial Tennessee law that explicitly makes it a crime to use drugs while pregnant will officially die this summer. | In 2014, when the state passed the so-called fetal assault law over vocal opposition by medical health professio...
Merck Wins Hepatitis C Drug Patent Claim Against Gilead New York Times A jury upheld the validity of Merck patents in a dispute with Gilead Sciences, which could be forced to hand over a portion of the billions of dollars it has made on hepatitis C drugs. | ... ...
Pregnant Women In Tennessee Will No Longer Face Harsher Penalties For Using Drugs Huffington Post A controversial Tennessee law that explicitly makes it a crime to use drugs while pregnant will officially die this summer. | In 2014, when the state passed the so-called fetal assault law over vocal opposition by medical health professio...
Government defends right to issue drug ‘compulsory licences’ The Times Of India MUMBAI: The government has defended its right to grant licences allowing local companies to override patents and make cheaper copies of drugs discovered by big western drugmakers, and said reports to the contrary were "factually incorrect". | The com...
AstraZeneca strikes out with stroke drug The Examiner Pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca may be having heart palpitations after the so-called SOCRATES clinical trial showed that its recent cardiac drug Brilinta (said to be more potent than Plavix) failed to help stroke patients as anticipated. In fact, ...
