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Global Tobacco Treaty Meeting Adopts Strong Guidelines for Protecting Against Industry Abuse

According to estimates from the UNAIDS 2008 Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, around 30.8 million adults and 2 million children were living with HIV at the end of 2007.

On the 5th of November I was in Khandwa, a town in central India, taking part in a rally organized by the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), or Save the Narmada Movement.

Today 160 countries agreed on strong new guidelines to block tobacco industry interference in global health policies and the implementation of the global tobacco treaty.

Pantheon China Acquisition Corp. announced today that its Board of Directors has re-set the record date to determine Pantheon stockholders who will be entitled to receive notice of and to vote at a special meeting of Pantheon stockholders. The Company no

Heska Corporation today announced it will present at the New York Society of Security Analysts' 12th Annual Biotech and Specialty Pharma Conference on December 2, 2008 at 1177 Avenue of the Americas, 2nd Floor inNew York, NY. The presentation is schedule

BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. today announced that Dr. Emil Kakkis, its Chief Medical Officer will retire from the company on February 27, 2009. Dr. Kakkis has decided to leave his position with the company to allow him to be able to devote more of his ti

A Florida State University College of Medicine research team led by Yanchang Wang has discovered an important new layer of regulation in the cell division cycle, which could lead to a greater understanding of the way cancer begins.