Documents tagged 'Drugs'
Published: 15/11/2008
Hard drugs should be supplied free on the NHS to help sever the link between addiction and crime, says former cabinet minister Clare Short. She said the present policy was not working and 67% of crime was linked to drugs. The former international development secretary, who resigned in protest...
Published: 15/11/2008
The biggest-ever trial of drugs based on cannabis has confirmed the belief of multiple sclerosis patients’ that they can ease their symptoms. The study, of more than 600 patients, published in the Lancet medical journal, also provided some evidence that they boosted mobility. Other...
Published: 15/11/2008
Cholesterol-lowering medications might reduce women’s risk of breast cancer as well as heart disease, a new study suggests. The notion that inhibiting cholesterol might prevent the development of tumors is a decade old. So far, results of studies of cholesterol-lowering drugs have been...
Published: 15/11/2008
The vast majority of HIV patients taking the latest combination treatments survive at least a decade, say researchers. Trials across several European countries found death rates from Aids have fallen by 80% since 1997, when the regime was introduced. Older people infected with HIV no longer...
Published: 15/11/2008
Health insurance premiums rose 13.9% this year, their fastest clip since 1990 - and twice as many Americans fear being unable to afford prescription drugs as worry about stock market losses or becoming unemployed. The rapid rise in premiums marks the third year of double-digit increases and...
Published: 15/11/2008
Negotiators have overcome last-minute hitches to reach a deal in Geneva on giving some of the world’s poorest countries access to cheap drugs. World Trade Organisation spokesman Keith Rockwell described the agreement, which settles a long-standing dispute, as ’one of the most important...
Published: 15/11/2008
The World Trade Organisation’s executive has delayed final approval of a deal to give some of the world’s poorest countries access to cheap drugs. WTO members had earlier agreed in principle to a deal that could see millions of people around the world receiving medicines to treat killer...
Published: 15/11/2008
Yeast is already invaluable to humans - it helps make beer and bread - but scientists are hoping to use it to mass produce lifesaving drugs. US researchers have managed to get a particular type of yeast to secrete a body chemical called a glycoprotein. This and similar proteins are the raw...
Published: 15/11/2008
A deal which could give some of the world’s poorest countries access to cheap drugs has edged closer. According to the World Trade Organisation, the United States, Brazil, India, South Africa and Kenya have struck a deal. These countries had been at loggerheads over plans to make cheap...
Published: 15/11/2008
Even casual smoking during pregnancy produces behavioural changes in newborn babies similar to those induced by illegal drugs, research has found. Scientists found that women who smoked just six to seven cigarettes per day gave birth to babies who more jittery, more excitable, stiffer and more...
