Month: August 2014

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Philip Morris International, the world's largest tobacco company, is prepared to sue the British government should it implement a law requiring plain packaging of cigarettes, a document seen by Reuters on Tuesday showed. The UK government has conducted a consultation with its Department of Health on potential legislation which would force cigarette makers to sell their products in plain packages with graphic health warnings and no branding. The maker of Marlboro cigarettes "is prepared to protect its rights in the courts and to seek fair compensation for the value of its property," the company has told the UK government in response to its consultation. The UK government said in April it wanted to implement plain packaging after a review found it could reduce the incidence of children taking up smoking.

By Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA (Reuters) – Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni wants to re-issue a divisive anti-gay law that was rejected by a court, but without tough penalties for consenting adults, a ruling party lawmaker said on Tuesday. The original version of the law passed in February punished gay sex with long prison terms and alarmed Western donors, some of whom withheld aid in protest. Uganda's constitutional court overturned it on a technicality this month. "We agreed to come up with a new version that doesn't hurt our Western friends but also protects Ugandans," lawmaker Medard Bitekyerezo said.

By Kate Kelland and Stephanie Nebehay LONDON/GENEVA (Reuters) – It is ethical to offer unproven drugs or vaccines to people infected or at risk in West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak, a World Health Organization panel of medical ethics experts ruled on Tuesday, but cautioned supplies will be limited. The panel said any provision of experimental Ebola medicines would require "informed consent, freedom of choice, confidentiality, respect for the person, preservation of dignity and involvement of the community". …

A research team from Queen's University in Canada, led by Richard Oko, has indentified a method of inducing fertilization using a synthetic version of the protein PAWP found in sperm cells. Their findings could circumvent the problem for men whose sperm is unable to initiate the fertilization process. "PAWP is able to induce embryo development in human eggs in a fashion similar to the natural triggering of embryo development by the sperm cell during fertilization," says Dr. Oko of the Biomedical and Molecular Sciences department.

MADRID (AP) — The World Health Organization declared Tuesday that it's ethical to use unproven Ebola drugs and vaccines in the outbreak in West Africa provided the right conditions are met.

Rwanda said Tuesday that a German man put in isolation with fever had tested negative for the deadly tropical disease Ebola. "We would like to inform you that the suspected case of Ebola tested negative," the Ministry of Health said in a statement. Minister of Health Agnes Binagwaho said the patient was a medical student who had recently spent time in Liberia, one of four west African countries where the virus has been spreading. Like other nations across east Africa, Rwanda says it has put in place measures against the deadly virus.

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MADRID (AP) — A Spanish missionary priest being treated for Ebola died Tuesday in a Madrid hospital amid a worldwide ethical debate over who should get an experimental Ebola drug.

A panel of medical experts has determined it is ethical to provide experimental treatments to patients infected with the deadly Ebola virus, the World Health Organization said Tuesday as the global death toll topped 1,000. There is currently no available cure or vaccine for Ebola, and the WHO has declared the latest outbreak a global public health emergency. US company Mapp Bioparmaceutical which makes the drug said Monday it had sent all its available supplies to west Africa.