Drugs News
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Researchers have identified mutations associated with resistance to afrontline antimalarial drug called artemisinin. This is part of the fight back against anti-malarial drug resistance.
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Toronto -
Ninety-five of the victims from the Thalidomide scandal are alive and residing in Canada. They continue to push for justice and have spoken with Minister Ambrose. The Canadian government may soon agree to fund full support of the Thalidomide survivors.
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In a new study, a modified bacterial protein is able to trigger a robust immune response against a cocaine-linked molecule in mice. The creators hope it will stop addicts from taking the drug.
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Chemists from UC Irvine decided to unboil egg whites to demonstrate an innovation that could slash costs for cancer treatments, food production and other segments of the $160 billion global biotechnology industry.
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Murders linked to organized crime dropped 33 percent in Mexico last year, official figures showed Friday, as the country struggles with a bloody drug war.
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Madrid -
Spanish police said Friday they had seized 11 tonnes of hashish and detained 55 people across the country as part of an operation targeting a Moroccan drug trafficking ring.Police also seized two million euros ($2.
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Australian prime minister Tony Abbott has pleaded with Indonesian authorities to reconsider the imminent execution of convicted Australian drug traffickers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran.
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Apatzingan -
A new armed group is on the rise in Mexico's violence-wracked Michoacan state. It's called Los Viagras, and its members say they are fighting for "social causes".
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Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has bought a majority stake in Foundation Medicine, a firm that develops personalized cancer-medicine diagnostics.
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The U.S. Institute of Medicine says results from human clinical trials ought to be made available to independent researchers within 18 months. This makes new drugs and their potential side-effects easier to evaluate.
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Paris -
A lethal health crisis is brewing in Russian-annexed Crimea and war-torn eastern Ukraine, where injecting drug users have lost access to therapy to wean them off heroin, the UN's AIDS envoy said Wednesday.
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Sydney -
Canberra is pursuing efforts to save two convicted Australians from the firing squad in Indonesia, Foreign Minister Julia Bishop said Monday after Jakarta executed six drug offenders.
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Jakarta -
Brazil and the Netherlands recalled their ambassadors from Indonesia and expressed fury Sunday after Jakarta defied their pleas and executed two of their citizens along with four other drug offenders.
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Two of the convicted Bali Nine narcotics smugglers facing possible execution shortly are now praying for a miracle, after Indonesia has just executed six inmates, jailed for the same offence.
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Brazil's president was "distressed and outraged" after Indonesia defied her repeated pleas and executed one of her countrymen convicted of drug trafficking, a spokesman said Saturday.
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New York -
Defense lawyers for Ross Ulbricht, the alleged mastermind of online criminal enterprise Silk Road, sought to convince New York jurors that the wrong man was in the dock.
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Tirana -
The nephew of Albania's former dictator Enver Hoxha was on Thursday arrested on suspicion of running a cocaine laboratory.
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Madrid -
The arrival in Europe of better but pricier hepatitis C drugs has raised pressure on Spanish leaders over health spending cuts which sufferers say deprive them of life-saving treatments.
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New York -
The accused US mastermind of an underground criminal website that distributed narcotics, hacking services and forged documents to more than 100,000 people all over the world goes on trial Tuesday.
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Bejing -
The son of kung fu star Jackie Chan admitted drugs offences on Friday and was sentenced to six months in prison, a Beijing court said.
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Denpasar -
An Australian drug smuggler on death row in Indonesia has lost a bid for presidential clemency, his final chance to avoid execution, a court official said Thursday.
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Can currently available drugs be used to help treat Ebola? This is an area which has attracted considerable research interest. Finding the right drug is certainly cheaper than inventing alternatives.
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Morelia -
The leader of one of Mexico's first anti-crime vigilante groups was arrested along with 26 supporters over a shootout that killed his son and 10 others, authorities said.
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Scientists have reported that compounds that they hoped would "wake up" dormant reservoirs of HIV inside immune system T cells, allowing them to be destroyed by targeted medications, have not been successful.
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An investigation into the death of high school senior has highlighted the dangers of students taking powdered caffeine as a study or workout stimulant.
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How much does it cost to produce a pharmaceutical product these days? According to a new study, the typical cost has rocketed to $2.6 billion. The $ figure is up from an estimated price tag of $1 billion from an analysis published in 2003.
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Veracruz -
Mexican police shot and killed six people during a raid in a state wracked by drug cartel violence, an official said.Another seven people were arrested and two kidnapped people were freed in the operation in Veracruz.
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Den Haag -
Street teams and "smart shops" in Amsterdam will on Friday start selling heroin test kits after three young British tourists died snorting a drug they thought was cocaine, Dutch media said.
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New Delhi -
An independent investigation into the death of 13 women in India after mass sterilisation surgeries found the doctor and his staff used the same needles for all the procedures and never changed their gloves.
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Sydney -
Six men have been charged over what Australian police said on Saturday was one of the largest drug busts in the country's history, worth up to Aus$1.5 billion (US$1.28 billion).
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File photo: 158 arrested in Utah's largest ever ICE-led gang enforcement action - 8/19/2010 ICE
Cannabis setup inside a residential premises that was discovered by UK police officers West Midlands Police
A rolling paper with a filter and marijuana. Erik Fenderson
Hydromorphone has a variety of medical uses but can cause death when combined with other drugs. Vaprotan
Smoking Sisa Vice (UK) Beta
Blood and urine samples are a necessary evil in the Olympic games. Publik 15
Mexican authorities seizure of guns and cash in the Drug Wars Mexican Drug Enforcement Administration
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$2.5 million of cocaine was fished out of Florida waters in June 2013. Okaloosa County Sheriff's Office
Medical marijuana Via Flickr user Mark
Drug smugglers jack up a fence along the boarder between Mexico and the United States, smuggling backpacks full of drugs into the country. Screen Capture
Supporters of Drug Kingpin Christopher Dudus Coke have set fire to police stations, exchanged fire, throw Molotov cocktails and taken over the streets in one section of Kingston Jamaica in support of Dudus. Jamaica News Media
Although not related to this case, a discarded syringe was seen on the ground. Possible evidence of drug abuse in the housing commission (council house/project) dominated area.
Treyvon Martin, George Zimmerman, President Bill Clinton signs Brady Gun Law into law. Drug busts uncover 100s of guns. Gun retailers.
Homeopathy watching horrors of Allopathy Alexander Beydeman (1826—1869)
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