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FDA panel begins hearings on hepatitis C treatment

A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel began hearings on Monday on a new approach to hepatitis C by Schering-Plough Corp., that uses a combination of drugs to fight the virus and boost the

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Jaundice kills 19 in Thane district

Jaundice has claimed 19 lives in Dombivali-Kalyan townships in Thane district of Maharashtra in the last two

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- Greenpeace launches biodegradable credit card

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06/05/1998

The environmental group Greenpeace, in announcing its affiliation on Monday with a biodegradabvle credit card, challenged US financial services companies to adopt similar technology and to stop using

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Computer export curbs 'still viable'

US controls to limit export of high-performance computers with potential military applications remain viable, despite the rapid increase in international availability of powerful new microprocessors,

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Canada water could become a trade good

Canada's fresh water could become subject to international trade regulations after Ontario issued permit letting a small Canadian company draw water from Lake Superior in order to export it to Asia.

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- TB

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05/05/1998

Drug resistant strains threaten national health security : Even as the India celebrated the Tuberculosis eradication day on March 24 along with the rest of the world, a WHO study has slammed the

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Greenpeace issues dire warning to world governments at biodiversity conservation

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05/05/1998

Greenpeace warned the world's environment ministers about the disaster-in-waiting for global biological diversity if immediate action is not taken to protect biodiversity. Government environmental

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Builders enlisted to fight warming

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05/05/1998

President Clinton urged the building industry to join a national campaign aimed at cutting energy consumption in new houses in half over the next decade. Clinton's challenge came at the formal launch

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Big fishing boats threaten fish stocks and jobs alike

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05/05/1998

Greenpeace released a report detailing the expansion of the capacity, or fishing power, of the world's industrial fishing fleet over the past few years. The report "Assessment of the World's Fishing

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GSLV launch 'early next year'

The indigenously-built GSLV rocket will be launched during the early part of next year, according to Indian Space Research organisation (ISRO) sources. Work in this connection had already started at

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