Organ Transplant Act in India needs to be rectified, feel Indian doctors. This is necessary to perform face transplant surgery. Doctors say that there is no technical problems for face transplantation, only the law must be clearer about the whole issue. The present transplant laws allow cadaveric transplantation (organ retrieval from a brain dead but beating heart donor). However, doctors feel the law have a long way to go.
Germany’s lower house of parliament, has passed the new law for the benefit of the stem cell researchers. It allows the stem cell researchers to use the stem cell made before May 1, 2007. German stem cell researchers so far were allowed to work with the stem cell made before year 2002. So, stem cell researchers can now work on a broader horizon.
The Quebec customers filed a class action lawsuit against Bell Canada on charges of Internet hijacking at the Quebec Superior Court last week. The fraud victims say that without their knowledge, or consent, their computers downloaded a hidden program which caused their computers to place expensive, long distance phone calls.
Kristin Miller, today, has filed a class action lawsuit against a Georgia based company, Smart Document Solutions in Phillips County Circuit Court under the Arkansas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (ADTPA). The said company provides medical record copying services for health care providers.
A class action lawsuit has been filed against Alcoa, over emissions from its three alumina refineries in the western Australia. The legal action against Alcoa, will take place in United States. The lawsuit will be spearheaded by the environmental campaigner Erin Brockovich.
Italy’s dairy group Parmalat SpA said that it will issue new stock valued at more than $36 million to settle a class-action case against it. Parmalat will also pay up to 1 million euros ($1.55 million) of the cost of notifying the class members of the settlement, the statement said.
At a decision at the Missouri Court of Appeals, the court has decided to rewrite part of a proposed constitutional amendment banning a particular type of embryonic stem cell research. However, the sponsoring group, Cures Without Cloning, would have to turn in about 150,000 signatures by Sunday.
Whirlpool, is going to settle its, class action lawsuit over the defective water heater issue. The company sources told that the affected consumers are given two months time to file claims in the settlement. Nearly 1000 consumers have filed complaints that thermocouple in their Flame Lock or Flame Guard Whirlpool water heaters continuously breaks down, leaving them without hot water sometimes for days. They have filed their complaints with consumeraffairs.com.
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Brodsky & Smith, LLC announces that a class action lawsuit has been filed on behalf of all the purchasers of the common stock of The Blackstone Group L.P. The class action lawsuit was filed in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Kuslima Shogun, CEO and founder of biopharmaceutical giant Alfcell, plans to retire by the March 31 of next year. The retirement came as a part of a deal the company said could reduce royalty payments to Shogun by $20 million over the next 10 years if the company’s lead drug candidate, Onconase, is approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Additionally, Onconase is a proposed treatment for malignant mesothelioma.
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