http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. Australian judges hearing a legal challenge to new laws requiring plain packaging for cigarettes deferred their decision Thursday until a later date, yet to be decided. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-australian-court-defers-tobacco-packaging.html Health Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:26:00 EST news254024748 Australia said it was confident of seeing off a court challenge Tuesday by big tobacco firms over plain-packaging for cigarettes, in a test case being watched by governments around the world. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-04-australia-big-tobacco-firms-court.html Health Tue, 17 Apr 2012 03:32:25 EST news253852333 Bayer AG said Tuesday it was mulling ways to challenge a ground-breaking Indian ruling allowing a local firm to produce a vastly cheaper copy of a cancer drug made by the German pharmaceutical giant. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-bayer-mulls-india-cancer-drug.html Medications Tue, 13 Mar 2012 11:13:26 EST news250856001 (AP) -- India effectively ended Bayer's monopoly on a patented cancer drug Monday, licensing a much cheaper generic under a unique law aimed at keeping costs affordable. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-03-india-patented-bayer-drug.html Medications Mon, 12 Mar 2012 17:30:01 EST news250791132 (AP) -- Efforts by India and the European Union to strengthen trade are threatening India's ability to deliver lifesaving medicines to the world's poorest, analysts say as the two sides push through protracted negotiations on a free-trade pact. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-02-india-global-pharmacy-role-threatened.html Medications Fri, 10 Feb 2012 05:30:02 EST news248074058 The Australian government on Friday hit out at British American Tobacco for using images of kangaroos to sell its cigarettes in Europe, telling the company to "get your hands off our icons". http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-australia-fumes-kangaroos.html Health Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:00:01 EST news245641393 Global tobacco giant Philip Morris Tuesday stepped up its legal campaign against an Australian law banning logos and branding from cigarette packs, saying it had taken its case to the High Court. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-philip-morris-plain-australia.html Health Tue, 20 Dec 2011 05:20:03 EST news243579340 British American Tobacco on Thursday launched a High Court challenge against a law that will require plain packaging on cigarettes in Australia, claiming it infringes intellectual property rights. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-british-american-tobacco-australia-packaging.html Health Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:30:01 EST news241928014