Last Thursday police in London shot and killed Mark Duggan, a north London drug dealer while attempting to make an arrest.
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London drug giant AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people) has said that more than half of the leads on new drugs it's working on this year come from Incyte's databases.
But it doesn't make the London-based drug giant much money anymore: Tamoxifen went off-patent and is now available as a cheap generic.
The London-based drug giant is the world's second-biggest drug company in terms of total sales, but it has had trouble delivering revenue growth and may feel it needs even more heft to compete with Pfizer after that company merges with Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ).
Merck doesn't get that all to itself--it shares that drug with London's AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people).
Dean Ames is head of the Forensic Science Service's drugs unit, which analyses drug seizures in London.
The patent on Prilosec, a stomach acid reflux drug made by London-based AstraZeneca (nyse: AZN - news - people), expires in April 2001, although it will likely be extended six months.
It was still the club drug of choice in London last summer, says Fiona Measham, of the University of Lancaster.
The most dangerous are opiates (ie, heroin and methadone), which kill about 1.5% of their users each year, according to London's Institute for the Study of Drug Dependence.
The panel also noted that the "evidence suggesting very clearly that the analyitcal results reported by DCC (Drug Control Centre, Kings College London) in connection with the A sample were difficult to interpret".
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Professor Gordon Rustin and his team tested the drug at Mount Vernon Hospital, west London.
Mr Dobson said he planned to speak out on cheap homes for essential workers, regeneration for London's deprived areas, jobs the unskilled, drug abuse, and in favour of greater use of the meningitis vaccine that he introduced as health secretary.
That is why last year Director Kerlikowske accompanied various Members of Congress and interested congressional staff during visits to Louisville, Lexington, London, and Pikeville to share the latest information on the prescription drug abuse epidemic with officials from the public and private sectors and offer Federal assistance in combating the problem.
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But he says the London 2012 program is "very, very good, " reiterating that drug-takers will be found out.
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All ended up seriously ill, with multiple organ failure, soon after being injected with the drug at a special testing unit at Northwick Park Hospital in London, run by a company called Parexel.
Drug researchers such as Andy Parrott, at the University of East London, beg to differ.
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Here's how Zeneca, a London-based pharmaceuticals firm, went about using Incyte to help it discover a drug that would bust bacteria without hurting humans.
Susan Kramer, who stood as the Liberal Democrat's candidate for London mayor, added herself to the list of those who said they had tried the drug in the past.
Barrister Anna Watterson spoke of how she became ill with drug-resistant TB when she was a law student living in north-west London.
Meanwhile, the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has defended its decision not to drug test all medal-winning athletes, in contrast to what happened at the London Olympics.
The change, which has yet to be implemented, is being announced at a speech in London at the Wellcome Trust, where Glaxo chief executive Andrew Witty is also detailing how the British drug giant has made its chemical libraries available to researchers working on drugs against tuberculosis and malaria.
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Dr Magiorkinis, who did the work in collaboration with the University of Athens and Imperial College London, said the model had helped build a "solid argument" to improve early diagnosis and antiviral treatment in drug users.
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