Judge Resigns After Video Shows Him Sleeping During A Trial

A Russian judge has resigned after a video apparently showed him asleep during a trial that ended with him sentencing the defendant to five years in a penal colony, Russian media reported on Friday.

Russian justice system has a notoriously high conviction rate, and the critics of the system were outraged when the video purporting to show Judge Yevgeny Makhno sleeping through a defense…

Gaddafi’s Ex-PM Goes On Trial In Libya Over Mass Rape

Deposed Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s former Prime Minister went on trial on Monday over allegations including corruption and ordering mass rape during the war in 2011.

Al Baghdadi al-Mahmoudi could face life in jail or execution if convicted. He served as the ousted Libyan leader’s prime minister from 2006 until he fled to neighbouring Tunisia around the time rebel fighters took Tripoli…

Fuel Subsidy Trial – Uba to Remain in Custody

Lagos — The Chief Executive Officer of Capital Oil and Gas, Ifeanyi Uba and four other oil marketers standing trial on alleged fuel subsidy scam will remain in the custody of the Special Fraud Unit of the Nigeria Police as a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos yesterday threw out their bail applications.

Uba is standing trial alongside Nsika Usoro, Godfrey Okorie, Chibuzor Ogbuokiri, and Joseph Orji, all of whom…

Mariners goalkeeper Ryan to link up with Wigan, West Brom after Tottenham trial

Mat Ryan’s forthcoming trial at Tottenham has put the goalkeeper on the radar of more English Premier League clubs, with the Central Coast goalkeeper set for further training spells at Wigan Athletic and West Bromwich.

Ryan’s one-week training stint with Spurs begins on Thursday after Andre Villas-Boas’ men return from their pre-season tour of the United States, with the talented 20-year-old – called up to the full Australia…

QPR manager Hughes praises Anton Ferdinand’s reaction to race trial

QPR manager Mark Hughes praised the reaction of defender Anton Ferdinand following his appearance at John Terry’s trial at Westminster magistrates court.

Terry was found not guilty of a racially aggravated public order offence on Friday, after a week long trial over allegations that he had racially abused Ferdinand in an exchange during QPR’s 1-0 victory over Chelsea in October last…

Capital Market Probe: Hunter Becomes Hunted as Hembe Faces Trial While Oteh Faces House

 

Cystic fibrosis drug shows promise in trial

By Dr Ananya Mandal, MD

The latest clinical trial in its later advanced stags found that oral drug ivacaftor (VX-77) provides major, sustained improvement in lung function, growth and other signs and symptoms for a subset of cystic fibrosis patients.

This came from a multisite study that marks the first time a drug has been shown to work on the…

Positive results from Pearl Therapeutics’ PT001 Phase 2b trial on COPD

Pearl Therapeutics Inc. today announced positive top-line results from a randomized, double-blind, Phase 2b, dose-ranging study of glycopyrrolate, a long-acting muscarinic agonist (LAMA) delivered twice a day (BID) via metered-dose inhaler (GP MDI; PT001) in patients with moderate-to-severe COPD. Four doses of GP MDI were compared to placebo and Atrovent® HFA Inhalation Aerosol, a short-acting muscarinic antagonist…

JHN to initiate new Phase I immunotherapy trial in glioblastoma

Physicians at the Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience (JHN), the region’s only dedicated hospital for neuroscience, are tackling a particularly aggressive brain cancer that even surgery, chemotherapy and radiation often fail to treat with a promising newimmunotherapy to attack a patient’s tumor with their own cancer cells.

Starting as early as January, the first of 12 patients diagnosed with a malignant astrocytoma from a…

RaySearch initiates IMRT European trial to treat rectal cancer

RaySearch Laboratories AB (STO:RAYB) announces that the first patient in Europe has been treated with a treatment plan created with RaySearch’s treatment planning system RayStation®. The treatment was carried out at RISO, the Radiotherapeutic Institute in Deventer, the Netherlands. RISO is a public independent radiotherapeutic institute offering radiotherapy for multiple hospitals in the region. The patient…