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Next Gleevec Showdown Is Oct. 8

EDITOR’S PICK – Novartis has an Oct. 8 hearing before India’s Madras High Court to argue that the former head of the Indian Patent Office should be disqualified from considering the company’s appeal of a patent rejection for oncologic Gleevec (imatinib), according to The Economic Times of India.

China Defends Food Safety Record

EDITOR’S PICK – China’s Ministry of Health has sent a voluntary eight-page notice to the World Health Organization outlining steps the country has taken recently to improve food safety, according to an Aug. 29 report by the Associated Press.