IN BRIEF.

The article presents news items related to medicine. An independent public inquiry has been set up to examine how thousands of people with hemophilia became infected with HIV and hepatitis C after receiving tainted blood in Great Britain. U.S. federal court judge Jack Weinstein has said that eight defendants must return Eli Lilly documents on the marketing and side effects of olanapine. A much disputed German healthcare reform bill was passed in March 2007 after having received approval from representatives of Germany's 16 states.