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Drug Industry
Smooth operator
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
THE SPEED with which certain chemical reactions occur depends on substances called catalysts. Chemists are always on the lookout for better ones and carbenes, a group of carbon-containing compounds, has been used as catalysts for a while now. A series of researches have been directed towards perfecting them. A recent result: abnormal N-heterocyclic carbenes (a nhcs) that are stable at room temperature.
South Asia
Issue Date: Nov 30, 2009
Sri lanka reacts to Vaccine: Sri Lanka has decided to blacklist three Indian pharma companies for two years following the death of two school girls, aged 12 and 13, who were vaccinated for rubella (German measles). Though WHO gave a clean chit to the vaccines, Sri Lanka decided to ban the pharma companies as they were found supplying contaminated saline bottles and vaccine vials containing glass particles. The Sri Lankan health minister said it was a serious breach of medical ethics.
Lungs, beware
@vibhavarshney Issue Date: Nov 15, 2009
People suffering from asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease have been taking help from cfcs
(chlorofluorocarbons), an ozone-depleting chemical, to breathe easier. cfc is used as a delivery agent, or
propellant, in inhalers. But an international agreement signed in 1987 makes it mandatory to stop using cfc after
Science isn't above commerce
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2009
The high costs of publishing traditional journals open the door for sponsored content
In April 2009, an online life sciences magazine, The-Scientist.com carried a curious story about a journal called The Australasian
Journal of Bone and Medicine that was published in the early part of the century. The journal published by the reputed publisher Elsevier
Free trade will bind India
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2009
30 agreements to be signed; they violate public interest say activists
the seventh round of free trade negotiations between India and EU held at Brussels in mid-July ended in a
deadlock after the negotiators disagreed on the modalities of the agreement. Fresh talks will be held in November to thresh out details of the
In Court
Issue Date: Aug 15, 2009
Tender bias: Hyderabad-based Aurobindo Pharma Ltd has sued the South African government for showing bias towards local pharma
companies while awarding contracts worth US $400-million to supply anti-retroviral drugs for a UN sponsored HIV/AIDS programme. The
company is currently the world's largest producer of antiretroviral aids drugs but lost the tender despite quoting prices 30 per cent lower than the
rival companies. Sixty per cent of the contract, awarded last year, went to South Africa-based firms. Aurobindo Pharma Ltd took over a year to
prepare its case.
A vaccine for corrupt alliances
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2009
The last time the prime minister bent too far to keep the coalition going
Not the morning after remedy
Issue Date: Jul 31, 2009
Overuse of emergency contraceptives can kill
A 21-year-old came to the Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, bleeding profusely. She had had an emergency contraceptive pill within three days of unprotected intercourse. She thought the bleeding was a side effect of the pill. But she was informed she was pregnant and the foetus had implanted in her fallopian tube. The doctor prepared for an abortion.
