Is UN giving in to industry?

UN adopts resolution to fight chronic lifestyle diseases, without targets or commitments

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South Africa on alert after TB outbreak

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Mobile technology to be used to improve maternal and child health in Africa

Smartphones will help health workers track the health of expecting mothers and their unborn children

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Mess in Manipur

Abbott slashes price of Kaletra in 40 developing nations

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Brazil issues compulsory licence for anti-HIV/AIDS drug

AIDS medicine prices lowered

Thailand issues generic drug licences

Blood plasma sale to Reliance by state blood banks in Odisha under scanner

Health officials say nothing wrong with decision to sell surplus blood plasma for revenue; activists say it's unethical

Notes on migration

Bhojpuri folk songs expressing feelings of women left behind by migrant workers have evolved over the centuries, reflecting changing patterns of …

Coffins for the EU Delegation in Delhi

Health activists protest against the EU-India investment treaty under negotiation now

Novartis loses patent appeal in landmark suit

Supreme Court upholds amended law that bars patents for insignificant improvements to an existing drug—in this case anti-cancer drug …

MDG Report 2014: India among worst performers in poverty reduction, maternal death and sanitation

Report shows good progress in areas like poverty alleviation and access to clean water and controlling diseases like TB, Malaria

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Patent claim on hepatitis C drug questioned in many countries

With hepatitis C killing at least 700,000 people every year, civil society has strengthened efforts to make the drug accessible

Call to make healthy choices available and affordable

Health experts lash out at food industry for putting public health at risk

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'Lifestyle' diseases spur UN to act

Time to wake up to threat of NCDs

As the UN begins its meeting to devise strategies to tackle NCDs, Indian public health activists say it was a wake-up call for the health …