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

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 …

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 …

Non-communicable diseases: The unrecognised public health threat

Health is rarely the topic of discussion at the UN general assembly. But starting September 19, the UN began a high-level meeting to debate a …

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