Seminars promote patents
Cipla puts US law school on notice
Guggal faces sticky end
Ayurveda prescribes it for heart ailments; no data available on surviving plants
Faulty formula
New drug pricing policy proposes bringing all essential medicines under price control, but makes them expensive
Harmful combo drugs flood market
Irrational drug combos flood market; regulator does little to remove them
Illogical formula
Lopsided drug trial compensation plan marginalises the unemployed and homemakers
Licence revived, production halted
Government-run vaccine units fail to resume supply for immunisation programme
Superbug prompts antibiotics policy
Standard treatment guidelines will determine drug prescription
Victims of vaccination
Vaccine trials in a Madhya Pradesh government hospital are making children sick. Culprit: harmful chemicals in high amounts
Ethics on trial
Five per cent of the clinical trials conducted across the world will be in India by 2012. They are vital for confirming the efficacy of a new drug,…