Protests against Abbott laboratory in Bangkok

Zyprexa, of pharma major Elli Lilly, promoted for off-label uses

Scan combo drugs

Health schemes caught between government & World Bank

Double standards

Donate patents

South Asia

Cancer drug touted as fertility pill

Cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices …

MONEYMAKERS

Patents Vs Patients

WTO's conundrum: cheap drugs for poor countries or protecting North's business interests

Withdrawal symptoms

Drug firms abandon their case against South Africa over the pricing of AIDS medicines

Liquid asset

What exactly is this US patent on the cow urine-antibiotic combination?

Amazon's genetic gold

Scientists decode genome of a bacterium with medical and industrial uses

A new antibiotic discovered that quells resistance

New antibiotic may work where others have failed

Promising anti-malaria vaccine tested

That which is injurious to health

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A green company in a grey market

There was a time when Payinthulasi, a 40-year old herb gatherer of village Utchananthal in Virudunagar district of Tamil Nadu, had to trudge to …

In short

Healthy advice to pharma companies

Drug abuse

Ranbaxy, Dutch pharma put paid to groundwater

Cut-and-paste patent report withdrawn

A vaccine for corrupt alliances

A treaty to block cheaper drugs

Developed countries to use a geographical advantage to stop generics

Life industry goldrush

Trade in bio-industrial products is on in full swing, conjuring up visions of El dorado. But whether the Indian industry can embark on this …

Dispensing with dear drugs

New US law to clear the decks for generic drugs (Read full article)