A fine balance

The bill keeps national interests intact and remains TRIPS compliant

Nuclear protection pills for California residents

Broad spectrum drugs rule India

Look out for toxins in vaccines

Vector control, drug infusion to check filariasis

Add telaprevir

Pills can break bone

Studies explain how drugs for asthma, diabetes cause osteoporosis

Heavy metals in household, industrial waste help spread drug resistance

Researchers have identified exposure to cadmium a reason for typhoid causing Salmonella becoming resistant to antibiotics

Mental health: It’s not always good to talk

Silence in and around mental illness is not always bad; depressed silence can need help from mental healthcare professional as part of recovery

India’s HIV-affected community ends protest over alleged shortage of drugs

Control office to be set up to work on forecasting, availability, supply chain, dispensing antiretroviral drugs  

Doctor who blocked thalidomide from release in the US dies at 101

Frances Oldham Kelsey had recently been appointed to the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest honours

When supervisors cheat

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Drugs controller asks states to ensure judicious use of antibiotics in animals

State veterinarians, feed manufacturers told to stop the use of antibiotics in feed

Fighting fire with fire

Side effects of a drug can be subdued by using another

Ranbaxy to pay $500 million to settle cases in US

Company was selling sub-standard drugs; submitted false claims to health authorities

Metals blunt drugs

How heavy metals foster antibiotic resistance

Three-in-one offer

Pill trouble

Dabur given go-ahead to market birth defect-causing drug

Bytes

Misunderstood cannabis

Can help regenerate brain cells

Olive relief

As good as a painkiller

Protests against Abbott laboratory in Bangkok

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