Scan combo drugs

Health schemes caught between government & World Bank

Double standards

Donate patents

A bad example from the US

A public sector technology transfer bill focuses exclusively on patenting

COVID-19: Trials for cure at a glance

Scientists across the globe are working to develop vaccines for the novel coronavirus disease while exploring whether existing drugs can be …

Hunting elephants, rhinos and pangolins for trade may affect climate, says UN paper; here is how

UNODC paper highlights that illegal wildlife trade has implications for ecosystem function and resilience, including to the persistence of …

The phoenix act

Indian vulture populations stabilise after six years of ban on diclofenac; scientists still wary

Drug firms, retailers on warpath

Pharma companies say chemists refusing to store essential drugs; retailers deny the charge

COVID-19 exposes India’s dependence on China for active pharma ingredients

India imports around 90 per cent of APIs used to make antibiotics, says an expert

World’s first malaria vaccine will be tested in Kenya, Ghana and Malawi

At least 120,000 children in each of the three countries will receive the vaccine

‘Treat severe malnutrition at home’

WHO proposes ready-to-use food. Health experts don’t agree

TB turns invincible

Discovery of a deadly form of TB in a Mumbai hospital  underscores mismanagement

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

Amazon's genetic gold

Scientists decode genome of a bacterium with medical and industrial uses

Bytes

A new antibiotic discovered that quells resistance

New antibiotic may work where others have failed

Tamiflu can be mass produced

Method devised to mass produce drug against bird flu

Promising anti-malaria vaccine tested

Probiotics Not as safe as believed to be

Study finds presence of antibiotic resistance genes in babies within hours of being born

India, Rwanda, Nigeria among countries studied; Drug-resistant sepsis bacteria likely transmitted from mothers or hospital environment

Superbug resistant to antibiotics found in dead World War I soldier

Over the years, the strain of the bacterium acquired mutations that made it more dangerous and persistent

Hard time for honeybees

Entomologist May Berenbaum of University of Illinois in USA has inspired a character in TV series, X-Files. The winner of this year’s Tyler …