Merck faked to promote drug

100 days without COVID-19: How New Zealand got rid of the virus

New Zealand committed relatively early to a clearly articulated elimination strategy and pursued it aggressively

New ruse in Big Pharma's old game

Drug multinationals are lobbying for a devious patent linkage system to block the entry of competitive generics

`Eating chicken is like taking a course of antibiotics'

Devi Shetty, cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Health, has seen increasing cases of antibiotic resistance at his hospital. Even those who …

Looming threat of a secretive trade pact

Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will extend restrictive intellectual property laws globally

Access denied

Shortage of antiretroviral drugs and lack of diagnosis is not new in India, but government does not admit to the crisis

Will the boom last?

Fifteen years after it rose and went limp, the biotech sector, globally, as well as in India has seen a bull run of sorts. In January this year, …

TRIPPED

On December 26, 2004, the Union government of India issued the Patents (Amendments) Ordinance, which will change the way the country does …

Shelling out remedies

Marine organisms like bivalves hold cures for viral diseases

Minorities yoked to spin on first AIDS vaccine trials

Fight over Novartis's patent to intensify

Renal risk

From common medicine to prevent bleeding during cardiac surgery

Madras HC dismisses Novartis' petition

WHO's Stop TB partnership programme

Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

Ranbaxy fights Pfizer on generic drugs but wants strong home law on patents

Africa gets substandard malaria drugs

Science and Technology - Briefs

Nemesis of killer drugs

The investigator who took on a pharma giant in the US

Superbug: India gets bugged

Government downplays threat from drug-resistant bacteria

Nagaur breaks free of pharma stranglehold

Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu make quality drugs affordable

No patent linkage

Bayer’s attempt to pre-empt Cipla’s cancer drug fails

In vitro testing needs a push

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

The microbes strike back

Diseases that were cheerfully believed to have been eradicated are inexplicably cropping up again in India in deadlier, drug-resistant forms