Targeting the tiger

Playing with life

An ayurvedic researcher's forays against the dreaded AIDS virus unmasks a tale of greed and un-Hippocratian behaviour

June 30, 2003: The day conservation policy could have changed

Usually, the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) does manage to stick to its guns in the face of adversity, or even rationality. But …

Does science need spiritualism?

At the time of Independence, India saw 'big' science and technology as the only way ahead. Perhaps with good reason. Fifty-odd years later, though,…

Venom code

Taking the wrong anti-venom could be dangerous too

Immune virus

HIV bringsscience down on its knees

Teasing death

The trials run before introducing drugs into the market are peppered with death-inviting inaccuracies and even brazen lies

Feverish inactivity

Tonic for the industry, trial for the patients

Industry pundits predict that greater decentralisation for the drug sector will raise production to three times the present level in less than a …

Mystique of metal therapy

Incredible though it may seem, it is being claimed that cancer and multiple sclerosis, the two deadly diseases that have often eluded cure, can …

A matter of the mind

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day

Back with a vengeance

Malaria is making a comeback. Parasites and mosquitoes have developed resistance to drugs and insecticides and new drugs are too costly and …

A tradition is revived

Across the Palk Strait, Sri Lanka turns back the pages and rejuvenates its traditional indigenous systems of medicine

A patent row

Can the public sector take responsibility to develop drugs for neglected diseases?

Victims of ignorance

Teasing death

The trials run before introducing drugs into the market are peppered with death-inviting inaccuracies and even brazen lies

Malignant trials

Did Kerala's Regional Cancer Centre use unsuspecting patients as guinea pigs to conduct drug tests?

Vulture restaurant: diclofenac-free meat on platter

The body factory

Sayantan Bera photographs the no-nonsense obsession with muscles

The NATCO CL fallout

The compulsory licence granted to Natco may not be a trendsetter but it will shake up the pharmaceuticals market

Getting the drug equation right

Sonal Matharu reports how fights over counterfeit drugs and low-quality drugs is suppressing the larger issue of drug safety

Dhaka to give drug policy a free-market dose

Under pressure from transnationals, the Bangladesh government is likely to ease restrictions on producing and importing medicines.

A matter of the mind

Mind-body medicine: in the realm of the possible but wholly inexplicable, this loose curative system has more takers every day

Murky market plan

Has anti-inflammatory medicine Vioxx been withdrawn to market new drug?

Pill poppers beware

Indiscriminate antibiotic use has created drug resistance in harmful bacteria