Marxists vs Paternalists vs Liberals: Where healthcare stands in India
How health as a right, investment and consumption regularly crops up in capitalist discourses
Phase-II trials for new clot buster drug approved
Bio-therapeutic drug, Clot Specific Streptokinase, meant for patients who suffer heat attack, was developed using bacteria
Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat
Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming
Polluters get away by making ad hoc payment to farmers
No assessment yet of damage caused by industries to villages in Vadodara district
Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on HPV vaccines for cervical cancer
Gardasil and Cervarix were approved by drugs controller even though they are unproven and hazardous, alleges petition
The curious case of Ebola patents
The US government appears to have a cure and (almost) a vaccine for the deadly disease
Health activists ask Centre to stand firm on price control order for 50 life-saving drugs
Contrary to pharma industry claims, price control notifications for 50 cardiovascular and anti-diabetic drugs will impact retail market only …
US pharma strikes back
Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …