The NATCO CL fallout
The compulsory licence granted to Natco may not be a trendsetter but it will shake up the pharmaceuticals market
The curious case of Ebola patents
The US government appears to have a cure and (almost) a vaccine for the deadly disease
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 …
In Court
Ranbaxy barred
Ranbaxy in a spot
No patent linkage
Bayer’s attempt to pre-empt Cipla’s cancer drug fails
Memories of a city
Book>> Ahmedabad, Shock city of Twentieth Century India, by Howard Spodek, Orient Blackswan, Rs 795
Ethical concerns eclipse world’s race to develop Ebola vaccine
World Health Organization and international community have been repeatedly slammed for delayed intervention
Missed calls from patients can help monitor TB treatment, says government
A special treatment kit which eases the procedure of treatment is being tested in two states
15 doctors went on foreign jaunt sponsored by pharma company, says Lok Sabha member
Doctors and pharma company deny charges
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
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 …
Ebola enters Mali, nearly 10,000 affected globally till now
With this, Mali has become the sixth West African country to be affected in the world's most deadliest outbreak of Ebola
A Shot of Medicines
Drugs and cosmetics amendment bill withdrawn from Rajya Sabha
Newer areas like stem cells, regenerative medicines, medical devices and clinical trial cannot be effectively regulated under the existing law, …
10 per cent drugs in government supply chain below standard
National drug survey published by the health ministry also found that 0.059 per cent of government-sourced samples were spurious
Evergreening rampant in India
India's patent office has ignored the strict safeguards against evergreening and allowed a flood of secondary drug patents
The right pill
Africa will be setting up its first agency to check the spread of spurious drugs
Centre fails to weed out substandard drugs, reign in prices: Parl panel
It recommends that the government adopt cost of production-based pricing system
Software outsmarts drug research
Now, a programme can bypass patented drug pathways and create synthetically-produced medicines
Second guilty verdict against Monsanto in the US
Federal jury finds that Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide caused a man’s cancer