Author(s): Latha Jishnu [1] Issue Date: 2013-8-31 Patent settlements bring cheaper generics to market early and cut healthcare spending Illustration: Anirban BoraSummer has been the season of squalor and scandal for the pharmaceutical industry worldwide. For India, it was the disgrace… Continue Reading →
The price of a litre of bottled water in B.C. is often higher than a litre of gasoline. However, the price paid by the world’s largest bottled water company for taking 265 million litres of fresh water every year from… Continue Reading →
Amartya Sen: India‘s dirty fighter Half of Indians have no toilet. It’s one of many gigantic failures that have prompted Nobel prize-winning academic Amartya Sen to write a devastating critique of India’s economic boom Madeleine Bunting, The Guardian The… Continue Reading →
Social change is possible only when we demand it. Amartya Sen tells Shougat Dasgupta that change requires people to think beyond sectional interests and insist on a better life for all July 17, 2013 Amartya Sen. File Photo Why have we been so… Continue Reading →
Is India ready to protect itself from the onslaught of food and nutrition industry? Photo: Soumik MukherjeeIndia is shouldering a huge burden of malnutrition—in the absence of government figures, a dipstick survey by non-profit HUNGaMA in 2012 suggests that 59… Continue Reading →
It might be wise to steer clear of vegetables from Japan’s Fukushima area for, oh, say a few hundred years. A Korean website assembled this image collection of produce from towns and villages surrounding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant…. Continue Reading →
The Union Cabinet cleared the Mental Health Care Bill, 2013 that makes access to mental health care a right of all persons Submitted on Fri, 06/14/2013 – 16:55 The Union Cabinet on Thursday cleared the Mental Health Care Bill, 2013… Continue Reading →
Rosy Sequeira, TNN | Jun 15, 2013, The HC said it was “absurd” for husband to say it was in the interest of his wife to go in for early HIV detection. MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Friday upheld a family court (FC)… Continue Reading →
100 calls a day, mental health helpline a hit Bhavika Jain, TNN May 23, 2013, MUMBAI: Life in fast-paced Mumbai seems to be taking a toll on its citizens. In just four days after the BMC launched its mental health helpline… Continue Reading →
Aditya Dev, TNN May 16, 2013, GURGAON: There is an acute shortage of doctors in government hospitals of Mewat. Surprisingly, the district with the worst maternal mortality rate and infant mortality rate, there is only one woman doctor available for the… Continue Reading →
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