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Why Are India’s Young Doctors Refusing To Serve in its Villages?

In two days, thousands of medical students across the country are once again planning to protest a new rule that makes rural posting compulsory. Are they all just urban brats or is there something more going on? By Jaimon Joseph | Grist Media – Fri… Continue Reading →

Press Release- Roche relinquishes Trastuzumab patent in India #Goodnews

16 August 2013 Swiss pharma major Roche has just announced that it is relinquishing the patent for its breast-cancer drug Trastuzumab in India. The announcement comes in the face of mounting challenges to Roche’s monopoly on this life-saving drug from civil society activists… Continue Reading →

US agency confirms suspension of India clinical trials

  NIH says recent clinical trial regulations in India have affected some its studies Vidya Krishnan , livemint.com   New Delhi: The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the state-owned medical research agency of the US, has finally confirmed that it has put… Continue Reading →

#India- The malnutrition bazaar #Healthcare

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 →

Diabetes drug: ‘Maybe I erred in my judgement’

R. PRASAD Doctor urging Pioglitazone ban runs course funded by company making rival drug There is growing evidence that the ban the Union Health Ministry imposed on June 18 on pioglitazone — a widely used anti-diabetes oral drug — was… Continue Reading →

#India – Locals oppose steel plant expansion plan

By Express News Service – JAIPUR 13th April 2013 08:52 AM Many locals including PRI members present at a public hearing on Friday objected to proposed expansion of Mideast Integrated Steels Limited (MISL) at Kalinga Nagar industrial complex area in the… Continue Reading →

Novartis Update: Supreme Court adjourns final hearing to 11 September 2012

As directed by the Supreme Court of India on 10 July 2012, the petition filed by Novartis AG, challenging the Intellectual Property Appellate Board’s rejection of its appeal against the Indian Patent Office’s refusal to grant it a patent for the beta-crystalline… Continue Reading →

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