Self medication - buyers beware

Australian doctors have warned Internet users against buying drugs online. They caution that many "health" websites do not provide adequate …

Targeting the Third World's-Yulnerability

SOUTH AFRICA

Tried and (lab)tested

Bengal varsity set to analyse and authenticate herbal drugs

BRAZIL

Making a killing

More revelations about how Africans are being used as guinea pigs for unethical drug tests

Injunction on policy

Taken to task

US to indict biotech company for misleading investors

Jumping the gun

The bill fails to utilise obvious relief routes offered by TRIPS

Unhealthy deals

Mar government agencies' drug procurement process

Blood row

HIV positive haemophiliacs sue US pharma giants

Bytes

Royalty wars

Drug inventors row over profits from avian flu

Safety billing

UK drug companies trying to subvert independent appraisal processes

Patent folly

New amendment threatens to kill cheap, generic drugs

Third phase of Genome Valley in Hyderabad

Kill pill

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Deadly havens

SOUTH AFRICA

Ethically sound

Fat-finding mission

On-off switch for fat formation identified

A palliative gesture

Cochrane library's database not an unequivocal blessing