Centre agrees to provide restricted TB drug to a Bihar girl; expert advices caution

The Health Ministry promises to make bedaquiline available to 70 centres across India

Siblings’ Facebook war

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PATENTS ACT

Injecting a cure

Microkillers

Viruses that kill bacteria

Blood that infuses new hope

Indian company gets green light to market umbilical cord blood, which contains stem cells

Healing touch

WTO pact inked on cheap drugs for poor countries

The wrong blend

Herbal drug quality suffering in the absence of stringent rules

Drug row

GEAC's ill-directed rebuke

Hearing impaired

People's voices crushed in public hearing on drug factories

Superiority complex

Science isn't above commerce

Go suck a lemon

Smooth operator

Unruly catalyst under control

Encouraging orphan drugs in India

India needs to formulate an atrractive law to spur development of drugs for rare diseases

Tropical pill

Medicines are for the rich, not for fighting tropical diseases afflicting millions in developing nations. Pharmaceutical companies seem to have …

For children's sake

Public pressure forces US agency to reconsider proposed move to suspend paediatric drug testing rule

If the burner's too big, make it fit

A pharmaceutical multinational in India has set up an incinerator that suits it just fine

A vote for alien seeds

The Swiss vote overwhelmingly against a ban on the genetic modification of plants and animals

KENYA

Kenya

Dubious diversion

Low-cost hiv drugs for Africa reach Europe instead

Drugged

When market forces determine drugs development, neglected diseases take a back-seat

Unholy nexus

The link between corporate funding and research rankles

Curbs on drug trials