Source of the scourge

Unsterilised syringes used in Africa in the 1950s may be at the root of AIDS

Patent protest

Possible drug price hike: apex court acts on appeals

Added utility

Off-label use of drugs mooted

What ails traditional medicine?

Underutilisation of funds, says CAG

Team work

Cancer experts call for easing regulations on narcotic drugs

Morphine, a drug which can help ease cancer pain, is banned in India

BANGLADESH, DRUGS

On the way out

Princess arrested

Operation Himalayan yew

Drug money

American pharmaceutical barons are buying up shares by the lot in biotech firms

To hell with the hippocratic oath

Fruit for throught

Grapefruit juice induces a long-term drug effect in the body by removing an enzyme

South Africa

If not HIV, it's Chagas'

Coffee aid

SOUTH KOREA

MONEYMAKERS

Drug affects

Drug reactions claim 100,000 lives every year in the US

A treatment for AIDS

The US recognises an Ayurvedic treatment that can help combat AIDS

Patent challenged

Easier to tablet

A new 'tableting' technology will make tablets smaller and easier to swallow

Breakthrough!

A cure for the world's most deadly disease, Ebola, is on the anvil

Vindicated!

Addicted to profit

Drug companies manipulate a US law to prevent the production of cheaper drugs