Marxists vs Paternalists vs Liberals: Where healthcare stands in India

How health as a right, investment and consumption regularly crops up in capitalist discourses 

Phase-II trials for new clot buster drug approved

Bio-therapeutic drug, Clot Specific Streptokinase, meant for patients who suffer heat attack, was developed using bacteria

Pristine Tasmania faces GM threat

Opium industry lobbies to lift moratorium on GM farming

Polluters get away by making ad hoc payment to farmers

No assessment yet of damage caused by industries to villages in Vadodara district

Supreme Court issues notice to Centre on HPV vaccines for cervical cancer

Gardasil and Cervarix were approved by drugs controller even though they are unproven and hazardous, alleges petition

The curious case of Ebola patents

The US government appears to have a cure and (almost) a vaccine for the deadly disease

Health activists ask Centre to stand firm on price control order for 50 life-saving drugs

Contrary to pharma industry claims, price control notifications for 50 cardiovascular and anti-diabetic drugs will impact retail market only …

US pharma strikes back

Upset by the Supreme Court’s endorsement of India’s patent law, the American drug industry is lobbying with Obama to tighten the …