No side-effects?

New drugs for cattle could save the vulture

Murky market plan

Has anti-inflammatory medicine Vioxx been withdrawn to market new drug?

The wrong blend

Herbal drug quality suffering in the absence of stringent rules

Inhuman trials

Doubts cloud foreign firm's hepatitis drug tests in India

Unhealthy deals

Mar government agencies' drug procurement process

Cochrane library's database not an unequivocal blessing

Broad spectrum drugs rule India

Prickly issue

Will the inclusion of Hepatitis B vaccination in the Universal Immunisation Programme help?

Cancer drug touted as fertility pill

Cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices …

Dispensing with dear drugs

New US law to clear the decks for generic drugs (Read full article)

Study flouts basics in privatizing healthcare

CII study recommends greater private role in India's healthcare sector, but the document centres around the lucrative tertiary care market only

Private sector wants to adopt public health bodies

‘Manipulate market, lower drug prices’

In times of rising costs of healthcare compounded by shortage of funds, UNITAID, a UN organisation, was set up in 2006 to improve access to life-…

Food than pills is the best source for iron

Lungs, beware

Switching to ozone-friendly inhalers is not going to be easy

EU to stop import of herbal products

By May 2003, the European Council was supposed to have reached a consensus on a directive that seeks to regulate the supply of herbal products in …

Novartis exposes India's weak patent laws. Will generics be kicked out?

Hidden industry hand

Attempts are on to derail UN initiative to declare noncommunicable diseases a global priority

Get your own vaccine

Get your own vaccine

Down To Earth filed an RTI application to find out the reason of vaccine shortage in India. The response revealed how a plan to promote private …

Fatal resistance

The strong and mighty bacteria are all around us. They have hardened themselves to fight back the antibiotics administered to patients. This is …

Troubled Beautiful Minds

They are there—each residential area has its mentally disturbed people; each family has anecdotes of crazy relatives. Nobody wants to …