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December 2013

India plans 15 more compulsory licences, says New York Times

An unnamed source has told the New York Times that an Indian committee is to recommend 15 more compulsory licences for medicines that the committee considers of public health importance but to be too expensive in India. That, at least, is how we read the article on the 29th of December by Gardiner Harris, the …

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How successful are these anti tobacco ads ?

Advertisements on anti-smoking and anti-tobacco shown before and during movies in the cinema and on television have been widely criticised by many in the filming fraternity and others for some time for showing audiences “something unpalatable when they’ve paid money to be entertained”. The recent Koffee with Karan episode (a popular TV show with director …

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Supreme Court verdict on IPC section 377 impedes fight against HIV/AIDS

  Section 377of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) provides for punishment for up to 10 years or life and fine for “voluntarily having carnal intercourse against the order of nature with any man, woman or animal”. The explanation renders that penetration is sufficient to constitute the offence. The Section dates back to colonial times and …

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Lack of trained staff blocking expansion of healthcare in India

  An article that appeared in The Times of India talks about the dismal numbers of trained medical staff in India. The article mentions some interesting facts to note as well as comments from doctors about the lack of availability of medical staff in contrast to the expansion of the healthcare sector overall. As per …

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Some important cancer drugs are still not available in India…

Lately there have been many pharmaceutical industry debates, articles about licensing and the Indian pharma industries in the news. Here is another article in Business Today and it provides a perspective from an oncologist Dr. Radheshyam Naik, who works at HealthCare Global (HCG), a Bangalore­based hospital chain that specialises in caring for patients with cancer, …

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Study: Bangladesh Makes Strides In Healthcare Despite Poverty

A compelling article in the Asian Scientist  talks about Bangladesh and its lower infant mortality rates as compared to India, Pakistan and Nepal, despite its high poverty level.The London-based medical journal, The Lancet, recently published a series exploring Bangladesh’s surprising success, calling it “one of the great mysteries of global health.” The paradox is that …

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Healthcare In India: Sick From Distorted Development

I found an Op Ed in the Albany Tribune by Graham Peebles, which is eye opening as he talks about healthcare in India,  India’s ‘growth’, “which according to him has produced umpteen rupee resplendent billionaires who live in decadent luxury in the cities”  and the many challenges that the country continues to face which include …

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