India’s air pollution problem needs to be tackled systematically, taking an all-of-government approach, to reduce the huge burden of associated ill-health.
When India's Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Ketan Desai, the president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and president-elect of the World Medical Association, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 20 million Indian rupees from the vice-president of a medical college and hospital in the Punjab state, few in the country's medical community were surprised.
A trial of a new oral cholera vaccine in Kolkata is promising but, as Patralekha Chatterjee reports, a vaccine is only one weapon
in the battle against the disease.
India is taking steps to reverse anti-counterfeiting measures in some east African nations that could stop the importation of generic drugs made in the country.
