Doubts cloud foreign firm s hepatitis drug tests in India

Gruelling discussions bear fruit. World Health Assembly formulates health strategy

It s also about not compensating suffering mineworkers

Is the answer to the AIDS problem in migrants

India s wonder drug Jeevani developed by the Thiruvananthapuram based Tropical Botanic Garden Research Institute tbgri using the traditional knowledge of Kerala s Kani tribe hit the headlines a few years ago. It was heralded as the world s first pro

Herbal drug quality suffering in the absence of stringent rules

An optimistic note, about wiping out polio from the six afflicted countries, was to be sounded at a conference organised by the World Health Organisation in Geneva on January 15. Instead, the sudden re emergence of the disease in two African nations Ben

Use of pesticides is responsible for the arsenic crisis

Cancer drug letrozole is at the centre of a controversy over its being promoted as a fertility enhancer. The Union government has issued notices in this regard to Mumbai based Sun Pharmaceuticals and Uttar Pradesh based Dabur India Limited. While the latt