The US pharmaceutical industry which has so far prevented its government from endorsing a prescription for change is now directly engaging its counterparts in other nations on the issue of giving poor countries access to cheap medicines. But as the Fi

poultry farms across north India are facing a mysterious viral disease. As many as two million birds have fallen prey to the illness and the economic loss has already mounted to more than Rs 60 crore. Even as the authorities final diagnosis is long overd

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 the European Union market. Once implemented this in tandem with two other regulations could rob consumers

Australian doctors have warned Internet users against buying drugs online. They caution that many health websites do not provide adequate information about the medicines they retail

a group of 12 European institutional investors has come out with a prescription for the international pharmaceutical industry, exhorting the latter to provide developing countries with easier access