Air Pollution

 Unholy nexus

The link between corporate funding and research rankles

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Medical Research, Drugs, Drug Industry, Research Agencies
Mining

 Manipulating Research

Private funding has given a new meaning to scientific research today. With rising corporate research budgets, academic institutions are leaning more on industry sponsorship and less on government or charitable foundations. A major fallout of this alliance

Publication Date: 
27/02/2002
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Agricultural Research, Chemical Fertilisers, Cotton, Mining, Drugs, Drug Industry, Vaccination, Genetic Resources, Crop Biodiversity, Research, Patents, Scientists, WHO, Developing Countries
Industry

 Fat finding mission

On off switch for fat formation identified

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
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Medical Research, Drugs, Drug Industry, Genetic Engineering, Research, United States Of America (US)
India

 Punitive dosage

Eight pharmaceutical companies fined for controlling the vitamin market in Europe

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
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Trade, Medical Research, Drug Industry, Europe, European Union (EU)
Health

 Who to trust?

Commercial consideration are undermining the reliability of clinical trials

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
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Trade, Medical Research, Drugs, Drug Industry, WHO
India

 Curbs on drug trials

all institutions in the country have been banned from carrying out clinical trials on a new drug without the permission from the Drugs Controller General of India (dcgi). This directive was issued

Publication Date: 
30/01/2002
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Drug Industry, Research, Legislation, Governance, India
India

 Tried and lab tested

Bengal varsity set to analyse and authenticate herbal drugs

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Medical Research, Herbal Medcine, Drug Industry, India, West Bengal
India

 Follow Up

The first commercial product from seabuckthorn, (Hippophae sp)

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Nutrition, Aquatic Plants, Medical Research, Drug Industry, Medicinal Plants, India
Biodiversity

 Fruitful deliberations

Two global meetings chart a course for weeding out biopiracy

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Hans-dieter Sohn
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Plant Breeding, Food Crops, Canada, WTO, Traditional Knowledge, Drug Industry, Biodiversity, Genetic Resources, Genetic Engineering, Patents, NGO, Iran, Norway, United States Of America (US), Australia, Argentina, Developing Countries, Food Security
Economy

 Trade truce

It was neither a victory for the North nor a defeat for the South. Environment took centrestage as the main bargaining chip, but the discussions remained inconclusive. The World Trade Organisation meeting in Doha set the tone for the future of global

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Anju Sharma
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Trade, WTO, Economy, Drugs, Drug Industry, Turtles, Subsidies, Biotechnology, Patents, Malaysia, India, Global, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries, European Union (EU)

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