Health

F.D.A. Approves Onglyza, a New Drug for Type 2 Diabetes

Federal regulators on Friday approved a potential blockbuster diabetes drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb and AstraZeneca.

The Food and Drug Administration said it approved the drug Onglyza to reduce blood sugar levels in patients with type 2 diabetes, which affects 24 million people in the United States.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
New York Times (New York)
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Health, Preventive Medicine, Drug Industry, Diabetes, United States Of America (US)
Industry

India's drug discovery efforts suffer failing health

P B Jayakumar / Mumbai August 01, 2009, 0:34 IST

The next two or three weeks will be crucial for Glenmark Pharmaceuticals

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Business Standard (New Delhi)
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Drugs, Drug Industry, India
Health

Trust, ethics and spurious medicine

In the competitive environment of the Southasian pharmaceutical industry, the consumer is today left with neither a guide nor a map.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Ian Harper, Roger Jeffery
Himal South Asian
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Health Effects, Health, Health Policy, Drugs, Drug Industry, Nepal, India, South Asia
Health

Resisting resistance

The rampant, often-frivolous use of antibiotics over the past half-century has made us dramatically more vulnerable today.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Satya Sivaraman
Himal South Asian
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Health Effects, Health, Traditional Knowledge, Drugs, Drug Industry, Medicinal Plants, Micro Organisms, India, Kerala
Health

Drugs for the people

Despite having put through the first progressive drugs legislation in Southasia back in 1982, Bangladesh has fallen behind on the promise of its pharmaceutical policy.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Mohammad Saidul Islam
Himal South Asian
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Health, Health Care, Health Policy, Medical Systems, Drug Industry, Legislation, Bangladesh
Health

Bodies for hire: The outsourcing of clinical trials

Medical testing by Western countries is having a staggering impact on India, if only we were to care to pay attention. And the government

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Sandhya Srinivasan
Himal South Asian
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Health Effects, Health, Medical Research, Drugs, Drug Industry, Legislation, India
Climate Change

Intellectual Property Rights: Excluding other rights of other people

This article interrogates the claims of intellectual property to be a right. Drawing on the political theory of rights, it argues that information, ideas and knowledge fail to meet the basic test of rights and intellectual property right prevents those who do not own it from accessing and exercising their own diverse rights.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2009
Rajshree Chandra
Economic and Political Weekly
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Agriculture, Health, Farmers, Traditional Knowledge, Drugs, Drug Industry, Food Safety, Benefit Sharing, GMOs, Science And Technology, Patents, Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), Information
Health

 A vaccine for corrupt alliances

The last time the prime minister bent too far to keep the coalition going WHEN the United Progressive Alliance (upa) was looking for partners after the 2004 general election, anyone was welcome. But has better judgment prevailed this time around? The coalition could ask itself this as it clears the mess left behind by the former Union minister for health and family welfare. It was a

Publication Date: 
30/07/2009
Down to Earth
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Health, Health Policy, Drugs, Drug Industry, Immunisation, Vaccination, Child Health, Private Sector, Ministry Of Health And Family Welfare, Politics
Health

 Not the morning after remedy

Overuse of emergency contraceptives can kill A 21-year-old came to the Ganga Ram Hospital in Delhi, bleeding profusely. She had had an emergency contraceptive pill within three days of unprotected intercourse. She thought the bleeding was a side effect of the pill. But she was informed she was pregnant and the foetus had implanted in her fallopian tube. The doctor prepared for an abortion.

Publication Date: 
30/07/2009
Ravleen Kaur
Down to Earth
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Health Effects, Health, Women, Drugs, Drug Industry, Contraception, Advertising, WHO, India
Animal Care

Running out of patents, MNCs focus on animal healthcare

Animal healthcare in India is no longer an afterthought as global pharmaceutical companies facing loss in revenues due to expiring drug patents are looking for new growth markets.

Publication Date: 
24/07/2009
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Animal Care, Animal Diseases, Drugs, Drug Industry, Patents, India

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