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Category: Drug companies

Posted on May 31, 2016July 4, 2016

When pills make us worse: Monitoring the adverse effects of medicines

By Debaleena Basu A healthy 21-year-old youth was admitted to a hospital for an elective surgery. All preoperative physiological parameters were normal. On the surgery day, the commonly used drug…

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Posted on March 6, 2016April 13, 2017

Drug resistance: The antibiotic red line of control

A much-needed public awareness campaign to highlight the dangers of misuse and irrational use of antibiotics was recently launched by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare. Called ‘Medicines with…

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Posted on February 10, 2016March 21, 2016

Editorial: Time for pharma course correction

The Finance Ministry’s decision to withdraw customs duty exemptions for 76 life-saving drugs will at once make them more expensive and impact patients who are already paying a high price…

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Posted on January 5, 2016August 8, 2016

Editorial: Merck publishes a fake journal

The spectre of Vioxx, the blockbuster non-steroidal anti inflammatory drug (NSAID), continues to haunt pharmaceutical giant Merck even five years after the drug was withdrawn from the market due to…

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Posted on December 14, 2015

Is the doctor-drug industry nexus harming patients?

Published in The Hindu on November 8, 2007 Companies in the U.S. that produce drugs and medical devices with a turnover of more than $100 million may soon be forced…

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Posted on December 14, 2015

Editorial: Towards greater transparency

Published in The Hindu on November 5, 2007 Pharmaceutical companies and doctors make for uneasy bedfellows.  While the two cannot ignore each other, there is the growing expectation that doctors…

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Posted on December 14, 2015December 14, 2015

Editorial: A fine initiative

Published in The Hindu on October 24, 2007 The recent announcement of a public-private partnership by three Europe-based pharmaceutical companies and the British government, the first of its kind, for…

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Posted on December 14, 2015

Editorial: Expanding access to HIV testing

Published in The Hindu on July 4, 2007 The new guidelines issued recently by the World Health Organisation to expand access to HIV testing mark a paradigm shift in the…

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