Editorial: An advice well taken
Published in The Hindu on February 20, 2006 Nearly a year after the commencement of the Phase I clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine candidate in Pune, a similar trial…
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Published in The Hindu on February 20, 2006 Nearly a year after the commencement of the Phase I clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine candidate in Pune, a similar trial…
Published in The Hindu on February 9, 2006 It must have been a case of coincidence. Many important events of the AIDS vaccine trials jointly undertaken by the Government of…
Published in The Hindu on February 7, 2006 The Phase I clinical trial of the AIDS test vaccine was initiated last week at the Tuberculosis Research Centre (TRC) here. This…
Published in The Hindu on November 30, 2005 If several pharmaceutical companies across the world have mastered the fine art of manipulating clinical trials of drugs, a new trend noticed…
Chennai, where a private cord blood bank is situated, will soon have a public cord blood bank. Dr. P. Srinivasan, Director of Jeevan Blood Bank, Chennai, intends to start a…
Cord blood banking, an alien concept till a few years ago in India is becoming popular, courtesy a few private companies that have begun operations. Cord blood harvested at the…
Published in The Hindu on November 8, 2005 Approximately seven million units of human blood are needed in India every year for transfusion purposes but only 4.5 million units are…
Published in The Hindu on October 14, 2005 At a time when the World Health Organisation has predicted that the diabetes burden in India is set to double and reach…