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…
Category: Health
Second Indian AIDS vaccine trial initiated
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…
AIDS vaccine trial in India
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…
Editorial: A dangerous conflict of interest
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…
We will break even in three years, says Dr. Srinivasan
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…
Making a case for public cord blood banking
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…
Editorial: The virtues of fractionating blood
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…
Editorial: A burgeoning health problem
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…
