Zika: ‘I think WHO should declare an emergency’
The World Health Organization faced flak for its delay by two months in 2014 in declaring the Ebola epidemic as a Public Health Emergency of International Concern (PHEIC). This might…
Category: JAMA
Editorial: Smoking reveals a patchy record
Even as the prevalence of daily smoking among men in India has come down from about 34 to 23 per cent between 1980 and 2012, the absolute number of smokers…
Vioxx: drug promotion in guise of research
Published in The Hindu on October 16, 2008 Phase IV trials for postmarketing surveillance of drugs are common and are permitted by the regulators. But it is a different matter…
Vioxx safety data manipulated
Published in The Hindu on April 24, 2008 The ghost of Vioxx is coming to haunt the pharmaceutical company Merck four years after it withdrew the drug from the market.…
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…
