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Is India’s population policy coercive and abusive?

A front page story in Canada’s biggest newspaper, The Globe and Mail revisits the great debate over sterilisation in India. The Globe & Mail relies heavily on activists who are highly critical of government policy. One, for example, says  ““The construction of the population problem is a middle-class creation … and it has caste and …

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Do cash transfer schemes work? Study by SEWA and UNICEF shows they do

A year-and-a-half-long experiment with universal unconditional cash transfers by SEWA and UNICEF in 22 Madhya Pradesh villages has shown that the poor do use cash for better schooling, health and food.  Cash transfer schemes can work accoding to this study. Renana Jhabvala, president of SEWA Bharat, and Guy Standing, professor at the School of Oriental and …

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Indian doctors develop low-cost screening for cervical cancer

Tata Memorial Centre (TMC), a premier cancer treatment institute in the country recently announced that its researchers have found an inexpensive way to screen for cervical cancer and this can prevent 72,600 deaths worldwide each year. The procedure, involving use of vinegar, curbed the deaths caused by the cancer by 31 percent in a group …

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India’s foreign policy too feeble to help global health?

Many see India — with its innovation, medical industries and democracy — as a future powerful advocate for global health causes in inter-governmental forums. A fascinating piece in the current edition of the respected US journal, Foreign Affairs (the summary is here http://fam.ag/10MY53A but you need a subscription to read the whole thing). The author thinks …

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Novel drug against advanced prostate cancer

A candidate drug, which acts in a novel way, has shown promising results in the laboratory against advanced prostate cancer that was insensitive to reduced levels of male sex hormones, according to a paper published in Nature Communications journal. Prostate cancers initially tend to be sensitive to male sex hormones, known as androgens. Treatment to …

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Patient power: Indian patients demand non-Ranbaxy medicines

For years, advisers have told pharma clients that it is hard to find an example of reputation problems affecting the bottom line: the purchasing process is so complex (doctor – pharmacist – patient with insurers and wholesalers in the mix) that reputation worries don’t seem to hit sales. Ranbaxy might be disproving all the articles …

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