In recent months, researchers in India have made strides towards developing mycobacterium indicus pranii (MIP) – the world’s first leprosy vaccine. The vaccine was developed by founder-director of the National Institute of Immunology (NII) Professor Gursaran Prasad Talwar and has been approved by the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI). It has been suggested that …
An unnamed source has told the New York Times that an Indian committee is to recommend 15 more compulsory licences for medicines that the committee considers of public health importance but to be too expensive in India. That, at least, is how we read the article on the 29th of December by Gardiner Harris, the …
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There is a complete halt in any new clinical trials in India, according to today’s Economic Times. One of India’s most successful biotech businesspeople thinks that it is, “a black day for Indian science and a sad reflection on our judiciary. This is a pure Luddite approach which is killing progress.” (As befits the biotech age, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw of …
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Activist groups — all of them well known players — have brought an action in the Supreme Court to force the Government of India to control the price of all medicines in the country and to cut the prices established in the new Drug Price Control order, according to the Times of India. This is …
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This article from Mail Today skirts some of the more delicate issues but raises an important threat. India has very high rates of oral cancer tied to HPV, in men and in women. This is the kind of oral cancer that the actor Michael Douglas developed. As Mail Today delicately puts it, “oral infections like …
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According to the ever-excellent Spicy IP blog, the prices of many generic medicines in India will fall within 45 days. The new maximum prices will be set by taking an average of the price of all the brands of that compound on the market. Innovative Indian-developed delivery technology will win a five-year exemption. The prices …
A new survey by the polling firm Cvoter reveals that Indians trust NGOs, labour unions and religious institutions the most and parliament and the police least. Interesting to note that private hospitals still score quite highly despite a year of disastrous publicity and score much better than public hospitals.
The Hindu carries a Sunday Story piece by Dr. D. Thamma Rao of the Public Health Foundation of India on India’s crisis in healthcare staffing. The article is a bit confusing (maybe after editing) but it raises important questions, especially about the level of vacancies in government-provided health services
According to Dr Vishwajeet Kumar in todays’s Hindustan Times, “there is a scientific consensus that vaccination is the most effective, equitable and economical health intervention that the world has ever seen. Their impact on preventive health is unambiguously transformational and they should be the cornerstone of any effective health strategy.”
Thursday’s announcement of a global commitment to eradicate polio (this is from Reuters) within five years was largely ignored by the Indian media. This is in part because India has been polio free for two years (something that the media has celebrated). In part ,it reflects just how little notice most of the global media took of Thursday’s …
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