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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Lately there have been many pharmaceutical industry debates, articles about licensing and the Indian pharma industries in the news. Here is another article in Business Today and it provides a perspective from an oncologist Dr. Radheshyam Naik, who works at HealthCare Global (HCG), a Bangalorebased hospital chain that specialises in caring for patients with cancer, …
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The government should focus on enforcing laws that curb tobacco use in order to check the spread of cancer, a medical expert said. ‘There have been efforts to ban tobacco, but we need to understand that we are also fighting a large tobacco lobby,’ Sharmila Pimple, professor at Department of Preventive Oncology, Tata Memorial Hospital …
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Here is an important initiative which aims to reach out to cancer patients in rural India, who do not have access to quality health care. As reported in the Times of India, Bangalore, nearly 75% of cancer cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage. To reach out to the rural population, the Mazumdar Shaw Medical …
Dr Seth Berkley, Chief Executive Officer of the GAVI Alliance, asks “how is it that Rwanda, among the world’s poorest countries – and still recovering from a brutal civil war – is able to protect its teenage girls against cancer more effectively than the G-8 countries?”. The answer is that Rwanda has vaccinated 93 percent of its …
This has been the week to talk about the cost of cancer in India. Responding to the wave of international interest, The Hindu ran a short human interest story on the costs of cancer care on Friday which gave an uncharacteristically obvious mention to the benefits of the Chief Minister’s health insurance programme in Tamil …
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