Editorial: Time for pharma course correction
The Finance Ministry’s decision to withdraw customs duty exemptions for 76 life-saving drugs will at once make them more expensive
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Editorial: Gearing up for the Zika threat
The World Health Organization has declared that the outbreak of Zika and congenital malformations and neurological disorders in newborns believed
Read MoreEdiorial – Revolutionary therapies
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2015 has been awarded to three scientists for the “revolutionary treatments” they developed
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Space observatory takes wing
With the successful launch of the space observatory, Astrosat, the Indian Space Research Organisation has put India in a select
Read MoreEditorial: Victory over Ebola
The alacrity and eagerness shown by the research community to find a safe and efficacious vaccine against the deadly Ebola
Read MoreEditorial: Historic fly-by
The New Horizons became the first spacecraft to successfully fly by the dwarf planet Pluto, the last unexplored world in
Read MoreEditorial: This tobacco warning should stay
Following a controversy sparked recently over remarks by some Members of Parliament on tobacco use, a group of leading film-makers
Read MoreEditorial: India flounders as H1N1 spreads
The influenza A(H1N1) virus continues to kill people in India, although its spread is not at a galloping pace.
Read MoreSmokers die 10 years sooner
That smoking can cause up to two-thirds of deaths in current smokers in Australia has come out patently clear in
Read MoreEditorial: Under-5 mortality – The cost of negligence
The failure of successive governments in India, especially those in States that have the highest mortality rates among children younger
Read MoreEditorial: The menace of plastic waste
If there is one type of municipal solid waste that has become ubiquitous in India and most developing countries, and
Read MoreEditorial: Lethal injection is cruel and unusual
On January 30, the U.S. State of Ohio postponed all the seven executions scheduled for 2015 to procure a different
Read MoreEditorial: Climate change deniers
The passage of the Keystone XL pipeline bill, the first priority of the new U.S. Senate controlled by Republicans, hit
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