ABORTED PILLS

Indian pharmaceutical industry?s bold efforts to foray into the high profile yet highly risky drug discovery arena seem to have…

Fake Syndrome

Are you worried about the safety of your medicines? You have every reason to be. Chances are the most frequently…

A bitter pill to swallow

Global pharmaceutical majors are not getting healthy indicators from the $8 billion domestic pharmaceutical market, especially on the intellectual property…

Cloning Glory

India is fast logging into the clone age. Despite being a late entrant into the elite group of nations such…

Generics steal a march

The American healthcare reforms might surprise us by the year-end. Many Indian pharmaceutical companies and healthcare analysts believe that although…

Health beepers

Indian medical device makers seem to be making concerted attempts to get the right pulse of the $200 billion global…

Fake drugs

Much to the chagrin of the Indian pharmaceutical industry and patients alike, fake drugs are everywhere. Successful brands are being…

Battle for supremacy

India?s Rs 40,000 crore domestic pharmaceutical market is increasingly becoming the battleground between the multinational pharma majors and home-grown drug…

Trialblazers

It seemed like a symbolic tipping point for Indian clinical trials industry when Bangalore-based Stempeutics Research recently got the Drugs…

Health Insurance

Stem cell banks will no longer throw the umbilical cord in the wastebasket after collecting the umbilical cord blood. The…

Biotech surge

An interesting game of research might is being played out between India and China in the realm of biotech crops.…

Robot Therapy

The image of an operation theatre that comes to one?s mind is that of a crowded place with two to…

Regeneration Centres

At LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, eye specialists are using a new approach to repair eye damage. By growing new…

Monthly miracle

Until now, menstrual blood has typically been discarded as unsanitary waste. Few are aware that the blood shed during women?s…

Close Watch

Open source drug discovery initiative of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, also known in industry circles as wiki-style of…