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Clinical research in India: great expectations?
Thatte U. M., Bavdekar S. B. | Journal of Post Graduate Medicine | October – December 2008 | Source: NCBI-PubMed Abstract India is considered as a preferred site for conducting global clinical trials. Existence of a large treatment-naïve population, availability… Continue reading
Experimental Values: Indian Clinical Trials and Surplus Health
Kaushik Sunder Rajan | New Left Review 45 | May-June 2007 Drawing on fieldwork in India, Kaushik Sunder Rajan analyses the mechanics of global pharmaceutical trials. The outsourcing of drug testing not as neo-colonial plunder, but part of a dual… Continue reading
The Role and Relationship of Cultural Competence and Patient-Centeredness in Health Care Quality
Mary Catherine Beach, Somnath Saha, Lisa A. Cooper | The Commonwealth Fund | 1 October 2006 In recent years, patient-centeredness and cultural competence have been promoted as integral components in improving health care quality. Although these two approaches to health care… Continue reading
A New Colonialism? — Conducting Clinical Trials in India
Samiran Nundy, M. Chir, Chandra M. Gulhati | The New England Journal of Medicine | 21 April 2005 In January 2005, the government of India enacted a new rule that allows foreign pharmaceutical companies and other interested parties to conduct… Continue reading
Clinical trials in India: Pangs of globalization
A. Bhatt | Indian Journal of Pharmacology | Vol 36, Issue 4 | July-August 2004 Clinical trials in developing countries are exploding. It is estimated that 20-30% of global clinical trial activities are being conducted in developing countries.[1] The 2002… Continue reading