Kinjal Desai | DNA | 21 May 2012 For many poor women, surrogacy offers a way out of poverty as do clinical trial of drugs, including those for comatose patients. Living dangerously is nothing new for a majority of the… Continue reading
Steve Connor | The Economic Times | 9 April 2012 The first human egg cells that have been grown entirely in the laboratory from stem cells could be fertilised later this year in a development that will revolutionise fertility treatment… Continue reading
K. M. Gopakumar | TWN | | Third World Resurgence No. 259 | March 2012, pp 26-28 The Indian Patent Office (IPO) made a landmark order on 12 March to grant domestic drug company Natco Pharma a compulsory licence (CL) to… Continue reading
Third World Network | Third World Resurgence | No. 259, March 2012, pp 15-19 The free trade agreement which India is negotiating with the European Union threatens to jettison some of the health safeguards in India’s patent legislation which make possible… Continue reading
Amy Yee | The Lancet | Vol 379, No 9814 | 2012 Ethical violations in clinical trials in India have exposed gaping holes in the country’s regulatory system, which has struggled to oversee the booming industry. Amy Yee reports from… Continue reading
Nancy E. Kass | Berman Institute of Bioethics, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University | 2011 A presentation made at the workshop titled Post-trial access to trial drugs: Legal, ethical and practical issues held at the Brocher… Continue reading
