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Video-recording of consent for clinical trials driving away subjects, SC told -Dhananjay Mahapatra

-The Times of India NEW DELHI: The new draft protocol for clinical trials of drugs, on the lines suggested by the Supreme Court, is making it difficult for global drug manufacturers to find subjects for testing new chemical compositions. The protocol has made it mandatory for companies intending to conduct human trials of drugs to video-record the free consent of patients to be part of the trial. It also mandates them to...

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HIV positive people urge centre to pass AIDS Bill -Janani Sampath

-The Times of India CHENNAI: For 42-year-old Daisy it has been a never ending battle. She has moved into 16 different rented houses, lost her job and missed many of her daughter's graduation day -- all because she tested HIV positive 16 years ago and has been a victim of discrimination since then. HIV positive patients are victims of stigma at home, workplace and hospitals, and reprieve from it remains a mirage...

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Shove Comes To Push -Lola Nayar

-Outlook The real story of a ‘decisive' UPA blowing away the eight-year cloud around Posco's project Bend It Like Moily Seven reasons why UPA's pre-poll green clearance for Posco is more about spiel than steel Posco got green clearance after the sudden removal of MoEF Jayanthi Natarajan, who was reluctant to sign on the file. The nod came days before South Korean President Park Geun-hye's visit;...

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Veerappa Moily rolls back Jayanthi Natarajan's decision on clearance for linear projects -Vikas Dhoot

-The Economic Times NEW DELHI: Environment and forest minister Veerappa Moily on Wednesday rolled back a major hurdle in the forest clearance process for projects like roads, transmission lines and pipelines that pass through villages and forest land, reintroduced in July 2013 by his predecessor Jayanthi Natarajan. The environment ministry has clarified on January 15 that linear projects would be able to get a forest clearance without procuring the consent of all...

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A law against dignity -Martha C Nussbaum

-The Indian Express Section 377 reeks of the anxieties of Victorian Britain and Puritan America. In 1982, Michael Hardwick, a gay man, was having consensual sex with a male partner in his bedroom in Atlanta, Georgia. Police officer Keith Torick entered the apartment with a warrant (for public drinking) that had been invalid for three weeks. Admitted by Hardwick's housemate, he went straight to the bedroom. Seeing the men, he announced that...

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