New drug pricing policy proposes bringing all essential medicines under price control, but makes them expensive After years of dilly-dallying and several Supreme Court reminders, the Centre has proposed to bring all essential drugs under price control. But the policy is nothing but hogwash. Its pricing mechanism would make essential medicines out of reach for most people. Public health experts have termed the draft National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy of 2011 a...
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Cancer kills 400,000 each year, but screening for the disease yet to take off by Sonal Matharu
Lack of trained manpower main hurdle, says health secretary More than a year after rolling out the national programme for prevention and control of cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and stroke, the Union Ministry of health and family welfare is still struggling to kick-start cancer screening in the district hospitals in the country. Health secretary P K Pradhan says lack of trained manpower is the biggest hurdle in starting the screening for different...
More »10 times hotter in 90 years, says report by Jayanta Basu
-The Telegraph The world is likely to get 10 times hotter in the next 90 years, a report released today by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has said. The report links the rise in temperatures to the “high greenhouse gas emission scenario” caused by human activity. It says intense drought, heavy precipitation and intensity of tropical cyclones are also likely to increase. Titled “Special Report on managing the risks of extreme events...
More »Aruna Roy, founder member of NCPRI and MKSS interviewed by Pamela Philipose
- Women's Feature Service These are busy days for Aruna Roy, founder member of the National Campaign for the People’s Right to Information (NCPRI) and the Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan (MKSS), with the Jan Lok Pal and the need to check corruption emerging as big concerns in India. The woman, who traded a promising career in the bureaucracy for an activist’s existence in 1975, is presently intensely involved in the issue. Pamela...
More »Two cotton farmers commit suicide
-The Hindu Two cotton farmers, one of them a primitive tribesman, committed suicide in Adilabad district on Thursday owing to failure of crop this season. According to the police, K. Bheem Rao, a 42-year-old Kolam farmer from Sadalpur in Bela mandal, consumed poison in his field on Wednesday night perturbed over failure of the crop in his four acres of land. He is reported to have incurred a debt of Rs. 1 lakh. He...
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