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Useless pharmaceutical studies cause real harm by Carl Elliott

Last month, the Archives of Internal Medicine published a scathing reassessment of a 12-year-old research study of Neurontin, a seizure drug made byPfizer. The study, which had included more than 2,700 subjects and was carried out by Parke-Davis (now part of Pfizer), was notable for how poorly it was conducted. The investigators were inexperienced and untrained, and the design of the study was so flawed it generated few if any...

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UPA Govt's NREGA back on table for removing flaws by Devika Banerji

New rural development minister Jairam Ramesh is working to overhaul the United Progressive Alliance's six-year old flagship rural jobs programme to rid it of all 'manmade' flaws and make the job entitlement more demand driven. The Mahatma GandhiNational Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNERGA), which costs the government Rs 40,000 crore a year - the largest spend on any social welfare scheme - played a key role in catapulting theUPA government...

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Concern over Corruption by Prabhat Patnaik

There is no gainsaying that Corruption breeds cynicism which undermines the democratic foundations of our polity. There is no gainsaying, too, that Corruption results in a net shift of resources away from the poor. There can therefore be no two opinions about the need for controlling Corruption through an appropriate lok pal bill. But the impression is unavoidable that the current hullabaloo about ‘Corruption’ constitutes a case of mistaken identity:...

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Lokpal Bill row: Delhi Police deny Team Anna permission to hold fast

-The Times of India   Delhi Police on Friday denied permission to veteran social activist Anna Hazare to hold an indefinite hunger strike at the Jantar Mantar in New Delhi on August 16. The Delhi Police referred to the Supreme Court's 2009 order to deny team Anna permission for the indefinite strike anywhere in Delhi, the Times Now channel reports. The police, in its letter to Hazare, said that as Parliament would be...

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Draft vetoes PM and Anna

-The Telegraph   The Union cabinet today approved the Lokpal bill after overruling Manmohan Singh, who again advocated bringing the Prime Minister within the Corruption ombudsman’s ambit. The higher judiciary, conduct of MPs inside Parliament, and the lower bureaucracy too have been kept out of the Lokpal’s jurisdiction. Anna Hazare, whose civil society group had insisted on all these sections and the Prime Minister being included, termed the draft a “cruel joke” and...

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