-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Drug pricing regulator National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has slashed prices of 54 essential medicines by up to 55%, including commonly used drugs for cancer (brain and breast), hypertension, diabetes, antibiotics and other heart disorders. The move is aimed at bringing down prices of commonly used drugs for critical diseases by expanding span of price Regulation to cover new drugs, NPPA Chairman Bhupinder Singh told TOI. In...
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Banking on mother’s milk -Jacob Koshy
-The Hindu Liquid Gold’ may refer to petroleum, an ‘80s pop group or a particularly indulgent variety of cheese but for Raghuram Mallaiah, a doctor who specialises in newborn babies, it’s mother’s milk. As a doctor who has to negotiate life-and-death situations for prematurely-born infants, Dr. Mallaiah holds that breast milk is “10 times more important” for babies born before their due date than those who reach full term. The biological quandary...
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-The Indian Express Over-Regulation by government once again ensures that injustice is done to UP’s sugarcane farmers. The story of Uttar Pradesh’s sugarcane farmers facing distress due to non-payment of dues by the sugar mills is not a new one. Yet again, as against the promised payment of Rs 17,972 crore, at the state advised price (SAP) of Rs 280 per quintal, farmers have received just Rs 11,268 crore from the UP...
More »The season of scorching ironies -Yogendra Yadav
-The Hindu It is the Supreme Court and not Parliament that has found time to pay attention to serious issues of drought relief and mitigation for hundreds of millions of Indians Irony. This one word captures our response to the ongoing nationwide drought in more ways than one. We have woken up to the reality of drought a full six months after the end of monsoon. After waking up, we focus on...
More »Does increase in sex ratio mean success of Beti Bachao Beti Padao? -Shalini Nair
-The Indian Express Ministry officials state that Haryana, from where the scheme was launched last year, has shown visible improvements in Sex Ratio at Birth. On Tuesday, while extending Beti Bachao Beti Padao to 61 more districts, the Minister for Woman and Child Development Maneka Gandhi announced that 49 of the 100 districts that currently fall under the scheme have registered a positive trend in Sex Ratio at Birth (SRB). The...
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