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Bill Introduced in Lok Sabha Seeks to Allow Ayurveda, Homeopathy Doctors to Practice Allopathy

The National Medical Commission Bill, 2017, which seeks to...

Max Hospital, Shalimar Bagh. Credit: PTI

Max Group Asks Government Authority to Reconsider License Cancellation

The development comes four days after the Delhi government's...

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Toilet Marketing Campaigns in Developing Countries Erode People’s Dignity

Dani J Barrington and Jamie Bartram 10/12/2017

One of the benefits of safe sanitation is better...

Girls sit inside the Life Line Trust orphanage in Salem in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on June 20, 2013. Credit: Mansi Thapliyal/Reuters

Decent Toilets for Women and Girls Vital for Gender Equality

Tim Wainwright 19/11/2017

Being denied access to safe, private toilets is particularly...

Girls cover their faces to protect themselves from the stench of a filthy and malfunctioning restroom in their school. at this school, girls have no toilets of their own and their only option is to use the ones on the far side of the buildings where the boys study. They do not have locking doors and are several minutes’ walk from a water point. ©2017 Credit: Paula Bronstein for Human Rights Watch

Girls in Afghanistan, and Everywhere Else, Need Toilets

Heather Barr and Amanda Klasing 19/11/2017

Lack of access to clean, safe, private toilets is...

A recent report published by Medicins sans Frontieres (MSF) suggests that new generation of vaccines are prone to high concentration of patent evergreening. Credit: Pan America Health Organisation/Flickr CC BY-ND 2.0

WIPO Report Downplays Patent Barriers to Vaccine Access

HU Yuanqiong 14/11/2017

As a traditional public health intervention, vaccines have been...

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Time for Costly Medicine Monopolies to Go From TPP Trade Talks

Belinda Townsend, Deborah Gleeson, Hazel Moir, Joel Lexchin, Ruth Lopert 13/11/2017

The latest plan to get the controversial trade deal...