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India Can Be a Global Leader in TB Research

Paula I. Fujiwara and Mark Feinberg 12/07/2019

Even if the current medicines, diagnostics and vaccine were...

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Doctors Confirm ‘Semi-Identical’ Twins Born From One Egg and Two Sperm

Reuters 28/02/2019

A new study suggests that such twins are extraordinarily...

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Daily Low-Dose Aspirin Doesn’t Reduce Heart Attack Risk in Healthy People

John McNeil 23/09/2018

Taking low-dose aspirin daily doesn't delay the onset of...

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Preprints Don’t Promote Confusion – so Taking Them Away Won’t Fix Anything

Vasudevan Mukunth 27/07/2018

The journal Nature recently published an article by Tom...

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India Shouldn’t Block Research Partnerships That Can Advance Public Health

Aju Mathew 05/07/2018

Curtailing research funding from external sources may have human...

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Some Women With Breast Cancer May Be Spared Chemo – but There’s a Catch

Radhika Nair 28/06/2018

There are legitimate concerns left to be addressed by...

The Indian government seems to be rolling out bedaquiline in a phased manner and somewhat along the lines of the US FDA Expanded Access. Credit: CC BY-SA 3.0

Expanded Access and the Bedaquiline Debate: A Practitioner’s View

Jay Desai 25/06/2018

The Indian government and DCGI already have a programme...