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Several Sectors Could Face Supply Chain Crisis if Coronavirus is Not Contained
15 Feb 2020
The Covid- 19 virus has not been declared as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation, so far.
Surangya Kaur
Culture of Revolving Doors in US Also Decides Which Drugs are Approved by FDA
14 Jul 2018
Many of those serving on FDA advisory boards have either received benefits or taken up lucrative jobs with the same pharma companies whose drugs they approved while in the FDA
Newsclick Report
38 Million Indians Impoverished Because Of Buying Medicines In A Single Year, Says Study
13 Jun 2018
55 million Indians were pushed below the poverty line due to out-of-pocket expenditure on healthcare overall in 2011-2012; outpatient care accounted for more expense than hospitalisation.
Newsclick Production
Compulsory License for Medicines: Government Protecting the Interest of India or the US?
28 Mar 2016
In order to ensure that drug companies cannot play with the lives of patients (for instance by either stopping the sale of a drug or making it incredibly expensive) - the Indian Patents Act…
Newsclick Production
Indo-US IP Committee: A Compromise of Sovereignty
29 Nov 2014
Newsclick interviewed Dr. Amit Sengupta of Jan Swasthya Abhiyaan on the recently announced Indo-US Working Committee on Intellectual Property. According to Amit, the announcement of this committee…
Amit Sengupta
South African Patients Need our Solidarity
23 Jan 2014
A few days back, the Health Minister of South Africa, Dr Motsoaledi, characterised an elaborate plot hatched by large multinational drug companies as "genocide" and a conspiracy of "satanic magnitude…
Courtesy: Rajya Sabha TV
Need for a Different Model to Develop New Drugs
25 Dec 2013
Dr Venkatraman Ramakrishnan who won a Nobel Prize in 2009 for Chemistry, in conversation with Prabir Purkayastha, exhorts that a different kind of model needs to be created for developing new drugs.…
Amit Sengupta
Parliamentary Committee Indicts Clinical Trial Industry
06 Sep 2013
THE Seventy-Second Report of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health marks a strong indictment of the way in which clinical trials are being conducted in India. Before discussing the report,…
Newsclick Production
Motivated Campaign To Kill Generic Industry
15 Jun 2013
In the backdrop of the Ranbaxy case in the US, Newsclick talks to Dr Amit Sengupta from the Jan Swasthya Abhyan on the situation in the pharmaceutical sector at large. Dr Sengupta says that a…
Sana AmirSalma Rehman, Zainab Sayeed (Students of AJK MCRCJamia Milia Islamia University)
India's Poor are Rich Pharma's Guinea Pigs
27 Feb 2013
Newsclick hosts selected news features of students from AJK MCRC, Jamia Milia Islamia University. Over 2000 people have died during clinical drug trials in the last four years in India but only 22…