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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.
Vivan Eyben
A Computer Scientist is Taking on Google, as It Attempts to Patent a Video Compression Technique
13 Jun 2018
Software appears to be a field where corporations do not always have the upper hand.
WHO Watch Team
World Health Assembly: LMICs Discuss the Need to Limit Industry Influence on National NCD Policies
12 Jun 2018
Democratising Global Governance for Health Series 71st World Health Assembly (May 2018).
WHO Watch Team
The Road to Access – Discussions on Medicines at 71st World Health Assembly
05 Jun 2018
The debate around access to medicines within the WHO comes with a long and complicated history, and it is usually one of the most hotly debated topics during the organisation’s high-level meetings.
Bibin Sam Thomas
Deconstructing a successful containment procedure : Kerala’s Nipah Virus Challenge
04 Jun 2018
An efficient public health system and a quick response by medical personnel helped prevent a disaster.
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems: A Bad Idea?
22 May 2018
In a conflict between a State possessing LAWS and a State without any LAWS, but possessing nukes, where would the threshold lie? Would a ‘no first use policy’ still apply?
Yohan John
Yanny or Laurel? A Perspective From the Science of Mind and Brain
18 May 2018
So basically, it’s an auditory version of #ThatDress.
Surangya Kaur
Under BJP, Local Communities Suffer, Private Players Profit at Cost of Environment
12 May 2018
D Raghunandan from the Delhi Science Forum talks about the problems with these policies, and how the debate on development vs environment is flawed as it it adopts a short-sighted and one-sided view…
Amardip Kumar Singh
When Science Becomes Fiction: From the PM to the CMs to the Ministers
02 May 2018
Satellite also existed in the Mahabharata period.
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India’s Paleontology — A Dying Science
27 Apr 2018
Despite being home to some remarkable paleontological resources, such as the site where the first ever dinosaur fossils in Asia were discovered, it is a field facing widespread neglect.