India and universal healthcare : public engagement needed

Two articles I read recently brought home, once more, the absolute lack of a cohesive national debate on "healthcare for all Indians" which is currently a hot topic in New Delhi. One of the articles observed that the Maharashtra state government had yet to deliver on its very dated promise  to provide free medicines to …

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India’s compulsory licence to Natco : follow-up thoughts

In granting a compulsory licence to Natco on Bayer's cancer drug Nexavar the patents office has done its job well. It has put a provision in the law meant expressly to balance public good with incentives for innovation to its right use. See Shamnad Basheer's lucid analysis of the order on spicyip. But it is …