Tag: medicine

How’s India Doing in Medical Education for Universal Healthcare?

P.V. RAMESH Medical education in India does not prepare doctors to effectively manage contemporary health challenges, let alone emerging ones. What we need is a comprehensive overhaul to align medical education with the needs of the country and the goal of universal healthcare. The Covid-19 pandemic wreaked unprecedented havoc on the lives and livelihoods of… Read More How’s India Doing in Medical Education for Universal Healthcare?

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Pharma companies sue for right to buy blood from Mexicans along border

By Stefanie Dodt, ARD German TV A year after the US barred Mexicans from crossing the border to sell their blood, pharmaceutical companies have acknowledged that those donations provided as much as 10% of the plasma collected nationwide as they seek to have the ban overturned. US investigative non-profit online newsroom ProPublica reports. n the… Read More Pharma companies sue for right to buy blood from Mexicans along border

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Air pollution: Uncovering the dirty secret behind BP’s bumper profits

By Owen Pinnell Far removed from the world leaders making climate pledges at COP, are people like Ali Hussein Julood, a young leukaemia survivor living on an Iraqi oil field co-managed by BP. When the BBC discovered BP was not declaring the field’s gas flaring, Ali helped us to reveal the truth about the poisonous… Read More Air pollution: Uncovering the dirty secret behind BP’s bumper profits

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Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights

PUBLIC GOODS  •  September 1, 2021  •  Peter Rossman he multilateral trading system anchored by the WTO is not confined to cross-border trade in physical goods. It was also designed to protect corporate knowledge monopolies. Developing countries were told that strict adherence to the rules of ‘free trade’, codified and enforced by the WTO, would enhance their… Read More Multinational Corporations and COVID-19: Intellectual property rights vs. human rights

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Masked cancer drug trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissues

Many cancer treatments are notoriously savage on the body. Drugs often attack both healthy cells and tumor cells, causing a plethora of side effects. Immunotherapies that help the immune system recognize and attack cancer cells are no different. Though they have prolonged the lives of countless patients, they work in only a subset of patients.… Read More Masked cancer drug trains immune system to kill tumors while sparing healthy tissues

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Kamini Walia: The growing scourge of anti-microbial resistance needs urgent attention

Ever since the pandemic struck, concerns have been raised about the improper use of antimicrobials amongst Covid-19 patients. The worry is that unnecessary prescription of antimicrobials will lead to a further increase in the already high levels of drug resistance in most parts of the world. In the past few years, alarmingly high resistance rates in pathogens… Read More Kamini Walia: The growing scourge of anti-microbial resistance needs urgent attention

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Péter Krekó: Learning to live with the madness

Decades of political campaigning against climate science and medicine have made public health a battleground of beliefs. Vaccine hesitancy, as seen in eastern Europe, based on distrust in authority, can’t be solved with rationality alone. So what might the antidote be?    Rejecting science is not so much a grass-roots movement, says Péter Krekó, in… Read More Péter Krekó: Learning to live with the madness

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