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Under new rules, medical practitioners in India cannot accept any gifts or favors from drug companies. The rules, which come from the Medical Council of India and went into effect [...]

Author(s): K.S. Jayaraman [1] Activists say law will make HIV/AIDS drugs unaffordable for most people. The Indian government has passed a new law forbidding local companies from manufacturing copies of [...]

Author(s): K.S. Jayaraman [1] An international patent agreement that goes into effect on 1 January 2005 is compelling Indian drug companies to pump money into research and development (R&D), strike [...]

Author(s): K.S. Jayaraman [1] The genetic makeup of Indians favors a fast and easy spread of AIDS, Indian scientists have cautioned their government. The presence of certain genetic variants also [...]

Author(s): I-han Chou [1]; K.S. Jayaraman [2] When the first HIV-positive case surfaced in the southern Indian city of Madras--now called Chennai--18 years ago, the Indian Council of Medical Research [...]

Author(s): Myrna Watanabe [1]; K.S. Jayaraman [2] Experts in AIDS research, ethics, law and policy quietly met in Geneva mid-July to debate whether sponsors of HIV prevention trials are obligated [...]

Author(s): K.S. Jayaraman [1] The Indian government has agreed to fund research on the humble goat, Capra hircus, as a source of cells for liver transplants. If monkey trials planned [...]

Author(s): K.S. Jayaraman [1] To promote India as a global health destination, the Indian government has announced in its annual federal budget a series of new tax concessions and incentives [...]

Reports on the focus of research by scientists from India and the U.S. on the world's fattest rats. Identification and cloning of the genes responsible for the "sumo" rats that weigh in at about four times the standard weight for a rat; Role of the sumo rats as paradigms for human disorders such as diabetes and infertility; Mapping of the mutation by crossing the Indian rate with unrelated strains such as the Brown Norway and Fischer-344 strains.

Reports on India's program to discover new drugs by building on traditional medicines and screening the country's diverse plant and microbial resources. Background of the Drug Discovery Program; Budget; Future plans.