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Cancer ruling benefits cheap drugs in India: Experts 15 March 2012
A provision of the Indian Patents Act allows for a compulsory license to be awarded after three years of the grant of patent on drugs that are deemed to be too costly. Other patent rulings are imminent. A long-running case...
Keywords: compulsory license, Swiss drug maker Novartis, Swiss drug maker Novartis, local generic maker Natco Pharma
Read MoreHIV/AIDS drugs shortage in India 05 September 2014
India is facing a severe shortage of HIV/AIDS drugs provided under the government's free medicine programme as few drug makers stalled the supply due to delay in payments. Over thousands of patients are left without treatment causing more worries. Generally...
Keywords: UN AIDS, HIV drug, HIV/AIDS, HIV
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