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Commercially made morphine is on average nearly six times more expensive in many poor counties than it is in wealthy ones.

The federal cabinet on December 24 has decided to give one-time permission for import of polio markers from India and reduce prices of 89 medicines by 15 per cent.

Millions of lives were saved in the 2010s as new ways of tackling global health problems made their debut.

Stockpile of 500,00 doses of Ebola vaccine is being established for emergency use in outbreaks of the deadly fever by the GAVI global vaccine alliance.

In good news for over 72 million diabetics in India, cheaper versions of the popular anti-diabetic drug Vildagliptin, have hit the market December 10 onwards.

The United States ranks number-one in the world for cost of vital medicines.

A high-level meeting of policymakers, regulators and industry experts in the field of pharmaceuticals and trade opened in Addis Ababa, Thursday to discuss a bold path towards affordable pharmaceuticals through leveraging the African Continental Free Trade

The funding - almost of half of which came in a single donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation - will be used to immunize 450 million children against polio each year.

We should override patent protection on some medicines and change how R&D is funded.

“I’m working, I have benefits. I can get my teeth cleaned and my eyes checked, but I can’t get the medicine that keeps me and my sister alive,” said one patient with diabetes.

The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced the start of a pilot programme to prequalify human insulin to increase treatment for diabetes in low- and middle-income countries.

Patents and Patients: US pharmaceutical companies are more interested in protecting their valuable drugs patents than treating Indian AIDS sufferers.

You'd think that as a poor country grows wealthier, more of its children would get vaccinated for preventable diseases such as polio, measles and pneumonia.

Beijing’s health-care reforms are giving global pharmaceutical companies better access to the world’s second-largest drug market.

Foreign direct investment in the pharmaceutical industry is set to increase the availability of drugs in the country’s hospitals.