Outsourcing pregnancy – Womb Renting
February 22, 2009

In 1997, a very talented playwright from India by the name of Manjula Padmanabhan wrote Harvest —- It was later made into a movie called Deham or body by Govind Nihalani which is a futuristic play about the sale of human body parts and a new kind of trade-off that it establishes between the developed and the developing economies.
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Clinical Trial Outsourcing – Beyond patient pool and cost saving
February 15, 2009

Sometime ago, Pfizer felt compelled to apply brakes on phase III clinical trials of torcetrapib, a drug that was being investigated for its purported benefits in raising “good” cholesterol in blood vessels, when it turned out to be increasing the risk of heart attacks instead! Read more

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Double standards in quality control?
January 25, 2009

The other day, I stumbled upon this alarming piece of news. In it, the Canadian site raises serious doubts about the safety of “generic drugs” that are being sourced from countries with “few standards and low accountability.”
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Asatyam Saga; A cultural or a moral issue?
January 11, 2009

An American and a Chinese were once visiting a cemetery where their friends where buried. The American carried a beautiful bunch of flowers, whereas, the Chinese bore a bowl of cooked rice. The American found it ridiculous that any one would think of leaving food at a graveside. “Do you really think,” he asked his Chinese friend, “that your dead friend would come and eat the rice that you are leaving here?”

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