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Friday, July 17, 2009 4:50 PM

Cancer care from the heart

It may sound a little over the top but what do you call it when a private, for-profit hospital founder and a heart surgeon insists on keeping the radiotherapy cost at his new hospital lower than the government hospital in the city. That is the story of...
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Sunday, July 12, 2009 2:47 PM

Waste, fraud, and abuse in healthcare

How can the beleagured US healthcare system raise money for its reform? By rooting out waste, fraud and abuse. That's the US president's new prescription in trying to reform the US healthcare system which is, now famously, into deep trouble. According...
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Friday, June 19, 2009 8:42 PM

Pharma industry isn't interested in curing diseases

Well, before some of you jump on this, let me clarify-- it's not my observation. Nobel laureate Richard J Roberts , who won the prize for medicine in 1993 -- for showing that genes can be split -- said this during his talk at a biotech event in Bangalore...
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Tuesday, September 23, 2008 5:12 PM

Is there a bias against developing world science?

Last week a four-nation study in Nature Reviews Genetics stressed how genomic medicine can empower developing countries to provide affordable healthcare to its people. It mentioned the Indian study, which was first announced in April and is the largest...
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