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Pharmaceutical companies to stop giving gifts and sops to physicians

July 20, 2012
In a revolutionary move,  the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (IPA) has entered an ‘in-principle’ agreement, not to offer physicians gifts or other sops in exchange for prescribing their medication.  This move has come in an …

Is it ethical for doctors to go on a strike? SC asks IMA

June 26, 2012
Though the Supreme Court didn’t stay Monday’s nationwide strike by around 1.78 lakh doctors of the IMA because of impracticality of implementation it did agree to examine the ethicality of doctors striking. The bench …

Law to keep tabs on ‘human guinea pigs’ by 2012

December 28, 2011
The law on biomedical research on human subjects, which will keep a tab on unethical medical practices and help those who abide by medical science ethics, will be in place of end of 2012, an official of the union health ministry …