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		<title>Rebuilding Pharma Image: A Laudable Mindset &#8211; Lacking In Many</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jul 2017 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fierce debate on ethics and compliance related issues in the pharma marketing practices still reverberates, across the globe. One of its key fallout has been ever-increasing negative consumer perception about this sector, sparing a very few companies, if at &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/rebuilding-pharma-image-a-laudable-mindset-lacking-in-many/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Indian Drug Control World’s Weakest: Pharma Trade Bodies Working At Cross Purposes&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2016 00:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In the entire world, I think our drug control system probably is the weakest today. It needs to be strengthened,&#8221; said the Secretary of the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) &#8211; V K Subburaj at an event in New-Delhi on April &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/indian-drug-control-worlds-weakest-pharma-trade-bodies-working-at-cross-purposes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Ease of Doing Pharma Business in India: A Kaleidoscopic View </title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 00:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ensuring ease of doing any ethical business activity in India, is a new focus area of the Government and is very rightly so. Creating ease of doing ethical pharma business too, falls under this overall national objective. In this article, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/ease-of-doing-pharma-business-in-india-a-kaleidoscopic-view/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Curious Conundrum of New Drugs Approval Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2016 00:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fathoming the details of just a short span of time, not going beyond the last 10 years, I find from the published data that many new drugs, such as, Alatrofloxacin, Aprotinin, Drotrecogin alfa, Lumiracoxib, Propoxyphene, Rofecoxib, Rosiglitazone, Sibutramine, Tegaserod, Tetrazepam, were &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/the-curious-conundrum-of-new-drugs-approval-process/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>India To Expand NLEM 2011: A Step In The Right Direction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2015 00:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Responding to growing discontentment on the flawed National List of Essential Medicines 2011 (NLEM 2011) and equally vociferous demand for its urgent rectification, on May 5, 2015, in a written reply to the Lower House of Indian Parliament (Lok Sabha) &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/india-to-expand-nlem-2011-a-step-in-the-right-direction/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Patient-Centric State Initiative To Revolutionize Disease Treatment</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2015 00:00:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his State of the Union address, just before the recent visit to India in January 2015, President Barack Obama articulated the need to develop &#8220;Precision Medicine&#8221; in his country – a bold, giant and perhaps unprecedented State initiative to &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/a-patient-centric-state-initiative-to-revolutionize-disease-treatment/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma And Healthcare: Mounting ‘Trust Deficit’ In Post Halcyon Days</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2014 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Although a radical transformation in the field of medicine and path breaking advances of medical sciences are in progress, the healthcare system as whole, including the pharma industry, as voiced by many, is fast losing its human touch and values. &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/pharma-and-healthcare-mounting-trust-deficit-in-post-halcyon-days/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>“Kickbacks And Bribes Oil Every Part of India’s Healthcare Machinery” &#8211; A National Shame?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2014 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Corruption ruins the doctor-patient relationship in India” - highlights an article published in the well-reputed British Medical Journal (BMJ) on 08 May 2014. The author David Berger wrote, “Kickbacks and bribes oil every part of the country’s healthcare machinery and &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/kickbacks-and-bribes-oil-every-part-of-indias-healthcare-machinery-a-national-shame/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Transparency in Drug Trial Data: Thwarted by Lobbyists or Embroiled in Controversy?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on a leaked letter from overseas pharma industry bodies, a leading international daily in late July 2013 reported: “Big pharma mobilizing patients in battle over drugs trials data.” Some experts consider it as a poignant, if not a bizarre &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/transparency-in-drug-trial-data-thwarted-by-lobbyists-or-embroiled-in-controversy/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>In the Wonderland of Pharma Generics: Some Steps In, Some Steps Over the Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To scale-up access to healthcare, especially for the marginalized population of any country, greater access to affordable generic drugs will always remain fundamental, besides improving healthcare infrastructure and its delivery mechanism. Thus, there should be a robust mechanism across the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/in-the-wonderland-of-pharma-generics-some-steps-in-some-steps-over-the-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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