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		<title>Buying Physicians&#8217; Prescriptions in Cash or Kind: A Global (Dis)Order?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Sep 2013 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently a European business lobby reportedly raised its voice alleging pharma Multinational Corporations (MNCs) in China have been &#8216;unfairly targeted&#8217; by a string of investigations into bribery and price-fixing cases despite their generally ‘strong legal compliance’ and has suggested that China &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/buying-physicians-prescriptions-in-cash-or-kind-a-global-disorder/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Two Paintings on the Same Canvas: &#8216;Truth About Drug Companies&#8217; and &#8216;Protecting Access to Medicines&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the saying goes, &#8220;Great people think alike&#8221;, many thought leaders of very high credibility across the globe, seem to think almost in similar lines when it comes to improving access to medicines for a large section of the global &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/two-paintings-on-the-same-canvas-truth-about-drug-companies-and-protecting-access-to-medicines/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>85% of the patented new drugs have therapeutic equivalents…they do not increase the cost of treatment for the common man: Points…Counterpoints</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jun 2010 01:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Affordability of patented drugs has become a major controversial and at the same time a very sensitive issue in the healthcare space of India, just as in many other parts of the world. The government, the NGOs and other stakeholders, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/85-of-the-patented-new-drugs-have-therapeutic-equivalentsthey-do-not-increase-the-cost-of-treatment-for-the-common-man-pointscounterpoints/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘Climate Change’ and its impact on ‘Public health’: is there anything in it that we can do ourselves?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lancet in its December 5, 12 and 19, 2009 issues published the following interesting studies:A. Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: household energy B. Public health benefits of strategies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions: urban land transport &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/the-climate-change-and-its-impact-on-public-health-is-there-anything-in-it-that-we-can-do-ourselves/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>China has recently unfolded the blueprints of its new healthcare reform measures, when will India do so?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 01:30:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early April, 2009, China, a country with 1.3 billion people, unfolded a plan for a new healthcare reform process for the next decade to provide safe, effective, convenient and affordable healthcare services to all its citizens. A budgetary allocation of &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/china-has-recently-unfolded-the-blueprints-of-its-new-healthcare-reform-measures-when-will-india-do-so/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>65% of Indians do not have access to affordable modern medical treatment – why?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India is indeed a country of many paradoxes. Not just peaceful co-existence of luxurious sky scrapers and dilapidated shanties side by side. In the healthcare sector as well, we witness on one side booming medical tourism of foreign nationals to &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/65-of-indians-do-not-have-access-to-affordable-modern-medical-treatment-why/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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