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		<title>When Pills Betray Trust</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2025 07:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why India’s Drug Quality Crisis Demands a Mindset Reset? A Familiar Headline, a Fading Sense of Shock: It happened again. According to The Economic Times (October 24, 2025), 112 drug samples failed quality tests in September — one even found spurious. If that &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/when-pills-betray-trust/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Unfettered ‘Access To Drug Innovation’ &#8211; An Oxymoron?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 00:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mass paranoia, as it were, over Covid pandemic has now started fading with drug regulators’ ‘emergency approval’ of several Covid -19 vaccines, and its free of cost access to all, generally in most countries. As the endgame of the pandemic, &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/unfettered-access-to-drug-innovation-an-oxymoron/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is The Global Generic Drug Market Slowing Down?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2017 23:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Driven by a strong environmental headwind, both within and outside the country, several pharma companies in India have recently started raising a red flag on their future earning guidance for the stock market, though citing quite different reasons altogether. Quoting &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/is-the-global-generic-drug-market-slowing-down/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Even Smaller Countries Now Question Indian Drug Quality Standard</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2016 23:42:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[India has over 135 US-FDA approved pharmaceutical manufacturing units, at present. This number is very significant ranking second behind the United States, and was driving the growth of generic drug exports in the top pharma market of the world. Riding &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/even-smaller-countries-now-question-indian-drug-quality-standard/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Public Healthcare Space: Evaluating Three Fresh Edicts</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Dec 2013 00:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medicines constitute a significant cost component of modern healthcare systems across the world. However, in India the situation is even worse, where as per recent studies, drugs contribute as high as around 70 percent of the total treatment cost. This &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/public-healthcare-space-evaluating-three-fresh-edicts/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pharma Marketing in India: 10 Chain Events to Catalyze a Paradigm Shift</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 00:00:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the matured markets of the world pharmaceutical marketing is quite different in many respect as compared to India. Besides doctors, different sets of customer groups like, healthcare providers, patient advocacy groups, pharmacy benefit managers, clinical assessment authorities play various &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/pharma-marketing-in-india-10-chain-events-to-catalyze-a-paradigm-shift/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>A National Regulatory Standard is necessary for MRs of the Indian Pharmaceutical Industry</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Medical Representatives (MR) form the bedrock of business success, especially for the pharmaceutical industry in India. The Job of MRs is tough and high voltage one, laced with moments of elation and sprinkles of frustration, while generating prescription demand for &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/a-national-regulatory-standard-is-necessary-for-mrs-of-the-indian-pharmaceutical-industry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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