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		<title>Drug Prescription In Generic Names Only, No Branded Generics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Aug 2023 07:24:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The World Bank Report released on April 07, 2023 highlights that patients&#8217; Out-of-Pocket (OoP) expenses as a percentage of their total healthcare expenditure in India still accounted for as high as 50.59%. This means that patients in India generally pay for the &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/drug-prescription-in-generic-names-only-no-branded-generics/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Self-made Barriers To Business Transparency Impacting Drug Access</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2019 00:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently published book on pharma industry tried to expose the deceit behind many generic-drug manufacturing—and the consequent risks to global health. This publication is described as an ‘explosive narrative investigation of the generic drug boom that reveals fraud and life-threatening dangers &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/self-made-barriers-to-business-transparency-impacting-drug-access/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How Creative Is Pharma Industry?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2019 00:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Because the purpose of business is to create a customer, the business enterprise has two – and only two – basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/how-creative-is-pharma-industry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Innovative ‘Medicines Too Damn Expensive’: Health Risk For Billions of People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2019 00:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tapanray.in/?p=9448</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Most ‘medicines are too damn expensive. And a key part of the problem is the lack of consistent information about drug pricing. It’s not often that the Trump administration and the anti-poverty NGO Oxfam find themselves singing from the same &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/innovative-medicines-too-damn-expensive-health-risk-for-billions-of-people/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Data: The New ‘Magic Wand’ For Pharma Business Excellence?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2018 00:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tapanray.in/?p=9166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pharma companies focus more on defending their current practices, rather than doing things differently. A September 24, 2014 article by Bain &#38; Company, titled ‘New Paths to Value Creation in Pharma’, made this observation. This happens regardless of the credence that &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/data-the-new-magic-wand-for-pharma-business-excellence/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Big Pharma Demands Transparency, Keeping their &#8216;Black-Boxes&#8217; Tight and Safe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2013 00:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.tapanray.in/?p=2780</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Pharmaceutical Industry across the globe wants absolute transparency in all government laws, policies, guidelines, transactions and overall governance. They also expect the trade environment should be predictable, non-manipulative and business-friendly. These expectations are indeed well justified and deserve whole-hearted support &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/big-pharma-demands-transparency-keeping-their-black-boxes-tight-and-safe/">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>Pioglitazone Conundrum: Should The Drug Regulator Step Over The Line?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2013 00:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent order of the Indian drug regulator to withdraw all formulations of the well known, yet controversial, anti-diabetic drug &#8211; Pioglitazone from the domestic market has created a flutter in the country, ruffling many feathers at the same time. Withdrawal &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/pioglitazone-conundrum-should-the-drug-regulator-step-over-the-line/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>To Curb Pharma Marketing Malpractices in India Who Bells the Cat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bribing doctors by the pharmaceutical companies directly or indirectly, as reported frequently by the media all over the world, including India, to prescribe their respective brand of drugs has now reached an alarming proportion, jeopardizing patients’ interest, seriously more than &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/to-curb-pharma-marketing-malpractices-in-india-who-bells-the-cat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Does India need an equivalent of ‘The Physician Payment Sunshine Act’ of the US for transparency in pharmaceutical marketing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tapan Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently a strong and palpable public sentiment against corruption has engulfed India albeit more than what we witness in movements like &#8216;Occupy Wall Street&#8217; against systemic corruption not only in the US but in a large number of cities across &#8230; <a href="http://www.tapanray.in/does-india-need-an-equivalent-of-the-physician-payment-sunshine-act-of-the-us-for-transparency-in-pharmaceutical-marketing/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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