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Cipla's brave act: Will cancer treatment go the AIDS way?

India has about 2.5 million cancer patients. Annually, the country records about 800,000 new cases and 550,000 deaths.

India considers price controls for patented drugs

The medicines are beyond the reach of most of India's 1.2 billion people, 40 percent of whom live below the poverty line of $1.25 a day.

US pushing India to hike cancer drug price

Rea's testimony is only the most explicit example of the Obama administration's efforts to use intellectual property manoeuvring to inflate medical costs abroad.

World Cancer Day: Debate on affordable drugs must focus on life or death for millions

On World Cancer Day, here is arithmetic to show that big pharma's justification for high prices of life-saving drugs is not the complete truth.