Africa’s mpox epidemic stems from delayed responses, neglect of its health risks and the stark vaccine apartheid

India’s top drug firms oppose the move to allow government drug stores to sell generic substitutes, but what is the real reason?

Deep political rifts at WHO have left a critical pandemic treaty hanging in limbo as rich nations baulk at equitable vaccine sharing

Despite strong pleas, the ruling dispensation has changed the rules to impose a cost on those who challenge faulty patents

Making universities the hub of innovation and churning out scientists adept in frontier technology has put China at the top in terms of technological...

Frugal innovation is the new concept that companies are adopting to take technology to developing countries

Mahatma Gandhi’s works have been available freely thanks to his copyright philosophy, but not those of Martin Luther King Jr

Bringing medicines into the global intellectual property regime was a triumph of corporate skulduggery led by Pfizer

Dilution of biological conservation rules and lax enforcement of forest laws are giving free rein to the drug industry and trade

The proposed amendments to India’s patent laws are a capitulation to Big Pharma and will undermine vital public health safeguards in the law

While a few generic giants, including one from Israel, are found guilty of fuelling fatal opioid crisis in the US, the US-backed “genocide” targeting...

The 2013 landmark Supreme Court judgement of 'Novartis v Union of India' offers critical lessons on the intent behind crucial aspects of India’s key...