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Let Us Hope None of Us is Part of Any Malpractice

August 6, 2011

There is a worrying report by Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines series from Madhya Pradesh about unethical practices pertaining to drug trials by international pharma companies: [...]
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POLL: Is Leprosy Still a Problem?

March 31, 2011

Broadcast recently in the UK on Channel 4 foreign affairs series Unreported World, India’s Leprosy Heroes, highlighted the problem of leprosy in India. The report reveals the [...]
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Dr Vivek Khemka talks to Medindia

February 25, 2011

Dr Vivek Khemka is a US-based oncologist, a palliative care enthusiast and a great friend of palliative care and of Pallium India. A few years [...]
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BBC Radio Visits Pallium India

January 7, 2011

When Linda Pressly from BBC Radio walked into Pallium India’s Palliative Care Unit at Trivandrum Institute of Palliative Sciences in S.U.T Hospital, she met up [...]
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HIV/AIDS, India and Our Collective Conscience

November 28, 2010

Do you see a scar going round the neck? That scar should be on our collective conscience. “Ramesh” (not his real name) is just 25. [...]
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Rural MBBS Degree in India

October 22, 2010

India has come out with a “Rural MBBS” program in which the course duration has been shortened from the conventional six years and a half [...]
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18th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care

October 10, 2010

Dr Piyush Gupta, organizing secretary, invites you to the 18th International Conference of Indian Association of Palliative Care at Lucknow – the historic City of [...]
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Is India the Worst Place to Die?

August 23, 2010

India has the 4th largest GDP in the world, but, in terms of providing palliative care, it ranks even lower than Uganda – an economy [...]
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BMJ: The Politics of Pain

August 19, 2010

Pain relief is often taken for granted in the Western world, but in about 150 countries the use of morphine is severely restricted, says Tatum [...]
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Quality of Death: Ranking End-of-Life Care Across the World

July 19, 2010

The Economist Intelligence Unit of the Economist and Lien Foundation in Singapore joined hands to produce a white paper on Quality of Death (pdf) that [...]


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