NPPA Cuts 543 Cancer Drug Prices By 85 Percent

National Pharma Pricing Authority cuts MRP of 543 anti cancer formulations under 27 molecules, trade margin capped 30 percent, trastuzumab from Rs 75k...

Nashik's Yellow Water — 1000x Chromium Before Kumbh

Nashik borewell tests 50.3 mg/L hexavalent chromium — 1006 times BIS limit 0.05 mg/L — in Ambad MIDC, yellow water causing ulcers, 109 skin cases, plu...

The Egg Price Puzzle

Egg aisle spilling over with varieties - brown, white, free-range, cage-free, high-protein, omega-3-enriched, vitamin D3-infused, speckled, country - ...

The Cancer Bill Cut

Centre moves to cap trade margins on 110 costly cancer drugs, including 35 patented ones, aiming to cut MRPs by 20-70% and save patients Rs 2,500 cror...

GM Crop, Unchecked Field

Editorial warns against unregulated GM mustard and Bt brinjal hybrids reaching farmers, citing Rs 2,000-3,500 crore herbicide market and failure of pu...

Mirror Breakthrough: Nobel For Chirality

French-Japanese duo's Chemistry Nobel for controlling mirrored molecules is not abstract science; it is the key to safer drugs and cheaper agrochemica...

Nobel Medicine 2026

Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel win Nobel Medicine 2026 for optogenetics - using algal proteins that react to light to switch brain ce...

Count Every Cancer

Supreme Court asks 19 states to make cancer notifiable. If implemented, India will finally know where cancer is, who it hits, and why our response is ...

3,832 Children, A 2027 Promise

India wants zero leprosy transmission by 2027. But 3,832 children infected in 2025-26, many already disabled, shows the bacteria is still spreading si...