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NPPA has capped trade margins on 137 non-scheduled anti-cancer drugs at 30% of MRP, effective November 9. It used its powers under Para 19 of DPCO 2013. Immunotherapies like pembrolizumab and nivolumab are covered, and so are patented drugs unless exempted. Mark-ups averaged about 170%, crossing 700% in some cases. The move extends a 2019 pilot on 42 drugs and will show whether margin caps can cut out-of-pocket cancer costs.
Students have blocked entrances to hundreds of high schools across the country, with squads of riot police deployed to control the situation — occasionally resulting in violent clashes
Thousands of Greenlandic Inuit women and girls were fitted with IUDs without their consent between the 1960s and 1990s, in a birth-control programme reportedly aimed at controlling the island’s population; decades later, Denmark has apologised and approved compensation for the historic wrong, while questions of accountability, colonialism and human rights violations remain unresolved
Health initiatives and family support rightly focus on newborns, but this often leaves the mother’s medical needs sidelined. Comprehensive follow-up care for mothers, incorporated into visits for the newborn, can go a long way toward maternal recovery
In 2011, the transition to the uniform system of school education in Tamil Nadu faced a political hurdle when the AIADMK came to power
District Magistrate says all the children on the boat were aged 15 or younger; PM Modi, Bihar CM announce ex-gratia
Former Jawaharlal Nehru University academic Angomcha Bimol Akoijam represents the Inner Manipur constituency in the Lok Sabha; he was dismissed by the university administration on October 9, after an internal enquiry found him guilty of sexual harassment
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