Background: Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) manufacturing is an important segment of the Indian pharma industry. India ranks third in terms of volume of medicines produced, and is a major global supplier of generic medicines. However, India depends heavily on the import of several raw...

Background: Globally, policy-makers are currently grappling with both economic and non-economic measures to combat tobacco consumption. Among economic measures, advertising/sponsorship ban, alternative cropping and alternative livelihood measures are considered, in addition, to imposing heavy...

Self-reported measures of poor health and morbidities from developing countries tend to be viewed with considerable skepticism. Examination of the social gradient in self-reported health and morbidity measures provides a useful test of the validity of self-reports of poor health and morbidities....