The Centre has approved a 30% trade-margin cap on non-scheduled cancer medicines, aiming to lower prices and reduce patients’ out-of-pocket treatment costs.
More than 530,000 people develop pancreatic cancer globally each year. Researchers are exploring whether early detection and targeted drugs can stop it before it spreads.
Cancer treatment has benefited from plant-derived compounds, including medicines used against leukaemia, lymphoma, breast and ovarian cancers. But deforestation could destroy plants that may contain compounds...
