developing world

NEW DELHI (AP) -- In a case that could affect India's role as drug provider to the developing world, the Supreme Court began hearing arguments Tuesday over whether the government had the right to deny a patent to Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG for its lifesaving cancer treatment Gleevec....

BEIJING (AP) -- The world's top emerging countries banded together Monday to help fight diseases in the poorest countries, pledging to transfer technologies to the developing world to help supply cheap and effective drugs....

Countries exceed hopes by pledging $4.3bn to vaccinate children in the developing world against preventable diseases.

Several major drugs companies announce big cuts to the amounts they charge for their vaccines in the developing world.

ATLANTA (AP) -- "Fat cancers" usually associated with wealthy countries are becoming more common in the developing world, too, according to new reports....

A New Jersey-based group, E+Co, lends out capital to entrepreneurs in the developing world to create clean energy businesses.

The effect is multiple -- the loans create business, help reduce energy poverty and keep carbon emissions from growing

The fight against malaria and TB in the developing world should not obscure the problems poor countries face with hospital infections, experts say.

A new vaccine provides a new model for producing drugs in the developing world

Developing countries should act now to head off their own "obesity epidemic", says a global policy group.

(The Hastings Center) The researcher whose revelations about unethical US studies on syphilis in Guatemala in the 1940s lead to apologies from the Obama administration last week has written a commentary for Bioethics Forum, the Hastings Center's online publication.

She calls for the need to learn from history to better protect human subjects in the developing world.