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Top official sought CBI probe into hip implants sold by Indian arm of Johnson & Johnson: ‘Failure of govt’
But the Centre decided in July 2015 against such a probe on the grounds that “referring the case to CBI may not help the compensation claim” of patients.
Govt panel findings: ‘Its hip implant recalled in Australia, in same month Johnson & Johnson got registration certificate in India’
However, the company did not inform authorities at the time that the product had been recalled in Australia in December 2009, a committee set up by the Union Health Ministry has found.
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‘Johnson & Johnson buried key facts on faulty hip implant surgeries, kept regulator in dark’
The report by a government panel states that over 3,600 patients with the faulty implants remain untraceable and that at least four deaths have been reported from those who underwent surgeries using these devices.
Uttar Pradesh | Copycat encounters: 21 deaths, 20 similar FIRs, same sequence of events
Almost all the FIRs mention that the encounters took place at night or early morning, and in several police say they spotted the men using torchlight, and claim to have carried out "aatmaraksharth (self-defence)", "nyuntam (minimum)" firing.
Govt responds to Express series: ‘Will end menace of predatory journals’
“We will end this menace of predatory journals,” Union HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar said during Question Hour in Lok Sabha.
Fake Science, Part III: Energy cure, God university get prime space for money
The Indian Express accessed over 90 articles published by Trivedi and found similar claims in all. He also claims to have developed “Trivedi Water”, which is listed on Amazon but is “currently unavailable”.
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Fake Science: 1 journal to 1,500 in 10 years, Hyderabad is hub of pay & publish
Fake Science part-II: Most of these journals exist online and are operated by companies based across the city, including the posh Banjara Hills, but flaunt addresses from abroad on their websites, mostly in the US and UK.
Inside India's fake research paper shops: pay, publish, profit
Despite UGC blacklist, hundreds of ‘predatory journals’ thrive, cast shadow on quality of faculty and research nationwide.
V-Cs, AIIMS, IIT professors on list: ‘Students sent it, we don’t know’
Most of them figure in publications brought out by Hyderabad-based OMICS and Turkey-based WASET, which claim to organise research conferences across the world.
Explained: How the pay-and-publish business works
The pressure to publish, and to present papers at conferences in order to collect the marks needed for recruitments/promotions often incentivises pay-to-publish practices.
Express investigation Videos
How Johnson & Johnson pushed another 'faulty' hip implant in India
What slipped under the radar is a story of how Johnson & Johnson used a loophole in US laws to push the product into the Indian market.
Implant files: Delhi's back alleys turn into operation theatres for breast implant surgeries
No one is checking the implants for safety; technicians often double up as surgeons; shame and stigma prevent patients from reporting the gruesome aftermath of what has gone wrong, an investigation by The Indian Express has found.
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The Indian Express with ICIJ | Implant files: Faulty implants and basement surgeries
Implant files: An Indian Express investigation with ICIJ reveals how faulty implants and basement surgeries are putting lives at risk.
Express Investigation: Bihar Simmers Before Polls
Since January 2010, for the last three and a half years that BJP and Janta Dal (United) were together in power, there were 226 “communal incidents” across Bihar – incidents where Hindus and Muslims, the two largest religious groups in he state, were pitted against each other. Each incident was recorded by the local police […]
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