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WHICH ONE WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

  It all started around march 2020 here in India, when we all were suddenly disrupted from our daily lives. At that time, we all were praying for some miracle to happen in the pharmaceutical industry, to get a vaccine out of sky, as soon as possible. The irony is now, after a year when the various vaccine candidates have finally arrived, they all started to compete with each other, then to compete with the pandemic itself. So basically, this blog is to tell the differences between the various vaccines available or might be available. Because apparently, there is a lot of fuss going around for what to consider for our lives and what not to. In the case of a classical vaccine, like the present ones such as for polio, influenza, rabies. A weaker version of the same virus is being used inside the vaccine, which goes inside the body, and produces an immune response in the form of antibodies. An example for this type of COVID-19 vaccine is of the covaxin(India). In the case of vacc...

PHARMACY OF THE WORLD RIDING ON A BACKSEAT.

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Few months back, I took an  MOOC  called “drug development ”.  A typical web-based e- learning course you can say, in collaboration with some foreign university.   It was something fresh to learn out of books and what could be better than this quarantine time (which  has crossed our mental and emotional limits), to utilize this pandemic and upgrade our CV. So, it was good, interesting, and compelling, was something new to dive in. But  don’t  worry I am not going to be reviewing this course nor  I'll  be talking about the pros and cons or any other article about the corona virus  situation.  I'll  just share a thought which occurred to me while I was going through this course. So, while in the starting week at first, they teach you about the marketing scenario of pharmaceutical industry, the various areas where they have to invest for the new drug molecule, finding investors, the in-silo environment  with various other fie...