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[Funu @funu365]

@AJEnglish Well tried but you cannot win this.

[Tehseen Poonawalla Official 🇮🇳 @tehseenp]

Why should the taxpayers fund a system that the lawmakers themselves avoid?
​It's time for a law: Netas & Babus must send their children to government schools and get their families treated at government hospitals. No private luxuries, no going abroad for studies or treatment!
​If the system isn't good enough for those who run it, it isn't good enough for the common Indian who is one medical emergency away from bankruptcy.
​Let’s force accountability. Share this until it reaches the parliament.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Dear friends, as promised, the citizens funded generics vs. branded drugs project is now published after 4 months in peer review. It was hardwork, but worth the effort because all of you helped us realize this important work.

You can read the full detaild paper here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

Here is a simplified summary:
Do cheaper generic medicines work as well as expensive branded ones? It's a question that worries patients and even many doctors, who often quietly assume that a low price must mean lower quality. This doubt has real consequences in India, where medicines make up nearly two-thirds of what families spend out of their own pockets on healthcare — a burden that pushes millions into poverty and forces people to split doses or stop treatment altogether.

To put the question to a fair, independent test, our team at the Mission for Ethics and Science in Healthcare (MESH) carried out a fully citizen-funded study, paid for entirely by donations from ordinary members of the public, with no money or influence from any drug company.

We bought 131 samples of 22 commonly used medicines — covering heart disease, diabetes, infections, pain, acidity, and more — from seven different kinds of outlets across Kerala, including government stores like Jan Aushadhi, private generic chains, and premium branded pharmacies. Every sample was then coded, blinded, and sent to a top accredited laboratory for rigorous testing against the Indian Pharmacopoeia 2022 standards. What makes this study unusual is that very few before it have tested branded and generic versions from the same market side by side, included government-supplied medicines, and combined strict quality testing with a hard look at price — all at the same time.

The result was striking in its simplicity: every single one of the 131 medicines passed every quality test. 100%. It made no difference whether a pill was generic or branded, cheap or expensive — they were all equally good in their active ingredient content, their purity, and how they dissolve in the body.

Yet the prices told a completely different story. Generic medicines were, on average, 48.6% cheaper than their branded twins, and the most expensive brand cost up to 13.9 times more than the cheapest generic of the very same drug. Government Jan Aushadhi stores were the cheapest source for 18 of the 22 medicines tested, with potential savings running into thousands of rupees a year per medicine — for instance, over ₹16,000 a year on a single liver drug.

For doctors, this is reassuring, hard evidence that prescribing a quality-assured generic is not a compromise on care; it is the same medicine at a fraction of the cost. For patients, it means you can stay on your treatment without it draining your savings, which is exactly what keeps people healthier over the long run.

And this is precisely why independent, publicly funded projects like this matter so much for the future of healthcare in India: they answer the questions ordinary people actually have, free from commercial pressure, and they build the trust that programmes like Jan Aushadhi need to truly succeed. Affordable and high-quality are not opposites — in a well-regulated market, they go hand in hand.
More here: https://t.co/jZhm8ZcPCq

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

In India, people constantly say “keep religion out of sports.”

Meanwhile, before departing for the FIFA World Cup, the entire Brazilian football team and even those on board their flight participated in a Christian baptism ceremony.

[Funu @funu365]

@IndianGems_ I wonder what made the remaining stay back?

[Funu @funu365]

@hyderabaddoctor @dmuthuk @InvestorOfJAMMU @TOIHyderabad Have been following you strictly for your views on health and medicines where your expertise matter. Unfortunately, it feels like a chinese restaurant seving dosa here.

[Funu @funu365]

@KapilSibal Aajtak toh aap besharam the…aab saram kyu aane lagi

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@RahulGandhi Master stroke sir, you just finished modi ji’s career with a sentence. May #congress continue to rise in your leadership.

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@commiepommie @samartoor3086 How would he know that with his limited intelligence.

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@samartoor3086 What an assh@le, its not malfunction, its show of force.

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@Atulsingh_asan Do not fall for these traps, sudden selling and profit booking will bring small investments to zero.

[Funu @funu365]

@AITCofficial It is the #bjp central command that has contained the anger of our karyakartas in #westbengal else you would have faced hell on earth.

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@ZZoariah You need not worry at all as long as you love your country more than your religion. #india

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@newstart_2024 And one day he will die like all of us.

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@drvasusadineni @CCRAS_MoAyush @moayush @narendramodi @AyushKarnataka @mpprataprao Rakhi Sawant of Ayurveda

[Funu @funu365]

@drvasusadineni @CCRAS_MoAyush @moayush @narendramodi @AyushKarnataka @mpprataprao Madam, you are sick. You and your arguements were torn apart in the debate.

[Funu @funu365]

@drvasusadineni @theliverdoc @esSENSEGlobal Sometimes the most dignified response is to congratulate someone and move forward. Dragging the conversation further just lowers the tone for everyone.

[Funu @funu365]

@drvasusadineni @theliverdoc @esSENSEGlobal Focus on self-correction in private rather than performing in public. Let your absence be more felt than your presence for a while.

[Funu @funu365]

@theliverdoc @esSENSEGlobal She has excellent chance of getting another gold medal in deflecting topics and questions.

[Funu @funu365]

@theliverdoc @esSENSEGlobal The debate was to prove Ayurveda is a science, not to attack modern medicines. She actually deflected all questions thinking she smartly did it but actually now we know how dumb she is.