Quoted: Every night in this quiet western Indian city, 15 pregnant women prepare for sleep in the spacious house they share, ascending the stairs in a procession of ballooned bellies, to bedrooms that become a landscape of soft hills...The young mothers of Anand, a place famous for its milk, are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world.

Quoted: About 1.6 million Indians endure cancer pain each year. Tens of thousands also die in pain from AIDS, burns or accidents. But only a tiny fraction — Dr. Rajagopal estimates 0.4 percent — get relief. The exception is Kerala, where about 80 percent of India’s palliative care is delivered

Quoted: Drug companies can continue to make less expensive generic drugs, much of which flow to the developing world, after an Indian court Monday rejected a patent law challenge.

Quoted: The subconscious brain is more active, independent and purposeful than once thought. Sometimes it takes charge.

Quoted: The practice of collecting blood samples from Amazon Indians has aroused widespread suspicions in Brazil.

Quoted: Research into the genetics of obesity indicates that each person has a comfortable weight range to which the body gravitates.

Quoted: Harriet A. Washington has unearthed an enormous amount of shocking information and shaped it into a riveting, carefully documented book.