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The Indian healthcare sector is scaling new heights and is bound to gross Rs.1.3 trillion in revenue by 2020

Pfizer India is planning on selling its Animal Health Division unit for $90 million

GSK Consumer Healthcare is organising its first global meet in India

The Bangalore-based NephroLife launches Challa Hospital that offers networked dialysis in Hyderabad

Ranbaxy Laboratories appoints Manjeet Bindra as data reliability officer in the US

S3V Vascular Technologies will set up a Rs. 140 crore state-of-the-art integrated facility for the manufacturing of medical devices

Industry stakeholders come together to deliberate accessibility issues in healthcare

Marking World Diabetes Day, health industry experts come together to tackle chronic diseases in India

To offer high quality yet cost effective and accessible primary healthcare for all

Not a single government hospital in Andhra Pradesh is NABH Accreditated, while many other states are way ahead

Biological E announces the completion of inactivated JE vaccine Phase 2/3 study conducted in paediatric population

Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer announce results on the Phase 3 clinical trial ARISTOTLE

So rare that less than 100 adults with similar medical condition were reported from across the globe since 1996

Expands BD's SAFE-ISM certification program across small and medium-sized hospitals to improve healthcare outcomes

Proposed strategy in 'Healthcare for all' is inadequate

India's first ever 'ABO - Incompatible (Non-matching blood groups) Kidney Transplantation' using the 'Immunoadsorption Technique' performed in Hyderabad based Kamineni Hospital

with the minimum cost of Rs. 200 -250 is available at all laboratories and helps determining calcification thereby identifying risk for cardiovascular events

Bristol Myers Squibb India announced the appointment of Mr. Pheroze Khan as the new Managing Director

Choosing the right health insurance helps to reduce risk

3 Israeli doctors to visit Mumbai to conduct a workshop for doctors of KEM hospital

Like other medical specialties, Cosmetic surgery is a field that has consistently evolved in time.

Eilm Pharma management undertakes research in Nano technology in dental implants

Leading global provider of Healthcare benefits, Atena, acquires Indian Health Organization (IHO) to create India footprint

Gilead licenses rights to HIV Pipeline Products to Indian Partners

The Indian tourism ministry starts road shows abroad to promote homegrown health industry

Advagraf is once-daily Immunosuppressant in the World for prophylaxis of transplant rejection

Antara Launches Global Cloud-Hosted Clinical Trial Management System Built with Pronexus' IVR Toolkit VBVoice

Several overseas patients are flocking to India where medical tourism is picking up and end-to-end solutions are being offered

St. Jude Medical announces the launch of Unify and fortify devices with new heart failure monitors in India

Reckitt Benckiser Group appoints India-born Rakesh Kapoor as the CEO

Adding to this, the FM has also extended the Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana to poor and marginal workers and Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act beneficiaries, besides workers in the beedi industry and other unorganised sectors. However, the minister imposed a service tax on services provided by centrally air-conditioned hospitals with 25 or more beds.

The wholly-owned subsidiary of Opto Circuits India, Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in automated external defibrillator (AED) and diagnostic cardiac monitoring devices, has been awarded a contract to deploy Powerheart® AEDs at U.S. Postal Inspection Service sites across the United States. The U.S.

Last week, the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) sent a notice to Piramal Healthcare to stop airing the advertisement of its emergency contraceptive drug ‘i-pill’ disguised as an awareness campaign, a health official said.

Reckitt Benckiser India is the Indian arm of the UK based company which manufacturers Dettol antiseptic soap, Disprin, Motein mosquito repellent and Cherry Blossom shoe polish. The company has now agreed to buy the Indian ointment and personal care company based in Ahmadabad – Paras Pharma – for Rs. 3, 260 crore($724 million).

Fortis Healthcare’s President - Medical Strategy & Quality, Dr. Narottam Puri, signed an agreement with Denise Bucumi Nkurunziza, the First Lady of Burundi, who is also the current President of Foundation ‘Buntu’. The foundation is a non-profit organization registered under the Government of Burundi.

Malvinder Mohan Singh and Shivinder Mohan Singh-promoted Fortis Global Healthcare Holdings announced on Sunday that it will acquire the healthcare businesses of Hong Kong-listed Quality Healthcare Asia (QHA). The cumulative amount considered for this acquisition is around Rs. 882 crore.

J Harinarayan, Chairman, IRDA said, “I do hope there will be an impact on revenues. Ultimately, the idea of guidelines is to have an impact. My concern for the insurance industry is not what is going to happen in 2010-11, but to see that the industry remains healthy and be sustainable,”

However, in recent years, there has been growth to enhance the health of girls and women in India. Yet, too many still die due to reasons that can completely be prevented. Every year, 68,000 women in India die from pregnancy-related issues, more than any other country.

The minister said that these clubs will help inculcate values of good health and sanitation among children. He announced this at the launch of the National School Sanitation Initiative which is being undertaken by the Union Ministry for Human Resource Development, Union Ministry of Urban Development, CBSE and GTZ.

Further to this news, the report also stated that 77% of health expenses in rural areas and 70% in urban areas are on medicines alone. The study suggests that in a year, out-of-pocket medical costs alone push 2.2% of the entire population below the poverty line.

According to sources close to the development, the promoter group increased stake by 0.69% to 35.47% via open market procurements in the last two trading sessions. Committed to raising their stake further, these promoters believe that the group’s business has potential to grow in profits along with valuation in the future.

EMEA and IDC France have completed a special study focused on the combined implications of changes in the French hospital system, the role of ICT, the delivery of care, and the competitive ICT environment.

The announced removal of administrative barriers under the Canada-US Tax Treaty for investors such as non-resident venture capital funds will ease the way for investment in Canadian biotechnology firms says trade industry association BIOTECanada.

AstraZeneca’s shares were down today following the failure of the company’s experimental cancer drug Recentin, generically known as cediranib, against Roche's Avastin. The drug did not meet its primary endpoint in the Horizon phase III study, a negative result expected by analysts.

When Tony Falco, PhD, CEO and Founder of Resonant Medical, was doing clinical and research work at Montreal’s McGill University Health Center on developing a digital x-ray-based detector for imaging soft tissue, he realized something critical.