Health for all: World Health Day 2018

Analysis |  Features | 0 Comment | 07 Apr, 2018

In order to create global health awareness, World Health Day is celebrated every year on 7 April under the leadership of World Health Organisation. 2018 theme: ‘Universal Health Cove...Read more

Healthcare Budget 2018- A Gigantic task

Analysis |  Features | 0 Comment | 01 Feb, 2018

Healthcare sector today took the centrestage of the budget with the finance minister Arun Jaitley announcing the world’s largest government-funded healthcare programme. With this prog...Read more

Is Indian Bioeconomy outgrown the Pharma industry?

Analysis |  Features | 0 Comment | 07 Dec, 2017

By Narayan Kulkarni Association of Biotech Led Enterprises (ABLE), a not-for-profit pan-India forum and a thirteen-year-old organization founded in Bengaluru, representing the Indian Biote...Read more

Home Healthcare Market Worth 364.69 Billion USD by 2022

Analysis |  Views | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2017

According to a new market research report, “Home Healthcare Market by Product (BP & Heart Rate Monitor, Ovulation Kit, HIV Test, ECG, Nebulizer, Hearing Aids, Pedometer, Cane, Cru...Read more

Remarkable achievement of India in global pharma

Analysis |  News | 0 Comment | 14 Nov, 2017

 As the CPhI Global Pharma Index shows that the India's efforts to improve its reputation are paying dividends. India emerged successful in a number of key areas and was ranked by inte...Read more

Is innovative research heading towards the right direction?

Analysis |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Oct, 2017

A question was recently asked by the Science and Technology Minister Dr. Harsh Vardhan, stating that how much of the innovative research is actually reaching the end users. This concern rai...Read more

Demystifying the Medical Technology Sector

Analysis |  Features | 0 Comment | 12 Sep, 2017

The Medical Technology industry has been in the eye of the storm on a number of occasions in the recent past. Price capping mechanisms, medical devices rules, import rules, or the GST- poli...Read more

India free from AVIAN INFLUENZA

Analysis |  News | 0 Comment | 03 Aug, 2017

India had reported outbreaks of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (H5N1 and H5N8) at various places like Gwalior (Madhya Pradesh), Rajpura (Punjab), Hissar (Haryana), Bellary (Karnataka), A...Read more

World Hepatitis Day 2017: Awareness is the need of the hour

Analysis |  Views | 1 Comment | 28 Jul, 2017

With an aim of creating awareness about hepatitis and to influence real change, World Hepatitis Day (WHD) takes place every year on 28 July. This day unites patients, organisations, governm...Read more

World Head and Neck Cancer Day- A growing burden that can be curbed

Analysis |  Features | 0 Comment | 26 Jul, 2017

The total burden of cancer across the globe is estimated to be around 22 million. Approximately 10 million new cases of cancer are diagnosed every year across the globe. Head and neck cance...Read more

GST to have constructive effect on the Pharma and Healthcare sectors

Analysis |  Features | 0 Comment | 12 Jul, 2017

Though healthcare and pharma sectors hailed the announcement of GST rates, by saying that GST will encourage local manufacturing sector to step into producing products that will be more aff...Read more

Drug exporters under pressure

Analysis |  Views | 0 Comment | 04 Jul, 2017

Latest development in the US government policies related to tax, quality and price in pharmaceuticals sector are being watched with concern by the Indian pharma companies that export drugs ...Read more

World Vitiligo Day- More Invention and Intervention needed

Analysis |  News | 1 Comment | 23 Jun, 2017

The current bottleneck in Vitiligo is that the patho-mechanisms of the disorder are not well understood. Hence, the current treatments for Vitiligo provide only temporary and symptomatic re...Read more

Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2016-17 revealed decreased prevalence of tobacco among young India

Analysis |  News | 0 Comment | 09 Jun, 2017

Recently revealed Global Adult Tobacco Survey (GATS) 2016-17, India has witnessed an overall decline in the number of tobacco users in past seven years, especially among the age group of 15...Read more

Additive manufacturing: Reshaping 3D printing healthcare

Analysis |  Views | 0 Comment | 31 May, 2017

Anand Prakasam, Country Manager- EOS INDIA As the manufacturing industry continues to expand, the creation of prototypes as a means to illustrate potential product design is slowly gaining...Read more

Tobacco: Threat to development

Analysis |  Features | 0 Comment | 31 May, 2017

Every year, 31 May is marked as World No Tobacco Day highlighting the health and additional risks associated with tobacco use and advocating for effective policies to reduce tobacco consump...Read more

GST will lead to lower tax burden in medicaments

Analysis |  News | 0 Comment | 23 May, 2017

The roll out of Goods and Services (GST) Tax will bring benefits to the consumers due to reduced tax rates on various commodities such as medicaments and medical devices, etc. There will b...Read more

Cancer - Finding A Better Cure

Analysis |  News | 0 Comment | 18 May, 2017

Cancer being the most deadly disease worldwide, many scientists and researchers are taking on the biggest challenge of not only detecting the cancer early, but also finding ways to test can...Read more