Government should focus on Healthcare innovation, not price capping

Analysis |  News | By Dr. Shankar Narang | 0 Comment | 13 Aug, 2018

A few decades back it would have been difficult to visualize the dramatic improvement advancements in minimally invasive surgery can bring towards medical outcomes as well as costs. Minimal...Read more

Government spending can benefit emergency medical services in India

Analysis |  Features | By Manish Sacheti | 0 Comment | 23 Jul, 2018

When Finance Minister Arun Jaitley announced the Union Budget for 2018-19 earlier this year, the Government reiterated its plan to achieve a high growth rate of 8%.He drew attention to how ...Read more

Digital Healthcare in India- A viable solution to a broken system?

Analysis |  Features | By Venkatadri Bobba, General Partner, Ventureast | 2 Comment | 21 Jun, 2018

The gruesome events in Gorakhpur’s BRD hospital involving the death of 70 infants captured the nation’s attention last year. The public was flummoxed due to the alleged reason o...Read more

Healthcare industry to aggressively embrace the digital revolution

Analysis |  Features | By Ravi Ramaswamy | 1 Comment | 04 Jun, 2018

Health for All has been talked about for the last several decades but then it has not seen the light of the day yet – accessibility to Primary and Secondary care is still a distant dr...Read more

How GDPR will specifically affect healthcare?

Analysis |  Features | By Rajesh Maurya | 1 Comment | 18 May, 2018

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will begin May 25, 2018, and businesses across the globe are bracing for the updated legislation. The GDPR is changing m...Read more

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 | 2 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