In this emerging trend, doctors are joining hands with venture capitalists, drug firms and medical equipment vendors to set up advanced medical care facilities at low costs.
'If you don't have a strong political leadership, however much expertise a country may have, in pandemic preparedness or infectious disease, will not matter.' 'It's really about having strong political leadership, that is proactive, that prioritises taking the right action.' 'And if you don't have that, then you will have a much worse pandemic experience.'
In this emerging trend, doctors are joining hands with venture capitalists, drug firms and medical equipment vendors to set up advanced medical care facilities at low costs.
'Not one single, but multiple trials are there to quote. However, these will be published as scientific manuscripts.' 'This includes integrative as well as standalone approaches in Covid mitigation.'
'On a daily basis you are saying, you do this, you do that, but where is the blueprint of the war?' 'How many isolations actually we need per hundred thousand people?' 'How many ventilators will we need for 100,000 people?'
In a twist to the Aarushi-Hemraj double murder case, it has come to light that the vaginal swabs drawn from the victim were substituted with those of an unidentified woman.
As the Indian Army reported its first case of the infection with a 34-year-old soldier testing positive in Leh, the Army said it has taken a series of precautionary measures to prevent the spread of coronavirus among the forces such as checking flu symptoms among soldiers on their return from leave and cancelling non-essential travel, conferences and recruitment drives.
Mercedes-Benz India has indicated to invest Rs 150 crore (Rs 1.5 billion) in network expansion and upgradation of network partners during this financial year. Hyderabad and the adjoining areas have around 1,200 Mercedes-Benz cars.
Leyland expects the digital drive to help tap its in-house strength as well as segments such as passenger cars and two-wheelers.
Showing clear signs of quicker recovery from the current crisis, the scam-devastated Satyam Computer Services has been awarded a fixed bid project on data modelling by a leading provider of healthcare solutions by diagnostic, treatment and preventative care.
India has generated an estimated revenue of about $600 million from over five lakh international healthcare travellers including non-resident that visited India in 2006, the study revealed.
ICICI Prudential has tied up with the healthcare service provider to enable investors in its ICICI Prudential Savings Fund use the money seamlessly for medical purpose.
National Institute of Virology, Pune, needs research assistants for an upcoming project. Walk-in interview on 12 July 2007.
Innovative companies the world over are discovering the research and development advantages to be found in India
The government decision to permit 100 per cent foreign direct investment in medical devices will take effect from January 21, the Commerce and Industry Ministry said on Tuesday.
'Our government's claim that there are no undetected cases of infection that happened within our bustling cities because of exposure to infected international travellers are not credible,' notes Rahul Jacob.
Peter Mukerjea's lawyers move court to allow him a heart operation at a private hospital.
'We are already exhausted, but we can't give up.' 'The battle is still on.' 'We will see some respite by December 2021.'
Roche is one of the world's top research-focused healthcare groups in the fields of pharmaceuticals and diagnostics.
'The more people get tested, the more people will come under isolation. So the spread will get limited with testing.'
They have cited higher capital for bad-loan provisioning, pending legislative amendments, and delay in finalising rules by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) as some of the reasons.
Daiichi-Sankyo's $5.3 billion acquisition of India's biggest drugmaker will help the Japanese company compete in the US markets with rivals such as Mylan and Israel-based Teva Pharmaceuticals and climb to become the world's 15th largest pharmaceutical company. Thus it is an important move on the part of an original drug research company to attach generic business portfolio," noted Ranjit Shahani, the vice-chairman and managing director of Novartis India.
Most of the biotech companies are focusing on discovery-led innovation in biopharmaceuticals. The segment has been witnessing innovations in follow-on (new variants) biologics (commercial products derived from biotechnology) and vaccines with an emerging activity in discovery-led new drug development programmes.
As many as 17 villages along the Tripura-Bangladesh border in Kamalpur division of north Tripura have been affected by avian influenza. Authorities have issued restrictions on the movement of poultry products through the villages. More than 3,000 chickens, ducks, crows and other wild birds had died in the area while several dogs and jackals, which had consumed the affected birds, were also found dead.
The annual award recognizes individuals for contributions that advance the technology of clinical laboratory sciences.
The notice sought clarification on 'irregularities' in the records of the scanning centre of the Mathi Maternity and Surgical hospital, the collector told reporters.
The Central Information Commission (CIC) has ruled out disclosure of any information relating to medical tests under the RTI Act, while terming the relationship between a doctor and his patient as "fiduciary".
The T-Shirt with blood stains allegedly belonging to Rajkumar, Anita Durani's domestic help, is at present with the Centre for Finger Printing DNA and Diagnostics at Hyderabad. A source in the investigating agency said that it has been confirmed that the blood stains on the T-shirt are not Rajkumar's.
'Indiscriminate use results in resistance to pathogens, rendering these life-saving drugs useless.' 'Unnecessary antibiotic treatment could have other detrimental health effects that affect immunity and metabolism,' notes Aparna Kotekar.
The researchers, and other experts, add that while they are comfortable tracing a link between CT scans and cancer, they don't have sufficient empirical evidence to go out on a limb and quantify the magnitude of that risk
With over 45 healthcare facilities and over 300 vibrant diagnostic centres, Fortis is India's second-largest hospital chain -- next only to Apollo, which has 64 hospitals with 10,000 beds. Therefore, any international or domestic hospital chain that buys Fortis will simply catapult to the numero uno position.
Stating that India has some brands that have already well established, Nadella said there was stunning cross section of starts ups in the country.
The implementation of the policy would require public health spending to rise to nearly 2.5 per cent of the gross domestic product, from the present dismal one per cent, with the Centre bearing about 40 per cent of it.
This is the fifth consecutive day that coronavirus infections have increased by more than 15,000. There has been a surge of 3,38,324 infections from June 1 till date.
Nanotechnology researcher Dr Anita Goel feels that India can benefit from the gene Radar sensing technology which can detect the presence or absence of a disease's pathogen with the same accuracy available only in a diagnostic lab, reports Suman Guha Mozumder.
The government move comes after seeing the diagnostic study done by SBI Caps. On government request SBI Caps studied 15 state-owned closed down sugar mills. It recommended re-opening of eight mills, saying they were viable units.
As daily testing of samples of blood and throat and nose swabs crossed two lakh for the first time since the outbreak of the pandemic, over 14,000 new coronavirus cases were registered in the country for the fifth day in a row to take the total count to 4,56,183, according to the Union Health Ministry data.
Takes care of expensive medical treatment at affordable cost even as you get quality treatment and tax benefit out of it, says Naval Goel
Entirely new businesses have been built using data to disrupt traditional companies.
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