In 30 years, India will have fewer children than today
India’s population will touch almost 1.7 billion by 2050 but its child population (those below 15 years of age) is projected to come down by 20% over the next 32…
Right to healthcare to prevail over right to voluntary retirement: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has ruled that the larger public interest of health and medical care would prevail over the right to voluntary retirement by the doctors as medical services are…
Aster DM Healthcare pours Coffer, Compassion on rain- fed agony of Keralites
New Delhi/Dubai: Kerala is Dr Azad Moopen’s ‘own country’. As God seems to have disowned it for the time being, the ‘son of the soil’ Dr Moopen, Chairman, Aster DM…
GSK seeks bids for $4bn India sale by mid-Sept
UK pharmaceutical giant GSK has requested bids by mid-September for its $4.3-billion Indian consumer-health unit, which owns the popular malted milk brand Horlicks, people with knowledge of the matter said.…
Today non-pharma companies are also filing for drug approvals : Kunwar B Kishore Arora
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Kunwar B Kishore Arora, Global CEO and COO, APCER Life Sciences, New Delhi. to know more about the trends and developments in pharmacovigilance industry.…
FDA declines to approve Allergan’s Esmya
Allergan Plc said on Tuesday U.S. health regulators had declined to approve Esmya, its treatment for abnormal uterine bleeding in women with uterine fibroids, requesting more information and citing safety…
Torrent Pharma recalls 14 lots of blood pressure drug from US
New Delhi: Drug firm Torrent Pharmaceuticals is recalling 14 lots of tablets used for treatment of high blood pressure and heart failure from the US market due to presence of…
GeneXpert Edge will allow both diagnosis, treatment to happen the same day: Peter Farrell
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld spoke to Peter Farrell, Cepheid, VP-India of Commercial Operations Globally, Sunnyvale, California, to know more about the launch of their latest diagnostic tools in TB and…
Kellogg, Reckitt Benckiser join queue for a glass of Horlicks
MUMBAI | NEW DELHI: Breakfast cereal maker Kellogg and UK healthcare giant Reckitt Benckiser Plc are the latest entrants in the race to acquire the consumer nutrition business of GlaxoSmithKline,…
Ebola death toll in DR Congo rises to 50
Beni: The Ebola outbreak in eastern DR Congo has now claimed 50 lives since the start of the month, the authorities said, as the government announced free treatment against the…
