ChrysCap backs Curatio in latest pharma bet
Mumbai: ChrysCapital will buy a significant minority stake in Curatio Healthcare, an emerging dermatology products maker, marking its tenth investment in the Indian pharmaceutical sector. The country’s largest private equity…
Translumina eyes 25% of stents market by 2018-end
New Delhi: Domestic medical devices maker Translumina Therapeutics is eyeing a 25 per cent share in the Indian stents market by the 2018-end as it expands manufacturing capacity to cater…
Neuberg Diagnostics to invest Rs 300 cr for expansion
Mumbai: Neuberg Diagnostics, an alliance of five leading pathology laboratories from India, South Africa and the UAE, is planning to invest Rs 300 crore in India, the Middle East and…
Fortis Row: Regulator Who Said Hospitals Inflated Drug Prices Transferred
New Delhi, 9 March 2018: On March 1, 2018, Bhupendra Singh, the head of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) with a year of his tenure left, was transferred to…
‘Will submit AIIMS proposal to Centre soon’
COIMBATORE: State health secretary J Radhakrishnan on Friday said health minister C Vijayabaskar was all set to take up the issue of setting up an AIIMS hospital in Tamil Nadu…
Glaucoma Awareness Week at L V Prasad Eye Institute
Hyderabad, March 9, 2018: L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) plans a series of activities to commemorate World Glaucoma Week, from March 11 -17, 2018, to bring public focus on…
Passive euthanasia: Doctors welcome SC judgement
MANGALURU: Doctors in medical hub have welcomed the Supreme Court’s legal sanction to passive euthanasia permitting ‘living will’ by patients on withdrawing medical support if they slip into irreversible coma.…
Doctors divided over euthanasia in health role-model state Kerala
KOCHI: Doctors in Kerala — India’s role-model state for healthcare development with basic health indicators matching many developed countries — are divided on the issue of passive euthanasia. While few…
Thousands of eggs, embryos possibly damaged at Ohio hospital
CLEVELAND – Officials say approximately 2,000 frozen eggs and embryos may have been damaged due to a storage tank malfunction at an Ohio hospital fertility clinic. The Plain Dealer reports…
In country of poor, why force costly life support, asks SC
NEW DELHI: In the process of building a constitutional link between right to life and right to die, the Supreme Court said the economics of extending the life of a…
