This story has been republished, with permission, from The News Minute (TNM). All credit goes to TNM and the story’s author, Ramanthan S. The original can be accessed here. Can profit-seeking Big Pharma provide access to healthcare? Monique and Meghdoot work together closely, but their goals are worlds apart. For Meghdoot Deherkar, Head of Sales and …
India has showcased its Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) alternative medicines to the world in Dubai World Trade Centre on November 9 to 11. The UAE played host to the first international Ayush conference in the world. India has become a hub for medical tourism. Through this it has begun to …
The medical tourism industry in India is set to reach $9 billion USD by 2020, a government official claims. “During the early days of medical tourism, the attention was always given to developed countries” said Rita Teaotia, Secretary, Ministry of Commerce, addressing the third edition of Advantage Healthcare India 2017 summit. Attention has now shifted …
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The gender gap is widening in India. It ranks 108 of 144 countries on the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) Global Gender Gap Report – dropping 21 places from last year, which saw India ranked 87th. Failing to break the top 100 The WEF measures countries across four indicators: educational attainment, economic participation and opportunity, …
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A world record breaking tumour has been removed from a 28 year old woman from Darbhanga district of Bihar. The tumour weighed an astonishing 5.5kg. This is made even more of a medical anomaly as the tumour was located in her kidney, and had grown to the point that it was many times the size …
In a move that is already causing distress amongst pharmaceutical companies, India’s Health Ministry is putting in motion requirements for all drugs to display the manufacturing costs on the label. This would bring not only the costs of manufacture, but the assumed profit margins of the medication into the public domain. The Central Drugs Standard …
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President of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte is keen to capitalise on India’s generic medicines industry. Biateral talks occurred last month between Duterte and Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Philippine International Convention Centre in Pasay City. During the talks, Duterte noted the potential of India’s pharmaceutical industry to expand into the Philippines. The proposal came …
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Indian pharmaceutical Bharat Biotech’s typhoid vaccine, Typbar-TCV has been marked as a success by a study conducted in Oxford University. Foremost amongst the findings is that the Typbar-TCV vaccine is safe to use in children aged under two. This is of huge significance as current widely used vi-ps typhoid vaccine cannot be used in children …
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WaterAid claims 732 million Indians lack access to toilets. The government, however, dismisses the findings as ‘factually incorrect.’ Is basic sanitation lacking in India? The State of the World’s Toilets Report, 2017 says India has the most people in the world without access to ‘at least basic sanitation.’ The reports claims that 40 percent of …
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The US seems intent on stopping the Modi administration extending price caps on medical device. The US has outright requested the Indian government to not extend the caps said a US trade official in discussions with Reuters. There has also been a request that, should companies based in the US no longer wish to provide …
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