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JD Health International seeks $3.5 billion in Asia's biggest health IPO

By comparison, its biggest competitor, Alibaba Health Information Technology, has a market capitalisation of around $34.6 billion.

Our gross margin is at an all-time high, says Practo CEO Shashank N D

The last three years saw us fine-tune our business model and get closer to our vision of building quality health care for a billion Indians, said CEO N D

Thyrocare, Dr Lal PathLabs: Healthcare stocks can rally more, charts show

A new all time high shows bullish sentiment is here to stay in these stocks.

Practo is looking to scale faster riding on Covid-19, says CEO Shashank ND

As telemedicine became the preferred medium for consultations, the firm saw over 70 per cent first time-users and 44 per cent users coming from non-metro cities

Portable hospital to vaccines: Low-cost Covid solutions from universities

IIT Delhi has developed the world's cheapest RT-PCR based diagnostic kit, priced at Rs 399; IIT Madras-backed Modulus Housing's portable hospital can be installed by four people in two hours

IIT Kanpur partners with Bharat Dynamics for manufacturing ventilators

The indigenous ventilator has been developed by IIT Kanpur's incubated startup

IIT Guwahati develops affordable, diagnostic kits for testing Covid-19

The VTM kits are the first-stop source used to collect nasal and oral swab specimens from an individual source to a laboratory safely for culture and testing

Covid-19 testing in Mumbai to take a hit after private players barred

In Delhi too, SRL Diagnostics was told to stop testing certain categories of patients at the end of May for a few days, officials say

Delhi added 10,000 coronavirus cases in eight days from June 1

Delhi reported its first case on March 1, when a businessman in East Delhi was diagnosed with Covid-19 after returning from Italy

Serum Institute risks making Covid vaccine before trial at new $100 mn unit

AstraZeneca deal with SII is for supply of a billion doses, with a commitment to provide 400 mn before 2020-end. If all goes well, India could have its first set of Covid-19 vaccines by end of year

Steep death graph, no peak yet: Why India is behind the curve on Covid-19

While the mortality rate seems to be plateauing in UK , Spain and Italy after peaking, in India he bad news is that it hasn't reached the high point after which it can start tapering off

India simplifies clinical trial rules for Covid-19 vaccine manufacturing

Govt will take inter-departmental approach to ensure right vaccine candidate is available for Indians at the earliest

Tata Group partners Trivandrum-based institute to make Covid-19 test kits

Tata Sons has now tied up with the Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST), Trivandrum, under the Department of Science and Technology for commercial production

ICMR asks states to revise cost of Covid-19 test; material cost may reduce

India has reported a total number of 1,51,767 cases of coronavirus, of which 64,425 have been cured/discharged while 4,337 have lost their lives

India cancels orders for Chinese Covid-19 test kits, says won't lose money

States must stop using rapid antibody test kits procured from Guangzhou Wondfo Biotech and Zhuhai Livzon Diagnostics, said ICMR

Covid-19: Hamdard Labs to conduct clinical trials of immunity booster

The Ministry of AYUSH has invited inputs from Ayush practitioners and institutions including colleges, universities, hospitals, research institutes

Home healthcare sees larger role amid Covid-19, seeks insurance coverage

Covid-19 has expanded the market for home healthcare providers, enabling them to provide both at-home healthcare and remote healthcare, apart from reaching out to corporates

Oxford University Covid-19 vaccine trial has 50% chance of 'no result'

The University of Oxford last week announced that the advance human trial of the vaccine will involve up to 10,260 volunteers across the UK

4 Covid-19 vaccines may soon enter the clinical-trial stage: Harsh Vardhan

There are over 100 candidate vaccines which are at different levels of development

Everstone-backed firm CPC Diagnostics launches Covid-19 antibody tests

Depending on the analyser model, a lab can report up to 2,000 results a day on a single instrument, with flexibility for facilities to add further modules to ramp up output substantially