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TCS forms alliance with GE to offer innovative healthcare solutions

As per the agreement, TCS' business and healthcare IT expertise will offer new solutions on GE Health Cloud for its customers

Sealed Air launches unique hygiene initiative with soap recycling project

The 'Soap for Hope' initiative, launched in association with an NGO Doctors for You, will provide recycled soaps free-of-cost to communities that have no or limited access to soap

Global ophthalmology devices market to reach $58 bn by 2021

While North America will continue to dominate the market, the Asia-Pacific region is expected to register the highest market growth, as per a Markets and Markets report

About 45% of Kashmiri population experience mental distress: MSF

Integrated and decentralised prevention, care and treatment programme is urgently needed, says Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), also known as Doctors Without Borders

Core Diagnostics partners with US-based Paradigm for tumour profiling in India

Through this alliance Core Diagnostics will offer Paradigm's most advanced cancer profiling services in India that will help improve treatment mechanisms

Workers of GSK Consumer Healthcare's Nabha plant go on strike

The company decides to suspend operations temporarily

Jubilant and Cyclopharm terminate licensing agreement for Technegas

Both companies to discuss potential commercial opportunities once Cyclopharm obtains US FDA approval for Technegas

India and WHO inks pact for promotion of traditional medicines

The agreement will help implementation of the 'WHO Traditional and Complementary Medicine Strategy: 2014-2023' and global promotion of traditional Indian systems of medicine

How big data is changing the face of healthcare

Today big data analytics is being used to revolutionise healthcare, improve delivery, systematise research and achieve better diagnosis, says Dr Sanjiv Aggarwal

Kokilaben Hospital joins 'Go Green Stay Fit' campaign

The campaign, initiated in January this year by the Forum for Injection Technique (FIT), promotes the best practices in diabetes management and safe disposal of medical waste

ThingsMeet Solutions launches healthcare app Prescribez

The company has raised seed capital of $145K from Ankush Mehta an angel investor

Govt plans to set up central regulatory regime for AYUSH drugs

Amendments likely to be made in the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 pertaining to regulation of alternative medicines such as ayurvedic, siddha, unani, homoeopathy, etc

All India Institute of Ayurveda to come up in New Delhi

The institute has been conceived as an apex institute of ayurveda with 200 bedded referral hospital and to impart education in the field of ayurveda at MD and PhD level

Sun Pharma's mobile app to track treatment compliance among asthma patients

The company has rolled-out India's first asthma monitoring mobile app, RespiTrack, to connect doctor & patient

Indian Pediatric Network to raise funds to support expansion

Indian Pediatric Network, a start up which offers pediatrician services convenient to parents, is planning to expand its services pan India and to raise around Rs 25 crore to fund it's expansion. The company at present has six pediatricians offering services over phone round the clock.The company is offering its services in Mumbai, connecting around 4,000 children with its network, focusing on working mothers who are unable to attend to their children's health issues and require assistance or professional guidance in diagnosing and treating ailments. It offers services to make electronic medical records of the children available for the parents and access to pediatricians and medical information at odd hours, when the clinics are shut and the regular pediatrician are not available, said S K M Faridh, director, The Pediatric Network."We are currently present in Mumbai and will be going pan India in a month or two. We are in talks with investors to raise around Rs 25 crore for the ...

Hospitals must explore outsourcing options: Ratan Jalan

Jalan, former CEO of Apollo Hospital, argues that good health care can be kept affordable if the hospitals so desire

US co PerkinElmer looking for acquisition in India

The firm is said to be looking at inorganic growth in the diagnostics space for faster growth