Healthcare

Narayana Hrudayalaya to buy NewRise Healthcare from Panacea Biotec for Rs 180 cr

22 Apr 2017

Florida to fight mosquito menace by releasing thousands of bacteria-infected mosquitoes

20 Apr 2017

Govt mulls rules to make prescription of generic drugs mandatory

18 Apr 2017

Las Vegas to fight HIV with vending machines for needles

15 Apr 2017

Apple hires biomedical engineers to develop sensors to treat diabetes

13 Apr 2017

Strand Life Sciences launches blood test to detect cancer

12 Apr 2017

Doctors excited as heart pumps obviate need for transplants

11 Apr 2017

Drug abuse cases on the rise in post-prohibition Bihar

08 Apr 2017

Fresenius in talks to buy US generic drugmaker Akorn

08 Apr 2017

Cardinal Health close to buying Medtronic's medical supplies business for around $6 bn

06 Apr 2017

Apax Partners close to buying Israel’s aesthetic device company Syneron for $500 mn

03 Apr 2017

Bill to replace Obamacare fails as Trump’s Republicans rebel

25 Mar 2017

House leaders pulled out Trump’s healthcare bill after a rebellion by Republican moderates and the party's most conservative lawmakers left them short of votes, ensuring that Trump's first major legislative initiative ended in failure

Many Maharashtra doctors ignore HC order, continue strike

24 Mar 2017

India has 25% of the world’s TB patients, 5 lakh die of it every year: report

23 Mar 2017

Return to work at once, HC tells striking Maharashtra docs

23 Mar 2017

‘First you resume, we will look into security measures by the state,’ the Bombay High Court told the doctors, while Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis made a similar appeal

Paraplegic moves around hospital in a tricycle for want of Rs100 to pay bribe for wheelchair

18 Mar 2017

Patients left stranded as Delhi’s AIIMS nurses go on strike

18 Mar 2017

National Health Policy to ensure universal access to quality healthcare

17 Mar 2017

PE firm American Securities to buy US heliservice firm Air Methods in $2.5-bn deal

15 Mar 2017

Lok Sabha passes bill to extend maternity leave to 26 weeks

10 Mar 2017

The Maternity Benefits (Amendment) Act, 2016, which extends maternity benefits to adopting mothers and commissioning mothers will come into the force after the President’s assent

World’s heaviest woman undergoes life-saving surgery at Mumbai hospital

09 Mar 2017

Eman Ahmed Abd El Aty who was immobilised due to a stroke and was bedridden for the past 25 years, can now lift her arm after undergoing life-saving surgery

38 killed, 70 hurt as ISIS terrorists attack Kabul hospital

09 Mar 2017

Google trains computers to detect breast cancer

07 Mar 2017

West Bengal moves to regulate private hospitals after Apollo excesses

03 Mar 2017

Safety at four in five UK hospital trusts not good enough: review

03 Mar 2017