Healthcare

Private health insurers may follow PSUs in ending cashless facilities

19 Jul 2010

Carlyle and TPG win bidding war for Australia’s Healthscope

19 Jul 2010

Australia’s hospital chain Healthscope mulls two private equity bids

17 Jul 2010

Smoking affects genetic function

16 Jul 2010

State-run health insurance providers stick to pruned list of preferred hospitals for cashless claims

14 Jul 2010

Super Religare Labs buys Piramal Diagnostic in Rs600 crore deal

14 Jul 2010

Homoeopathy experts recommend `Arsenicum Album' for swine flu

10 Jul 2010

Homoeopathy may help check Japanese encephalitis: study

09 Jul 2010

Fortis trumps Khazanah with $3.1-billion offer for Parkway

01 Jul 2010

Fortis, which holds around 25 per cent stake in Parkway Holdings, has offered to buy all of Parkway for S$3.8 a share, against Khazanah's offer of S$3.78 a share.

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25 Jun 2010

Piramal Healthcare to buy BioSyntech's assets for $3.82 billion

22 Jun 2010

Fortis assured of bank funds for Parkway takeover bid: report

21 Jun 2010

US regulator fines American Red Cross $16 million for blood safety lapses

18 Jun 2010

Covidien to buy medical device maker Somanetics for about $299 million

17 Jun 2010

India-born doc helps achieve breakthrough in cancer treatment

12 Jun 2010

Battle for Parkway intensifies as Morgan Stanley picks up stake

11 Jun 2010

New cancer vaccine starves tumours of blood

11 Jun 2010

A DNA-vaccine that restricts the supply of blood to tumours has been developed by scientists at the Karolinska Institutet. The vaccine slows the growth of breast cancer tumours in mice.

UK study shows higher hospital mortality for weekend admissions

11 Jun 2010

US drug distributor Cardinal Health to buy Healthcare Solutions for $517 million

09 Jun 2010

Fortis Healthcare to raise Rs2,750 crore through securities market

09 Jun 2010

ECG reports on Blackberry to be avilable in India

04 Jun 2010

Tele-medicine has come of age in India as doctors in the country will now be able to view patient’s electrocardiogram (ECG) reports on their Blackberry smartphones

India launches indigenous swine flu vaccine

03 Jun 2010

Patients suffer as Bombay Hospital sees 24-hour power outage

01 Jun 2010

India's first dental stem cell bank launched

27 May 2010

Gentiva Health Services to acquire Odyssey HealthCare for about $1 billion

24 May 2010