Hospitals & Clinics
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readSpotting one of the symptoms of eye cancer in children can be scary for any parents, but awareness about the disease can help ensure early detection and treatment of such symptoms. A UK-based non-profit organisation, working in the field of childhood cancer, reveals that the camera of our smartphones can easily detect eye cancer, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readIndia will be a part of a first-of-its-kind clinical trial, for treating spinal cord injury in humans through stem-cells. India will a part of the collaborative study conducted in China, Norway and America involving 240 patients led by China-based stem cell researcher Dr Wise Young. The pre-clinical trial of the project has already been ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readThe drug price regulator has capped prices of 30 medicines including antibiotics and those used in treatment of diabetes, tuberculosis and malaria by 25-30 per cent. However, in some cases the reduction could be by upto 50 per cent. Recently, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has notified the new price ceilings for these ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readThe Maharashtra Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cancelled licenses of 2,241 retail pharmacies and suspended licenses of another 1,857 retailers across the state for violation of Drugs & Cosmetics (D&C) Act like dispensing medicines without prescription. The move was taken up as a follow-up of show cause notices issued by FDA to 4,503 ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readFortis Healthcare has inked a deal to sell its Singapore-based healthcare services unit RadLink-Asia Pte Ltd and its subsidiaries to Fullerton Healthcare Group for approximately $83.5 million (Rs 530 crore). Reportedly, the deal marks a climb-down in valuation within months as last September, Fortis had announced a deal to sell RadLink to Malaysian firm ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readKashmir valley is known for its picturesque tourist spots andmilitant attacks. However, there is one Ayurvedic massage known as Panchkarma therapy, for which the valley is gaining momentum. The Ayurvedic body massage is fast catching up as a mode of herbal treatment, led chiefly by the state government at all the major AYUSH hospitals across ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readTasso Inc., an affiliate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has received a $3 million federal grant to continue developing a pingpong ball-sized disposable device, which may allow its users to painlessly administer their own blood tests in not more than two minutes. The new self-administered Blood Testing Device could be a replacement for needles. Instead ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 2 min readNagaland's Health and Family Welfare Minister P Longon has inaugurated a 10-bedded Integrated AYUSH Hospital in Dimapur district of Nagaland recently. Commenting on the inauguration event, Logon said, "The implementation of the National Ayush Mission in the state is a milestone in the healthcare delivery system and would definitely benefit the people.” He further ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 3 min readPost care is extremely essential for a patient who has undergone surgery. After surgery, the patient becomes frail and vulnerable to catch infections, sometimes leads to complicated condition. In fact, chances of acquiring infections from other patients are higher in hospitals. Thus, with an aim to ease the lives of patients undertake surgery and ...
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Opportunity India Desk Sep 29, 2017 - 1 min readKnown for not only his iconic performances in cricket, Sachin Tendulkar in one of the renowned celebrities who actively participates in donation activities. Proving the fact, yet again, Indian’s legendry cricketer and UAE based Aster DM Healthcare have committed to offer 1 million dirhams (about Rs 1.69 crore) to back the needy and the ...