Hospitals & Clinics
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 05, 2018 - 2 min readWockhardt Ltd, the Mumbai-based pharmaceutical company which has been under the US FDA scanner over regulatory issues, is set to raise about $300 million through sale of dollar-denominated bonds. It has hired UBS, Barclays, Nomura and Standard Chartered to manage the fundraising process, according to two people aware of the development. Wockhardt plans to raise ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 05, 2018 - 1 min readBiocon rose 1.1% to Rs 635.10 at 9:39 IST on BSE after the company announced that it has received the EU GMP certification for its sterile drug product manufacturing facility in Bangalore. The announcement was made after market hours yesterday, 4 July 2018. Meanwhile, the S&P BSE Sensex was down 15.03 points, or 0.04% to ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 03, 2018 - 4 min readBidders for the Fortis chain of hospitals will have to cough up a minimum investment of Rs 1,500 crore by way of preferential allotment as the Fortis HealthcareNSE 6.32 % board has stipulated certain conditions to ensure that only “serious” binding offers are made by the Tuesday deadline. The other conditions ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 03, 2018 - 8 min readAs soon as you’re diagnosed as diabetic, ads for treatments show up on social feeds. You get alerts on health supplements, maybe nutrition tips. Prompts on insurance policies pop up on your phone. That’s not a scene from Minority Report. It’s a manifestation of the trove of data harnessed by WeDoctor, ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jul 03, 2018 - 4 min readWomen in India are more likely to have vitamin D deficiency says a multi-stakeholder study conducted by Fortis C- Doc in association with AIIMS, Diabetes Foundation of India and National Diabetes Obesity and Cholesterol Foundation. The cross-sectional study conducted in North India sheds light on the relationship between low vitamin D and high ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 29, 2018 - 1 min readAmazon Inc has planned to buy online pharmacy PillPack for an undisclosed amount, which could strike the shares of drug distributors and drug retailers down. Drug retailers CVS Health and Walgreens Boots Alliance plunged 7 percent each in premarket trading. Shares of drug wholesalers Mckesson Corp, Cardinal Health ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 27, 2018 - 3 min readAn inter-city transfer between Mumbai and Delhi transported a live heart to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI), Okhla today. A heart transplant surgery is currently underway to transplant the live heart to save the life of a 53-year-old woman. The live heart was transported through a maiden inter-city transfer between Mumbai and Delhi ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 26, 2018 - 2 min readDigital financial services portal Policybazaar, run by EtechAces Marketing and Consulting Pvt. Ltd, has delayed its initial public offering plans as the company had secured over $200 million in fresh funds largely from SoftBank Group, senior company official said on Monday. EtechAces, which currently operates Policybazaar and Paisabazaar.com websites, is venturing ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 26, 2018 - 2 min readIndia’s leading supplier of imported fitness equipment, Acme Fitness has launched the Acfit Academy for Fitness Professionals in Chennai. Acfit Academy powered by ACME Fitness provides training and guidance to fitness professionals, along with international certification programs in collaboration with the National Academy of Sports Medicine (NASM), to enable them to pursue careers ...
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Opportunity India Desk Jun 08, 2018 - 1 min readGlenmark Pharmaceuticals has received final approval from the US health regulator for generic versions of Loestrin tablets, used to prevent pregnancy. "Glenmark Pharmaceuticals Inc., USA has been granted final approval by the United States Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) for Hailey 1.5/30 (Norethindrone Acetate and Ethinyl Estradiol tablets USP, 1.5 mg/30 mcg) and Hailey Fe ...