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FDI Inflow into Hospitals and Diagnostic Centres Grows 89% in 2023-24
Foreign equity inflow into hospitals and diagnostic centres reached $1.53 billion in 2023-24.
Medtronic Appoints Mandeep Singh Kumar Vice President and Managing Director in India
Mandeep Singh Kumar took up the India leadership role in May 2024.
Quadria Invests Rs 850 Crore in Dialysis Firm NephroPlus
Quadria Capital announced a $102 million investment in NephroPlus.
India Allocates Rs 5,000 Crore to Pharma-MedTech Research and Innovation
New Delhi: In a move towards advancing research and innovation in the pharmaceutical and medical technology (Pharma-MedTech) sector, the Ministry of Finance announced the Promotion of Research and Innovation in Pharma-MedTech.
Export Opportunities for Medical Devices in Africa
S.Abidi Research Advisor Govt.of Guj.-AMA Centre of International Trade
Govt Boosting Innovation By Encouraging R&D Investment
Ref: Page No. 18, Chronicle Pharmabiz Feb. 14, 2013
Cbi medical programme concludes with a 95 percent success rate
The Export Coaching Programme (ECP) for Medical Devices and Lab Equipment comes alive in stories illustrating that the CBI’s involvement in this sector is really making a difference.
Medical Technology Innovation Scorecard
PwC’s Medical Technology Innovation Scorecard: The race for global leadership assesses nine countries’ capacity and capability for medical technology innovation: Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, U…
Trends and segments for medical devices in the EU market
Trends and market developments offer opportunities and threats to exporters. A given trend can be a threat to some and an opportunity to others at the same time. The following opportunities and threats should, therefo…
HLL Lifecare Steps Into Retailing Of Medical Devices
PUBLIC sector HLL Lifecare Ltd, which is emerging as a full-spectrum healthcare company beyond its mainstay portfolio of contraceptives, has ventured into the retailing segment to sell medical devices and essential dr…
Indian Medical Devices & Bio-Pharma players to Visit Tel-Aviv-Israel
Customized program as per the interest areas of Indian participants
Johnson & Johnson to buy synthes for $21.6 B
J & J is to buy Swiss medical devices makers synthes Inc. for 19 billion Swiss Francs ($21.6 Billion) in its largest ever buy boosting its orthopedic business.
Capitalising On India’s Growth Potential : Medical Device Industry Will Not Be Left Behind
The Indian economy is growing strongly, and will continue to provide a conductive macro-environment for the industry to grow in.
Innovations In Medical Device Sector
The dominant themes in The Netherlands are similar to those in the rest of Europe: an ageing population, quality of health care and manageable cost development in the health care system. The introduction of a new heal…
Innovations In Medical Device Sector
The Dutch association of manufacturers of medical devices ( Nefemed ) has now focus on Innovations as a new initiative.
Active, Not Aggressive
According to Leendert Santema, CBI expert for the medical industry, many companies in DCs have a website, but acquisition is passive. Suppliers in DCs often do not actively search for new contacts, leaving it to the b…
Cardiac Completes Certification For HeartCentrix With NextGen
Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in advanced cardiac diagnosis, resuscitation, rehabilitation, and informatics products, said it completed certification for its HeartCentrix ECG informatics software with N…
Fresenius Net Income Surges By 24% In 2007 At Euro 11,358 Million
Fresenius Group, a health care group with international operations, providing products and services for dialysis, hospital and outpatient medical care, has reported net profit growth of 24.2 per cent during the year e…
India No More Hot Offshore R&D Centre
Few companies will look at India as their destination for offshore R&D centres in the next 18 months. In fact, there is already a sort of slowdown in the number of such units being set up in the country. From 75 new o…
Indian Diagnostic Market
In 2005, the global healthcare market was valued at over US $6.68 trillion. It is growing at rate of .5 percent, which is much higher than the global gross domestic product (GDP) growth. It is estimated that Asia curr…
AIOCD To Float 10 State Wise Pharmacy Retail Chain Cos By 2008
The All Indian Origin Chemists and Distributors Ltd. (AIOCD), the company floated by All India Organisation for Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), is planning to float 10 state wise pharmacy retail companies by January 1…
Bilcare Receives US Patent For 3 Products
Bilcare Ltd. has obtained a patent in the USA for its pharmaceutical grade metalised thermo-formable composite films.
Fresenius Kabi To Push Up Parenteral Volumes
The Pune-based Fresenius Kabi India Pvt. Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Germany-based Fresenius Kabi AG, is planning to expand its operations in India both through organic and inorganic means. Now more than a R…
GE, Eli Lilly To Collaborate In Vitro Diagnostics For Cancer Treatment
GE Global, Research, the General Electric Company’s centralized research and development organization, and GE Healthcare have entered into a three-year collaborative research agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to di…
Heart Connect
(Ref : The Economic Times dated March 2, 2007)
Sterling Hospital To Invest Rs. 120 Cr in Surat & Rajkot
Sterling hospital is going to invest around Rs. 120 crore in setting up hospitals at Rajkot and Surat. It is also planning to expands its existing hospital in Ahmedabad, and upgrade a hospital it recently acquired in…
Disposable Medical Supplies industry forecasts
US demand to grow nearly 5% annually through 2011
Healthcare Roadmap
This report provides the highlights of the recent Ernst and Young study on the Indian healthcare industry. The study was conducted in association with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)…
Imports Of Medical Instrumentation Expected To Rise
The new report, "Asian Medical Device Markets", projects that in five key Asian countries, imports of medical instrumentation are likely to rise from US$ 30.43 billion in 2006 to US$ 43.08 billion by 2010.
Indian Healthcare Delivery Sector To Witness Major Transition : Study
The healthcare delivery sector in India is expected to witness a major transition in terms of quality of services and achieve competitiveness in the global arena, says a study conducted by Crisil Research, one of the…
Indian Lab Chemicals, Equipment Market Clocks 40% Growth
Indian laboratory chemical and equipment market in the country is on an over drive. While the lab chemicals market in the country is estimated to be around Rs 200 crore and growing at 30 per cent annually, the lab equ…
Loud & Clear: Hearing Aids Mkt To Grow At 15%
(Ref: The Economic Times dated August 9, 2007)
Adoption of Flat Panel Detectors, Workflow Integration and Advancement in Diagnostic Techniques Drive European C-Arms Market
The need to replace existing image intensifier based systems with flat panel detectors (FPD) is driving the European C-Arms market. This trend has been spurred by the need for complete workflow integration in a fully…
Increased Demand for Medical Imaging Displays in Digitised Hospital Environment Being Paralleled by Growing Market Commoditisation
The market for medical imaging displays is experiencing a dynamic shift. Digitisation initiatives are creating opportunities and challenges across Europe, as data and image sharing across hospital departments and regi…
Trendsetter in the field of nanomedicine and more at ComPaMED 2006
"Germany is far ahead of the competition and will still be defending this lead in ten years time. However, Asia should catch up slightly"
Chemists Prescribe Retail Pill For Survival
Unorganised pharmacists n the country growing @ 8-9%/yr
Indian Medical Transcription Is Back In The Pink
It was almost a cottage industry in the 90's, only to lose steam in 2000. But if you though the medical transcription (MT) industry in India is history, think again. Latest studies reveal that it is raring to take off…
Medtronic new product for diabetics
US-based medical technologies company Medtronic has launched a product, which combines insulin pump with continuous glucose readings and trend graphs. MiniMed Paradigm Real-time Insulin Pump and Continuous Glucose Mon…
More Than 10k Transcriptions Required Each Yr
The $250-million medical transcription (MT) industry in India is on a roll.
Space Hospitals To Widen Telemedicine Services Throughout India
Space Hospitals Ltd., a Chennai based telemedicine service provider, is planning to widen its services to the remote areas by connecting more hospitals and satellite medical centres throughout the country.
What is the size of the medical devices that Medtronic Inc and Medtronic India are targeting globally and nationally respectively?
The medical devices market is showing a double-digit growth. The cardiac devices alone are growing at 20 per cent. In India, the growth of the market is estimated to be between 10-15 per cent. There is a clear indicat…
European Diagnostic Cardiac Monitoring Systems Market
Data Management Key to Improved Decision Support Capability in Diagnostic Cardiac Monitoring Systems Market
European Markets for Cardiac Catheterisation Imaging Systems
Increasing Demand for Digital Flat-panel Imaging Systems
European Orthopedic Biomaterials Market
Ageing population and Lifestyle Changes Drive Demand for Orthopaedic Biomaterials in Europe
Impact of Low-cost Asian Manufacturing on the European Medical Devices Markets
European Medical Device Companies Face Increasing Competition from Low-cost Devices Manufactured in Asia
Strategic Analysis of the Acute Cardiac Diagnostics Market
Point of Care Testing to Power Growth Increasing Competition Highlights Need for Enhanced Customer Service
The European Electrosurgical Devices Market
London, UK - 15th February, 2006 - Heightened awareness among both electrosurgical device companies and consumers about the potential spread of communicable diseases during surgery is encouraging the uptake of disposa…
Western and Eastern European Markets for External Cardiovascular Defibrillators
Creating Greater Awareness of the Risks of Sudden Cardiac Arrests to Spur Demand for External Cardiovascular Defibrillators in Western and Eastern Europe
Healthcare IT Market : $ 50 - bn Worldwide, attracts companies from both the healthcare and tech arenas
Medicine is an increasingly hitech business, but doctors and hospitals around the world remain bogged down in paperwork. The result can be lost records, clerical errors and mis-prescribing of drugs.
European Renal Replacement Therapy Market
Growing Incidence of Acute Renal Failure Fuels Growth in the European Renal Therapy Market
The Blood Industry
A safe and adequate blood supply is essential to the practice of modern medicine. New advances, particularly in the area of automation, have enhanced both safety and blood availability and it is the purpose of this st…
Diabetic Foot Treatment Instruments
A diabetic foot implies peripheral vascular disorder, peripheral neuropathy and autonomic neuropathy or a combination of these. Diabetic foot conditions develop from a combination of causes, including poor blood circu…
Pharma Packaging Set For Continued Growth : Study
World Pharmaceutical packaging demand will increase at a rate of 4.3 per cent a year to reach $22.2 billion (€17.2bn) in 2007, according to a report from Freedonia Group. Companies supplying blister packaging will ben…
Pharma Packaging Machinery Market Surges Worldover
Pharma packaging is one of the fastest growing sectors. Worldwide demand for packaging equipments for the pharmaceutical and personal care products sector is all time high, growing at the rate of 5.4 per cent. The sec…
Advances in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging in Europe
Innovation, Competitive Prices to Underpin Uptake of Diagnostic Ultrasound Devices Across Europe, the pricing of ultrasound systems is expected to be central to its uptake. In addition to being competitively priced, p…
European Market for Hip and Knee Replacements
If you are interested in an analysis overview providing an introduction into the European Market for Hip and Knee Replacements - then send an email to Katja Feick -Corporate Communications at katja.feick@frost.com wit…
Strategic Analysis of the Image-Guided and Robot-Assisted Surgery Markets in Europe
Minimally Invasive Surgery Creates Opportunity for New Surgical Technologies Popularity of Minimally Invasive Surgery to Boost Prospects of Robot Assisted and Image Guided Technologies Corresponding to the increasing…
Export-Import Policy:
While ensuring the highest quality standards of drugs produced in India, it is also important that the norms that govern imports into the country are strengthened and internationally comparable so that the domestic in…
Glucometre Market in India
Dr Alex Saunders, a US based scientist and diabetes expert says that only 0.1-0.3 per cent of diabetic population in India use sugar level monitoring instruments like glucometres compared to about 33 percent in US. Ac…
Medical Transcription Industry In India
The shakeout that subsequently followed has now led to six or seven serious players surviving in a segment where the US market is estimated to be worth $ 10 billion. Of this, 15% is outsourced within the US of which a…
Critical issues before pharma industry
All countries have adopted controls over the introduction of new products. In many countries, including India, there are measures to control drug prices too. Given the complex nature of production, marketing and regul…
Apollo Health Signs MoU With SBI For Financing Apollo Clinics Franchises
Apollo Health & Lifestyle (AHLL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals, on Friday said it has signed an MoU with State Bank of India to offer term loans to its franchises.
Korean company to set up Asia's largest cord blood bank in India
Korea's leading stem cell research company Histone, in participation with the government of India, is planning to set up Asia's largest cord blood bank in the country. The company, which is is also scouting for a pote…
Manipal Edu. And Medical Group (India) Signs MoU with German Company For Hospital Waste Management
Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Deuttsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany, to set up a first of its kind state-of-the-art 'centr…
SSI Ministry rejects plea for further reviews of Schedule M modification
Doubling exports to create 1cr. jobs The government today sought to play the employment generation card as part of the Foreign Trade Policy, claiming it was a highly labour intensive sector. Commerce minister Kamal Na…
Win Medicare launches hepatonorm analyzer for detecting liver diseases
Delhi Based win Medicare (P) Ltd has introduced Hepatonorm Analyzer, a novel product to detect Hepatic Encephalopathy - a disease that occur due to acute liver diseases, such as liver cirrhosis in India.
Wockhardt lines up three hospital projects
"We have acquired land in Pitampura and plan to set up a 225-bed hospital in the Capital with an investment of about Rs 100 crore," he said.
European Orthopaedic Braces and Supports Market : Reimbursement Structures across Europe Create Challenges
A rapidly ageing population, the increasing trend toward non-invasive treatments and better disease management strategies are driving the demand for orthopaedic braces and supports in Europe.
Global analytical device makers set up shops in India
Sensing the importance of Indian market, major global names like Agilent Technologies, Perkin Elmer, Varian, Waters, Thermo Group, Analytik Jena, and Biorad have recently set up their respective offices in the country…
How does the domestic analytical instruments industry view the current duty structure in India?
The government has to take responsibility of building world class, spacious exhibition facilities across major cities of the country, if it has to project India as destination par global class, worth of attracting qua…
India Excels with software for handicapped
Product launchers are par for the course at information technology fairs but you don't expect anything spectacular at a sarkari show where ministers gather to talk what ministers talks about IT. But the Asia IT minist…
India's Healthcare is thriving 'privately'
Here is a shocking piece of information : In terms of public spending on health, India ranks 171st out of 175 countries. In contrast, it ranks an impressive 18th in terms of private spending on health. It is hardly su…
NASA to collaborate with Indian bio-medical Industry
National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), USA, is looking for collaboration with Indian Industries in order to transfer its spin-off technologies, especially in the bio-medical field, for the benefit of the…
Virtual autopsies may replace need for scalpels one day
Chicago: In the not-too-distance future, autopsies might be performed using computerised scanning rather that scalpels if research led by a Swiss forensic pathologist bears fruit.
BARC develops new technologies for hazardous waste processing
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed new technologies for waste processing at the Waste Immobilization Plants (WIP). The technologies developed after sustained R&D efforts are planned to be used at t…
Cochlear Implant : Indian ENT Surgeon Develops a Low Cost Hearing Device
There are 40 million people in India who are deaf, however, they too can hear if they undergo a ‘Cochlear Implant’ (CI) surgery.
LIFE-SCIENCES INDUSTRY: India tipped to be bio-IT leader, says IDC
The growth of bio-IT spending within India’s life sciences industry is set to increase at a compounded annual growth rate of 65 per cent to touch $120 million by 2006, according to an IDC report.
Baxter enters into marketing pact with Wockhardt
After acquiring the parenteral intravenous business of Wockhardt Lifesciences, medical products and services major Baxter, now plans to enter into a strategic marketing alliance with Wockhardt. The objective will be t…
Bharat Serums to market B Braun’s products in India
Mumbai-based Bharat Serums and Vaccines (BSV) has entered into a three-year marketing agreement with Germany-based medical products company B Brtaun to market the latter’s range of selected IV solutions in India, exce…
Breakthrough in bio pacemakers
Scientists in the United States have made a breakthrough that could revolutionise heart surgery by replacing electronic pacemakers with a biological equivalent.
Wipro buys GE Med’s IT arms for $6m
WIPRO has made its first acquisition, albeit a small one. And contrary to popular expectations, the acquisition is in the healthcare and life sciences segment and note in software services.
Pharmaceutical Industry: An Asian Perspective Overview and Future Direction
5. Government support and sponsorship of biotechnology R&D spur growth of biopharmaceutical research centers increasing the possibility of ‘Asian’/tropical diseases being research and therapeutic options being discove…
Indian Healthcare Industry To Grow At 13 per cent : CII Study
India’s healthcare industry is expected to grow by around 13 per cent a year for the next 6 years, according to Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Pharmaceutical Industry: An Asian Perspective Overview and Future Direction
The Singapore government is taking strong initiatives to make Singapore a hub for biotechnology and research in the Asian region. In recent years, Singapore has taken various steps like providing strong infrastructure…
Industry News Page 1 of 2
Rehabilitation of the heart is nothing but the restoration of the heart to its normal state, after an attack or infection. This is achieved by the reduction of all the risk factors like diet, stress, exercise and by p…
Export Opportunities for Medical Devices in Africa
S.Abidi Research Advisor Govt.of Guj.-AMA Centre of International Trade
Govt Boosting Innovation By Encouraging R&D Investment
Ref: Page No. 18, Chronicle Pharmabiz Feb. 14, 2013
Cbi medical programme concludes with a 95 percent success rate
The Export Coaching Programme (ECP) for Medical Devices and Lab Equipment comes alive in stories illustrating that the CBI’s involvement in this sector is really making a difference.
Medical Technology Innovation Scorecard
PwC’s Medical Technology Innovation Scorecard: The race for global leadership assesses nine countries’ capacity and capability for medical technology innovation: Brazil, China, France, Germany, India, Israel, Japan, U…
Trends and segments for medical devices in the EU market
Trends and market developments offer opportunities and threats to exporters. A given trend can be a threat to some and an opportunity to others at the same time. The following opportunities and threats should, therefo…
HLL Lifecare Steps Into Retailing Of Medical Devices
PUBLIC sector HLL Lifecare Ltd, which is emerging as a full-spectrum healthcare company beyond its mainstay portfolio of contraceptives, has ventured into the retailing segment to sell medical devices and essential dr…
Indian Medical Devices & Bio-Pharma players to Visit Tel-Aviv-Israel
Customized program as per the interest areas of Indian participants
Johnson & Johnson to buy synthes for $21.6 B
J & J is to buy Swiss medical devices makers synthes Inc. for 19 billion Swiss Francs ($21.6 Billion) in its largest ever buy boosting its orthopedic business.
Capitalising On India’s Growth Potential : Medical Device Industry Will Not Be Left Behind
The Indian economy is growing strongly, and will continue to provide a conductive macro-environment for the industry to grow in.
Innovations In Medical Device Sector
The dominant themes in The Netherlands are similar to those in the rest of Europe: an ageing population, quality of health care and manageable cost development in the health care system. The introduction of a new heal…
Innovations In Medical Device Sector
The Dutch association of manufacturers of medical devices ( Nefemed ) has now focus on Innovations as a new initiative.
Active, Not Aggressive
According to Leendert Santema, CBI expert for the medical industry, many companies in DCs have a website, but acquisition is passive. Suppliers in DCs often do not actively search for new contacts, leaving it to the b…
Cardiac Completes Certification For HeartCentrix With NextGen
Cardiac Science Corporation, a global leader in advanced cardiac diagnosis, resuscitation, rehabilitation, and informatics products, said it completed certification for its HeartCentrix ECG informatics software with N…
Fresenius Net Income Surges By 24% In 2007 At Euro 11,358 Million
Fresenius Group, a health care group with international operations, providing products and services for dialysis, hospital and outpatient medical care, has reported net profit growth of 24.2 per cent during the year e…
India No More Hot Offshore R&D Centre
Few companies will look at India as their destination for offshore R&D centres in the next 18 months. In fact, there is already a sort of slowdown in the number of such units being set up in the country. From 75 new o…
Indian Diagnostic Market
In 2005, the global healthcare market was valued at over US $6.68 trillion. It is growing at rate of .5 percent, which is much higher than the global gross domestic product (GDP) growth. It is estimated that Asia curr…
AIOCD To Float 10 State Wise Pharmacy Retail Chain Cos By 2008
The All Indian Origin Chemists and Distributors Ltd. (AIOCD), the company floated by All India Organisation for Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD), is planning to float 10 state wise pharmacy retail companies by January 1…
Bilcare Receives US Patent For 3 Products
Bilcare Ltd. has obtained a patent in the USA for its pharmaceutical grade metalised thermo-formable composite films.
Fresenius Kabi To Push Up Parenteral Volumes
The Pune-based Fresenius Kabi India Pvt. Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Germany-based Fresenius Kabi AG, is planning to expand its operations in India both through organic and inorganic means. Now more than a R…
GE, Eli Lilly To Collaborate In Vitro Diagnostics For Cancer Treatment
GE Global, Research, the General Electric Company’s centralized research and development organization, and GE Healthcare have entered into a three-year collaborative research agreement with Eli Lilly and Company to di…
Heart Connect
(Ref : The Economic Times dated March 2, 2007)
Sterling Hospital To Invest Rs. 120 Cr in Surat & Rajkot
Sterling hospital is going to invest around Rs. 120 crore in setting up hospitals at Rajkot and Surat. It is also planning to expands its existing hospital in Ahmedabad, and upgrade a hospital it recently acquired in…
Disposable Medical Supplies industry forecasts
US demand to grow nearly 5% annually through 2011
Healthcare Roadmap
This report provides the highlights of the recent Ernst and Young study on the Indian healthcare industry. The study was conducted in association with the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)…
Imports Of Medical Instrumentation Expected To Rise
The new report, "Asian Medical Device Markets", projects that in five key Asian countries, imports of medical instrumentation are likely to rise from US$ 30.43 billion in 2006 to US$ 43.08 billion by 2010.
Indian Healthcare Delivery Sector To Witness Major Transition : Study
The healthcare delivery sector in India is expected to witness a major transition in terms of quality of services and achieve competitiveness in the global arena, says a study conducted by Crisil Research, one of the…
Indian Lab Chemicals, Equipment Market Clocks 40% Growth
Indian laboratory chemical and equipment market in the country is on an over drive. While the lab chemicals market in the country is estimated to be around Rs 200 crore and growing at 30 per cent annually, the lab equ…
Loud & Clear: Hearing Aids Mkt To Grow At 15%
(Ref: The Economic Times dated August 9, 2007)
Adoption of Flat Panel Detectors, Workflow Integration and Advancement in Diagnostic Techniques Drive European C-Arms Market
The need to replace existing image intensifier based systems with flat panel detectors (FPD) is driving the European C-Arms market. This trend has been spurred by the need for complete workflow integration in a fully…
Increased Demand for Medical Imaging Displays in Digitised Hospital Environment Being Paralleled by Growing Market Commoditisation
The market for medical imaging displays is experiencing a dynamic shift. Digitisation initiatives are creating opportunities and challenges across Europe, as data and image sharing across hospital departments and regi…
Trendsetter in the field of nanomedicine and more at ComPaMED 2006
"Germany is far ahead of the competition and will still be defending this lead in ten years time. However, Asia should catch up slightly"
Chemists Prescribe Retail Pill For Survival
Unorganised pharmacists n the country growing @ 8-9%/yr
Indian Medical Transcription Is Back In The Pink
It was almost a cottage industry in the 90's, only to lose steam in 2000. But if you though the medical transcription (MT) industry in India is history, think again. Latest studies reveal that it is raring to take off…
Medtronic new product for diabetics
US-based medical technologies company Medtronic has launched a product, which combines insulin pump with continuous glucose readings and trend graphs. MiniMed Paradigm Real-time Insulin Pump and Continuous Glucose Mon…
More Than 10k Transcriptions Required Each Yr
The $250-million medical transcription (MT) industry in India is on a roll.
Space Hospitals To Widen Telemedicine Services Throughout India
Space Hospitals Ltd., a Chennai based telemedicine service provider, is planning to widen its services to the remote areas by connecting more hospitals and satellite medical centres throughout the country.
What is the size of the medical devices that Medtronic Inc and Medtronic India are targeting globally and nationally respectively?
The medical devices market is showing a double-digit growth. The cardiac devices alone are growing at 20 per cent. In India, the growth of the market is estimated to be between 10-15 per cent. There is a clear indicat…
European Diagnostic Cardiac Monitoring Systems Market
Data Management Key to Improved Decision Support Capability in Diagnostic Cardiac Monitoring Systems Market
European Markets for Cardiac Catheterisation Imaging Systems
Increasing Demand for Digital Flat-panel Imaging Systems
European Orthopedic Biomaterials Market
Ageing population and Lifestyle Changes Drive Demand for Orthopaedic Biomaterials in Europe
Impact of Low-cost Asian Manufacturing on the European Medical Devices Markets
European Medical Device Companies Face Increasing Competition from Low-cost Devices Manufactured in Asia
Strategic Analysis of the Acute Cardiac Diagnostics Market
Point of Care Testing to Power Growth Increasing Competition Highlights Need for Enhanced Customer Service
The European Electrosurgical Devices Market
London, UK - 15th February, 2006 - Heightened awareness among both electrosurgical device companies and consumers about the potential spread of communicable diseases during surgery is encouraging the uptake of disposa…
Western and Eastern European Markets for External Cardiovascular Defibrillators
Creating Greater Awareness of the Risks of Sudden Cardiac Arrests to Spur Demand for External Cardiovascular Defibrillators in Western and Eastern Europe
Healthcare IT Market : $ 50 - bn Worldwide, attracts companies from both the healthcare and tech arenas
Medicine is an increasingly hitech business, but doctors and hospitals around the world remain bogged down in paperwork. The result can be lost records, clerical errors and mis-prescribing of drugs.
European Renal Replacement Therapy Market
Growing Incidence of Acute Renal Failure Fuels Growth in the European Renal Therapy Market
The Blood Industry
A safe and adequate blood supply is essential to the practice of modern medicine. New advances, particularly in the area of automation, have enhanced both safety and blood availability and it is the purpose of this st…
Diabetic Foot Treatment Instruments
A diabetic foot implies peripheral vascular disorder, peripheral neuropathy and autonomic neuropathy or a combination of these. Diabetic foot conditions develop from a combination of causes, including poor blood circu…
Pharma Packaging Set For Continued Growth : Study
World Pharmaceutical packaging demand will increase at a rate of 4.3 per cent a year to reach $22.2 billion (€17.2bn) in 2007, according to a report from Freedonia Group. Companies supplying blister packaging will ben…
Pharma Packaging Machinery Market Surges Worldover
Pharma packaging is one of the fastest growing sectors. Worldwide demand for packaging equipments for the pharmaceutical and personal care products sector is all time high, growing at the rate of 5.4 per cent. The sec…
Advances in Diagnostic Ultrasound Imaging in Europe
Innovation, Competitive Prices to Underpin Uptake of Diagnostic Ultrasound Devices Across Europe, the pricing of ultrasound systems is expected to be central to its uptake. In addition to being competitively priced, p…
European Market for Hip and Knee Replacements
If you are interested in an analysis overview providing an introduction into the European Market for Hip and Knee Replacements - then send an email to Katja Feick -Corporate Communications at katja.feick@frost.com wit…
Strategic Analysis of the Image-Guided and Robot-Assisted Surgery Markets in Europe
Minimally Invasive Surgery Creates Opportunity for New Surgical Technologies Popularity of Minimally Invasive Surgery to Boost Prospects of Robot Assisted and Image Guided Technologies Corresponding to the increasing…
Export-Import Policy:
While ensuring the highest quality standards of drugs produced in India, it is also important that the norms that govern imports into the country are strengthened and internationally comparable so that the domestic in…
Glucometre Market in India
Dr Alex Saunders, a US based scientist and diabetes expert says that only 0.1-0.3 per cent of diabetic population in India use sugar level monitoring instruments like glucometres compared to about 33 percent in US. Ac…
Medical Transcription Industry In India
The shakeout that subsequently followed has now led to six or seven serious players surviving in a segment where the US market is estimated to be worth $ 10 billion. Of this, 15% is outsourced within the US of which a…
Critical issues before pharma industry
All countries have adopted controls over the introduction of new products. In many countries, including India, there are measures to control drug prices too. Given the complex nature of production, marketing and regul…
Apollo Health Signs MoU With SBI For Financing Apollo Clinics Franchises
Apollo Health & Lifestyle (AHLL), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals, on Friday said it has signed an MoU with State Bank of India to offer term loans to its franchises.
Korean company to set up Asia's largest cord blood bank in India
Korea's leading stem cell research company Histone, in participation with the government of India, is planning to set up Asia's largest cord blood bank in the country. The company, which is is also scouting for a pote…
Manipal Edu. And Medical Group (India) Signs MoU with German Company For Hospital Waste Management
Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Deuttsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ), Germany, to set up a first of its kind state-of-the-art 'centr…
SSI Ministry rejects plea for further reviews of Schedule M modification
Doubling exports to create 1cr. jobs The government today sought to play the employment generation card as part of the Foreign Trade Policy, claiming it was a highly labour intensive sector. Commerce minister Kamal Na…
Win Medicare launches hepatonorm analyzer for detecting liver diseases
Delhi Based win Medicare (P) Ltd has introduced Hepatonorm Analyzer, a novel product to detect Hepatic Encephalopathy - a disease that occur due to acute liver diseases, such as liver cirrhosis in India.
Wockhardt lines up three hospital projects
"We have acquired land in Pitampura and plan to set up a 225-bed hospital in the Capital with an investment of about Rs 100 crore," he said.
European Orthopaedic Braces and Supports Market : Reimbursement Structures across Europe Create Challenges
A rapidly ageing population, the increasing trend toward non-invasive treatments and better disease management strategies are driving the demand for orthopaedic braces and supports in Europe.
Global analytical device makers set up shops in India
Sensing the importance of Indian market, major global names like Agilent Technologies, Perkin Elmer, Varian, Waters, Thermo Group, Analytik Jena, and Biorad have recently set up their respective offices in the country…
How does the domestic analytical instruments industry view the current duty structure in India?
The government has to take responsibility of building world class, spacious exhibition facilities across major cities of the country, if it has to project India as destination par global class, worth of attracting qua…
India Excels with software for handicapped
Product launchers are par for the course at information technology fairs but you don't expect anything spectacular at a sarkari show where ministers gather to talk what ministers talks about IT. But the Asia IT minist…
India's Healthcare is thriving 'privately'
Here is a shocking piece of information : In terms of public spending on health, India ranks 171st out of 175 countries. In contrast, it ranks an impressive 18th in terms of private spending on health. It is hardly su…
NASA to collaborate with Indian bio-medical Industry
National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA), USA, is looking for collaboration with Indian Industries in order to transfer its spin-off technologies, especially in the bio-medical field, for the benefit of the…
Virtual autopsies may replace need for scalpels one day
Chicago: In the not-too-distance future, autopsies might be performed using computerised scanning rather that scalpels if research led by a Swiss forensic pathologist bears fruit.
BARC develops new technologies for hazardous waste processing
The Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC) has developed new technologies for waste processing at the Waste Immobilization Plants (WIP). The technologies developed after sustained R&D efforts are planned to be used at t…
Cochlear Implant : Indian ENT Surgeon Develops a Low Cost Hearing Device
There are 40 million people in India who are deaf, however, they too can hear if they undergo a ‘Cochlear Implant’ (CI) surgery.
LIFE-SCIENCES INDUSTRY: India tipped to be bio-IT leader, says IDC
The growth of bio-IT spending within India’s life sciences industry is set to increase at a compounded annual growth rate of 65 per cent to touch $120 million by 2006, according to an IDC report.
Baxter enters into marketing pact with Wockhardt
After acquiring the parenteral intravenous business of Wockhardt Lifesciences, medical products and services major Baxter, now plans to enter into a strategic marketing alliance with Wockhardt. The objective will be t…
Bharat Serums to market B Braun’s products in India
Mumbai-based Bharat Serums and Vaccines (BSV) has entered into a three-year marketing agreement with Germany-based medical products company B Brtaun to market the latter’s range of selected IV solutions in India, exce…
Breakthrough in bio pacemakers
Scientists in the United States have made a breakthrough that could revolutionise heart surgery by replacing electronic pacemakers with a biological equivalent.
Wipro buys GE Med’s IT arms for $6m
WIPRO has made its first acquisition, albeit a small one. And contrary to popular expectations, the acquisition is in the healthcare and life sciences segment and note in software services.
Pharmaceutical Industry: An Asian Perspective Overview and Future Direction
5. Government support and sponsorship of biotechnology R&D spur growth of biopharmaceutical research centers increasing the possibility of ‘Asian’/tropical diseases being research and therapeutic options being discove…
Indian Healthcare Industry To Grow At 13 per cent : CII Study
India’s healthcare industry is expected to grow by around 13 per cent a year for the next 6 years, according to Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).
Pharmaceutical Industry: An Asian Perspective Overview and Future Direction
The Singapore government is taking strong initiatives to make Singapore a hub for biotechnology and research in the Asian region. In recent years, Singapore has taken various steps like providing strong infrastructure…
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Rehabilitation of the heart is nothing but the restoration of the heart to its normal state, after an attack or infection. This is achieved by the reduction of all the risk factors like diet, stress, exercise and by p…