November 2007
- Fresenius Group Net Profit Up By 28%
- Alcon India Launches Foldable Intraocular Lens (IOL)
- New Pharma Min To Track Price Dodgers
- Solvay Advanced Polymers Launches Biomaterials For Use In
Implantable Medical Devices
- GE Healthcare to augment Engg. Head count by 10%
- Roche Diagnostics Ltd Launches Insulin Pump
September 2007
- Expro 68 participants from Columbia, Egypt, Tunisia Pakistan,
India, Jordan and South Africa Seminar alongwith CBI Officials
Ljenka Cuypers, Wiebe Vos, Cynthia Schenk and Consultants Leendert
Santema, Arjan Hock and Fred Jansen
- Draft Medical Device Regulations Act for India
- Polymed to buy US co for $20 million
- Hindustan Syringes To Invest Rs 100 Cr
- Fresenius Kabi India On Expansion Spree
- Metha Short Stem For Young Arthritis Patients
- Omnicell Inc Buoyant About Expansions In India, Assessing
Healthcare Sector
May 2007
- India-Stanford joint venture launched to create medical
technology innovation
- Govt. plans Bill on regulation of medical devices
- Brand scheme scrapping irks medical devices industry
- Syringes and needles industry: In the face of competition
- Philips identifies India for medical equipment biz
- BD Medical launches pro-safety IV catheter to help health
workers
- Time Technoplast to set up medical devices unit in Baddi
- Marck Biosciences plans foray into 20 countries
March 2007
- Kitten to market timestrip's smart label technology in India
- Medical Devices being marketed without regulations, safeguards
in India
- Indian Healthcare Delivery Sector To Witness Major Transition:
Study
January 2007
- Centralized Licensing With Inadequate Staff May Lead To Delay
In Granting Product Licenses
- IPR Comes With New Hi-tech Medical Waste Disposable Plan for
Hospitals
- Fresenius to Expand Dialyzer Production Capacity at St Wandel
- Healthcare Roadmap
- Marck Biosciences in talks with US Cos for site transfer
November 2006
- DBT Initiative To Assess Quality Of Medical Devices
- Cinvention Sees Huge Potential For Drug Eluting Stents Market
- Healthcare Firms To Lead Job Creation
- Bilcare Receives US Patent For 3 Products
- White Paper On Pharma Vision 2020 To Be Presented To Centre
Before March '07
- Indian Pharmacopoeia To Ink With European Counterpart
- MEF In Making To Promote Indigenous Designing Of Devices
September 2006
- Plastindia Foundation: New Team of Office Bearers for the term
2006 - 2009
- Baxter Inc Aligns Indian Operations
- Dr. M. Venkateswarulu Takes Charge As Drugs Controller of
India (DCGI)
- Rexam Acquires Leading Packaging Firm, Truepack For £5 Million
July 2006
- Millipore India Invests Rs. 25 Lakh For Lab-On-Wheels Project
- Baxter To Introduce Extraneal PD Solution
- TTK & Co Acquires 20% Holding of TTK Healthcare Through 'Open
Offer'
- Philips Medical eyes JVs in equipment market
- Ashwini Kumar, Drugs Controller General of India In-Charge
Retires Today
May 2006
- Poly Medicure Acquires US Company
- GE Investing $250 Mn In Infrastructure, Healthcare
- Guideline For Medical Devices May Hurt Industry : CII
- Marck Biosciences To Inject Rs 72 crore For Kheda Unit
- Axa Sets Up IV Fluids Facility At Roorkee
March 2006
- In the US, the Manufacture of Medical Devices and Supplies
Includes 12,000 Companies with Combined Annual Revenue of about
$50 Billion
- Medical Device Companies Quick to Adopt Ethics Standards to
Combat Fraud and Abuse, Finds PricewaterhouseCoopers Survey
- Essel Propack forays into medical devices business. Acquiring
2 companies - Tacpro Inc., USA & Avalon Medical Services,
Singapore
- Need for joint implants to jump
- Health Ministry's Guidelines For Import, Manufacture of
Medical Devices Effective From March 1
- "Regulation Will Help Growth of Medical Devices Sector In
India"
- Govt To Spend Rs 360 Cr On Health Regulator
January 2006
- True Pack To Invest Rs. 8 Cr. For Advanced Pharma Packaging
Plant
- India’s First Indigenous Drug Eluting Stent Receives CE
Approval
- Hindustan Latex Sets Rs. 1000 Cr. Turnover Target By 2010
- NBI To Begin Testing of Medical Devices
November 2005
- Expert Group To Recommend Quality Certification For Medical
Devices
- DGFT Eases Import Norms For Medical Items Not Covered Under
Drugs Act
- 'India- A $300-m Medical Device Market'
- Diabetes Related Foot Amputation Rise To 50,000 A Year In
India
- Sterilization Plant For Medical Products Ready To Take Off
September 2005
- Centre notifies 10 medical devices as 'drugs'
- NID Develops Safe Storage Device For Vaccines
- 'Half Of The Drug Eluting Stents Used In India Lack Adequate
Trial Data'
- Nidek To Strengthen Ophthalmic Business In India
July 2005
- Motherson To Acquire German G+S
- Centre Plans Guideline For Uniform Action Against NSQ Medical
Devices
- DTAB Nod On Medical Device Control On August 2
- Care To Implant New Cardiac Device In 100 Patients As Part Of
Global Study
- NGO Launches Nationwide Campaign Against Unapproved Medical
Devices
- Relisys To Commission New Catheter Facility By Early 2005
- Relisys To Initiate Int'l Registry For New Version DES
May 2005
- IPA, Bilcare Sign MoU For Packaging
- Paramedical & Physiotherapy Councils Bill - 2004 :
Physiotherapists Find Not Acceptable
- Medical Architecture : IIA Forming Standardised Guidelines
- GE Healthcare Launches High Definition Magnetic Resonance (HDMR)
System In India
- The Potential For Medical Tourism In India Bigger Than
Estimated One Billion Dollars
- GE Healthcare teams with Dr Trehan for ''Medicity''
March 2005
- India to outrun China in 15 years : Deutsche Bank study
- Clinical Trials : 20 per cent of all clinical trials conducted
globally will be from India
- SSI Ministry rejects plea for further reviews of Schedule M
modification
- Doubling exports to create 1cr. jobs
- Diagnostic Reagents And Kits : GMP Norms
- Medical Packaging : DuPont P&IP to market authentication
technologies
- Health Ministry plans 50 testing labs in 3 years
January 2005
- Fresenius To Upgrade I.V. Fluid Units To European Standard
- Medtronic Offers Insulin Pumps In Indian Market
- Auto Disable Syringes : Hindustan Medical Devices (HMD) Tie
Ups With Pharma Multinationals
- US Pharmacopeia Sets Up India Site
- Medical Devices Bill : Before Parliament Soon
- Pharma Packaging : Bilcare's Expansion plan for Exports
September 2004
- Indian Healthcare Federation (IHFC) To Launch Country's First
Accreditation System For Healthcare Institutions
- Asia's Largest Healthcare City Soon In West Bengal (India)
- Medical Insurance Set To Grow By 30 %
- Medical Tourism In India : Attracting 15 million patients now,
medical tourism would generate $ 5 Billion In Revenues.
- Association of Medical Devices and Suppliers of India (AMDSI)
Formed To Represent Suppliers And Manufacturers of Medical
Technology (MT)
- The President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, inaugurated "The
International Centre for Biomedical Sciences and Technology" in
Chennai ( India ).
July 2004
- NASA to collaborate with Indian bio-medical Industry
- Manipal introduces laser technology for ENT surgery
- Heart Core ties up with Synchron for medical imaging
- India's Healthcare is thriving 'privately'
- Polar Pharma to make equipment
May 2004
- Baxter to make Indian arm global hub
- Manufacturing medical devices indigenously can reduce health
care costs : Dr. Reddy
- Metropolis Health to foray abroad
- Medicare Incin to set up bio-medical waste facilities in four
cities
- Bar Code Technology For Healthcare Sector
March 2004
- Docs See jackpot in medical tourism
- Bharat Scans turns hi-tech
- Apollo Hospitals looks for pacts in West Asia, Africa
January 2004
- For Sector To Take Off, Legislation And Infrastructure Need To
Be In Place
- India turns to Gulf to sell healthcare services
- Hindustan Latex, Chinese co in JV for contraceptives
- Virtual autopsies may replace need for scalpels one day
- India set to become a global hub
- Healthcare just got an energy shot
- Budget Impact on Pharma
- Penny Pinches
- India Excels with software for handicapped
- India Inc needs 'next practices': CK Prahlad
- Pharmaexcil action plan to be in by April
- Medical part cos to benefit from expansion in health sector
November 2003
- Stents : Quality Control is A Must
- New cobalt stent implanted in three cardiac patients in
Hyderabad
- UL India offers safety certification for equipment vendors
- New Technique for Angiography and Angioplasty
- Medical Tourism : Hospitals, Maharastra State Govt Team Up To
Lure Medical Tourists
- Dengue Detection Kit : CHPL tie-up with Panbio, a world leader
in dengue detection kits
- Indian Makes It To The top
- Rare surgery performed on baby to remove defective kidney
September 2003
- Medical Plastics Data Service, an associate web site of
medisourceasia recognised for top general quality , scientific
value and suitability to internet browsing.
- Government preparing to introduce GMP for medical devices
- Blood Banks : Govt to ban Private Sector
- Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute cleared for ISO 170025
Certification
- GE Medical Systems launches fastest functional imaging
workstation
- India to lead in bypass surgery numbers by 2011
- Mitra Industries gets DCGI approval for indigenous CAPD kits
- BARC develops new technologies for hazardous waste processing
- Abbott may spin off hospital products unit
- ABS Medicare begins marketing of BARC’s hydrogel
July 2003
- CBI's Export Development Programme for Indian Medical Device
Companies
- Blood Banks : Govt to ban Private Sector
- Hind Latex to diversify into surgical sutures
- Device PMA, 510(K) Review Fees Rise
May 2003
- Hospital Consultancy And Management : Apollo Hospitals
Spreading Wings
- Medical Disposables : Hindustan Syringes To Hike Capacity
- Pharmaceuticals And Drugs: India At No. 2 In Global Rankings
- Invitro Fertilisation (IVF) Technique : Specialists Getting
Patients From the Country And Abroad
- Neutraceuticals: Tremendous Scope For India
- Software For Hospitals And Clinics : Pune Company Launches New
Products
- Ischemia Albumin Blood (IMA) Test : USFDA Clearance To Market
The Albumin Cobalt Binding (ACB) Test
- Hospital Information Package : WIPRO Health Science To Review
- Spurious Drugs : Expert Panel Formed
- Cardiac Operations: India Inc. Spends Rs. 2000 Crore annually
- Roche to buy Swiss surgical co for $1.2bn
- Pharmacopoeia Commission to be set
- Indian Healthcare Industry: Rising change In Attitude By
Middle Class
- Electron Beam CT (EBCT) : Much Faster Than CT Scan
- Breast Implants: US Statistics showed about 23 per cent of
patients removed within three years
- Implantable device to help monitor organ function
- Marketing Alliance to Provide Improved Diabetic Care to the
India Patients
March 2003
- ASTHMA INHALERS: Nicholas in talks to market Ivax asthma
inhalers
- ANGIOPLASTY : Transradial approach an alternative to
angioplasty, Yashoda conducts 200 procedures
- Diagnostic kits freed from duty
- PACKAGING NORMS: Finmin to review packaging charge norms
- The Indian healthcare sector and budget 2003-04
- LIFE-SCIENCES INDUSTRY: India tipped to be bio-IT leader, says
IDC
- Figuring It Out – Drug Masters
- Indian drug firms in patent rush
- Govt plans IT standards for healthcare units
- New faster, high-end CT scanner makes India debut
- Stress, Diabetes & High Blood Pressure Act As Triggers Cardiac
operations cost India Rs 2,000 crore annually
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