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Norovirus An Extreme Contagious Virus
Norovirus is the most common reason of viral gastroenteritis in humans. It affects around 700 million people worldwide each year. Health care cost more than $4 billion a year and cost jumps further to $64 billion in the condition of lost productivity and other societal costs. Norovirus can cause symptoms
HCG launches its First State-of-the-Art Cancer Hospital in Visakhapatnam
In Visakhapatnam, Healthcare Global Enterprises (HCG) launches its first cancer center located at the Andhra Pradesh Industrial infrastructure corporation (APIIC). The hospital is in association with Pinnacle Hospitals India. HCG is specialized in cancer care services with largest cancer care network. It has latest offering in cancer care with multi-disciplinary services through specialist doctors
Catheter Technology To Be Introduced For Patients With Heart Ailments
Dr. Jaya Kirthy Rao is on the verge of launching an Advanced Catheter Technology for treating arrhythmia. The treatment would be a first time in India for patients suffering from heart ailments. “We are launching Contact Force Sensing Technology for atrial fibrillation in the coming months. Specialized catheters are used inside
India’s New Quality Assurance Certification System For Medical Devices
The medical device manufacturers of India introduce a new certification system for quality assurance on March 15 . The Certification of Medical Devices Scheme (ICMED) – the first indigenously developed international class certification scheme for the medical devices in India to reduce the valuable time and cost required to obtain quality certifications for Indian companies at
DCGI’s Next List of FDC’s Under Review
The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has listed a new set of 1200 fixed-dose combinations(FDCs) which was sent for investigation of the panel that eradicated nearly 350 drug combinations last week. FDC is a combination of more than two drugs in a single pill. According to experts various drugs
Embryonic Stem Cell could be the Cure to Male Infertility | Morulaa
From the use of embryonic stem cells, the Chinese scientists says that they have discovered the functioning sperm, that has been injected into the female mice eggs and resulted normal, fertile offspring. While the experts warned that the process needs more experiments before truing it on humans, the research may
Indian Medical Device Market – $17.6 Billion by 2020 ?
There will be a good number of impression seen with the expansion of the medical device space in India, growth of about $10.4 billion to $17.6 billion from the year 2014 to 2020 can be expected to bring a salient Annual Growth Rate(CAGR) of 9.4 percent, by the report of research and consulting
CDSCO: E-Governance’s Online Portal for Uninterrrupted Regulatory
The Central Drug Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) has decided to initiate an online portal for Registration and import license application for the medical device. This online registration / submission of medical devices portal should start from March, in which we can apply, track the status of application, document submitted, license to
IPA Joins hands for Excellence and Quality
In India the several huge pharmaceutical companies comes under the Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance, has lead an initiative of Quality Forum (QF). Focusing terrain of the Quality Forum being Excellence and Quality, hence the Indian pharmaceutical industry’s problems regards to the regulatory to be looked in and solved. To put a stop to
Seamless Approval and Simplified Regulations for Stem Cell
The expert group from stem cell industry in order to get faster clearance, are pushing hard on the committees under the scope of the Drug Controller General of India for their products. DCGI’s final consent are Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) or Institutional Committee for Stem Cell Research (IC-SCR) and National