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India Sent Medicine To 150 Countries During Covid Crisis: Mandaviya

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Friday said that India sent medicines to 150 countries during the COVID crisis without increasing the price and compromising on the quality of the medicines

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Consumers Willing To Cut Down On Luxury To Afford Health Insurance: Survey

A new health survey has revealed that 85 per cent of the Indian population prefers cutting down on some luxury items and spending more on health insurance services

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Startups Will Have To Solidify Their Unit Economics, Consolidate Or Shut Shop: Namit Chug

In an interaction with BW Healthcare World, Chugh, Investment Lead, W Health Ventures speaks on the healthcare expectations from the budget 2023, an overview of healthcare in 2022, focus areas for private players, segments that need governments push and the outlook for 2023

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Indian Hospital Industry To Post Robust Performance In FY2023: Report

The agency said that improving payor mix, growth in surgery volumes, price revisions by companies to offset cost inflation and faster throughput in discharges are expected to aid healthy growth of 8 to 10 per cent in average revenue per occupied bed (ARPOB) for the sample set in FY2023

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BioNTech Begins Trials Of mRNA-based Malaria Vaccine

Scientists around the world have been working for decades to develop a vaccine to prevent malaria, which infects millions of people every year and leads to hundreds of thousands of deaths - most of them babies and young children in the poorest parts of Africa

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USFDA Clears Acer Therapeutics Genetic Disease Drug

The approval letter, issued on Thursday, said the drug, sodium phenylbutyrate, could be used as an adjunctive therapy to the standard of care for patients with UCDs with certain deficiencies

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All Nations Need To Share Covid Information Subsuming China Says Blinkin

Speaking at a news conference at the State Department, Blinken said Washington was ready to help all countries on COVID but said Beijing has not asked for help from the United States

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5G in Healthcare: Airtel, Apollo, AWS Perform First 5G, AI-Driven Colonoscopy Trial

e trial was conducted using AI on Airtel’s 5G technology with ultra-low latency and high processing capabilities that resulted in detection of the colon cancer much faster and with greater accuracy, the companies said in a joint regulatory filing on Thursday

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Sanjeev Panchal To Serve As Indian Chief Of AstraZeneca From Jan 01

In a major management shift, AstraZeneca India has appointed Sanjeev Panchal as Country President and Managing Director with effect from 1st January 2023, as the outgoing India chief Gagandeep Singh who currently heads the Indian affairs of the global pharmaceutical company is said to step down, the company informed in a statement on Wednesday

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Patient Selection For AstraZeneca, Daiichi Breast Cancer Drug Uncertain Say Experts

Early this year, researchers found that Enhertu could also benefit certain breast cancer patients whose HER2 levels were previously thought to be too low for the drug to have a meaningful effect

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USFDA Approves Bivalent Covid Shots For Kids Under 6 Months Old

The regulator added that data supporting use of Pfizer/BioNTech's bivalent shot as a booster in this age group is expected in January

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GSK, Pfizer, Sanofi Evade Federal Litigation On Zantac

The ruling by U.S. District Judge Robin Rosenberg in West Palm Beach, Florida, knocks out about 50,000 claims in federal court, though it does not affect tens of thousands of similar cases pending in state courts around the country

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Covid Has Mutated, Should Be Renamed Says China's Medical Expert

China's approach to Covid which has emphasised widespread testing and the quarantining of positive cases in specialised facilities - should change from "passive detection" to "active prevention", with recuperation at home for light cases

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British Govt Looks At Amending Pension Rules To Retain Health Professionals

The governing Conservative Party has long promised to sort out a health service which has struggled to recover after being stretched to its limits during the COVID-19 pandemic and now faces strikes by thousands of nurses and ambulance workers

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Pfizer Awaits FDA Nod For Omicron-retooled Booster In Kids Under 5

The bivalent COVID-19 vaccine, which targets the original strain and the BA.4/BA.5 Omicron subvariants, is currently authorized as a booster dose for ages 5 years and older in the United States and the European Union (EU)

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