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Pvt hospitals to log 15-17% revenue growth in fiscal 2022: Crisil

Recovery in revenue and margins will nevertheless spur hospitals to resurrect capex, which had almost halved year-on-year last fiscal.

Nutraceuticals market to grow at over 35% annually to $18 bn in next 5 yrs

This comes as a consequence of the deadly second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic

Vaccination and stimulus will make 9-9.5% growth possible: CII president

Ideal way is convincing people but vaccination is also a social responsibility; Countries need to balance corporate tax rate, says industry body's new President and MD-CEO of Tata Steel

Reality always catches up in a pandemic: Albright Stonebridge's Mehul Mehta

He spoke to Anjuli Bhargava about the second wave of the pandemic, how the US managed its vaccine rollout better than India, and where India needs to go with its genomics sequencing capabilities

Wockhardt's growth tonic: Covid vaccines add a third prong to biz strategy

In India, Wockhardt aims to make 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines within the next one or two years but has not disclosed the identity of the tie-ups

Biotechnology firm Mylab ropes in Akshay Kumar as brand ambassador

The Pune-based firm, which has a presence across many verticals like diagnostics, food safety, agriculture and veterinary medicine

Covid-19 pandemic: Health ministry flags poor coverage of second dose

The national coverage for the first dose among health care workers is over 82 per cent

Glenmark says interim data from study supports favipiravir's safety

A total of 13 sites across Mumbai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Nashik, Nagpur and Trivandrum took part in the study

Apollo Hospitals, Thyrocare: Time to book profits in these stocks?

According to the revised policy, private hospitals will receive 25 per cent of the vaccines and can charge Rs 150 in overhead at max

No govt-owned CT scan machine in 37 of 51 MP districts: Report

MP received Rs 3,712 crore from the State Disaster Relief Management Fund till March this year

Top Headlines: RBI likely to hold interest rates; Softbank to back Flipkart

Our top headlines on Friday track the latest developments

Covid-19 pandemic: PEs pour $584 million into healthcare in 2021

Highest investment in the sector in last 5 years; pandemic expands opportunities

Sun Pharma, Ferring Pharma ink pact to introduce obstetric drug in India

The drug is indicated for the prevention of excessive bleeding in women after vaginal or caesarean childbirth

Do states with 'good' health infra have lower Covid-19 death rates?

it is likely many states would have under-reported data on mortality rates, while misreporting on other key aspects concerning their health sector as well

To use artificial life support, or not to

Throw in the financial consequences and you know that your loved ones will be under tremendous pressure if they have to make this decision

GST meet discussed tax relief on medicines: Maharashtra Deputy CM

Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar said it deliberated on tax relief on medicines, injections and health equipment

Glenmark arm, Emcure, 3 other pharma cos line up Rs 7,000-cr IPOs

The healthcare sector is in the limelight for the second consecutive year

Centre asks state governments to tackle black fungus on a war footing

States have been asked to prepare and implement the infection prevention control programme in hospitals in accordance with the National Guidelines for Infection and Control in Healthcare Facilities

Decoded: What is black fungus and its link to Covid-19 pandemic

India has a huge diabetic population that is at risk. And along with that, steroids and antibiotics are being used quite irrationally for Covid-19 patients

Startup Virohan raises $3 mn, says will train million paramedics by 2025

Company says it has trained over 5,500 people since the pandemic started last year.