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Kokilaben Hospital joins 'Go Green Stay Fit' campaign

The campaign, initiated in January this year by the Forum for Injection Technique (FIT), promotes the best practices in diabetes management and safe disposal of medical waste

ThingsMeet Solutions launches healthcare app Prescribez

The company has raised seed capital of $145K from Ankush Mehta an angel investor

Govt plans to set up central regulatory regime for AYUSH drugs

Amendments likely to be made in the Drugs & Cosmetics Act, 1940 pertaining to regulation of alternative medicines such as ayurvedic, siddha, unani, homoeopathy, etc

All India Institute of Ayurveda to come up in New Delhi

The institute has been conceived as an apex institute of ayurveda with 200 bedded referral hospital and to impart education in the field of ayurveda at MD and PhD level

Sun Pharma's mobile app to track treatment compliance among asthma patients

The company has rolled-out India's first asthma monitoring mobile app, RespiTrack, to connect doctor & patient

Indian Pediatric Network to raise funds to support expansion

Indian Pediatric Network, a start up which offers pediatrician services convenient to parents, is planning to expand its services pan India and to raise around Rs 25 crore to fund it's expansion. The company at present has six pediatricians offering services over phone round the clock.The company is offering its services in Mumbai, connecting around 4,000 children with its network, focusing on working mothers who are unable to attend to their children's health issues and require assistance or professional guidance in diagnosing and treating ailments. It offers services to make electronic medical records of the children available for the parents and access to pediatricians and medical information at odd hours, when the clinics are shut and the regular pediatrician are not available, said S K M Faridh, director, The Pediatric Network."We are currently present in Mumbai and will be going pan India in a month or two. We are in talks with investors to raise around Rs 25 crore for the ...

Hospitals must explore outsourcing options: Ratan Jalan

Jalan, former CEO of Apollo Hospital, argues that good health care can be kept affordable if the hospitals so desire

US co PerkinElmer looking for acquisition in India

The firm is said to be looking at inorganic growth in the diagnostics space for faster growth