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PharmEasy bags Rs 1.3K cr from Pai; Rs 3.5K cr rights issue oversubscribed

Besides Pai's commitment, PharmEasy raised the remaining Rs 2,200 crore from existing shareholders

Max Healthcare Institute acquires Starlit Medical Centre for Rs 940 crore

Within its current network, it has 3,533 beds, and following this acquisition, the total bed count would approximately touch around 4,083 beds

Advent International may sell majority stake in Bharat Serums & Vaccines

Global PE major in initial talks with Indian as well as foreign investors

Margin gains likely to further boost Aster DM Healthcare stock price

The company had been keen to sell the stake in the GCC business for some time now given a hypercompetitive environment, lower growth (a third of the India business) and lower margins

Experts warn of Covid spike in Kerala as vaccine-induced immunity wanes

Kerala now has 194 active cases, accounting for 61 per cent of the active cases in India

India's workforce faces rising medical inflation, reveals report

The report also revealed nearly 59 per cent skip their annual health checkups, while 90 per cent neglect regular doctor consultations to monitor their health

Rs 3 lakh is the median sum insured offered by India's employers: survey

Fifty-six per cent of companies offer maternity benefits, while less than one per cent of companies offer holistic cover for people with disabilities and 60% of companies offer new age insurance

Hospitals get post-Covid growth injection from foreign medical tourism

Robust growth in H1FY24 signals rebound in medical tourism, fuels bigger expectations

Oriental Insurance hopes to turn profitable by end of FY24: R R Singh

The public sector non-life insurer narrowed its losses to Rs 47.12 crore in the first half of the financial year 2024 from Rs 3,586.93 crore recorded in the same period a year ago

Biocon biologics receives marketing approval by MHRA for YESAFILI in UK

This approval follows the green light granted by the European Commission (EC) for marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) back in September

Fortis Healthcare Q2 results: Net profit declines 15% to Rs 173.7 crore

The company declared results post-market hours. Fortis Healthcare Limited stock was up by 17 basis points (5 per cent) on the BSE to Rs 359.15 apiece

Apollo Hospitals Q2 profit up 14% to Rs 4,846.9 cr on better patient flows

Apollo looking for another Greenfield hospital in Mumbai is not reported

Dabur Q2 results: Net profit rises 5.1% to Rs 515 cr, ad spends grow 42.6%

Analysts, on average, had expected a profit of Rs 513 crore, according to LSEG data

Tata Capital PE plans to invest over Rs 400 cr in healthcare, senior care

This investment would be made out of the second fund (TCHF II), which has a corpus of about $130 million

WHO South-East Asia region to prioritise investment in primary healthcare

Member countries of the WHO South-East Asia Region on Tuesday committed to prioritising investment in primary healthcare in order to accelerate progress towards universal health coverage. Regional Director of WHO South-East Asia Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh said this will help realise health-related sustainable development goals. "Prioritising investments to strengthen primary healthcare, including the health workforce, will accelerate progress towards achieving health for all and help realise health-related sustainable development goals, health security and equity promoting health systems," she said. Dr Singh was addressing a ministerial roundtable on 'Strengthening primary healthcare as a key element towards achieving universal health coverage' which culminated in the member countries and WHO signing the Delhi Declaration for strengthening primary healthcare. The declaration builds on the commitments of heads of state and government and ministers of health to strengthen primary ...

Triple jeopardy in health

This is not all. Not only are we not conserving the existing stock of medicines, the drug pipeline for new antibiotics is drying up, or has done so already

Don't miss a beat: Heart ailments in young women on the rise, shows data

Digital healthcare platform Practo saw a 215 per cent increase in total consultations related to cardiovascular health

Unhealthy dynamics

Gender bias in cancer care reflects a larger health care crisis

Apollo joins look-East bandwagon for acquisitions, secures Kolkata facility

Corporate hospitals have a look-East policy as they feel this is an underserved region

'AIIMS Delhi lived up to its reputation as premier healthcare institution'

Over the 68 years of existence, AIIMS-Delhi has truly lived up to its reputation as the premier healthcare institution of the country, Minister of State for Health S P Singh Baghel said on Monday. Presiding over the 68th Foundation Day celebrations of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, he expressed happiness that for the sixth consecutive year, the institute has been ranked number one among medical institutions in the National Institute Ranking Framework of the Ministry of Education. The Union minister said that AIIMS has become a brand with its reputation spread across the country. Today, every child across India has heard the name of AIIMS, Baghel said. He encouraged officials to maintain this image and take the AIIMS brand to greater heights. The Union minister said that India's healthcare sector is now comparable to that of any developed country because of its highly trained human resources. Indians comprise a high percentage of doctors even in developed .