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To give impetus to young cancer researchers, Cytecare Cancer Hospitals in association with Australia & Asia Pacific Clinical Oncology Research Development  (ACORD) hosted a workshop on ‘Clinical research writing’ at Cytecare Cancer Hospital. The objective of this one day workshop hosted is to help early career researchers turn their ideas for clinical cancer research into […]

Approximately two months ago Dr. Prof. Tom Cherian, Head of the Liver Transplant team at CARE Hospital, had an unusual patient from Nigeria. A young man of just 19, presented with a tumour that on CT scanning was found to be approximately 4000 ml in volume and 21 cms in size, positioned right in the […]

Clove Dental, a Dental Chain promoted by Global Dental Services today announced the launch of its 175th high-tech multi-specialty Dental Clinic in Madinaguda, Hyderabad. With this launch Clove Dental, the Largest Dental Care Chain in the country, has 200 leased clinics out of which 175 clinics are operational across 11 states. In South India, 43 […]

James Dyson Foundation today announced the first ever Indian winner of the James Dyson Award- Asish Mohandas, product design student of IIT, Kanpur for his innovative product, MAATTAM, retrofit patient transfer system. Asish Mohandas witnessed the plight and pain of an old lady while being shifted from one stretcher to another by lifting. Upon researching […]

Australian regenerative medicine company Orthocell Limited today announced that it has recruited and treated its first patient in a randomised, controlled clinical trial of Ortho-ATI® versus corticosteroid injection, for the treatment of rotator cuff tendinopathy and tear in the shoulder. Rotator cuff tendinopathy and tear (which manifests as severe shoulder pain) is a common and […]

Biocon Ltd. (BSE code: 532523, NSE: BIOCON), Asia’s premier biopharmaceuticals company, and JDRF, the leading global organization funding type 1 diabetes (T1D) research and advocacy worldwide, jointly announced a JDRF  partnership to support a global multiple ascending dose study with a novel oral insulin drug candidate, Insulin Tregopil, in people with T1D. Insulin Tregopil, a […]

Joseph Jimenez, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Novartis, has informed the Board of Directors of his desire to step down as CEO in 2018, after eight years in position. The Board of Directors has appointed Vasant (Vas) Narasimhan, M.D., Global Head of Drug Development and Chief Medical Officer, as CEO of Novartis, effective February 1, […]

The two-day National Insulin Summit, conducted by Diabetes Research Society (DIABAID) and supported by Novo Nordisk, the world leader in diabetes care was inaugurated by leading endocrinologists including Dr A. K Das-NIS National Convenor, Dr S.K. Wangnoo, Dr. R K Sahay, Dr. P V Rao, Dr. K G Shetty and Dr. Anand Moses. The National […]

Cleveland Clinic has selected Tomislav “Tom” Mihaljevic, M.D., as the hospital system’s next CEO and president, succeeding Toby Cosgrove, M.D., effective Jan. 1, 2018. Dr. Mihaljevic, 53, joined Cleveland Clinic in 2004 as a cardiothoracic surgeon specializing in minimally invasive and robotically assisted cardiac surgeries. Since 2015, Dr. Mihaljevic has served as CEO of Cleveland […]

Narayana Health City has announced the introduction of ID-NAT (Individual Donor-Nucleic Acid Testing), the latest and the most advanced donor blood screening facility at its blood bank in Bommasandra. Highly sensitive ID-NAT helps in identifying life-threatening blood-borne infections like HIV, HCV and HBV in the shortest possible time. The facility makes Narayana Health City the […]