MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore launches new research group, boosting nation’s cell therapies R&D

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S$10 million a year to be invested in SMART CAMP in a multi-year effort New interdisciplinary research group, SMART CAMP, will bring together 35 MIT and Singapore investigators Complementary and integrated programme with Singapore’s Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) cell manufacturing effort, supported by the National Research Foundation (NRF) SMART CAMP...

Save a life by registering as a blood stem cell donor

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Aster CMI launches initiative for blood stem cell do nor registration and urges all to come forward and volunteer for a mission Bangalore, June 28, 2019: In order to call out stem cell donation as the need of the hour for blood cancer patients in India, Aster CMI Hospital is launching a donor registration campaign by inviting people...

Medical device margins set to be capped at 65% in India

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New Delhi: India is set to cap trade margins on medical devices, abandoning the current price control mechanism, as it seeks to curb profiteering as well as allay concerns of device makers, particularly importers of stents and knee implants, who have complained that price caps hurt innovation, two people aware of the matter said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi is likely...

Machine Learning Helping Doctors To Generate Precise and Faster Prescriptions

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For Immediate Release Mumbai, 2018: A brainchild of Dr. Atish Laddad, The Pediatric Network (TPN) is an alternative child health support program that aims to acquire a holistic healthcare and wellbeing for every child. Its chief objective has always been to bestow children across India with a healthy and sheltered lifestyle by making positive alterations and advancements in the...

Regulation of ultrasound machines on the anvil

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New Delhi: The government is considering a plan to regulate the import, manufacture and sale of ultrasound machines to stem the drastic decline in India’s sex ratio. The Drug Technical Advisory Board, the government’s chief advisory body on drugs, will take up the proposal to regulate ultrasound equipment under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 at their forthcoming meeting...