• How India Reduced the Cost of Cataract Lenses and Restored Millions of Eyesight
    11 February 2026

    How India Reduced the Cost of Cataract Lenses and Restored Millions of Eyesight

    In the 1970s, India was facing a silent epidemic of cataract blindness. Millions of elderly people were losing their eyesight, not because treatment was unavailable, but because it was unaffordable. Cataract surgery required replacing the cloudy natural lens with a clear artificial intraocular lens (IOL). At that time, these lenses were imported and cost nearly 100 US dollars each, far beyond the reach of poor patients.

    At the center of the solution was a remarkable man, Dr. Govindappa Venkataswamy, lovingly known as Dr. V.

  • 17 January 2026
    When Pills Talk Back: Inside MIT’s Swallowable Technology That Could Transform Medication Adherence
    For decades, one of medicines most stubborn challenges hasnt been discovering new drugs, its making sure patients actually take them. Missed doses, delayed schedules, and incomplete treatments quietly undermine even the most advanced therapies, contributing to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths and billions of dollars in healthcare costs every year.
  • 30 December 2025
    Pharmaceutical acquisition and mergers of 2025

    The year 2025 marked a strong revival in pharmaceutical mergers and acquisitions, as global drug makers moved firmly to strengthen pipelines, manage upcoming patent expiries, and secure sustainable growth. Several high-value and strategically important deals defined the year, reflecting renewed confidence in the sector. Major pharmaceutical companies pursued acquisitions not just for scale, but for access to late-stage assets, innovative technologies, and high-growth therapeutic areas.

  • 17 December 2025
    Kopulan Strips-for Sublingual Administration of Active

    Vinay KumarVinay Kumar Singh. 
    Head-Formulation
    Kumar Organic Products Research Centre Pvt. Ltd.,
    Bengaluru
    Email : formulation_krc@kopresearchcentre.net

  • 9 December 2025
    How a Japanese “next-generation gel” might reshape the future of medicine
    In everyday life we know gels like jelly, tofu, or soft contact lenses. But now, a Tokyo-based biotech startup claims to have developed a radical new kind of gel called tetra gel, that could transform the landscape of modern medicine.
  • 5 December 2025
    How influenza viruses enter our cells

    Fever, aching limbs and a runny nose – as winter returns, so too does the flu. The disease is triggered by influenza viruses, which enter our body through droplets and then infect cells.

    Researchers from Switzerland and Japan have now investigated this virus in minute detail. Using a microscopy technique that they developed themselves, the scientists can zoom in on the surface of human cells in a Petri dish. For the first time, this has allowed them to observe live and in high resolution how influenza viruses enter a living cell.

  • 27 November 2025
    Europe’s HIV Crisis: Over Half of Diagnoses Still Come Too Late, Undermining “End AIDS by 2030” Goal
    A new surveillance report for 2023 which was published in 2024, by ECDC and WHO/Europe reveals that across the WHO European Region, more than half of people newly diagnosed with HIV are identified at a late stage of infection. This pattern persists despite expanded testing efforts and renewed focus on prevention.
  • 24 November 2025
    Rising Demand for Public Health Managers in Maharashtra: NHM Jalgaon Announces New Opportunities

    Maharashtra’s urban healthcare ecosystem continues to expand under the National Health Mission (NHM) and the 15th Finance Commission. Urban primary health services have been receiving increased attention as cities work to strengthen disease surveillance, improve community-based health programs, and modernize municipal health facilities.

  • 24 September 2025
    Think Health, Think Pharmacist
    In meeting the goal of a healthy society, medicines play a crucial role in diagnosis, treatment, mitigation and prevention of diseases. The quality, potency and safetyaspects of modern allopathic medicines are the most important factors for enjoying utmost benefits and avoidingpotential untoward effects on health and life of mankind.The modern medicines are potent and their indiscriminate use can devastate health and life.
  • 20 September 2025
    CRISPR and Gene Editing: Opportunities and Ethical Dilemmas in Pharma
    In recent years, the world of medicine and pharmaceuticals has been transformed by a breakthrough technology called CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing. CRISPR is like a pair of molecular scissors that allows scientists to cut DNA at precise locations and then modify it.
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