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  • A health exchange portal called Zigy.com was launched by former iGate CEO Phaneesh Murthy-founded PM Health and Life Care (PMHLC) on August 24. Zigy.com connects patients requiring health products and services with doctors, hospitals, chemists, diagnostic labs and also provides wellness products and services, insurance, home-care services and alternative medicines. However, Zigy does not allow patients to order medicines without a genuine prescription. Zigy.com is availabe as a website and a mobile app as well.

  • 28 August 2015
    Maternal and Neonatal Tetanus has been eliminated from India: PM

    The Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi inaugurated the two-day “Call to Action Summit-2015-ending preventable child and maternal deaths”, organized by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India and the Ministry of Health, Government of Ethiopia.

  • In the wake of announcement made by Union Health Minister, Shri J. P. Nadda to develop a policy mechanism and address the institutional gaps to promote organ donation, Shri B P Sharma, Secretary (Health and Family Welfare) took a meeting to consider further steps for accelerating the Organ Transplant Programme of the Ministry. Apart from senior officers of the Ministry, technical experts including senior doctors from the Government and the private sector took part in the meeting.

  • 28 August 2015
    A new technique to make drugs more soluble

    Before Ibuprofen can relieve your headache, it has to dissolve in your bloodstream. The problem is Ibuprofen, in its native form, isn’t particularly soluble.  Its rigid, crystalline structures - the molecules are lined up like soldiers at roll call - make it hard to dissolve in the bloodstream. To overcome this, manufacturers use chemical additives to increase the solubility of Ibuprofen and many other drugs, but those additives also increase cost and complexity.

  • 28 August 2015
    Global Expansion: Opportunities in the U.S for Indian Companies

    (Business Wire India); Brickwork India, the India representative of Fairfax County Economic Development Authority (FCEDA) organized the seminar on Global Expansion in Bangalore on July 23rd 2015. The seminar, conducted with the Indo-American Chamber of Commerce (IACC), highlighted the business opportunities in Fairfax County, Virginia – just outside Washington, DC – for Indian firms with IT services and solutions for the Cloud Computing, Big Data Analytics and Defence and Aerospace domains.

  • A new study has revealed that more older adults especially from the higher strata of the society are drinking alcohol at unsafe levels. The study findings suggest that one in five older people who drink alcohol are consuming it at unsafe levels, over 21 units of alcohol for men and 14 units for women each week. The researchers found that older men were more likely to be unsafe drinkers than women. The research was published in BMJ Open.

  • Researchers at the Assiut University Hospital, Egypt, have revealed a method to reduce the frequency of night time bed-wetting and improve the quality of life for sufferers. They suggest that repetitive sacral root magnetic stimulation (rSMS) can successfully reduce the frequency of night time bed-wetting. The findings were published in Restorative Neurology and Neuroscience.

  • A new study found 100,000 cases that aggressive interventions to treat the earliest stage of the cancers have no effect on whether a woman is alive a decade later. According to the researchers, the overall risk of dying after being diagnosed with early cancer lesions was 3.3% over two decades, and that pursuing treatment beyond a lumpectomy did not affect survival. The findings were published in the journal JAMA Oncology.

  • Ajanta Pharma, a Rs. 1,450 crore plus Mumbai based pharma major, has received the third largest wealth creator award from Fortune India. Fortune India has published list of 500 mid-size companies and ranked them on various parameters based on the results of 2013-14. Similarly, Ajanta Pharma ranked tenth on return on capital employed, 21st in net profit and 182nd in sales.

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  • US soldiers who served in the glaring desert sunlight of Iraq and Afghanistan returned home with an increased risk of skin cancer, due not only to the arid climate, but also a lack of sun protection, a new study has found. "The past decade of United States combat missions, including operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have occurred at a more equatorial latitude than the mean centre of the US population, increasing the potential for ultraviolet irradiance and the development of skin cancer," said dermatologist Jennifer Powers from the Vanderbilt University Medical Centre in Nashville, Tennessee.

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