India to ban mobile phone ads showing children, pregnant women
New guidelines have been drafted by the Indian government banning advertisements showing children and pregnant women.
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CIGNA Reaches across borders to improve healthcare
CIGNA is supporting a program that is searching the world for solutions to improving health care. The Global Knowledge Exchange Network (GKEN) was created through an unrestricted grant from the CIGNA Foundation to the Wye River Group on Healthcare (WRGH), a non-partisan group known as a catalyst for constructive health care change.
Eastern Europe explores PFI for medical imaging
Public hospitals in Eastern Europe are exploring private finance service (PFI) approaches to enable them to invest in medical imaging equipment.
Jharkhand plans e-health network
Patients in remote villages of Jharkhand will soon have access to specialists without having to travel long distances for an examination.
Private DNA bank launched in India
A human DNA Bank was established by an Indian biotechnology firm director in northern city Lucknow recently. This is Asia’s only and the world’s second human DNA Bank.
GE moves US$ 17 bln healthcare business to Turkey
In what analysts see as a major vote of confidence for the Turkish economy, General Electric (GE) has decided to move all managing operations in the eastern and African growth markets (EAGM) to İstanbul.
Wipro, Cognizant among largest healthcare IT providers in US
Nasdaq-listed Cognizant Technology Solutions, which has major operations in India, and Bangalore-based Wipro Technologies has been ranked among the 100 largest healthcare IT providers in the US.
Mirrus opens research and development centre in India
A CBay Group company Mirrus Systems recently announced the inauguration of its first India R&D centre here with an initial investment of US$ 1.5 million and also plans to ramp up its headcount to 1,000 by 2010.
Neon Healthcare ties with US based Hayes Lab
Neon Healthcare and Research Institute Ltd of India has signed an agreement with US-based pathological lab Hayes Lab for outsourcing in the healthcare space.
IBM releases another piece of its Healthcare 2015 initiative
How healthcare providers deliver care is going to change in the future. That’s the message from Armonk-based IBM Corp. in the latest study from its “Healthcare 2015” initiative.
Pvt hospitals to cross-subsidise treatment cost
Union Finance Minister P Chidambaram has urged private hospitals to cross-subsidise treatment cost, saying government alone could not meet the requirement of poor patients.
First state in India to have baby screening
Goa on Saturday became the first state in the country to have mandatory screening of new born babies to diagnose them from untreated metabolic disorders.
Launch of Stimulus Simplicity program by GE
To help doctors and medical centers adopt electronic medical records (EMRs) more efficiently, GE Healthcare and GE Capital have jointly launched the Stimulus Simplicity program.
