Archive for March, 2006

PM Taskforce on Health

Some of these things really p*** me off. Why is everyone harping about low cost healthcare for the world?? Now even our prime minister. What are we, the “low cost everything” capital of the world. Please.
How about something orginal. How about “Best healthcare system” in the world, how about creating a healthcare system like [...]

Venturing into the unknown – Express Pharma

Venturing into the unknown – Express Pharma
Less VC, more PE
The recent years have witnessed a decrease in Venture Capital (VC) funding in the pharma and biotech space and an increase in Private Equity (PE). PE is the capital acquired by a company to fund its expansion activities when a company reaches the growth stage. Timmy [...]

Genetic disorders on the rise .:. NewKerala – India’s Top Online Newspaper

Genetic disorders on the rise .:. NewKerala – India’s Top Online Newspaper says
Genetic Disorders are “enormous” in rural India and proper therapy for genetic problems is the need of the hour, Dr L Singh, Director of Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, said.
Inaugurating a one-day Indo-Australian symposim on “Pharmacogenomics” here today,he said 5,000 [...]

HIV/AIDS in India

Shocking facts,
A. Out of five million HIV/AIDS victims, only 65K are under treatment!
B. Fourty percent of patients are women.
More from IANS
Out of the five million HIV/AIDS population, only an estimated 65,000 people are taking medical help. While 25,000 are getting treatment in public hospitals and 10,000 are under the guidance of NGOs. Around 30,000 are [...]