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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Everything about collaborative content online seems to be hot. The latest fad is news aggregation and collaborative filtering aka www.reddit.com it is a great concept, linked with custom feeds based on my clicks or recommendations i can read my own customized newspaper. I dont know enough of the technology behind this, but maybe a catchy […]
Interesting note on healthcare in Businss StandardManagement & Marketing The major concerns for Indians over the next 12 months are economy and health. Lack of adequate facilities in semi-urban and rural areas is making healthcare a bigger and more serious concern for consumers and this will surely affect the progress of the nation in future. […]
Airline Category: Other Location: Overall rating: 3 out of 5 Service rating: 3 out of 5 Value rating: 5 out of 5 If you ever take an air deccan flight make sure you have no meetings to make in the next few hours after landing. Actually make it the whole day. Dont plan anything for […]
Wireless Category: Other Provider: Sify Location: Airport Road Bangalore, KA India Has anyone testing this? Tags: wireless, wifi
International airfares to the United States have fallen about 20 percent as airlines prepare to fill their seats in the lean period. Return economy class fares between India and New York are down from Rs 38,000 to Rs 40,000 levels to Rs 31,500. Most leading airlines including Air-India, Lufthansa, Delta, Alitalia and American are offering […]
Is there a niche for open source tools in Clinical Data Management. Till date, this field has been monopolised by the likes of Oracle and Phase Forward or custom software. With stringent regulatory framework, and a highly closed industry, there are very few open source packages which have made any kind of inroads into this […]