Contract research and manufacturing company Syngene International has had a fabulous run this year. Its stock price has risen over 40% since January amid robust growth and a positive outlook for the business. Syngene’s market capitalisation has reached INR33,000 crore, surpassing the INR32,600 crore market cap of its parent company [...]

Getty Images Synopsis The irreversible lung disease is affecting a large part of India’s population, especially the elderly. It is the biggest cause of mortality after heart ailments, while the rising number of cases reported among non-smokers in rural India raises an alarm. Veteran chest surgeon and lung-transplant specialist Arvind [...]

“When I started practice in India about 30 years ago, I would see a person under 30 years or between 30 and 35 years with some heart trouble only once or twice in a year. Now I see them every week.” This statement from India’s renowned heart surgeon Ramakant Panda [...]

Health workers wearing personal protective equipment (PPE) take part in a mock drill to check preparations of Covid-19 facilities at JLNM hospital in downtown Srinagar on April 10, 2023. Synopsis Analysing the factors that led to large-scale disruption during the second wave of the Covid-19 in 2021, a study has [...]

Yan Chow, global healthcare leader, Automation Anywhere Synopsis The healthcare industry is on the verge of a transformation due to the increasing demands and the challenges it faces. Historically, advances in healthcare technology benefited billing and regulatory entities. Doctors and nurses were often the last to adopt new tools. AI [...]

Getty Images Mark Cuban. Synopsis Most of the large Indian pharma companies earn a big chunk of their revenue by supplying drugs to the US market. Shark Tank attraction Cuban’s online pharmacy launched last year, which sources medicines directly from manufacturers, holds the promise of catalysing the US businesses of [...]

Cyriac Abby Philips, popular on X as Liverdoc, has waged an unyielding battle against alternative medicines like Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani and Siddha. This is a daunting task given the deep cultural belief, is and against the backdrop of the government’s strong support to the Ayurveda industry. Unsurprisingly, the Kerala-based hepatologist [...]

Liver specialist Cyriac Abby Philips says there are no approved medicines for treating NASH or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis. Synopsis November 14 was World Diabetes Day. With over 100 million patients, India is in the grip of a diabetes tsunami. In part two of his interview, liver specialist Cyriac Abby Philips says [...]

Cui Xiaotian, Zhao Jinzhao, Zhou Xinda, Hua Ang, Chengxi, Tan Chen, and Han Wei Liu Ping, a 25-year-old living in Beijing, is queuing up outside the obesity clinic of the Peking University People’s Hospital early one morning, seeking a doctor’s prescription for the so-called “skinny jab” — a weight loss [...]

Synopsis Improving financials of hospital chains, future growth prospects of the sector itself have attracted investors to hospital stocks. But while Apollo Hospitals and Max Healthcare led the gains post Covid-19, this calendar year Narayana Hrudayalaya has outperformed other major hospital stocks with a 72% rise in its share price. [...]