18-Sep-17 Leading Indian e-pharmacy company 1mg is supporting the Drugs Consultative Committee's recommendation that all e-pharmacies be registered with a national portal monitoring online sales of drugs and geographical restrictions on operations. [image: VC Circle]

17-Aug-17 Metropolis Healthcare, a global chain of pathology labs and diagnostic centres, has announced a plan to invest INR1 bn (USD15 mn) to open 20 laboratories and add 1,000 collection centres pan India, including in cities like Mumbai, Chennai and Delhi. [image: Metropolis]

17-Aug-17 India's Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority exercised its emergency powers to reduce knee implant prices by as much as 69%, instead of waiting for them to be included in the List of Essential Medicines as it did on stents. [image: ET Healthworld / BCCL]

16-Aug-17 The Indian city of Amaravati will be home to the headquarters of the Indo UK Institute of Health. The proposal to set up 11 UK Indo institutes for Health involves an investment of INR17,600 crore (USD 2.7 bn). [image: The Indian Express]

14-Aug-17 A healthcare-focused partnership between City University London and the Indian Institute of Technology is looking to secure health devices using blockchain technology and will use "blockchain architecture... to provide greater security for the healthare devices,” said Professor Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. [image: Internet Of Business]