Translumina to set up Asia's largest heart valve facility at AMTZ Vizag

The facility at the Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone is expected to be completed by Dec 2022

U.S. FDA grants De Novo Clearance for Philips IVC filter removal laser sheath

Philips’s CavaClear is intended to safely ablate tissue to remove embedded IVC filters

U.S. FDA approves Novartis Leqvio to lower cholestrol

With two maintenance doses a year, Leqvio is the first and only FDA-approved small interfering RNA (siRNA) therapy for LDL-C (bad cholesterol) reduction1

A 39-year-old patient with Covid-19 was saved with ECMO support

Patient with acute Covid-19 infection treated at BGS Gleneagles Global Hospital

Astra Zeneca’s antibody combination to prevent Covid-19 neutralises Omicron variant

The study was performed independently by investigators at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research

Six benefits of Cloud Computing in the pharma industry

ICMR Dibrugarh designs kit to detect Omicron variant in two hours

GCC Biotech is manufacturing the kits on a public-private partnership (PPP) model

Moderna announces positive interim Phase 1 data for mRNA flu vaccine

Phase 1 study of quadrivalent flu vaccine (mRNA-1010) successfully boosted titers against all four strains in older and younger adults, even at lowest dose; no significant safety concerns were observed

Medicago and GSK’s plant based Covid-19 vaccine candidate show promise in Phase 3 trials

Primary endpoints and secondary endpoints for which data are available were met in trial dominated by Covid-19 variants

Anaemia due to iron deficiency is a cause for concern in India

According to a survey conducted by FOGSI last year, 92% of the doctors opined that anaemia due to iron deficiency can be eradicated in five years