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Ranjan Pai is among India’s most influential investors. So, when he makes a move into senior care, it is time to sit up and take notice of the sector, not to mention the broader grey economy.
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Dilip Shanghvi , founder, chairman and managing director, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Limited. Synopsis Selling weight-loss drugs is an opportunity no pharma company wants to miss. Now a leading drug maker from India joins this bandwagon. Trust Sun Pharma boss Dilip Shanghvi to be at the cutting-edge of research. After building a band of specialty drugs
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Sarah McMullen, USFDA India director Synopsis In the past, many within the Indian pharma industry looked at US FDA audits as motivated and a larger conspiracy against it. But this senior official, who heads the Indian operations of the US FDA, and will soon move to China, worked with Indian pharma companies to slowly change
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Image credit: Compiled by Manali Ghosh via AI Synopsis Advent controlled-BSV has charted an exceptional turnaround over the last five years, seeing a 3x jump in its valuation. Its specialised products in women’s health and a robust research pipeline makes it a cynosure of all eyes. As the bidding race to buy BSV intensifies, ET
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Sudhir Srivastava (centre) with his expanding team at SS Innovations; image credit: SS Innovations Synopsis In an exclusive interaction with ET Prime, cardiac surgeon Sudhir Prem Srivastava, the man behind 1,500 successful robotic surgeries, discusses his eventful journey. He details the concept, design and instrumentation of five-armed Mantra, the robotic surgery system, and the dire
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Japanese researchers are soon embarking on human clinical trials for a medicine that will help regrow teeth.
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Shares of Sun Pharmaceuticals, India’s largest drug manufacturer, gained more than 50% over the last one year. In its latest results, the company also posted a 34% on year jump in Q4 profit. While the stock did decline slightly this week, pharma analysts are positive on the stock as the company has shown growth across
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Credit: illustration by Sadhana Saxena via Ai Synopsis Something as cool as a J-Labs can be a welcome step. From fear of failing, scientists can look at the opportunities of scaling. On its part, the government had proposed an innovation-linked fund for new research ideas. But that may have a limited impact. For Andew Martinko,
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As per a recent report in The Lancet, the incidence of prostate cancer is expected to double in India over the next few years. A crucial weapon in averting a severe health catastrophe will be early detection. But before addressing the issue of testing, there’s a knotty ribbon problem to be solved.
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Rakesh Singh took on the tincture syndicate in Agra during his tenure as excise inspector between 2019-23; image credit: N Sundaresha Subramanian Synopsis A well-oiled syndicate of producers, wholesalers and retailers operating across several districts in UP, Bihar and other northern states had exploited a loophole in the 80-year-old law to sell cardamom-laced tinctures as
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