Mumbai: The Piramal group, promoted by Ajay Piramal, will launch a health care fund in early 2009, nearly 15 months after plans were first revealed.



“Though the size of the fund is yet to be finalized, we are almost ready with the design and infrastructure to launch the fund by early 2009,” chairman Ajay Piramal said.



Piramal Group chairman Ajay Piramal says investors are confident about the new fund as the pharma and health care sectors are relatively less… Continue

The Internet and social networking, pay-for-performance, the economic crisis and conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10 disease code sets are among the top issues facing healthcare in 2009, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers Health Industries Group.



In its annual review of the top concerns for health executives and policymakers released earlier this month, global research and consulting firm PwC says the healthcare industry will face many challenges in the year ahead, including how to deal… Continue

PHILIPS has recently unveiled its digital pathology solution.

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Diagnostic-For-All (DFA) is a non-profit enterprise that seeks to deliver affordable point-of-care diagnostic solutions to the global medical community. Based on patent-pending technology developed in George Whitesides' laboratory at Harvard University, DFA's offering will serve as a platform for simple, portable, low-cost, and easy-to-dispose diagnostic tools for patients in developing countries.



Millions of people are dying around the world because they cannot access… Continue