Poor migrants move to other rural areas, relatively well-off to urban, finds studyA study found that 78% of all individuals from rural Bihar went to an urban destination. However, those belonging to the top of the social ...
Take up walking & cycling; physical activities can reduce risk of death from liver cirrhosisMuscle-strengthening exercises can cut the risk of liver diseases and its complications.
Fertility rate below replacement level for all but Hindus & MuslimsThe average number of children born to a woman over her lifetime, or total fertility rate (TFR), has dropped below replacement for all reli...
GST may not impact essential drugs stockRecently, pharma research firm, AIOCD Awacs which tracks seven lakh chemists, also said it did not foresee shortages at the consumer level.
IMS Health-Quintiles Transnational deal gets Competition Commission nodIMS Health is a global IT services company that provides healthcare companies with solutions to measure and improve their performance.
India loses 12 billion dollar in GDP to vitamin, mineral deficienciesAccording to the report titled 'Nutrition in India', stunting in children, between six to 24 months of age, can be reduced significantly.
Job of the Week: BiostatisticianBiostatistics is the science of obtaining, analysing and interpreting data using statistical theory and methods to address problems in biol...
Economic Survey 2013: Reach of LPG subsidies highly unequalSubsidies should be well targeted at the poor, Economic Survey 2012-13 says.
Clinical Research: Medical professionals chart new careers with labs, hone business acumen and managerial skillsThe clinical research division at Fortis Healthcare, also plans to hire more medical professionals next year.
- Create a more stable regulatory environment: Quintiles
Quintiles seeks stable regulatory environment and regulatory certainty to ensure growth of the Indian contract research organizations (CRO)...
In India, if there's element of doubt then you are seen as guilty: Dennis Gillings, CEO, Quintiles"We and our customers are nervous about the climate of clinical research in India, and we are not expanding and pausing to see how things g...
- Graft on the rise, politicians, police most corrupt: Survey
64 per cent Indians bribed police for one reason or the other while 55 per cent felt that the Government was ineffective in fighting corrup...
Mumbai overtakes Bangalore, emerges as top biotech cityMumbai outpaced Bangalore, with a margin of about Rs 200 crore, to become India's top biotech city in terms of revenue.
- Samsung Group, Quintiles to form drug venture
Samsung Electronics, the world's biggest manufacturer of flat screen televisions and computer memory chips, will hold 40 per cent of the ve...
- Inclusive growth & regional disparity
Governance and inclusive growth are the two key terms that are finding more and more emphasis among policymakers today.
Understanding consumer India betterWhile consultants and companies advise investing in India based on the current and projected size of the middle class, the bogey of the def...
- Goans richer than other Indians
Goans have more wealth than their counterparts in other states. This was discovered by the National Family Health Survey 3.