'Please message Dad': How a son’s tech fix for his father’s cataract struggles led to three job offersAn Indian developer has created an open-source voice tool enabling visually impaired individuals to control Android phones using voice comm...
28 Aug, 2025, 02.59 PM IST
Practo appoints Jagnoor Singh as COOPracto has appointed Jagnoor Singh as its new COO to boost growth and refine processes. With 16 years of experience at top firms, Singh wil...
18 Feb, 2025, 12.21 PM IST
Dr Agarwal's Healthcare IPO share allotment likely today: Check status, listing date and other detailsDr Agarwal's Healthcare IPO, subscribed just over 1.4 times, will finalize its share allotment later today. Investors can check allotment s...
03 Feb, 2025, 07.46 AM IST
Dr Agarwal’s Health Care raises Rs 875 crore from anchor investors ahead of IPODr Agarwal's Health Care has raised Rs 875 crore from anchor investors in anticipation of its IPO on January 29. Allocated at Rs 402 per sh...
28 Jan, 2025, 10.37 PM IST
Banks mull options on using iris scans for verifying transactionsThe banks are in talks with Reserve Bank of India (RBI) among stakeholders, for using iris scans as ageing has been found to distort finger...
19 Apr, 2024, 11.50 PM IST
Fear of losing eyesight, painful procedure, or long recovery period: Why 50 per cent of patients in India delay cataract surgeriesAffordability and cost of the surgery ranks last in the decision making process.
28 Jun, 2022, 08.10 PM IST
Amitabh Bachchan undergoes second eye surgery after a 14-day recoveryBig B thanked his doctor and called the surgeries a 'life changing experience'.
15 Mar, 2021, 11.30 AM IST
Surgeons in ancient India could conduct cataract, plastic surgery: NaiduIndia's vice president said that surgeons, scientists, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, metallurgists, astronomers and a number of inn...
21 May, 2018, 06.40 PM IST
Implants in repeat knee surgeries can cost as much as Rs 9 lakh: Pricing RegulatorA revision knee surgery requires a completely different implant and instrument set, according to companies that manufacture knee implants.
10 Aug, 2017, 01.02 AM IST
NGOs, social sector companies bank on innovationDisruption has spread across several levels to address challenges of cost, hiring, scale of operations and the issue being addressed. Strat...
20 Jun, 2017, 10.52 AM IST
Sun Pharma launches first branded drug BromSite in USThe launch marks Sun Pharma’s entry into the branded drugs business in the US, a segment that many generic drug companies are targeting as ...
28 Nov, 2016, 08.43 PM IST
- Eyecare 0.3 per cent prevalence of blindness by 2020
Prevalence of blindness in India was estimated to be one per cent currently and the goal to achieve 0.3 per cent would be reached by 2020.
11 Mar, 2013, 05.07 PM IST
Insurers gear up for collective bargaining, to ask hospitals to cut treatment costsThe total health insurance market is around Rs 13,000 crore, of which the state-owned companies’ share.
04 Jan, 2013, 11.27 AM IST
- Smaller hospitals invest in high-end medical equipment, technology
Small specialty hospitals are acquiring latest equipment and technology, investing a significant portion of their annual sales in a single ...
09 Jan, 2012, 05.06 AM IST
- APJ Abdul Kalam: Set up vision to cater to rural patients
Former President Dr A P J Abdul Kalam suggested the setting up of vision centers and mobile eye clinics by all the eye care centres, which ...
15 Oct, 2011, 09.52 PM IST
- Nova Medical to raise $50 million
Ambulatory or same- day surgery provider Nova Medical is raising fresh capital of $50 million to expand its network of surgeries in the cou...
19 Sep, 2011, 02.42 AM IST
- Pacetronix to diversify into implantable devices
The company is also working with DAE to develop hi-tech lasers for medical implant welding and therapeutic use.
15 Dec, 2006, 07.20 PM IST