Great article this week from Natasha Singer of the New York Times about how TEVA (meaning “nature”), a one time small Israeli pharma start-up, is taking the generic meds market by storm.

Posted By Manish Rathi (Manish Rathi is an Indian Engineer currently employed by GlobalLogic, and she blogs about various topics  in India like IT, software adoption, and, of course, health.  He chimes in here with his thoughts on the current state of healthcare in India.) Over the last few months, I have had an opportunity [...]

See the following article for GE’s CEO Jeff Immelt comment as he bets more on opportunities in healthcare in India (GE bets big on India, to double revenue). When asked about the attractiveness of India vis-a‘-vis China to do business, Immelt favoured India. Particularly in the healthcare sector, he said, India offers better environment as [...]

From Business Standard: Medical trade mission to come to India in March 2010 The US Department of Commerce plans to take a ‘Medical Trade Mission’, comprising top American medical and healthcare industry manufacturers, to India in March 2010, targetting a major chunk of the fast expanding Indian health care market. […] During their week-long trip [...]

In India, the recent swine flu epidemic has dramatically increased sales of hand sanitizers.  From Express India: H1N1 raises hygiene levels, hand sanitisers vanish off shelves Over the past week, demand for antiseptic hand wash has doubled and manufacturers are finding it hard to cater to the demand. “We are running out of stocks across [...]

Posted By Damjan DeNoble Cool post by Madhu Rao , 2008 professor of the year at Albers School of Business and Economics at Seattle University, describing an Executive Diabetic Health Check at India’s Wockhardt Hospital.  Mr. Rao’s parents ‘gift’ him with this health check as a birthday surprise.  At first confused by his parents’ choice, [...]

India’s Ministry of Tourism (MoT) released more details on its planned support of the country’s medical tourism industry.  Coupled with the fact that Dr. Sanjay Gupta plugged the potential benefits of medical tourism for uninsured Americans on CNN today, this has been a pretty good day for the industry. Three weeks ago, I wrote about [...]