17-Aug-17 India's Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority exercised its emergency powers to reduce knee implant prices by as much as 69%, instead of waiting for them to be included in the List of Essential Medicines as it did on stents. [image: ET Healthworld / BCCL]

16-Aug-17 The Indian city of Amaravati will be home to the headquarters of the Indo UK Institute of Health. The proposal to set up 11 UK Indo institutes for Health involves an investment of INR17,600 crore (USD 2.7 bn). [image: The Indian Express]

14-Aug-17 A healthcare-focused partnership between City University London and the Indian Institute of Technology is looking to secure health devices using blockchain technology and will use "blockchain architecture... to provide greater security for the healthare devices,” said Professor Muttukrishnan Rajarajan. [image: Internet Of Business]

10-Aug-17 Indian drug price regulator NPPA found the average trade margins on various knee implants used in revision surgery to be as high as 277% after analysing available market data. [image: ET Healthworld]

09-Aug-17 Indian start-up Merkel Haptics has bagged a USD1 mn order from a Singapore-based company to transfer its clinical training technology that uses haptic feedback and virtual patients. The two products simulate how to perform IVF and Laparoscopy procedures. [image: ET Healthworld]