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Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry Coimbatore (ICCIC) had recently organised a meeting of heads of different hospitals and various stakeholders to work out possible ways of a ‘Helicopter Emergency Medical Service System’ for the city.

Varian Medical Systems and Siemens Healthcare have signed a strategic global partnership to provide advanced diagnostic and therapeutic solutions and services for treating cancer with image-guided radiotherapy and radiosurgery

The UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon is on an official visit to India and participated in discussions with the Ghulam Nabi Azad, Union Minister for Health & Family Welfare. Taking this opportunity Azad highlighted the progress of healthcare in India by taking up key health issues and tracking its performance.

One of Asia’s largest stem cell banking network CordLife has announced Shilpa Shetty as its new brand ambassador. As a would be mom, Shilpa Shetty not only wants to store her baby’s stem cells with CordLife but also would be actively involved in creating awareness among the would be parents on the importance of stem cell banking.

The Union Cabinet has approved the implementation of a joint venture programme on ‘Department of Biotechnology – Wellcome Trust R&D for affordable Healthcare in India’ along with establishing of a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) to be operated as an independent not-for-profit Section-25 Company to deliver the programme.

The team at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Molecular Parasitology has gained new insight into a specific protein within the parasite responsible for the disease, which could help in the design of new parasite-specific drugs.

The panel debated on various aspects leading to identifying some of the possible solutions to making universal access to healthcare a reality. The panel agreed that controlling drug prices alone would not ensure effective access to healthcare solution.

India and Kuwait have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on bilateral medical cooperation to boost healthcare, a government statement said.

Having developed Mana, Gene Research Foundation plans to set up an R&D and manufacturing unit for DNA Gene Therapy and commercialise it further. The company plans to invest Rs 300 crore through internal accruals and strategic investments.

According to the report Venture Capital (VC) funding in the healthcare information technology (HIT) sector continued on a strong positive trend that started in the third quarter of 2011. VC funding in Q1 2012 was $184 million in 27 deals, the highest number of deals ever recorded.