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Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Tata Capital Healthcare Fund (TCHF) is planning to increase the ticket size of each of its investments to around $25 million, from $10-18 million currently, the private equity (PE) fund’s managing partner Visalakshi Chandramouli said, as demand for healthcare in the world's fifth-largest economy grows. The fund is also betting on domestic pharmaceutical companies that target global markets.

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non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, thyroid, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer's remain a growing challenge due to reliance on expensive, reactive care, healthcare experts suggest building a community healthcare system and ‘operating at scale’ in rural and urban areas to help India pave the way to Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Swami Subramaniam, Physician Scientist, and Aparajithan Srivathsan, hospital strategist, spoke to ET on the sidelines of a discussion of their new book in which the duo has proposed seven principles to make UHC a reality in the country. Underlining some of the challenges in the current system, the book highlighted that “Primary healthcare in its current form is in its death throes. For its revival, it should be transformed into a new version called Comprehensive Health Care.” To strengthen the community healthcare system, India needs to think beyond traditional methods and “apply industrial concepts,” Srivathsan said, while adding, “Currently, ASHA workers, though involved in project-based interventions, are not equipped for continuous monitoring, as non-communicable diseases require long-term, consistent care. Therefore, a dedicated cadre of trained health workers is essential, and NGOs are stepping in to fill this gap."

MoU with Bengaluru-based Ajit Isaac Foundation (AIF) to provide assistance in setting up and launching palliative care centres in India. These centres aim to provide “compassionate, dignified care to terminally ill patients in underserved regions in India, along with training and supporting community-based caregivers,” the parties said in a statement. AIF will establish a 63-bed Palliative Care Centre in Tumkur–neighbouring Bengaluru by early next year. This Centre will serve as the foundation for the JHU-AIF collaboration, which aims to design and implement comprehensive training programmes in palliative care, offered both online and offline, with mentorship support for staff. “JHU will help in developing a research fellowship and designing curriculum. Additionally, AIF and JHU will jointly host workshops and conferences, both in India and internationally, to showcase the latest advancements in palliative care, fostering knowledge exchange and the adoption of best practices,” AIF said in a statement.

Shanghai Composite posting their biggest single-day losses since Oct. 9, dragged down by big tech firms' disappointing earnings and investors' fears over U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's future policies on China. The Shanghai Composite index closed 3.06% lower at 3,267.19.

Thousands of University of California workers on Wednesday began a two-day strike to protest what they say are unfair bargaining tactics by the university system

The Alberta government has appointed former prime minister Stephen Harper as the new chair of AIMCo, less than two weeks after ousting the fund’s board of directors and its chief executive.

Manipur government on Wednesday extended suspension of mobile internet services for three more days in seven districts, according to an order. Amid escalating violence, the administration suspended the services on November 16 for two days to prevent anti-social elements from spreading content that might create law and order problems. It had been extended for two more days on Monday. «The state government after reviewing the prevailing law and order situation decided to continue suspension of mobile internet… services in the territorial jurisdiction of Imphal West, Imphal East, Kakching, Bishnupur, Thoubal, Churachandpur and Kangpokpi of Manipur for another three days,» it said.

Android 16 introduces several key features, including an embedded photo picker, allowing users to share specific images or videos with apps rather than granting access to their entire media library. This change enhances user privacy by limiting exposure of personal data.Another significant update is to Google’s Health Connect platform.

President-elect Donald Trump says he is nominating Dr. Mehmet Oz, who hosted a long-running television talk show, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services

Estate planning is one of those tasks that makes almost any other job look appealing, no matter how lowly

Theranautilus, which develops nanorobotic solutions for healthcare, has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Pi Ventures. The funding round also saw participation from Golden Sparrow Ventures and angel investors including Lalit Keshre, CEO of Groww, and Abhishek Goyal, founder and CEO of Tracxn. With the new funds, Theranautilus, incubated at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), plans to establish an International Organisation for Standardisation (ISO)-certified manufacturing facility to commercialise nanorobotics-based medical devices, initially focusing on dental care applications and filing new international patents.

healthcare industry is expected to step up spending on cybersecurity, with hospitals currently allocating 8–10% of their IT budgets for hiring experts and deploying tools to prevent cyberattacks. According to a Deloitte India analysis, this will increase to 12–15% in the next two years– from a reactive to a proactive cybersecurity readiness. Unlike the financial services sector, healthcare has been slower in adopting digital technologies. However, recent data breaches and rising cyber threats have prompted large hospital chains and their board members to prioritise patient data protection highlighted the ‘Cyber Resilience in Hospitals’ report by Deloitte and the Data Security Council of India (DSCI). While the Indian healthcare system is valued at $66 billion and projected to surpass $100 billion by 2027 cyber readiness and digital infrastructure needs to be developed. Nearly 60% of healthcare organisations globally suffered a cyberattack in 2023, according to a study by Sophos, earlier reported by ET. This includes India's top institutions such as the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) and the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) wherein the personal data of over 81.5 million Indians was compromised and found for sale on the dark web.

While all the resolutions proposed at the company's 10 July AGM passed, 20% of shareholders cast votes against motions to re-elect Doug McCutcheon and Sven Borho as directors of the company.  In a London Stock Exchange notice issued on Friday (15 November), the board acknowledged that some shareholders had doubted McCutcheon's independence due to his length of service on the board, totalling 11 years.  IA denies House of Lords claims of conspiratorial nature in members meeting about cost disclosure Similarly, Borho's other role as a managing partner at OrbiMed Capital, the trust's ...

ICICI Pru Equity Minimum Variance Fund, Shriram Multi Sector Rotation Fund, and Bandhan Nifty 200 Quality 30 Index Fund are open for subscription. PGIM India Healthcare Fund, Franklin India Long Duration Fund, Mirae Asset Long Duration Fund, Edelweiss CRISIL IBX AAA Financial Services — Jan 2028 Index Fund, HDFC Nifty India Digital Index Fund, and Axis Momentum Fund will open for subscription later this week. Among these nine funds, three thematic funds, two index funds and long duration funds, one sectoral fund and a target maturity fund will open for subscription this week.

Aniruddha Naha, CIO-Alternates, PGIM India Asset Management, says this year is probably the year to build portfolios and not expect too much in terms of absolute returns. PGIM would cautiously continue to build portfolios over a period of time. But in the near term, we do not see the markets bouncing back in a large way. Naha further says that a 5-10% correction from here into capital goods would make it very interesting. Plus, there is reasonable value in largecap financials, especially on the lending side. There is also value in segments like textiles, chemicals and agrochemicals, which have been beaten down over the last three years. Healthcare is something they are very confident in. Given the fact that markets have declined more than 10% from their recent peak, with all the major events behind us, how are you reading into the current markets and do you expect a recovery anytime soon or do you expect the markets to continue to lag for the next six months? Aniruddha Naha: Our view is probably the worst of earnings is through.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. Faced with slowing growth in core segments like test preparation and white-collar upskilling, edtech operators are eyeing allied healthcare servives and nursing skilling as the next big opportunity.

menopause has become an industry, with A-list celebrities speaking out and cashing in with endorsements and products. Paltrow has an oral supplement called Madame Ovary. Actor Naomi Watts has Stripes, a wellness brand. Actor Judy Greer has a line of plant-based supplements, Wile. This is not just a bunch of women channelling experience into entrepreneurship. The global menopause market hit $15.4 billion in 2021 and is projected to reach $24.4 billion by 2030, according to Grand View Research. Earlier this year, former Bond girl Halle Berry yelled: “I’m in menopause.” For something usually talked about sotto voce, if at all, this is a step up. Menopause is having a moment—and not just globally. Closer home, menopause— peri or otherwise—is being demystified by pro-age influencers and dispensed via those bite-sized panacea to all our problems: Reels.

C Rangarajan said on Friday. Speaking at the ICFAI Foundation for Higher Education (IFHE), Rangarajan stressed on the importance of «ensuring efficient fund utilisation before increasing healthcare spending.» «In India, there is a consistent discussion on raising healthcare expenditure to at least 2.8 per cent of the GDP. However, current data indicates that we are spending only about 1.8 or 1.9 per cent of the GDP,» he said. «Governments should increase healthcare spending, focus on establishing hospitals that offer free services, and ensure these funds are utilised efficiently.» The former chairman of the PM's Economic Advisory Council stated that education and health are crucial for accelerating the country's progress. «However, in India's social expenditure system, more resources are allocated to education than to health, which may not be the ideal approach.»

«In our region, less than one in three adults with diabetes are on treatment and less than 15 per cent of people living with the condition have it under control. »The lack of readiness in our primary healthcare systems in terms of standard management protocol, availability of essential medicines, issues related to availability and affordability of quality diagnostics, and trained healthcare professionals need to be remedied immediately," the WHO regional director said.