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Blood components in India: collections, processing and safety

Posted on December 8, 2009

A recent Clearstate study found nascent but growing demand for platelet aphaeresis in India, driven by disease outbreaks, procedural demand and clinician awareness. Blood banking infrastructure: India maintains a heterogeneous system of blood banks run by government, private hospitals and independent organisations. There are about 2600 blood banks in India. Roughly one-third of all blood [...]

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Primary-care in China

Posted on August 11, 2009

Outlined in the 2009 China Healthcare Reform Plan as the key emphasis and development area for the next 3 years, the Chinese urban primary healthcare is a rapidly growing market segment and offers vast opportunities to healthcare suppliers and distributors in China Primary healthcare facilities concept, better known as Community Health Centers (CHC) and Community [...]

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Urology services in China: a brief market profile

Posted on August 3, 2009

Urology is a rather developed specialization in China with many universities and hospitals’ undertaking extensive research in this field. The level of technological advancement is also increasing with more hospitals now able to do robotic surgery. There are an estimated number of at least 2000 urologists in China, and almost all of them are trained [...]

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New elephant on the block- India Biotech

Posted on May 27, 2009

These are exciting times for the Indian biotechnology industry. The industry has doubled in size within the last two years buoyed by a strong growth in biotech exports. In the year 2006-07, it passed the USD 2 billion mark in revenues and registered a 31% growth rate as compared to the fiscal year of 2005-06. [...]

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