Pharma

Majority of the players in Pharma industry are exposed to cyber attacks: Nandakishore Harikumar, CEO & Founder, Technisanct – ET HealthWorld

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Majority of the players in Pharma industry are exposed to cyber attacks: Nandakishore Harikumar, CEO & Founder, Technisanct – ET HealthWorld

Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Nandakishore Harikumar – CEO & Founder, Technisanct, to know about the vulnerability of healthcare industry at the hands of cyber attackers. Trends in cyberattacks in the healthcare sector?Ransomware Attacks, DDoS were the popular types of attacks that impacted the Health Care Industry. Since the pandemic has started Health care … Read more

Not Just TRIPS Waiver, But Transfer of Know-How Also Required

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Not Just TRIPS Waiver, But Transfer of Know-How Also Required

Big pharma industries are not in favour of sharing the rights and know-how needed to produce vaccines, citing intellectual property pilferage concerns. Quick vaccination against COVID 19 is the only hope in ending the global pandemic which has claimed more than 3.4 million lives so far. A hindrance to mass production of vaccines is the … Read more

Bihar chalks out new plans for industrialisation, job creation

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Bihar chalks out new plans for industrialisation, job creation

The Nitish Kumar-led NDA government in Bihar has chalked out an ambitious industrial policy with a special focus on textile, food processing and ethanol production to counter the widespread criticism from the opposition- during the 2020 reverse migration in the wake of Covid pandemic- over lack of industrialisation and jobs in the state. With RJD … Read more

Five technology trends in the pharma industry – ET HealthWorld

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Five technology trends in the pharma industry – ET HealthWorld

By Hiren Dhuvad, Founder & CEO, Indigital Technologies Technology advancement has brought about a revolution in the medical industry and it has led to significant growth of the sector. Robust technology in the medical field is considered as the main pillar in the present times due to its effective role in delivering high-end and swift … Read more

Cyber attackers targeting pharma cos for Covid-19 data: Cyfirma – ET HealthWorld

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Cyber attackers targeting pharma cos for Covid-19 data: Cyfirma – ET HealthWorld

Cyber-attack campaigns originating from Russia, China, Korea, and the Middle East have been targeting pharmaceutical companies, among other organisations in India to steal Covid-19 vaccine research data, patient information, clinical trials data, supply chain and vaccine production information, Singapore-based security research firm Cyfirma has said. Apart from India, organisations in 12 other countries are also … Read more

Healthcare hit by 45% spike in e-virus cases – ET HealthWorld

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Healthcare hit by 45% spike in e-virus cases – ET HealthWorld

MUMBAI: It’s just not the novel coronavirus that is keeping pharma and healthcare honchos awake at night. Pharma companies, hospitals and healthcare firms are being increasingly hit by another lethal virus lately, and this one is from the virtual world. Researchers reported a 45% increase in cyberattacks on healthcare organisations worldwide between November and December. … Read more

Wockhardt jumps 10%, gains 49% over one month

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Wockhardt jumps 10%, gains 49% over one month

Mumbai: Drug maker Wockhardt jumped 10 per cent in Thursday’s session in heavy volume trade, extending the recent rally in stock. The trigger for the momentum in the stock could not be ascertained but it is a low free-float stock. Such stocks typically witness sharp volatile moves, depending on developments. At 2:50 pm, the stock … Read more

Dalal Street week ahead: Bulls are in charge, but remain stock specific

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Dalal Street week ahead: Bulls are in charge, but remain stock specific

The week gone by saw the domestic equity indices move in a wide range and stocks rally on global risk-on sentiment following the US election verdict. Not only was the trading range wide at 723 points, volatility too declined to a great extent. The market’s bias over the past five days remained secularly bullish, and … Read more

90% pharma marketers say non-transparency is a major bottleneck in digital adoption in drug marketing: Doceree survey – ET HealthWorld

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90% pharma marketers say non-transparency is a major bottleneck in digital adoption in drug marketing: Doceree survey – ET HealthWorld

Picture for representational purpose only. November 3, 2020: 90% Pharmaceutical marketers are of the view that non-transparency of ‘doctor reach and results’ is a major bottleneck in adoption of digital in Rx drug marketing, as per a survey conducted by Doceree, the first global network of Physician-only platforms for programmatic marketing. It is a well-known … Read more

Pharma unlikely to see steep rally ahead, better to exit: Anand Tandon

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Pharma unlikely to see steep rally ahead, better to exit: Anand Tandon

To think that pharma can continue to go the same way, especially after the kind of steep rally it has seen, is being overly bullish, says the independent market expert. What is the sense that you are getting about where the markets are headed from here? The global market movement matters much more than what … Read more