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An Invitation from the Editor
FFE and BrandStorm 2016 Agenda inside. Articles by Raja Reddy, K. Hariram, Amit Jain, and Vivek Hattangadi.
Glosing the Gender Gap
Guest Editorial by Sharadha Iyer on the urgent need to close the gender gap in the Indian Pharma Industry
A Cardiologist Recounts his Fightback from a Near Death Covid19 Infection
In the lockdown, while I was on regular OPD and ICU rounds at a COVID hospital, I started noticing some mild symptoms of the Coronavirus infection. Being in the medical field and considering the severity of the pandemic situation then, I was very careful and cautious, and observed the symptoms closely. The symptoms persisted and I had to self-quarantine until the medical test reports came. It was important for me to isolate myself from the rest of the medical team and prevent the spread of the virus. Finally, the report came: I was COVID positive!
Stunned and slightly devastated; I broke the news to my family who could not believe it either. As a doctor, I could only treat, comfort and empathize with the COVID patients undergoing treatment; completely isolated from their loved ones. But now, I could actually feel the uncertainty of the situation. I was hospitalized and continued to experience body-ache during the admission. It was a stressful situation where I felt anxious and stressed about everything.
My CT scan reports showed mild lung infection on the day of admission but as the cytokines storm developed, my lungs were 76 % damaged in 3-5 days and I was short of breath and my oxygen level deteriorated to less than 80. I was shifted to an ICU with high-flow oxygen and was on a BiPap machine which I had purchased a few weeks ago for the hospital and never imagined that I would be using myself one day.
72nd Republic Day: What’s the Road Ahead for Indian Pharma?
“We are getting too happy, for too little”: these...
Are Managers Really Necessary?
In the organisational context, LEADERSHIP appears more glamorous than...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
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Creating A Winning Sales Organisation – Workshop Announcement
MedicinMan catches up with Deep Bhandari - Advisor at UCB where he...
IMS Health Market Reflection Report for July 2016
The Indian Pharmaceutical Market (IPM) was valued atRs. 10,025 crores in the month of July 2016 clocking a 14.7% growth over same period last year (SPLY). This was the first time ever the market crossed the 10,000 crore mark in a single month.
FLUX – Indian Pharma in the Post VUCA World
Introduction
For decades, leaders and organizations have relied on the...
The Pill is Now a Commodity – Can ‘Beyond the Pill’ Models Work in India?
The pill is now a commodity that many of these companies provide at heavy discounts, making money off everything ‘beyond the pill’. Investors are betting heavily on the potential of technological innovation to transform the way healthcare is delivered.
The Economic Times reported that in 2021, India recorded investments of $77 billion across 1,266 deals including 164 large deals worth $58 billion. While the money reduced in 2022, the reason wasn’t a lack of faith in this business model.
Meanwhile, the pharmaceuticals industry that is most affected by this quiet but rapid change, is grappling with its entrenched culture. Its current business is so profitable that everything else pales in comparison.
‘Build, measure, learn, build again’ – a mantra of the health tech industry is alien to pharma that doesn’t learn, build or measure after launching a product.
Pharma also thinks of its customers as doctors alone and does precious little to connect with patients, or caregivers. People who are not sick do not feature on their radar at all. These are cultural values that keep pharma focused on the pill and discourage thinking beyond it.
A social media poll conducted by MedicinMan showed almost predictable responses. 100+ respondents who work in the pharma industry in India were quite clearly divided. 48% of them wanted to know what beyond the pill actually meant, while 23% wanted to know how to execute it.
The rest felt that the ultra-competitive environment in the Indian generics market required very high share-of-voice tactics (19%), or that their customers demanded product information (9%).
Rethinking Healthcare Communications for the Indian Context
Indian healthcare is sometimes an enigma: on one hand...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
India’s Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications and Key Investors
KKR's Investments in India's Medical Devices Market: Strategic Implications...
Top 25 Indian Pharma Companies by Revenues in 2024
India pharma is crucial for global healthcare, providing affordable...
Top 10 Indian Pharma – 2025
India's top 10 pharma companies by market capitalization, offering insights into...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates (ADCs): The Disruptors Leading Oncology’s Gold Rush in 2025
1. Market Overview
The oncology sector remains the most dominant...
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