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This time united by cause, the otherwise divided medical device industry, has reacted similarly and negatively on government’s new set of rules. Perhaps it is for the first time that medical device industry which generally has been fragmented into Indian and foreign...

The second draft of the medical devices regulations, which were notified by the Union health ministry on Wednesday, four months after the first draft was issued, have once again drawn industry flak. The fresh rules, while dividing the medical devices into four groups...

The Union government has notified a set of new rules to regulate the medical device sector – worth thousands of crores and growing. For the first time, the rules will make a distinction between medical devices and drugs and pharmaceuticals, creating separate standards...

The health ministry's medical devices rules still deviate from globally accepted practices, insisting on conditions like different labelling requirements and shorter expiry dates for the products, argue global medical device makers upset with the third draft of the...

The multinational medical technology majors are seeking the authorities to remove regulatory hurdles for importing pre-owned medical equipment to the country. While these companies manufacture in India and support the Centre's initiatives to promote manufacturing of...

The medical devices industry remains bitterly divided even as the Centre looks to regulate import of pre-owned products   Away from the glare of very public discussions on stents, a device used largely in the heart, another debate engulfs the medical devices...

The center-right government of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi says it has the medical devices sector squarely in its sights as one of its priority “Make in India” sectors to boost domestic manufacturing and spur job creation, and global medical device makers are...

Contemporary bare-metal stents are as good as drug-eluting stents—their newer generation counterparts—a new Norwegian study on over 9,000 patients has found. The observation comes at a time when India has decided to clamp price controls on stents and the government is...