Kamlesh (58), a diabetic patient with a history of chest pain, underwent a successful procedure of precision angioplasty with advanced Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) imaging technique at a Delhi hospital.
Stents have been added to the National List of Essential Medicines and we are trying to put more medical devices in this list to ensure medicines and medical devices remain affordable, Health minister JP Nadda said
In a huge relief for lakhs of patients who have to opt for coronary angioplasty to insert stents to open up clogged arteries, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) on Monday fixed a price ceiling of drug eluting stents (DES) and biores
The price of a stent may very well rise by 1000 per cent by the time it moves from the manufacturer to the patient, according to the data released by the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA).
The central government on Wednesday issued a key notification to impose price control on coronary stents and notified them as 'scheduled-I drugs' under the Drug Price Control Order, media reports said.
Kolkata: Former president A.P.J. Abdul Kalam derived "immense satisfaction" from the development of the famed 'Kalam-Raju-Stent' for coronary heart disease since it was saving precious human lives, cardiologist B. Soma Raju recalled on Wednesday.Popularly described
New Delhi: Cardiac stent has been here for a long period of time, but there is no clarity on how much the life-saving device should cost. A report published in the Times of India said,
Top News
Latest News
