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  India's first precision stenting procedure saves woman's life

  Science | October 22, 2020 21:40 IST

  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.

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  After stents, Modi govt working to bring more medical devices under price control

  May 11, 2017 12:31 IST

  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

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  NPPA slashes stent prices by over 80 pc, notifies price cap at Rs 30,000

  India | February 14, 2017 14:14 IST

  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

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  Stents selling in India at upto 1000 pc margin on manufacturing cost: NPPA

  January 17, 2017 12:04 IST

  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).

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  Coronary stents to cost less as government imposes price control cap

  India | December 22, 2016 11:14 IST

  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.

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  Kalam was happy to save lives with 'Kalam-Raju-Stent'

  Lifestyle | July 30, 2015 9:43 IST

  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

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  Stent pricing giving heartache to customers in India

  February 13, 2015 20:59 IST

  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,