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Top 10 Healthcare Companies in the World Posted: 01 Jul 2013 12:30 AM PDT Health care is a sector which cannot be ignored. It is also a lucrative business for many multinational corporations with diverse businesses. So you would have a telecom giant building something that at the end of the day is a healthcare boon or you would have a technological giant doing the same. Here's a look at some such companies which worked miracles in the healthcare sector and are healthcare companies in the true sense. 10. Walgreens Health Services: It is a business unit of Walgreens which was started in 1991. It has four primary units which include Home Care, Specialty Pharmacy, Mail Service and On-Site Pharmacy. It is involved in home delivery of respiratory therapy, infusion therapy, and home medical equipment, mail order pharmacy services for maintenance medications, and oral, injectable, and infused specialty medications for specialty categories. Visit Site 9. Safaricom: You might wonder why a leading mobile network provided of Kenya is in this list of healthcare companies. Well it is because it has achieved something that many in developed nations have not thought of before for the healthcare sector. It has launched Daktari 1525, a call-in service launched in late 2011 for the healthcare sector. With a nominal fee, Daktari 1525 helps Kenyans to get in touch with doctors 24X7. The fact that healthcare providers in Kenya are very scarce; this indeed is a boon to the sector. Visit Site 8. D-Rev: The cost of equipments and tools is the primary reason for the sky rocketing costs involved in getting a disease diagnosed, forget about being treated! D-Rev is a company working in this direction. They are attempting to bring in good but affordable tools to the healthcare sector so that a common man does not shy away from a health-checkup due to the ludicrous costs associated with it. In that direction they launched a scaled-down phototherapy lap called Brilliance for infant jaundice that costs a fraction of competing products. Visit Site 7. 3M: 3M is an American multinational conglomerate corporation which produces medical products as well in its 55,000 long product list. Perhaps its most talked about product is its cardiology-grade electronic stethoscope. It combines a digital sensor and noise-reduction technology to produce high-quality heart and lung sounds. It does away with the traditional problem of audio quality with normal stethoscopes used in telemedicine. Visit Site 6. Cipla: It is a pharmaceutical company based in Mumbai that has been making drugs to treat cardiovascular disease, arthritis, diabetes, weight control, depression etc., since 1935. In 2012, it also received the Thomson Reuters India Innovation Award. It is also the largest manufacturer of antiretroviral drugs to fight HIV/AIDS in the world. It has been working to make medicines for cancer, diabetes and other non-communicable diseases cheap and in that direction in May 2012 it slashed prices on several cancer drugs. Visit Site 5. GE Healthcare: It is perhaps one of the most well-known healthcare companies in the world. Global Diagnostic Imaging, Clinical Systems,Healthcare IT, Medical Diagnostics, Life Sciences, Healthcare Surgery and GoldSeal are its seven primary business units. It provides X-ray, digital mammography, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) and molecular imaging technologies. It also provides ultrasound, ECG, bone densitometry, patient monitoring, incubators and infant warmers, respiratory care and anesthesia management among a host of other services and products. Visit Site 4. Sproxil: Year after year we hear stories of how fake medicines killed unsuspecting people. It is hence imperative to ensure some sort of mass sterilization. Sproxil took a path breaking step in this direction by placing a scratch-off label on products. When these labels are scratched off a unique code is revealed. This code when sent via SMS to a country-specific short code gets you an instant reply of whether the product in your hand is genuine is not. Sproxil currently provided this service to several pharmaceutical companies in the world. Visit Site 3. IBM: Yes this technology giant also features in this list for a specific reason. What's the use of the advances in technology if they can't be used in the healthcare sector? Perhaps that was the motivation behind IMB making its super computer unravel complex diagnosis and treatment. Along with insurance giant WellPoint, IBM is on its way to using Watson, its supercomputer, to analyze millions of pages of medical research and make a diagnosis within seconds. This certainly would speed up diagnosis, wouldn’t it? Visit Site 2. Dexcom: It develops, manufactures and distributes continuous glucose monitoring systems for diabetes management. So do you need more clarity on why it features in this list? Dexcom has brought the niche of electronics to the blood sugar monitor. Continuous glucose monitor (CGM) is one of its most popular products in the market. It uses a sensor placed under the skin of the abdomen to monitor the blood-sugar level. Without a doubt this device is a boon to diabetics and their families! Visit Site 1. Narayana Hrudayalaya: It is one of India’s largest multi-specialty hospital chains headquartered in Bengaluru. It is famous as a center of telemedicine, a service which it offers free of cost. It is known to provide treatments to poor patients too and despite that it has a higher profit margin. The open heart surgeries in this hospital are performed at a third or less of the cost of any other hospital in India; which is very important in a country like India. It is a hospital created with the vision to deliver care based on need, not wealth. Visit Site The post Top 10 Healthcare Companies in the World appeared first on TopYaps.

Top 10 Surprise Attacks that Laugh at James Bond Posted: 30 Jun 2013 09:30 PM PDT A covert operation by any government, a black operation or black op, so to say always manages to feed our fancy. The danger, the stakes and the countries involved makes any such operation, successful or not, an enigma. It pikes your interests about the logistics and their ensuing effects. The world has been witness to ripple effects of many such operations once brought to the public eye. So let's have a look at some of those clandestine surprise attacks led by powerful nations and agencies around the world. 10. Operation Gladio: Operation Gladio is the codename or a secret NATO “stay-behind” operation in Europe during the Cold War. It involved the many NATO and some neutral nations in Europe. The main purpose was to ensure continual of anti-communist actions in the event of a Soviet invasion. It is believed that USA's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has an active role in sponsoring this operation. 9. Project MKUltra: It was started in the 1950s by the US Government covert research operation experimenting in the behavioral engineering of humans. Led by CIA's Scientific Intelligence Division, it was officially sanctioned in 1953. It involved using unwitting U.S. and Canadian citizens as its test subjects. It is due to this that questions were raised about its legitimacy as people’s mental states and brain functions were played with. It was finally shut down in 1973. 8. Operation Mongoose: Also known as the Cuban Project, it was a clandestine of the Central Intelligence Agency developed during the early years of President John F. Kennedy‘s administration. It was authorized by Kennedy on 30th November 1961 and was led by U.S. Air Force General Edward Lansdale. It was aimed at removing the communist from power with October 1962 planned as the culmination of the plot. It remained a secret for 14 years and also has the dubious distinction to be the worst American policy failure against Cuba. 7. Bay of Pigs Invasion: It was another covert operation by the US government against Cuba. Brigade 2506, the counter-revolutionary military funded by Central Intelligence Agency was given the task to over throw Fidel Castro, one of the key people behind propagating communism. The invasion which took place on 17 April 1961 was unsuccessful as the invading force was defeated within three days by the Cuban armed forces. The operation culminated to a humiliating defeat for Kennedy's administration at the hands of the Cuban forces led by their Prime Minister Fidel Castro. 6. Operation Paperclip: It was an operation launched by the United States Government to recruit the scientists of Nazi Germany after World War II. The focus was to prevent German scientific knowledge from falling in the hands of Soviet Union. It was conducted by the Joint Intelligence Objectives Agency right in the beginning of the Cold War.Rocket scientists Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus and Arthur Rudolph, and the physician Hubertus Strughold were some identified to be recruited under this operation. 5. Operation Entebbe: Operation Entebbe or Operation Thunderbolt was a counter-terrorist hostage-rescue mission. It was carried out by commandos of the Israel Defense Forces at Entebbe Airport in Uganda on 4 July 1976. An Air France plane with 248 passengers was hijacked about a week earlier than 4th July 1976 and flown to Entebbe, near Kampala, the capital of Uganda. The act was carried out by members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the German Revolutionary Cells. 4. Operation Anthropoid: It was the name for the assassination attempt on Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking German Nazi official during World War II and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. This was sponsored by the British Special Operations Executive with the approval of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile. In the attempt carried out in Prague on 27 May 1942, however he was only wounded but died of the injuries sustained from the same on 4 June 1942. 3. Operation Valkyrie: It was an operation which was planned by German Army officers Olbricht, Tresckow, and Stauffenberg to overthrow and assassinate Hitler. The plan was to trick the Reserve Army into the seizure and removal of the civilian government of wartime Germany. Stauffenberg placed a bomb in a briefcase close to Hitler and left the room only to learn later that his attempt had failed. Nevertheless it was one of the most meticulously planned and clandestine operations of its time. 2. Operation Neptune Spear: It was the official mission code name of the kill-or-capture mission of Osama Bin Laden. One of the ballsiest surprise attacks known to the mankind, it was carried out in a Central Intelligence Agency-led operation on May 2, 2011 where the founder and head of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda was killed. He was located in a compound in Abbottabad where he was believed to have been living with his youngest wife and family. And it was in this operation which is also called Operation Geronimo where world's most wanted terrorist was killed. 1. Operation Wrath of God: It was a covert operation directed by Israel and the Mossad. Also known as Operation Bayonet it was carried out as a response to the 1972 Munich massacre in which 11 members of the Israeli Olympic team were murdered. The operation was aimed at the Palestinian group Black September who were responsible for the massacre and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) operatives. Prime Minister Golda Meir authorized the beginning of the assassination campaign. 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