PeopleHealth is among the few firms that provide such preventive services. The Bangalore-based start-up has developed a tool that takes into account an array of information related to employees’ health, habits and lifestyle to assess the company’s health, and design an adapted preventive healthcare policy.  Based on the results, …

Britain’s largest private health insurer British United Provident Association (BUPA) is set to enter India to cash in on the booming healthcare services demand, driven by rapidly rising population and growing affluence.

The UK healthcare giant is said to have teamed up with Max New York Life for its foray into the country, and plans to plough some of the £1.44 billion rose from the sale of 25 of its UK hospitals last year, sources said.

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The leading private life insurance company - Max New York Life Insurance Company Ltd. has launched ‘lifeline’ - a health insurance product on Wednesday, 5th March 2008, across India. Now, the company can boast of offering complete health and life insurance products across ll regions in India.

This newly launched health insurance product of Max New York Life Insurance Company offers three groups of heath insurance solutions. TAGS:

Chennai has over 40,000 homeless poor (pavement dwellers), scattered across the city in clusters. They have no identity (ration card/voters id), least access to healthcare, sanitation, education, shelter, nutritious diet etc.

They are often the most vulnerable and abused community in the city.

For the past couple of years,the Social Action Track of CTN (Chennai Transformation Network) has been raisi…

Looking for a comprehensive low cost health insurance is almost similar to looking for a gold mine hidden in a secret cave. The rising health insurance costs is becoming such a big problem today. Every person has the right to be assured of proper medical attention. In effect, everybody definitely needs health insurance coverage. But then again, providers are always faced with the constant battle of giving quality coverage against the ever-increasing medical care, hospitaliza…