Tag: medicine

  • Redcliffe Life Diagnostics onboards Milind Soman as brand ambassador

    New Delhi: Redcliffe Life Diagnostics on Tuesday announced Milind Soman as its brand ambassador. The association aims at creating awareness among people regarding the importance of health check-ups for the timely diagnosis and treatment of ailments.

    A pioneer in gene-based testing in the country, Redcliffe Life Diagnostics has been pushing preventive healthcare and early diagnosis of diseases. “Having Milind onboard will help in reaching wider audiences to create awareness about public health in general,” it said on Tuesday.

    Redcliffe Life Diagnostics’ founder, Dheeraj Jain said, “We are delighted to have Milind Soman on board. He is a true ambassador and advocate of healthy living. He can be a great stimulus to encourage people to get routine health check-ups done regularly. Covid-19 has exponentially pushed health consciousness, but still, there is an aversion towards getting tested. People associate getting tested with being ill or sick, and this is the myth we want to break with Milind on board.”

    Milind Soman said he is looking forward to the collaboration. “Regular health check-ups can help in the early diagnosis of the disease. It is great to see how the medical industry is changing with organized and professional corporates like Redcliffe advocating profusely about preventive healthcare in India. Seeing their affordable yet advanced health packages from blood-based tests to fitness/wellness genetic testing, I am sure more people will be encouraged to be proactive towards health checkups,” he said.

  • Marcus Ranney moves on from Thrive Global

    Marcus Ranney moves on from Thrive Global

    NEW DELHI: Thrive Global India general manager Marcus Ranney has moved on from the organisation. He joined the company is 2018 and spent nearly three years before leaving.

    Ranney spearheaded the growth of Thrive Global in India and was responsible for P&L of the brand. He created partnerships with 75 plus organisations and clients and impacted lives across APAC.

    Thrive Global, the technology-based media and corporate services company helping individuals, companies and communities improve their well-being and performance, was founded by Arianna Huffington in November 2016. It came to India in 2017 in partnership with Times Bridge, a division of Times Group, that works with global brands having an India ambition. The platform aims to end the global stress and epidemic burnout.

    Coming from a medical background, Ranney has 20 years of experience in his career. Trained as a doctor at University College London, he practised clinical medicine in the UK before making the transition to Mumbai in 2011, where he has since worked within the healthcare and life sciences industry as a venture capitalist and strategic advisor. He has been instrumental in creating large portfolios of digital health assets. Ranney is an active member of the World Economic Forum global shapers community and is a writer focused on artificial intelligence, automation and their future impact on our collective well-being. He is an active outdoorsman and long distance runner, and has participated in expeditions to Mt. Everest, the Arctic Circle and the European Alps; he has also served as a medical officer in the Royal Air Force and at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. He is also a global health commentator on Forbes.

    Ranney was also VP investments at RoundGlass, and an advisor to multiple start-ups in the health and life sciences sector.

  • Dream11 urges users to #KheloDimaagSe in new rap-led campaign

    Dream11 urges users to #KheloDimaagSe in new rap-led campaign

    MUMBAI: Dream11, India’s biggest fantasy sports platform, has launched #KheloDimaagSe, its newest integrated with its brand ambassador and Indian cricketer Mahendra Singh Dhoni.

    The new campaign gives all passionate Indian cricket fans the opportunity to engage deeply with the sport. The brand believes that all Dream11 users aspire to employ the same kind of thinking prowess that has made Dhoni the master of the game.

    Dream11 first introduced this positioning through #DimaagSeDhoni, its maiden campaign that helped build the fantasy sports category in India. It established Dream11 as a game of thrill, skill and sporting pride, in addition to growing the brand’s user base by three times. Through #KheloDimaagSe, Dream11 wants to reach a larger audience base and target adoption at an unprecedented scale.

    The campaign has been conceptualised and created by Leo Burnett Orchard.

    Speaking about the new campaign, Vikrant Mudaliar, chief marketing officer, Dream11 said, “In a cricket-dominated country like India, every cricket fan is an expert. With the new #KheloDimaagSe campaign, Dream11 provides users with a unique opportunity to use their sports knowledge, expertise and skill much like the players on the field. With fantasy gaming fast capturing the imagination of the country, Dream11 is a perfect foil for sports fans who love their game and further enhance their love through our platform.”

    Leo Burnett Orchard was tasked with creating a campaign that would appeal to more people across India, beyond just the core cricket fan-base. Its vision was identical to Dream11’s – to make Dream11 India’s biggest fantasy sports game.

    People get excited by and partake in everything that is adopted by a large number of people. Playing on this insight, Leo Burnett Orchard decided to project Dream11 as a mass phenomenon and not something that is isolated or individualistic.

    Speaking about the campaign, Leo Burnett Orchard Executive creative director Amod Dani says, “Dream11 is a game that needs a coherent understanding of cricket and its statistics. While the ‘Dimaag se Dhoni’ campaign made an immediate impact for the brand, making it one of the most sought after games in India, the core objective of ‘Khelo Dimaag Se’ is to make the platform far more social and inclusive. The motormouth, rap approach brings alive exactly what the users are thinking while Dhoni plays a central role in walking us through this musical.”

  • Care World TV launches Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat season two

    Care World TV launches Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat season two

    MUMBAI: The satellite healthcare TV Channel Care World TV, known for exclusively programing shows on health and medicine,  will launch the second season of Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat from June 29. The show will pool together the practitioners of Bach Flower Therapy, Inner Child healing, Constellation Works, Graphology and Bio Feedback technology on screen. This 15 episode long second season will air every Wednesday and Thursday at 11 PM. 

    Care World TV aims to clarify myths about various alternate medicinal techniques– a formula that was well- received by the audience and proved successful for the channel in season one, the channel asserts.

    “Health and wellness is a vast subject and alternative holistic healing is a relatively lesser known practice. Our endeavor is to explore this facet of healthcare and present to the audiences its benefits and flaws, if any,” says Care World TV MD Ajit Gupta. “The show assumes a talk based demonstration format where practitioners of several alternate healing techniques will attempt to heal patients LIVE on television. It will not only deal with the obvious mental and physical ailments but also hunt for the causative factors of such,” he adds.

    Care World TV follows a unique revenue model wherein, a medicine related firm, a pharmacist brand or hospital can approach the channel with a concept or a topic that wish to educate people about and the channel produces a show for respective client with its creative inputs. According to the sources, the cost of producing a show with channel is between Rs 3 to 5 lacs, and may vary according to location and production requirements. The channel does not have advertisers, though it has a reach of over 20 million households in India.

    Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat  is a channel’s initiative to showcase real life experiences and subsequent outcomes.  It is shot in channel studios. The current series of Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat took close to five months to complete. For this particular show there were 12 members on board for production. The channel says that though it shot its shows on high definition format however the broadcast remains in standard definition.

    According to the makers of Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat, the first season was a grand success that urged them to launch the next series. “Queries and responses kept coming in from audiences after the first series and this lingered for almost a year,” Gupta shares.  In the second series, they will attempt  to address all such queries through live demonstrations of the various healing techniques on the show, which according to the channel was a big challenge.

    One can expect  healing techniques in which patients goes under spells to help find cures to ailments beyond conventional medicine, handwriting analysis to reveal real relationship issues, and sensory healing among other things in the upcoming season. All diagnosis and healing will be shown real time.  “The series also promises to address an array of problems relating to cross gender issues, guilt, physical handicap, emotional handicap, insomnia among many other physical and mental disorders that aren’t easy to be solved,” Gupta adds.

    Commenting on the programming strategy, Gupta reveals, “Care World is known for its unique and clutter-free programming and this new series will take health and wellness to another level by attempting to tap into the lesser known sciences. Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat is more than just a regular show on Care World TV. It is a test bench where any claims whether good or bad will be demonstrated, tested and presented for everyone to evaluate fairly the credibility of alternate healing practices.”

    The channel is distributed on cable network and has no plans to expand to DTH platforms anytime soon

  • Care World TV launches Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat season two

    Care World TV launches Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat season two

    MUMBAI: The satellite healthcare TV Channel Care World TV, known for exclusively programing shows on health and medicine,  will launch the second season of Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat from June 29. The show will pool together the practitioners of Bach Flower Therapy, Inner Child healing, Constellation Works, Graphology and Bio Feedback technology on screen. This 15 episode long second season will air every Wednesday and Thursday at 11 PM. 

    Care World TV aims to clarify myths about various alternate medicinal techniques– a formula that was well- received by the audience and proved successful for the channel in season one, the channel asserts.

    “Health and wellness is a vast subject and alternative holistic healing is a relatively lesser known practice. Our endeavor is to explore this facet of healthcare and present to the audiences its benefits and flaws, if any,” says Care World TV MD Ajit Gupta. “The show assumes a talk based demonstration format where practitioners of several alternate healing techniques will attempt to heal patients LIVE on television. It will not only deal with the obvious mental and physical ailments but also hunt for the causative factors of such,” he adds.

    Care World TV follows a unique revenue model wherein, a medicine related firm, a pharmacist brand or hospital can approach the channel with a concept or a topic that wish to educate people about and the channel produces a show for respective client with its creative inputs. According to the sources, the cost of producing a show with channel is between Rs 3 to 5 lacs, and may vary according to location and production requirements. The channel does not have advertisers, though it has a reach of over 20 million households in India.

    Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat  is a channel’s initiative to showcase real life experiences and subsequent outcomes.  It is shot in channel studios. The current series of Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat took close to five months to complete. For this particular show there were 12 members on board for production. The channel says that though it shot its shows on high definition format however the broadcast remains in standard definition.

    According to the makers of Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat, the first season was a grand success that urged them to launch the next series. “Queries and responses kept coming in from audiences after the first series and this lingered for almost a year,” Gupta shares.  In the second series, they will attempt  to address all such queries through live demonstrations of the various healing techniques on the show, which according to the channel was a big challenge.

    One can expect  healing techniques in which patients goes under spells to help find cures to ailments beyond conventional medicine, handwriting analysis to reveal real relationship issues, and sensory healing among other things in the upcoming season. All diagnosis and healing will be shown real time.  “The series also promises to address an array of problems relating to cross gender issues, guilt, physical handicap, emotional handicap, insomnia among many other physical and mental disorders that aren’t easy to be solved,” Gupta adds.

    Commenting on the programming strategy, Gupta reveals, “Care World is known for its unique and clutter-free programming and this new series will take health and wellness to another level by attempting to tap into the lesser known sciences. Kya Rahasya Kya Haqeeqat is more than just a regular show on Care World TV. It is a test bench where any claims whether good or bad will be demonstrated, tested and presented for everyone to evaluate fairly the credibility of alternate healing practices.”

    The channel is distributed on cable network and has no plans to expand to DTH platforms anytime soon