| Focus |
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Can
Delhi be a successful model for medical tourism?
Athough Delhi has witnessed an unprecedented growth
in health care industry, how far has the capital
become successful in attracting the medical tourist
to its swanky and big hospitals? Sapna Dogra finds
out
|
| Profile |
The man
and vision behind Aravind Eye Hospital
Spend of
Rs 2 per patient is not enough to contain Aids:
former ARCON chief |
| Legalities |
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Right
to confidentiality vs human rights
Right to confidentiality is one of the essential
rights of a patient. However, there are certain
exceptions to this rule wherein confidentiality
can be overridden and disclosure permitted.
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| Column |
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Long
live the doctor!
Longevity studies have indicated that the students
of engineering are better placed than medical
students. Arts and humanities students are at
a disadvantage, as the prospect of getting a better
placement and a coveted social standing is not
the same.
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| Column |
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Long
live the doctor!
Longevity studies have indicated that the students
of engineering are better placed than medical
students. Arts and humanities students are at
a disadvantage, as the prospect of getting a better
placement and a coveted social standing is not
the same.
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| Critical
Care |
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Emergency
care in ophthalmology
The Chennai-based Sankara Nethralaya, best known
as a tertiary care referral hospital treating
complex disorders like retinopathy of prematurity,
complicated retinal detachments, congenital cataracts
and glaucomas etc, runs a 24 hour critical care
unit to treat emergency problems in ophthalmology.
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Criticare Management
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Monitoring
investments in critical care
The dynamic trends and the everrising cost of
modern health care, calls for an ongoing cost-effective
analysis of the facilities rendered in any hospital/health
centre.
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| Observation |
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Convert
one-time replacement blood donor to a volunteer
The overall requirement of blood in the country,
as per one estimate, is about 70 lakh units per
year and the supply is around 50 per cent of this,
meaning a shortfall of 50 per cent.
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| Edit |
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Cadaver
transplant norms
Marginal
cost pricing in health care
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| Op-Ed |
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Is accreditation
of hospitals a tag to attract patients?
Viewpoint
*We need an agency for inspection hospital periodically
*‘Accreditation helps in enhancing patient care’
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| News |
B0C introduces
Oxyline in Kolkata
Tata AIG launches
Health First
ARCON on the
lookout for technical assistance from the US
Philips Medical
Systems to go aggressive in the Indian market
Mumbai to
host first time training programme for sex educators
Insulin players
rule out further price cuts |
| Conversation |
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‘India
has high prospects for biotechnology growth’
BioServe Biotechnologies (I) Pvt Ltd [BB(I)PL],
located at ICICI Knowledge Park, Hyderabad, is
a subsidiary of BioServe Biotechnologies Ltd (BBL),
Maryland, USA. BBL has been providing DNA synthesis
services and high quality molecular biology services
to the research community for the last twelve
years using state-of-the-art technologies.
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| Pharma News |
Advisory
panel for drug testing lab in Karnataka
Taskforce
to draft action plan for IMDRA set-up
EMEA
ban: Nimesulide market slips further |
