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Cover Story
Hospitals
hit by high rate of nosocomial infection
Ten to 30 per cent of patients admitted to hospitals
and nursing homes in the country acquire nosocomial
infection as against an impressive five per cent
in the West, according to members of Hospital Infection
Society (HIS), India.
India
cuts a sorry figure in mental healthcare facilities
Over 20 million Indians are in the grip of non-communicable
and silent epidemic of mental illness which includes
the whole gamut of depression, suicide, substance
abuse, anxiety neurosis, schizophrenia and hysteria.
WHO
pushing to rapidly scale-up measures to fight
TB and HIV
The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced
a plan to expand collaboration between national
tuberculosis and HIV/Aids programmes to curb the
growing pandemic of TB/HIV co-infection, with
a principal focus on Africa where 70 per cent
of the world's 14 million people who are co-infected
live.
Misdeeds
of self-styled researchers
Illicit trials have been extensively used by Indian
pharmaceutical manufacturers to illegally promote
letrozole for ovulation induction, says Dr Chandra
M Gulhati
Research
A
common gene may mark atherosclerosis
Heart attack is known to be hereditary for a long
time to all. But researchers were confused as
the genetic markers that are the risk factors
for atherosclerosis were rare.
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