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| In News |
Hinduja
Hospital ties up with Stanford University for educational
exchange
Metropolis
to facilitate multi-centric clinical trials
World’s
first awake bypass surgery with valve replacement
performed
CBay opens
new medical transcription training centre
At a Glance
TSUIT, Indian
gynaecologist invention gets international acknowledgement
WB health
dept plans to go hi-tech |
| Conversation |
‘India
should use HIV clinics to create awareness about
CAD’
India is leading in CAD, inspite of efforts made
to highlight the severity of the situation. |
| Analysis |
Costing
is the fountainhead of resource
According to a major World Bank study of public
hospitals (Barnum and Kutzin 1993), the share of
public sector health resources in developing countries
consumed by hospitals is found to range from 50
to 80 per cent. |
| Clinical Research |
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‘Clinical
trials can be reviewed by an independent EC’
Our ethics committee (EC) has nine members and
quorum consists of five members. Recently, we
faced a problem of assuring quorum, when one of
our members, who was the investigator, had to
leave the room during deliberation and voting
on a study and we were left with four members.
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| Legalities |
Can
healthcare institutions advertise?
At one of the places where I recently spoke, I was
asked to clarify whether healthcare institutions
could advertise. |
| Edit |
Discourage
unethical promotion
Unending queue
of unethical drug trials |
| Oped |
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Clinical
studies with new drugs: My Indian experiences
It may come as a great surprise to many that the
first rules to regulate clinical trials were issued
in Germany in the early 1920s.
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| Quality Management |
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Quality
initiatives in healthcare management
In spite of billions of dollars of money spent
worldwide, most of the healthcare is seen to be
ineffective, inefficient and inadequate.
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| Events |
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Conference
Calendar |
| Pharma |
Int’l
regime on biodiversity may become legally binding
Mispromoting
antihistamines is big business
Roche steps
up clinical research in India
Experts
call for balance in research data protection |
| Column |
The
insurance conundrums
Life insurance is slowly shedding its main theme
as a postmortem investment, relatable only as a
tax-rebatable investment from our perspective. |
| Products |
Cost effective
and good quality equipment for the Indian market
Enhanced
SpO2 performance during conditions of Clinical Patient
Motion |
| Profile |
Taking
plastic surgery to the poor
The modest, dedicated and upright Professor and
head of the department of plastic surgery in the
state-government-run Victoria Hospital in Bangalore,
has played a pivotal role in the success of the
plastic surgery department at the hospital. |
| Partnership |
Johns
Hopkins testing Indian waters for collaboration
This is an educational trip, in which I will be
delivering a series of lectures in Delhi and Jaipur
on problems related to head, neck larynx and airway
passages. |
