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Apollo
shifts focus from illness to wellness
The Apollo Group has launched WellnessPlus, an integrated
healthcare services division at its Chennai facility, this
month. “Integrated healthcare” is a unique way of
bringing the scientifically-valid practices of several disciplines
of medicine in treating disease conditions.
Ganga
Ram conducts cranial stenting of vertebro basalar system
For the first time in India, a 95 per cent blocked brain artery
in posterior circulation area of the brain has been successfully
opened by angioplasty and stenting at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital
(SGRH).
Prince
Aly Khan introduces fertility services clinic
Prince Aly Khan Hospital (PAKH), the 137-bed multi-specialty
hospital located at Mazagaon, Mumbai recently launched the
PAKH Center for Human Reproduction, a state-of-the-art reproductive
centre and fertility clinic. The clinic is run in collaboration
with Dr Gautam Allahbadia, an infertility specialist and its
scientific director.
Healthcare
is not a business industry: Minister
At a foundation laying ceremony of the extension building
of Ramakrishna Mission Seva Pratishthan in South Kolkata,
Dr Surya Kanta Misra, the West Bengal Health and Family Welfare
minister came down heavily on the private hospitals who were
treating patients as their clients’ and ‘hospitals’
as an ‘industry’.
Cancer
Genetics Inc, US comes to India
Cancer Genetics Inc, a leading biotechnology company in the
US has announced the launch of Genetics Specialties Private
Limited, in India. Novel Genetic Diagnostic/Prognostic tools
for the Indian Healthcare market was also launched on this
occasion.
WB
Govt plans to introduce a diploma course in lab medicine
Considering the dearth of doctors in clinical pathology at
the state-run hospitals, the West Bengal Health & Family
Welfare department is planning to introduce a two-year diploma
course in laboratory medicine at Kolkata-based School of Tropical
Medicine (STM).
Overview
of minimally invasive direct access heart surgery
There have been many advances, which took place in last ten
years as far as heart valve surgery is concerned. It is important
to understand what we mean as a heart valve and what is its
function.
Amelia
Medicorp launches occupational health services
Amelia Medicorp, an ISO certified Occupational Health services
company has recently launched a new range of occupational
Health related services.
First
global fund grants reach two-year renewal term
The board of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, tuberculosis and
malaria had recently approved renewed funding worth up to
USD 119 million for the first batch of grants to reach the
two year mark.
‘National
standards in healthcare needed’
We should have our own national standards in healthcare,”
emphasised Dr PK Dave, chairman, advisory board, Rockland
Hospital. Dr Dave was chairing the session titled ‘New
Mantras for the new age health’ at the Health Conclave
2005.
Manipal
to establish centre of excellence in waste management
Manipal Education and Medical Group (MEMG) has signed an understanding
with Deuttsche Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit
(GTZ), Germany to establish first of its kind state-of-the-art
‘centre of excellence in waste management’ at Manipal
Hospital, Bangalore.
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