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| Focus |
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Popularising
Health Insurance In Rural Areas
Around 70 per cent of India’s population,
live in villages. Of these, less than 2 per cent
are insured. Though the rural health insurance
market is huge, it has so far remained untapped.
Recently, IRDA has constituted a committee to
chalk out a plan for spreading health insurance
in rural areas. Various Micro-Health insurance
schemes are to be studied. Around 25 such schemes
are run in rural India, most of them attached
to Micro-Finance Institutions. Falaknaaz Syed
briefs you about the issues that the IRDA committee
will address and some prominent rural health insurance
schemes running in the country.
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| Interview |
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‘There
Is A Need To Develop New Molecules For Targeted
Therapy’
Targeted therapy is the buzzword in the treatment
of cancers, whether it is chronic myeloid leukemia
(CML), breast cancer, colon cancer or lung cancer.
And Dr Suresh H Advani, Director, Department of
Medical Oncology, Jaslok Hospital and Research
Centre is a proponent of that. In an interview
with Shardul Nautiyal, Dr Advani elaborates
on how targeted therapy can prove to an effective
treatment modality and what needs to be done to
improve cancer treatment in India.
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| Research |
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Hope
For The Weak-Hearted
NIRRH
To Unveil One Of Its Microbicide By June
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| Accreditation |
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‘ICHA
Is An Accreditation System That India Can Identify
With’
In the country, QCI, CII-IHCF are working towards
forming National Accreditation Board for Hospitals
and Healthcare Providers (NABH). Parallel to this
initiative, is the formation of Indian Confederation
for Healthcare Accreditation (ICHA) that like
NABH will be a national accrediting body. Dr Akhil
K Sangal is the CEO of ICHA. In an interview with
Falaknaaz Syed, Dr Sangal discusses ICHA’s
objectives, its operational plans and emphasises
its importance.
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| In News |
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Ensuring
A Safe Childhood
InterSystems
Forays Into Indian Healthcare Market
Kolkata
To Get First Neuro Centre of International Standard
by 2007
Book
Review
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| Business |
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Carving
A New Path
Asian Heart Institute inks a deal with Parkway
Group Healthcare PTE Ltd to expand its existing
operations management and build a new hospital
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| In Brief |
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CISCO
launches networking solution for healthcare
Medtronic
Receives CE Mark For Endeavor
Sahajanand's
Infinnium Receives CE Approval
DEGUM
Certifies Frankfurt Sonography Course
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| Cardiology |
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Indian
Cardiologist In An Intl Team To Develop World’s
1st Robotic Equipment For Angioplasty
'Guidelines
Required For Insurance Companies To Insure CHD
Patients'
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| Designing |
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Interior
Design And Graphics In Hospitals : Part - II
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| Different Strokes |
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Healthcare
Architecture As Seen Through Ian Ritchie’s
Eyes
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| Technology |
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Image-Guided
Surgery: Latest Advancement In Removal of Brain
Tumour
Image-guided surgery, which helps surgeons navigate
through the body of the patient, has made great
strides in patient care. Hosmat Institute of Neurosciences
recently added another feather to its cap after
it successfully conducted image-guided surgery
on 61-year-old lady to remove a difficult brain
tumour by using BrainLab neuronavigator.
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| Trends |
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Personalised
Medicine: A Revolution In Healthcare
Personalised medicine is the understanding of
mechanisms and pathways of disease together with
the unique characteristics of the individual to
accelerate the prevention, detection and cure
of disease.
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