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Apollo Hospitals to consider listing on US Bourses in 2003

Health care major Apollo Hospitals announced on Thursday that plans are afoot to consider listing on US bourses in 2003. "We would consider listing on the US bourses after 2002," Pratap C Reddy, chairman of the Apollo Hospitals group said, adding it was a part of the business plan for the post-2002 period. ..Though further details are not available at the moment, Dr. Reddy added that plans to rai...

Apollo Hospitals Collaborates With Histostem For Stem Cell Therapy

Apollo Hospital to set up Stem cell therapy centers through out India with collaboration from Histostem Inc.,// Histostem is an American Company Delaware Corporation. It has one of the largest public blood banks in the world with 55,000 umbilical cord blood stem cells, which is being used for various genetic treatments. ....The Apollo group of hospitals will train doctors and nurses with the hel...

Apollo inaugurates centre for back and neck pain

Apollo Hospitals recently launched a one crore documentation based care (DBC) centre project in Chennai for back and neck pain management, claimed to be the first of its kind in the country. Dr Pratap Reddy, //chairman of Apollo Hospitals told the press that DBC, a revolutionary concept resulting from over 25 years of international research, is patented by the noted specialist Dr Simo Taimela of...

Apollo Hospital to collaborate with US cancer center to open new radiation therapy department

The Apollo hospital in Ahmedabad is to collaborate with The Bakersfield based Comprehensive Blood and Cancer center (CBCC), to start a new radiation therapy department. // ..In an other six months the CBCC of US is to supply new radiation therapy machines to Ahmedabad Apollo Hospital. Alexander Kuruvilla the CEO of Apollo Hospital said that, "It will be for the first time for us that we will have...

Reliance Infocomm Tied With Apollo To Provide Telemedicine Services

Reliance Infocomm, one of India's leading telecom companies, said Wednesday it had tied up with private healthcare chain Apollo Hospitals to provide telemedicine services in over 100 cities. // .. ..Under the agreement, Apollo Hospitals will leverage Reliance Infocomm's nationwide chain of 240 WebWorld cyber stores in 105 cities to offer high-quality healthcare services. .. ..Reliance WebWorld wi...

First PET-CT guided radiotherapy in India was performed by Apollo Hospitals

PET-CT guided radiotherapy for monitoring and treatment of cancer patients by doctors in Apollo Hospital. This PET-CT guided radiotherapy procedure was performed for the first time in India. // Apollo Cancer Hospital is one of the first hospitals in the country with a PET-CT guided radiotherapy technology, Director, Vijay Anand Reddy reported in a news conference. PET is a Positron Emission Tomo...

Apollo Hospitals Short-listed to Provide Diagnostics in the UK

The Apollo Hospitals Group has been shortlisted by Britain's National Health Service (NHS) to bid for four geographical areas in the UK where it could provide diagnostic services.// ..Long waiting lists at the NHS had forced it to outsource some of its operations to cut the delay faced by its patients, reports the Business Line. ..The diagnostic support covers radiology, including CT scan, MRIs,...

Apollo Hospitals to invest Rs 350 cr to add 1,800 beds

Chennai-based Apollo Hospitals Group plans to invest Rs 350 crore to add 1,800 beds over the next 18 months. ..With the planned new addition of 1800 beds, Apollo Group's total capacity would touch 7,200 beds, from the current 6,400 beds. // .."There is a plan for adding 800 beds through management of hospitals and another 1,000 beds from ownership,” says Apollo Hospitals Group Director Finance, S...

Apollo And Stanford Team To Train Emergency Medical Technicians

The collaboration between Apollo Hospitals and the Stanford Emergency Medicine International, US, would be marked by a launch of a first-ever international programme for training of emergency medical technicians in India//. The one-year full time programme would be conducted at Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad. ..Candidates who have passed Intermediate or an equivalent examination are eligible to enr...

First Exclusive Women’s Clinic Launched in Chennai By Apollo Hospita

In line with the International Women’s Day celebrations, an exclusive women’s clinic has been launched by the Chennai-based Apollo hospitals. Ms. J. Jayalalitha, State Chief Minister, inaugurated the well women health care center on Wednesday. // ....The health care center would cater to nearly all health problems of the women folk including sub-acute and chronic problems. Of the health problems...

Apollo's Foray into the Hearts of Women

Apollo Hospitals are supporting the cause of Women’s Heart Health by setting up 100 chest pain clinics dedicated solely to women and their healthcare needs. These clinics will be spread across the country. // .. ..During a press conference, Prathap Reddy, chairman, Apollo Hospitals, spoke of Apollo’s plan to set up chest pain clinics across the country. Apollo Centre of Excellence for Women (AC...

Apollo’s about-Turn: Cocktail Of Drugs Found In Rahul Sample

New.Delhi. Making an about-turn, Delhi's Apollo Hospital today disclosed that traces of 'cocktail of drugs' have been found in the urine sample of Rahul Mahajan//, a day after its doctors had stated that the late BJP leader Pramod Mahajan's son had tested negative for all known drugs. ....'Traces of drugs have been found in the urine sample of Rahul. Since its cocktail of drugs, we cannot conclu...

Apollo Hospitals among world's top 10 in heart surgeries

Chennai. Chennai-based Apollo Hospitals has registered the second highest success rate in heart surgeries, ensuring that 99.6 per cent of such procedures done //by it are success stories, the group's chairman Prathap C Reddy said here today. ....Delivering an address at a Nurses Day celebration, he said while the hospital that had the highest success rate charged 50,000 dollars for the surgery,...

Apollo to Open Super-specialty Hospital in Oman by Year-end

India's Apollo group of hospitals is all set to open its 100-bed super-specialty hospital in Oman by the end of this year//. ....A report in the Times of Oman newspaper quoted Apollo Medical Centre (AMC) managing director V.T. Saileswaran as saying that the hospital would become the first of its kind in the private sector in Oman. ....The centre is expected to fill the gap between super-specialt...

Police Summoned Apollo Doctors in Rahul Mahajan’s Cas

Delhi Police summoned three doctors of the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital for questioning Tuesday over charges they fudged information //on the condition of Rahul Mahajan, who was admitted to the hospital in serious condition of suspected drug overdose. ...."We have summoned the doctors and the questioning is on," said Suman Nalwa, assistant commissioner of police, heading the probe against the ho...

Cardiovascular Diseases in India To be Studied Jointly By John Hopkins And Apollo Hospitals

Johns Hopkins Medicine International from the US and Apollo hospitals will undertake a combined study on the genetic reasons of cardiovascular disease in Indians.// ....It was explained that in July last year, Apollo Hospitals had come into an agreement with Johns Hopkins to work jointly in areas like telemedicine, second opinion services, continuing medical education programmes, and participati...

Apollo Group Permitted to Carry out Surgeries in its Oman Centre

India's Apollo group of hospitals has got the Oman government's permission to carry out surgeries and admit patients for providing quality healthcare services// at the group's new centre in the Omani capital Muscat. ...."The Ministry of Health (MoH) has given us the green signal to start our operation theatres, Intensive Care Units (ICUs), labour room and in-patient rooms," a report in the Times...

Apollo Group Planning to Set up a Hospital in Fiji

India's Apollo group of hospitals is planning to set up a large hospital in the Pacific island nation of Fiji. ....The Fiji Chamber of Commerce (FCC) has supported Apollo's proposal, according to the website of Radio New Zealand International.// ...."The Apollo group (has) already secured a site in Lautoka for such a facility; so we are hoping that in the next year or two we should see this act...

Apollo's Global Arm Acquires US-based Firm

Apollo Group's global arm has acquired US-based Armanti Financial Services (AFS) for $31 million in a deal that makes the combined entity one of the largest healthcare// processing companies in the hospital business for receivables management. ....Apollo Health Street (AHS), the global healthcare service company of Apollo, announced the acquisition Monday. ....Apollo Health Street offers healt...

Apollo Announces Research on Indian Cardiac Epidemic

Apollo Hospitals Friday announced a research initiative in collaboration with US-based health institute John Hopkins to identify the gene responsible for high cardiac risk// among Indians. ....The path breaking research will help in finding an answer to why Indians have a far higher propensity to heart diseases compared to other races, said Pratap C. Reddy, chairman, Apollo Group of Hospitals....

Apollo Eyes Expansion in Kolkata, Opens Ayurveda Clinic

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals has asked the West Bengal government for 10 acres of land in the new township of Rajarhat near here for setting up// a Rs.1.5 billion institute. ....The medical institute would provide training as well as conduct research in the medical field, said V. Satyanarayana Reddy, CEO, Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata. ....'We are waiting for the government to identify an...

Apollo doctors Summoned in Rahul Mahajan case

A court in Delhi has issued summons against six doctors of Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in N.Delhi. They are chargesheeted by the Delhi Police// for destruction of evidence related to Rahul Mahajan drug abuse case. ....The Six doctors include -- Anupam Sibal, Prasad Rao, Awdesh Bansal, Mukund Pandey, Ali Mohammed Ganai and Abha Gupta. Six other staff of the hospital were also directed to appe...

Apollo to Operate Tertiary Care Hospital in Yemen

Apollo Group of Hospitals, Asia's largest integrated private healthcare provider,// has joined hands with Hayel Saeed Anam Group (HSA) of the Middle East to bring super-specialty healthcare system to Yemen. ....The two groups signed the partnership agreement to operate the tertiary care hospital in Taiz, Yemen, said a statement by Apollo Group here. ....Shawki Ahmed Hayel, executive director o...

Trehan Quits Escorts, Plans to Join Apollo

Leading cardiologist Naresh Trehan Wednesday resigned from the post of executive director of Escorts Hospital and will completely disengage himself from the hospital from June 1....

Apollo Opens Blood Cancer Clinic in Kolkata

Kolkata: The Apollo Gleneagles Hospital has opened their hemato-oncology (blood cancer) clinic in Kolkata to cope with the increasing number of cancer patients// pouring in from different parts of eastern India. ....This specialty unit, opened Tuesday, will have all the state-of-the-art facilities to provide treatment for different types of hemato oncological disorder, commonly termed as blood c...

Apollo Tyres All Set to Enter the Healthcare Sector

Onkar S. Kanwar's Apollo Tyres group has entered the healthcare sector with a super-specialty hospital in Gurgaon,// on the outskirts of the national capital, with a seed investment of Rs.2.1 billion ($45 million). ....Christened Artemis Health Sciences (AHS), the 260-bed hospital over 8.3 acres of land will open next month. "In the second phase, another 240 beds will be added," said Somnath Cha...

Apollo Sets Up Asia's First Health City in Hyderabad

Apollo Hospitals Group, one of Asia's largest healthcare groups, Tuesday launched Apollo Health City, the first functional health city in Asia . ......Going beyond the realm of curative care it offers, the health city is an integrated facility offering solutions across the healthcare space including preventive care, holistic medicine, research, information technology and education. ......Spread...

Apollo Launches Chest Pain Clinics in Kolkata

Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals Friday said that its recently launched Chest Pain Clinics in the city would make a difference and save lives of cardiac patients. ......The hospital launched a number of Chest Pain Clinics here last week to address the need of preventing the loss of time in order to save lives. ......Anil Maini, president, corporate development, Apollo Group of Hospitals, said: 'The...

Senior Doctor of Apollo Hospital Commits Suicide

A senior doctor with the Apollo Hospital here allegedly committed suicide Tuesday morning , with police attributing it to a family dispute. ......Umesh Sharma, president of the orthopaedics department, was found dead at around 7.00 a.m. in his cabin in Apollo Hospital in Sarita Vihar, south Delhi. ......Sharma, who is said to have had an ongoing family dispute, came to the hospital at around 6....

New Delhis Apollo Hospital Treats More Than 80 Iraqis

Over 80 Iraqi patients, mostly children and youth, have been cured at New Delhis Indraprastha Apollo Hospital since last month. ......Most of the patients, aged up to 18 years, were suffering from congenital heart disease and hearing impairment. ......A six-year old child underwent an Intra Cardiac Echo (ICE) surgery at the hospital, and was just among a handful in the country qualified to und...