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Incidence Of HIV/AIDS In The Indian Armed Forces Negligible

...asked to enforce. Even so, Indian soldiers going abroad on UN peacekeeping missions are screened before their departure and return. "During the last two years, medical officers from the battalion level upwards have been regularly giving lectures to the troops and screening films for them on the hazards ...

Drug Name Confusion Makes Imports Dangerous: FDA

... U.S. are not aware that ingredients of drugs sold abroad are different from ingredients of drugs of the sam...two-fold, she explained. First, patients traveling abroad could get the wrong medication while trying to fill a prescription. Second, patients ordering medica...

Debra Winger Wants Indians Abroad To Help Visually Impaired

...moting eye care will be approaching Indians living abroad to help the visually impaired people living in India. Even though the country has a very high number// of visually impaired people, 80% of them can be cured, according to Debra Winger. Winger, who at the age of 17 met with an accident that left her...

Malaria Warnings On The Rise in UK

...le must take the tablets prior to traveling, while abroad and for a period after returning in order to be protected against malaria. The number of people returning to Britain with falciparum malaria, the most severe form of the disease, has grown from about 250 cases in 1977 to up to 1,500 annually in rec...

Indian Doctor in World's 65 'caring' doctors

...untries including the UK and USA are very popular abroad due to their caring attitude. In India though some of them are now becoming somewhat commercial, there are still a majority who are very popular with their patients Dr.Malik works in a village on the outskirt of Delhi and has been treating the...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

...lities are also luring many Indian doctors settled abroad to look back home for promising career moves, said Bali. "There is an increasing interest among internationally known clinicians to come back to work in India. More than a dozen have come back to work full time for us," said Bali, denying they are g...

India – Haven Of Medical Touris

...ents has prompted scores of Indian doctors working abroad to return home. "Doctors are so well paid here that many of them have since returned from the US and other places. They are getting even more than what they were earning in say places like Australia, New Zealand, the UK or even the US," the minister...

Kalam Appeals to Eradicate Hearing Disability

...t thousands and thousands of children in India and abroad can afford to have this device and lead a normal life, Kalam said. The President added: Hearing and speech are the two important faculties given by the Almighty to the mankind among many others. The restoration of these faculties to the people, who ...

Avenues to opened for medical tourists following relaxation of visa regulations

...re. “Hospitals are already getting patients from abroad and the Government is now trying to regulate this for maintaining international standards in our medical facilities,'' Dr. Ramadoss said. He also emphasized the need for promoting the Indian systems of medicine that has been accepted as an effective ...

Problems in rural health delivery and remedies

...ourses, promotion, foreign assignments or training abroad but the problem has not been solved. In addition, the Union Health and Family Welfare Ministry has written to all State Governments recommending an increase in the retirement age of doctors to 65, with a compulsory stint in rural areas and the last...

Testing For HIV/AIDS Compulsory For New Military Recruits

... added. Singh said those armed forces units going abroad on various assignments and those returning home would also be made to take HIV tests. Regular and stringent testing is being carried out in AIDS-prone areas like the northeast and border areas to combat the disease. --IANS...

New Infertility test to be offered by Reliance

...tal medicine to educate gynecologists in India and abroad regarding this new evolving specialty....

FDA Approves Indian Generic Drug For AIDS Treatment

...es, it will be made available for purchase and use abroad under the president’s emergency plan for AIDS Relief. This President’s emergency plan for AIDS relief was announced in 2003, by President George W. Bush, which provides $15 billion over five years to fight HIV/AIDS around the world, especially for th...

Banning the drug Valdecoxib In India

... under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act. Studies done abroad have indicated that the drug Valdecoxib is found to double the risk of heart attacks and strokes and also result in severe skin reactions. Although some of the leading pharmaceutical companies have stopped manufacturing it and have withdrawn the dru...

Music training and Ginkgo biloba benefit memory

...selling herbal supplement in the United States and abroad during the past half decade. Researchers gave a series of tests on verbal memory to 30 females who had had at least six years of music lessons before age 12, and 30 who did not have any music instruction. A typical test was to have the students //li...

SARS impact could be devastating

...rers, an estimated 210,000 Thais left home to work abroad in 2000, as did 416,424 Indians, 376,000 Indonesians, 841,000 Filipinos and 31,000 Vietnamese, according to the most recent United Nations data. Many of the countries and territories they head for, including Singapore and Hong Kong, are among the ha...

Cloud of smoke over Zyban

...rug and 57 deaths in the UK, spurred media-reports abroad casting a cloud over Zyban and subsequently causing a ripple effect in domestic circles. Mr Kal Sundaram, GSK’s Director-Pharmaceuticals, told that regulatory bodies such as MCA of the UK and the FDA of the US have celared the drug and have said th...

NBE to conduct test for medical students from abroad

...nduct tests for any Indian doctor having graduated abroad avid of starting a practice in the country, to ens...ify that students who want to enrol in MBBS course abroad will have to take an ‘eligibility certificate’ from the Medical Council of India from March 15. The ...

HIV infections have reached a new high

...ny of the new heterosexual infections are acquired abroad in countries of high HIV prevalence and brought to the UK by people who come to live and work here. These new figures give us the clearest indication yet that, without a boost in HIV prevention investments and a reinvigorated national HIV prevention...

India's anti-AIDS drug market engaged in price war

...develop anti-AIDS drugs and market it in India and abroad by adapting innovative approaches to pricing. The anti-AIDS drug market, currently dominated by Mumbai-based Cipla, witnessed the entry of four more pharmaceutical companies including Ranbaxy laboratories, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals, Aurobindo ...

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