PIL Raises The Issue Of Spurious Drugs
...iled by Lakhpat Raj Mehta, who lost his son due to administration of spurious injection of the drug `Imipenam' at KEM hospital in Pune in March 2002. Mehta had taken his two sons, Aman and Alpesh to the hospital following a minor mishap. He purchased the injection from KEM hospital's drug store. But the shot produ...Venugopal Should Not Have Gone Public: Ramadoss
...hen he had become the Health Minister, the lack of administration in AIIMS was visible. He had taken steps to tone up the administration. The charges against him were a 'continuation' of the anti-quota stir of last month, he said. (Source:PTI News)...Stern Action will be Taken Against 'AIIMS Coterie' warns Ramadoss
...d in public. "It is wrong to say that day-to-day administration was affected by my interference," he said, counter...they were responsible for the face-off between the administration and the government over AIIMS' autonomy. The AIIMS faculty met Thursday and accused the minister o...Two doses of chickenpox vaccine more effective
... in schools. In their estimate, a two-dose vaccine administration would be effective in offsetting an outbreak, compared to just a single dose....Over Two-dozen Children Succumbs to Encephalitis in Bihar
... district for the past few days //. The district administration has sounded a high alert to check the spread of the killer disease. The children reported sudden light fever in the early morning, which was followed by bouts of unconsciousness and convulsion leading to their death. Civil surgeon Ramnagina Prasad ...Demonstrations by staff in medical college against violence by external agencies
...eople unleashed violence in the casualty ward. The administration now is taking steps to check overcrowding of the w...s are not taken. A joint meeting of all staff and administration concerned decided that stoppage of entry for some would be the answer to the problem. Unrestricted e...Two Public Health Schools In Delhi & T.N.
...people have been affected in the past year. The administration has claimed that they have everything under control. There is a rush for Paracetamol and painkillers in government hospitals. The collector of Salem N Madhivanan explained that it was not a killer disease, and at the maximum a person would suffer for...New Way To Combat Spinal Cord Injury during Aortic Surgery
...perfusion injury, Dr. Wei's team demonstrated that administration of diazoxide prevented hind limb paralysis. All animals treated with diazoxide prior to clamping of the aorta retained mobility in their hind limbs, though hopping was impaired, in sharp contrast to complete hind limb paralysis in all untreated anima...Voluntary Error-Reporting System Ensures Patient Safety
...ing made us look for possible interventions on the administration side.’ Researchers reviewed data collected over 19 months via a voluntary error-reporting system that was in use at the Children’s Center from 2001 to 2004. They analyzed all 1,010 medication errors entered into the system between July 2001 and Jan...Infants Malarial Risk Lowered by Preventive Measures
...ior attempts at prevention that relied on frequent administration of antimalarial drugs were unaffordable in the lon... in Mozambique and Spain explored the intermittent administration of the antimalarial sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) to infants in their first year. Infants given SP ...AIIMS medical Superintendent confirms that salary release has not been permitted
...strike period. Communication to this effect by the administration happened because of misrepresentation of facts,'' added Dr. Sharma....Bush Administration to Exempt Medicaid Recipients on Proof of Citizenship
...uestionable. According to the rule declared by the administration on Thursday "Self-attestation of citizenship and i... In an unusual preamble to the new rule, the Bush administration said it believed that Congress had intended to exempt Medicaid beneficiaries who were also receiving...Stern action against AIIMS Medicos, warns Ramadoss
...nt, while the final order was still awaited. "The administration of the AIIMS has been going down the drain," he said, adding the current action was a step in bringing things into order. The minister said those AIIMS faculty members who were against him had earlier complained to him about the director. "Two mont...FDA warns against the use of products that claim to treat erectile dysfunction
The U.S Food and Drug administration has issued a warning to consumers to stay away from products touted as succors for sexual problems, allegedly capable of enhancing// the sexual experience. According to the FDA, these products contain many harmful elements, which may trigger a host ...Intermittent Treatment Found Effective In Malaria
...f pregnant volunteers, the preventive value of the administration of the anti-malaria intermittent treatment on moth...and a blood test was made a month after the second administration to assess the potential toxicity of treatment and the possible hepatic damage. After a temporary fol...Gujarat High Court Quashes Admissions to K M Shah Dental College
... and Justice T A Mehta today held that the college administration had not conducted the entrance tests and admission process in a fair, tranparent and non-exploitative manner," said advocate Paresh Upadhaya, who argued the case on behalf of two students who had filed a case against admission process followed by the...18 Die of Japanese Encephalitis in Upper Assam
... children died of the disease even as the district administration swung into action to take preventive measures, the...o civil hospitals and nursing homes. The district administration is planning to depute a special team of doctors in the two districts to prevent the disease from ass...Patent for Seminal RNAi innovation Cleared in Australia
... 3, 2006. Gary Kowalczyk, Carnegie's director of administration and finance, remarked: "The work by Drs. Mello, Fire, and others is widely recognized as the seminal intellectual property in the field of RNAi, and we are pleased that the process of granting a patent in Australia will now move forward. We look forw...Health Ministers Conference on July 30
...ollowing widespread outbreak of chikungunya. "The administration wants to ensure that panchayats are kept in preparedness to initiate preventive measures against communicable diseases like malaria, filaria and chikungunya," he told reporters here. A sum of Rs 8.40 crore crore had been released for buying fogging ......nosed with tuberculosis of the brain. The Meerut administration has come down heavily on the juvenile jail following their discovery that and discovered that no weekly health check ups have been conducted for the last two months. Manvender added, "On June 30 they did inform the CMO that no doctor has been comin...