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Tag: "destination" at medical news

Heart-Assist Device Gives Culver City Man a Good Quality of Life

...he Food and Drug Administration in 2002 for use in destination therapy, permanent support for end-stage heart failure patients who are not eligible for heart transplantation. Heiner, 57, a former prop man in the entertainment industry, has a history of cardiomyopathy, in which the heart becomes enlarged and le...

Pakistani Doctors Behind Bars for Illegal Kidney Removals

...accommodation. Pakistan in recent years became a destination for 'medical tourism' owing to lax medical controls and the relatively low cost of treatment. Kidney transplants cost as little as $5,000 compared with $100,000 charged in the US. The Pakistani Parliament is now working on legislation that will r...

Cemetery Tourism, the New Catchword in US

...er of historic cemeteries to rebrand themselves as destination necropolises for weekend tourists! As Americans choose cremation in record numbers and structures are going to seed or have fallen victim to vandalism, Victorian cemeteries like Laurel Hill and Green-Wood in Brooklyn are doing whatever they could t...

Fidel Castro Appeals for Investment in Health Rather Than in Arms

...n." "The holocaust of the species is precisely the destination of that sophisticated ship," noted the Cuba head of State in his article entitled "The English submarine." The president criticized the investment of billions of dollars on this device, which can sail without refuelling for 25 years. Castro stre...

Ramdev Starts Yoga Camp in Shimla

... prepared on the outskirts of this popular tourist destination for the week-long course that ends May 22. Organisers said some 10,000 people, including Himachal Pradesh governor V.S.Kokje, attended the first day of the course. The state transport department has made special arrangements to run buses to take ...

Sylvester Stallone Regrets Smuggling Banned Substances to Australia

...lex society and knowing the rules of your intended destination is of paramount importance. During court proceedings in Sydney on Wednesday last Stallones counsel Philip Boulten said, This is not some back-alley body builder dealing covertly with some banned substance in some sort of secret way, this was a legi...

China to Replace France as World's Top Tourism Destination by 2014

...ected to replace France as the world's top tourism destination by 2014. Experts interviewed by a foreign news...ected to overtake France as the number one tourism destination in 2020, is now tipped to do so six years earlier, according to the World Tourism Organisation. X...

Mealaka Virus Will Have a New Name

... "an insult" to Melaka, which is a popular tourist destination because of its historical sites. "Melaka is a good state, beautiful and peaceful, not the birthplace of diseases," The Star daily quoted him as saying. Ali said the state government would lodge a formal protest with Malaysia's health ministry. ...

Interview With a Surgeon Hidden Hero of the NHS

...h could hinder the growth of India as a healthcare destination is the wide differences of the health status withi...xtent to which it has a draw on its potential as a destination for health care. The micro-environment of high end healthcare providers are indeed well thought of, ...

Filipino Mothers Go Bare Protesting Against Milk Formula Companies

...k the country's "reputation as a stable and viable destination for investment." Research has shown that babies given breast milk develop fewer respiratory and intestinal diseases, and those given formula have a greater chance of developing asthma, allergies and obesity, the WHO has said. According to WHO stud...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

...ts from unrelated donors have a new hope and a new destination for the cure. It is the first time that an unrelated transplant of stem cells and bone marrow for patients with advanced leukaemia and bone marrow failure has been done in India. A host of reasons contributed to the delay in the procedure being mad...

Kerala Government Battles With Chikungunya On All Counts

.... Alappuzha district of Kerala, a favorite tourist destination with its popular houseboats appears to be worst hit with the maximum Chikungunya deaths. The other tourist destinations affected by the disease are the districts of Kottayam, Ernakulam, Kollam and Thiruvananthapuram. For those who wait for the soun...

Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

... not sparing any efforts to promote India as a hot destination for medical tourism," says Frost & Sullivan Research Analyst Konda Reddy. "It has increased the budget outlay toward the development of medical tourism centers across the country." By increasing public healthcare expenditures to 2.0 percent of the ...

Indian Fashion Beckons International Models

...houettes as well as becoming a profitable business destination for international buyers. Indian fashion designe...els reckon India to be fast becoming a top fashion destination of the world. They feel that working here will help them not only in gaining knowledge about this co...

Bat Virus Renamed After Protests from Malaysia State

...the tourism industry in Malacca which is a popular destination for foreign visitors. "We will rename the virus if we can as we do not want to tarnish the good name of the state," Health Minister Chua Soi Lek was quoted saying by The Star newspaper. "We may name it according to the (actual) place where the pa...

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