Dutch Pharma Firm to Invest $500 mn in India
...t is used to manufacture a variety of drugs. The facility was inaugurated by the Netherlands Ambassador to India Eric F. CH. Niehe and Punjab's Minister for Technical Education R.C. Dogra. N.V. Ramanna, vice president of the Dutch company, said the present size of the plant was 2,000 tonnes and would be e...Babies at Hospital found to Carry Super bug MRSA
... a building cost of about £113m to build, the new facility opened its doors to the East Lancashire public on 8 July. Lynn Wissett, director of clinical care at the hospital, said: "The clinical condition of the babies is not affected and all are doing well. However, as a precautionary measure, these babies...Pertusis scare at a maternity hospital
.... This woman was working at the women and babies facility of Royal Prince Alfred in Camperdown. The Sydney South West Area Health Service had confirmed the diagnosis, last night. 'When diagnosed the staff member ceased all contact with patients and families immediately,' the department said in a statement...Medicos Suspends Anti-quota Stir
...ands of patients, many of whom come to the premier facility from various corners of the country. "My wife has been suffering from ulcers and relatives in Patna told me to come to AIIMS but I was refused treatment yesterday. I have come again today, but it is a futile effort as they stopped registration at 1......ith cancer, and is the first complementary therapy facility to be built on the campus of a comprehensive cancer center. Perez, who first became involved with aromatherapy to help relieve the physical pain and discomfort caused by fibromyalgia, shares her professional knowledge of the basics of aromatherapy,...Flying Eye Hospital Brings Hope for Eye Patients in Africa
...ogramme. The aircraft, converted into a teaching facility with a clinic for laser treatment and an operating theatre, travels to developing countries, where the ORBIS team performs surgeries with a view to training doctors in the country visited. Tissue was taken from the patient's leg and used to give th...Major Hurdle towards Development of Bird Flu Vaccine in India.
...r of the technology, none of them has the required facility to cultivate the virus. According to scientists the live virus, which is presently in their possession, cannot be transferred to a lab below BSL 3 status because the virus may slip into and mix with an open environment thereby creating havoc. Lab...Delhi Government Clears Healthcare Projects Worth Rs.1.13 bn
...e for setting up a treatment, storage and disposal facility at an estimated cost of Rs.112.2 million. The Supreme Court had directed the government to develop a site for treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous waste. Source-IANS...Madras Medical College to have a Centre for preventive cardiology
...Ramachandran. Proper utilization of telemedicine facility should be done, said Mr. Parithi Ilamvazhuthi, Minister for Information and Publicity. There were speeches by the Health secretary V.K.Subburaj; Director of Medical Education P.Vijayalakshmi; Dean of Madras Medical College Kalavathi Ponniraivan; K....Military Hospitals Need To Be Prepared To Treat Children
... on the children treated at one level III (medical facility in a combat area) hospital in Balad, Iraq, from Ja...ts with concrete floors, linked by a corridor. The facility has a staff of 420 and can accommodate up to 24 intensive care unit beds and 80 additional beds; up ...‘Search and Destroy’ operation against dengue mosquitoes in Philippins
...hould be brought immediately to the nearest health facility so they can be checked at once.” Dengue is widespread in the Philippines. It is a water-borne disease transmitted by mosquitoes. High fever lasting for 2-10 days, headache accompanied by loss of appetite, vomiting, red skin rashes and abdominal pa...HIV Test Before Marriage To Be Made Voluntary In Goa
...e healthcare. We will be introducing tele-medicine facility in the rural areas which will connect the rural centres to the apex hospital providing facilities to the needy." RAS...Kashmir Grapples with Growing AIDS
...so been reported. Unfortunately, no organised care facility exists for the patients. The Government Medical College in Srinagar and SKIMS only provide patients free medicines for opportunistic infections. While there were only three Voluntary Counselling and Testing Centres (VCTCs) earlier in the state, eig...Bankruptcy forces Hospital staff to Call For County Takeover
...the board was sympathetic to the pleas to save the facility the county doesn't have the money to even attempt to take over the hospital. He said, "It’s an important hospital. We need that emergency room. But we don’t have the money to bail it out in the short term. The county has its own problems in its own ...India's First Stem Cell Transplant Center Launched in Chennai
...asised. LifeCell's cord blood stem cell banking facility at Keelakotaiyur in Tamil Nadu has been set up at a cost of Rs.140 million. Source-IANS...NDDB Launches Economical Hepatitis-B Vaccine
...ured by Human Biologicals Institution (HBI) at its facility in Gachibowli, will be sold under the band name Elovac-B. NDDB, the parent company, owns Indian Immunologicals Ltd (IIL), of which Human Biologicals Institution forms a part. Managing Director, IIL, Mr. K.V. Balasubramaniam, while addressing the med...Does Exercise Before Hip Replacement Help?
...r odds of discharge to an inpatient rehabilitation facility by 73 percent. "The potential economic implication of this finding is noteworthy and should be examined in future studies, particularly with the rise in inpatient rehabilitation use," the authors note. The exercisers were also more likely to walk mor...AIIMS Campus - A Breeding Ground for Mosquitoes
...ious flaws within India's best known public health facility - often touted as the largest in Asia - with 26 resident doctors, medical students and staff being admitted to the hospital with the mosquito-born disease. More shockingly, a seventh semester student of AIIMS, Kamal Raj Kiran, died due to dengue la...LA County gives Approval for Reform Plan for King-Drew Medical Center
...its makeover. The dire straits of the Willowbrook facility is attributed to its failure of the crucial federa...e sent elsewhere in the county health system. The facility is planning to retain 114 patient beds and also an emergency room and expand its outpatient services......ce overlying this sac of fluid. "Virtually no OB facility in the United States routinely uses general anesthesia; in fact, its use is limited to very rare clinical settings," Lockwood said. "General anesthesia increases the risk of maternal aspiration pneumonia and of obstetrical hemorrhage," because the an...