Authors Review Astrodome Medical Response to Hurricane Katrina
...ting exhibit hall materials— workers had created a facility including 65 examination rooms. Over the next 2 weeks, the Katrina Clinic saw more than 11,000 of the estimated 27,000 evacuees seeking shelter in the Complex. Clinic staff wrote nearly 17,000 prescriptions, performed nearly 600 x-rays and other radi...Orissa Confirms First Dengue Case
... said Jena. "Since the immunoglobulin (IG) test facility is not available in the state, we sent his blood sample to the New Delhi-based Dr. Lal Path Labs. The report reached us on Sunday and confirmed that he is suffering from dengue," he added. Jena said this was the first case of dengue reported in the...Children's Hospital to get New Unit
...uthmead hospital next April.// The purpose-built facility will include 16 individual cubicles and one four-bedded bay. In addition it will also include "bedside beds" for parents and a new play area. This is the latest move which is part of the plan to centralize children's health services so that young pat...Apollo Eyes Expansion in Kolkata, Opens Ayurveda Clinic
... has also initiated expansion work at its existing facility on the Eastern Metropolitan Bypass. Around Rs.50...ernative medicare units would be housed in the new facility spread over a 72,000 sq ft area, he said. The group, which operates 32 hospitals, mostly in the s...Isotopes For Cancer Treatment In India
...llation of a modern cyclotron based proton therapy facility for cancer treatment in India. High intense beam ...mography) isotope known as Fluorine-18 here. The facility is coming up on a 5.2 acre of land given by the West Bengal government for this highly beneficial an...Canada proudly showcases state-of-the-art Public Hospital in Ottawa
...ntre which offers// psychiatric care and research facility was openedThe $132 million, 400,000-square-foot facility puts 188 inpatient beds to public last week. This hospital prides in being the first public hospita...China's First Gay Health Clinic Commences Operations
...un to act fast to control the spread. To provide a facility to the multitudes// of gay citizens, The Chinese government has opened up the first ever gay health clinic. The clinic will be administered jointly by the Disease Prevention and Control centre and an HIV/AIDS volunteer group. This move by China is ...PM promises forward-looking IT, electronics policy soon
...uring policy."Expressing hope that the Flextronics facility for manufacture of electronic hardware and equipment would help to make this township a world-class manufacturing hub for IT and electronics, the prime minister pointed out that several other major projects were in the process of being set up here.Th...Bernard Rimland, the Pioneer of Modern Autism Research Dies.
...loria Rimland said the psychologist died at a care facility in El Cajon after battling with prostate cancer. Earlier it was considered that Autism was caused in a child as a result of the uncaring attitude of the mother. Rimland published a book in1964 named "Infantile Autism: The Syndrome and Its Implic...Wellington Rest Home Shuts Down Due To Norovirus Outbreak
... Norovirus infection. The Ryman Healthcare-owned facility denied on discussing any details of the outbreak and said that it had already contacted the Health Ministry. Wellington medical officer of health, Annette Nesdale said: “We are still awaiting test results that would confirm the presence of norovirus,...School Vaccination Program to Include Cancer Drug Gardasil
... ages of 18 and 26 will also be able to avail this facility through their GPs for the next two years. The prime minister ,in a message to the public mentioned that the government is only glad to make this expensive, yet effective vaccine to the public at subsidized rates .The projected cost of the program is...Kerala Hospital To Get Australian Accreditation
...lity in Healthcare (ISQua) to undertake healthcare facility accreditation around the globe. With the completion of the ACSHI process, the KIMS has developed and implemented a firm system of patient care based on infection control and safety. It also helped in creating a culture of evidence-based approach to...Kashmir To Get Cancer Hospital
...be added as the institute evolves into a high tech facility of medical excellence offering super specialty care in areas like trauma control, gynaecology, ophthalmology and ENT. 'Besides offering the most modern allopathic treatment, the hospital will make efforts to educate the general public about the cau...Reliance Group to Develop Specialty Blood Products
... and Virus inactivated plasma - in its pilot scale facility in Mumbai. The new facility is expected to be operational in the second half of 2007, said Subramaniam. On Nov 29, a hemophili...India to Set Up Nicotine-Mapping Laboratory
...er a 2003 decision. "Currently we don't have the facility to test it and the new lab will enable us in our endeavour," he told reporters here. The minister said the laboratory would be the first of its kind in South and Southeast Asia but did not give a time frame within which it would be built. "A lab ...... Veterinary Molecular Biology and MSU's microarray facility helped establish the role of a second pathogen protein that makes one strain of Toxoplasma especially dangerous. "Type I strains are extremely important to human medicine as they are disproportionately responsible for inflammation of the brain in AI...Findings on Dangerous Parasite, Toxoplasma Gondii Published
... Veterinary Molecular Biology and MSU's microarray facility helped establish the role of a second pathogen protein that makes one strain of Toxoplasma especially dangerous. "Type I strains are extremely important to human medicine as they are disproportionately responsible for inflammation of the brain in A...Chandigarh to Screen Mothers, Children for Genetic Disorders
...shortly. While poor people would be provided the facility free of cost, a nominal fee of Rs.100 would be charged from others instead of the actual cost of the test of Rs.1,000, an official spokesman said here. The administration has also decided to procure equipment to start screening of thalassemia and s...Now Vedic Mantras to Cure Diseases
...would certainly get a better and cheaper treatment facility without any side-effects", said Ramdev Sharma, an Ayurvedic doctor. "The project is in a preliminary stage and will only take off in the next couple of months. We expect good results", Vinod Shastri of the University of Rajasthan, told IANS. "Eac......anizations and private sources. A special online facility will be provided for accessing the library. The library will be completely air-conditioned with separate spaces and stacks for children, students and researchers. "It will be an important learning centre for all national and international ayurvedic...