Vasan Group to Open Eight Specialty Eye Hospitals
...here, with seven more in the offing. The Chennai facility has been set up in collaboration with K. Premraj, ... managing director of Prems' Eye Clinic. The first facility would have 70 specialists. The Vasan Eye Care Group has earmarked a Rs.450 million investment for...Canada Funds State-of-art Infectious Disease Lab in Kenya
...rchers who will use the facilities. "This is one facility that will help in a small way, but it is a bold an...ers and those in partnering countries will use the facility to conduct research, respond to infectious disease outbreaks and promote global public health. Sou...Rapid Flu Testing Decreases Antibiotic Use in Hospitalized Adults
...ts with documented influenza hospitalized at their facility during four winters (1999 to 2003). Of these, 86 patients tested positive for influenza on rapid diagnostic testing and 80 either tested negative or did not receive the test. Fewer patients with positive influenza test results were receiving antibi...Army Dental Corps to Get Multi-speciality Unit
...the groundbreaking for this here Thursday.// The facility will come up with the campus of the Army Hospital ...l Services), Lt. Gen. Paramjit Singh, said the new facility was a dream and vision of his predecessors for an institution par excellence in the armed forces tha...Gender No Bar-Heart Attacks Target Everyone
...be treated by a specialist, transferred to another facility for treatment or receive procedures such as angioplasty to open up clogged arteries or cardiac bypass surgery. Says Dr. Beth Abramson, a Toronto cardiologist and foundation spokeswoman,“For years it was assumed that this occurred because women were...Pharma Major Ind-Swift to Enter US, Japan
...Laboratories is all set to start its manufacturing facility in the US and make a foray// into the Japanese drug market. Ind-Swift Laboratories has completed United State Federal Drug Authority (USFDA) inspection for its Clarithromycin active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) manufacturing unit, its managing d...Arsenic Compound Effective in Treating Rare Leukemia
...rials, the largest number of participants from any facility in the New York metropolitan area – and the second largest nationwide. The study involved 582 patients nationally over six years -- from June 1999 through March 2005. It was sponsored by the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute. ...Special Delivery Unit for Pregnant Moms With Birth Defects in Fetus
...est experience and expertise will have the premier facility for treating those babies and their mothers.” This is the first delivery unit at Children’s Hospital and the first special delivery unit in a children’s hospital dedicated to high-risk pregnancies. Dr. Adzick believes the new unit will provide an e...Whirling Disease Causes Culling of Thousands of Trout
...in Maryland 12 years ago, in a state trout-raising facility in the North Branch of the Potomac. The fish being held in nets until large enough for release, had apparently picked up the parasite from wild trout in the river. The department has asked that those catching fish follow certain precautions to redu...Minister Supports Private Sector In NHS
...de to wait and they are being treated faster. This facility is useful to people from both the rural and urban setup. Though there was some kind of apprehension when the change had commenced, it is well understood now. People realize now that the private sector in NHS has actually benefited patients immens...Srinagar Plagued by Stray Dog Menace
...r's SMHS hospital, the Kashmir valley's only major facility for treating such patients. Source-IANS...Pigs Arrive at Bio-secure Center
...om the approximately 100 pathogen-free pigs at the facility will be used for transplantation into diabetes pat...executive officer of the Spring Point Project,“The facility has to meet certain requirements. Animals are housed under conditions without infectious agents. It ...Natural Antibiotics Yield Secrets to Atom-level Imaging Technique
...a high magnetic field solid-state NMR spectrometer facility and an NIH-funded program. Source-Eurekalert...DU Test Finds UK Troops Uranium Free
...to ascertain the extent of contamination. ‘Our facility has used this test in the monitoring of more than 400 UK veterans of the 1991 Gulf War, under the testing programme administered by the Depleted Uranium Oversight Board over the past two and a half years a testing programme that is nearly finished.’...US Consulate to Start Hyderabad Operations Next Year
...ly next year and is expected to have a permanent// facility in five years time. The US government has urged ...nment has offered 10-acre sites near the Microsoft facility at Gacchibowli and near Wipro at Gopanpalli. US officials are expected to finalise one of these loca...A New Drug That Could Help Alcoholics
...tute, a world-renowned California-based biomedical facility and Ely Lily, a drug company, claims to have come up with a chemical// that would help prevent relapses and reduce the effects of hangovers. The synthetic compound, called MTIP, blocks the action of the brain chemical Cortico tropin-Releasing Facto...Gates Foundation, MMV Plan To Fund Malaria Research Center in UAE
...nter because the government is willing to host the facility and promote collaboration between the public and private sectors. The Gates Foundation has not chosen the exact location for the research center, which is still being planned, Brewer said. Ali Shakar, undersecretary at the health ministry, said the...Hospital Equipment Unaffected By Cell Phone Use
... stand on the matter, he says, so that health care facility policies can be altered when appropriate. Soure-Newswise SRM...Poison Control Training and Research Centre at Chennai
The government of Tamilnadu has set up a facility in Chennai, the state capital, for treatment of poison victims of any// kind. Called Poison Control Training and Research Centre, it has been located in the nodal government hospital. It can handle emergency situations like mass poisoning. It would...Obstetrical Anesthesia Equally Safe When Provided by CRNAs or Anesthesiologists
...percentage of Medicaid patients cared for at their facility when staffing for obstetrical anesthesia," Simonson added. The study involved 134,806 patients, including 33,236 who were cared for at hospitals whose OB anesthesia was staffed by CRNAs only, and 101,570 who were cared for at hospitals staffed by a...