Tag: "renamed" at medical news

International Conference On Malaria - 'Laveran To Genomics'

... was told that the Malaria Research Centre will be renamed as National Institute of malaria. Government is planning to introduce a new combination drug to combat malaria due to increased resistance showed by the parasites against the drug Chloroquine. The new drug combination consists of combining sulfoxid...

Merck, ICMR to conduct joint trials on cervical cancer vaccine

...he Indian Research Fund Association (IRFA) and was renamed ICMR in 1950, soon after Independence, on the recommendations of the health survey and development committee, headed by Sir Joseph Bhore. It has a network of 26 research institutes and over 70 field stations in various parts of the country, and has a...

'Fishy' Medicine Stirs Controversy

...he turnout in recent years, the Bathini family has renamed the fish medicine as 'prasadam' (holy offering) this year. Like in the past, the government is making elaborate arrangements for the event at the sprawling Exhibition Grounds. However, Jana Vignana Vedika and the Indian Medical Association want t...

Administration of Fish Drug for Asthma Patients Begins in Andhra

...ng in queues for their turn to take fish medicine, renamed as fish 'prasadam' or holy offering by Bathini Goud family to avoid any controversy. The administration of the medicine, touted as a wonder cure for asthma, began at 3.42 p.m., the time fixed by astrologers, after family members offered special 'pu...

Integrated Disease Surveillance Project Soon In The Country

...a premier disease control institute of Atlanta and renamed National Centre for Disease Control to back the project. 'We will be putting in a lot of money. We are banking on this project in a big way,' he said. Ramadoss said diarrhoeal diseases, the second biggest killer after respiratory diseases, claimed ...

Govt to Shift its Focus From Curative to Preventive Mode of Healthcare

...ute of Communicable Diseases would be expanded and renamed as National Centre for Disease Control, the minister said. The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will soon be made a separate department in the health ministry, which will be re-christened as ministry of health & family welfare and medical ...

LA County gives Approval for Reform Plan for King-Drew Medical Center

...as unanimously approved by supervisor and would be renamed Harbor-MLK Community Hospital on March 1. All of its staff would have to reapply for jobs, and it would be stripped of specialty services. No layoffs were planned. Officials said that doctors and other staff who don't make the cut at King-Drew will ...

Asthmatics Arrived in Hyderabad to Take Fish Medicine

...o put an end to the alleged fraud, the Goud family renamed the event as 'prasadam' or holy offering. "It is our belief that the medicine cures asthma and the patients too believe in its efficacy. That is the reason they have been coming for more than 150 years," said Bathini Harinath Goud. The family has...

New Coffee Brand to Hit the Market by This Year-end

... robusta variety. The 100-year-old CCRI is to be renamed as the Indian Institute of Coffee Research (IICR)....

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