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Medical Curriculum in India to change says Health Minister

... curriculum”. The other thing that he proposes is setting up is four drug-testing laboratories at New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai at an initial investment of Rs 120 crore. "A taskforce, which would look into different aspects of drug quality in the Indian system of medicine, would be headed by direc...

HIV treatment interruption may enhance the risk of brain injury

...tive marker of axonal injury, which in the present setting seems to disclose subclinical injury. Three of a total of eight subjects studied after stopping antiretroviral therapy showed substantial increase in CSF NFL, thereby indicating brain injury in this setting. This study, while raising the concern th...

Avenues to opened for medical tourists following relaxation of visa regulations

...edical visa, the Government is now working towards setting up a National Accreditation Health Board to accredit hospitals to ensure quality healthcare. “Hospitals are already getting patients from abroad and the Government is now trying to regulate this for maintaining international standards in our medica...

Strategies to prevent the rising tide of the epidemic of chronic diseases

... article lists the country’s efforts in areas like setting up of the national programme for prevention and control of diabetes and cardiovascular diseases and efforts to identify action pathways and partnerships for implementing the Global strategy on diet, physical activity and health. The article conclud...

Women might be at increased risk of HIV during pregnancy

... cannot generalise these findings beyond the Rakai setting and it would be important for other investigators to verify them. However, if women are at increased risk of HIV acquisition during pregnancy, these findings present a public-health problem, both for the mother and possibly for her unborn infant. It ...

Biologicals Transfer Proposal between US and Indian Biotechnology

...an biotech companies concludes that 20 years after setting up DBT, India still has no clear definition of biotech. “Everything from fermentation to aquaculture and sericulture to bio fertilizer is clubbed under biotech, resulting in sub critical funding,” India needs ‘to set priorities in the R&D work progra...

Aromatherapy: Ambient odors of orange and lavender reduce anxiety

... the natural essential oil of orange in a clinical setting and extended it to the essential oil of lavender. The study further found that exposure to music in a dentist's waiting room has an intermediate effect.In conclusion, the study supports the traditional use of essential oils in altering emotional stat...

Development of kidney disease in adults with pre-diabetes

...sion. Data from this study suggest that CKD in the setting of pre-diabetes might be thought of as an additional complication of macrovascular atherosclerosis. However, the researchers assert that clinical trials are warranted to determine whether vascular risk factor modification can slow the decline of ki...

Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy can be used for treating all types of Infectious Mononucleosis

...ceptance in the medical literature that SCT in the setting of IM [infectious mononucleosis] should be reserved for patients with impending airway obstruction, corticosteroids continue to be used on a much broader scale at this tertiary care institution and this observation suggests that clinicians see value ...

Panic disorder may coexist with epilepsy

...s partial seizures with a psychic content. After setting out the four clinical signs defining it (suddenness, automatic nature, great intensity and strangeness), the authors made an extensive review of the literature in search of scientific information to support the hypothesis, which reveals a wealth of c...

Reports of Hantavirus infection in India raise concerns

...n in India. Working or living in a rodent infested setting or breathing dust after cleaning rodent droppings/ nests increases the chances of exposure to the virus. This is a significant study. Though the infection appears mild, who knows there may be cases of severe infections also, Anoop Misra, Professor, D...

Two screen test and treat screening for cervical cancer

...woman developing cervical cancer in a low-resource setting is approximately 2 percent to 4 percent. Screen and Treat Program: Cytological testing for cervical cancer is useful tool in diagnosing cervical cancer in women but due to the high cost of the test it has become less affordable by the economically ...

ADB Report Warns of Bird-Flu Catastrophe

... could kill 3 million people in Asia, economically setting the continent back by almost $300 billion, causing a recession in the world, the Asian Development Bank has warned. // The bank examined in a report the likely effects on the region if bird flu produces a human pandemic that hacks consumer demand, ...

Northeast To Get Mega Rural Health Mission

...he minister said. He said there were proposal for setting up more medical, dental, and nursing colleges in the northeast where the 39 million people faces the challenge of accessing primary healthcare facilities. "The government healthcare system was able to cater to just 20 percent of the demands and th...

IT Professionals Turn To Ayurveda

...set up in 1941 and has played a pioneering role in setting standards for the ayurveda industry in the state as well as in the country. --IANS...

Pakistani Quake Survivors Face Outbreak Of Diarrhea

...ernment of Pakistan in repairing the water supply, setting up adequate sanitation facilities and providing emergency healthcare to those affected," he said. Vandemoortele also noted the importance of basic hygiene education for those living in the camps, to help reduce the threat of diarrhoeal disease. He...

High Hopes Pinned At Hungarian Bird Flu Vaccine

...and Russia are considering buying the know-how and setting up factories themselves, he said. Experts fear that the H5N1 virus is on the verge of undergoing mutation, thus making it easier to spread from birds to humans. In the event of this happening the impact worldwide would be tremendous, experts say. An...

A Change In Lifestyle Can Help In Weight Reduction

...r delivering lifestyle modification therapy in the setting of primary care practice. Participants in the lifestyle modification therapy group attended a total of 30, 90-minute group meetings. During the meetings participants were instructed to complete and share weekly assignments, which included keeping d...

Wockhardt Group Plans Hospital In Delhi By End-2007

...oup plans to invest Rs.5 billion ($110 million) in setting up the three hospitals while exploring opportunities in other cities. "Our target is to create community-centric hospitals which we hope would be acceptable and beneficial to the community," said Bali. "We have already proved this in Mumbai, where ...

Dentists Not Lured By Golden Hello Scheme In The UK

...ractice in which someone has retired. They are not setting up new practices," a BDC spokeswoman was quoted as saying. In the past few months, the shortage of dentists has been acutely felt by the NHS in the UK. Although several schemes have been introduced, there has been minimal progress towards solving t...

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