India to Upgrade 13 Medical Institutions to Provide Quality Medical Education
In a bid to upgrade tertiary healthcare infrastructure and provide quality medical education, the government will upgrade 13 institutions in the country// at a cost of Rs.15.6 billion, it was announced Thursday. The decision was taken at a meeting of the Cabinet Committee on Ec...Cardiogenic Shock is the Leading Cause of Death for Heart Attack Patients
...lthough aggressive therapy is increasingly used in tertiary care hospitals, which have sophisticated invasive ...eed to be put into an ambulance and transferred to tertiary care centers where they can receive appropriate care. Doctors usually have to accompany these patien...New Research May Be Useful for Developing Drugs for HIV and Cancer
...protein chain. This causes the protein to lose its tertiary structure or overall shape. For these molecules, shape is an important property that enables the protein to carry out certain biological functions. The process, active site displacement, involved design of a platinum drug with higher affinity for t...Australia In Search Of A Better Way to Handle Critically Ill Patients and Balance Elective Surgery
...lia said that overcrowding is very common in large tertiary hospitals in Australia. Due to this more than 1300 Australians die each year waiting to be treated in or admitted to public hospitals. This situation is moving from bad to worse. Professor Sprivulis told the press that studies of more than 60,000 a...Time For Jodhpur Residents To Have A Health Check: New Hospital Coming Up
...dical Sciences (AIIMS) proposes to construct a new tertiary care hospital in Jodhpur following the consent of the Government to provide land for construction.// The hospital would be built with all ultra-modern facilities. The Central Arid Zone Research Institute (CAZRI), engaged in research dealing with ...Systemic Corticosteroid Therapy can be used for treating all types of Infectious Mononucleosis
...ontinue to be used on a much broader scale at this tertiary care institution and this observation suggests that clinicians see value in SCT for treatment of IM beyond the classically accepted reasons. Moreover, despite previous reports of possible adverse consequences of SCT in IM, our review failed to demons...Mushroom found to be a source of a new antibiotic: Plectasin
...nia nigrella. Plectasin has primary, secondary and tertiary structures that closely resemble those of defensins found in spiders, scorpions, dragonflies and mussels. Recombinant plectasin was produced at a very high, and commercially viable, yield and purity at the Danish biotechnology company Novozymes. Du...Cardiac Disease May Be Hazardous In Pregnancy
...gement of pregnant women with cardiac disease at a tertiary care hospital in India. During the study, published in the International Journal of Gynecology & Obstetrics, volume 82, out of a total of 9365 deliveries (?Y28 weeks gestation age) conducted for a period of six and a half years, cardiac disease was...Age Can Changes Symptoms Of Sinusitis
...h inflammatory paranasal sinus disease at a single tertiary care facility. The term inflammatory paranasal sinus disease is used to encompass CRS, CRS with polyposis, recurrent acute rhinosinusitis, barosinusitis, mucoceles or mucopyoceles, and antral-choanal polyp. The patients were divided into three groups...A Call To Open Up The Channel Of Goodwill To Rescue The Dying Hearts
...t all the suffering children gain access to modern tertiary care which would not happen until a vigorous awareness programmes are conducted through out the country. Source: IANS...Healthcare sector is now a multi billion-dollar industry in India
...lth care in most parts of the country. It asks the tertiary health care sector to be left to the private sector. Pointing out that there was a huge shortage of hospital beds, low density of doctors per person, the study stressed on the need to reorient healthcare strategy and strengthen linkages between gover...Doctors operate upon patients in candlelight- latest from the quake scene
...treated by shifting the patients out of Gujarat to tertiary medical centers. Due to a scarcity of X ray machines, many fractures had to be treated without x rays. There were no recovery rooms available after surgeries. Open verandahs were used as makeshift recovery rooms and operation theatres to conduct caes...