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HIV infected patients can travel safely abroad

Many HIV infected patients, apart from suffering the social neglect and being unwanted even by near and dear ones have this major handicap - they just can’t travel like the other people - wherever they want and whenever they want. Some people just avoid having HIV infected co passengers. Others are just indifferent. Leaving the ethical issues aside, it is very difficult for these victims...

NBE to conduct test for medical students from abroad

National Board of Examinations has decided to conduct tests for any Indian doctor having graduated abroad avid of starting a practice in the country, to ensure a higher standards amongst doctors, the government has made it compulsory from //the 15th of next month official sources said today. The new regulations, which were published in the Indian Gazzette yesterday, specify that...

What's up Doc? You are wanted abroad.

The West better beware, yet another form of outsourcing that could become a potential threat. It’s the turn of Indian doctors now. It began in a small way with medical tourism some years ago, // but now Indian doctors are going one step further, they are flying out during the weekends to perform surgeries. And returning with bulging pockets. "The demand is particularly high durin...

Warning Issued by FDA on consumption of the drug Tysabri used to treat Multiple Sclerosis

Recently the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a public health advisory to inform patients and health care // providers about the suspended marketing of Tysabri (nataluzimab) the drug meant to treat relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis (MS) which was approved by the FDA in 2004. FDA supports the decision to voluntarily suspend marketing of the drug as well as the use of the...

FDA Issues Public Health Advisory on Tysabri, a New Drug for MS

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today issued a public health advisory to inform patients and health care // providers about the suspended marketing of Tysabri (nataluzimab) while the agency and the manufacturer evaluate two serious adverse events reported with its use. Tysabri, which received accelerated approval from FDA in November 2004, is an innovative treatment that repre...

Multiple Sclerosis drug, Tysabri banned due to neurological disorders

Tysabri, which is used in the treatment of Multiple Sclerosis (MS), has been withdrawn from market after the two patients taking the drug complained of neurological disorders. The relationship between the drug and // Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy (PML) is being researched by the scientists. If the drug is deemed to pose a significant risk, it could be a serious setback for th...

Indian Ayurveda in troubled waters abroad.

Ayurvedic medicines exported from India to Canada have run in troubled waters. An alert has been sounded on 18 types of Ayurvedic medicines by the Canadian government. // The action has been taken because the samples which were tested contained heavy metals like lead, mercury, arsenic much beyond the permissible limits. The reason was that most of the medicines did not h...

Hwang Woo-Suk Apologizes For Fabricating Research

Hwang Woo-Suk, the disgraced scientist from South Korea has formally apologized for fabricating research in his stem-cell studies. "I ask for your forgiveness," he said// in a televised press conference in his first public appearance in three weeks. "I feel so miserable that it's difficult even to say sorry." Two days earlier, a Seoul National University panel investigating Hwang conc...

Debra Winger Wants Indians Abroad To Help Visually Impaired

Debra Winger, the Hollywood actress who is promoting eye care will be approaching Indians living abroad to help the visually impaired people living in India. Even though the country has a very high number// of visually impaired people, 80% of them can be cured, according to Debra Winger. Winger, who at the age of 17 met with an accident that left her temporarily blind, but she came ou...

Yoga The Stress Buster For Lalu and Rabri

Lalu Prasad and his wife Rabri Devi, both former chief ministers of Bihar, have found a new way to beat stress - yoga lessons conducted by a disciple// of popular guru Ramdev. Sources in Lalu Prasad's Rashtriya Janata Party (RJD) said he was suffering from stress after the loss in the Bihar assembly elections in November. Senior RJD leader Anwar Ahmad, a close associate of L...

Eye Patches Could Delay Healing In Corneal Abrasions

Dr. Angus Turner of the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital in East Melbourne, Australia says that simple corneal abrasions need not be treated by patching the eye.// Doing so might actually slow healing and does not reduce pain, a new review of several studies has found. “The abrasions on the eye normally don’t affect vision too much, so it is pointless rendering a patient acutely mon...

Plan to Promote the Medicare Facilities of India to Abroad

India's fast-growing medical tourism industry is set to get a further boost with two companies coming together to market the entire range of medicare facilities overseas//. Global Medicare, a healthcare consultancy, and Uday Tours and Travel, a leading travel firm, have signed an agreement to endorse super-specialty medical facilities in the US, Britain, South Africa, Canada and the Mi...

UK Patients Seek Fertility Treatment Abroad Due To The Long Waiting List

In UK couples go abroad in order to undergo fertility treatment. The main reason for not taking it up in their own country is that there is a long waiting list and the second the right of anonymity for UK donors //were removed by a law. Hence European fertility clinics are flocked with UK customers. But the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority (HFEA) is warning people about th...

Scientist Convicted As His Claims Were Found To Be Fabricated

In 2004 Hwang Woo-suk a South Korean scientist claimed that he had produced stem cell lines from cloned human embryos. But later it was found that the scientist an expert// in cloning techniques have faked his stem cell research. Thereafter he was charged for fraud and embezzlement. He has used the grant given by the government and by the private committees for his personal reason. He is...

Long Patient Waiting Times Force NHS Patients To Seek Treatment Abroad

Looks like it is time for impatient patients to travel abroad rather than wait for weeks or months to get treated// for their ailments. Recently, a woman won the right to claim compensation from the NHS for a hip replacement surgery done abroad. In yet another case, a 63-year-old British woman who traveled elsewhere gave birth to a baby, after prenatal diagnostic tests confirmed absence o...

Malayali Nurses - Lifeline of Keralites Abroad

Malayali nurses, known for their enterprise and dedication, have led their families to far away Europe and most today are the sole bread earners with their men content to play// house-husband. One could just twist the adage 'Behind every successful man, there is a woman' - to read - 'There is a nurse behind the success and prosperity of each family' to suit the European Malayalis. <b...

When Her Lot is maligned by HER-2, Staying Abreast is Imperative

HER 2 is out of the closet, as a virulent breast cancer strain that can be won over only with awareness, timely detection, and early treatment//. Among the many types of breast cancer, HER2, an aggressive type of breast cancer is detected in almost one in 5 women. HER2, which represents the human epidermal growth factor receptor 2, is a protein manufactured by a particular gene that t...

Kerala to Promote Medical Tourism With Road Shows Abroad

Kochi: In its efforts to promote Kerala as an ideal destination for medical tourism, the state's tourism department plans to hold// road shows in the US, Britain, Dubai, Muscat, Kuwait, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. "A policy is required for this because it has to be systematic and we have asked the CII (Confederation of Indian Industries) to give inputs to the draft of the policy and...

Cancer-hit Geelani to Travel Abroad for Specialized Treatment

Kashmiri separatist leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani, diagnosed with renal cancer, is awaiting his travel documents to go to the US or Britain// for specialized treatment. The chairman of the breakaway faction of the Hurriyat Conference underwent a biopsy and other medical examinations at the Apollo Hospital here Monday. "Doctors have diagnosed that Geelani suffers from severe...