Chennai in Medical News

Harvest Technologies Announces Interim Study Results From Critical Limb Ischemia Trial in Chennai India

PLYMOUTH, Mass., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvest Technologies Corp. ( www.harvesttech.com ) announced today that the interim study report was completed for the first thirty (30) patients in the clinical trial of patients suffering with non-reconstructable critical limb ischemia due to advanced...

Date Rape Drug Seized at Chennai Airport

Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 50 kg of Ketamine Hydrochloride and arrested two persons in this connection//. Technically it is a veterinary anesthetic, but is increasingly as a date rape drug. A press release from the DRI said following a tip off, two passen...

New Screening Techniques for Cervical Cancer in Chennai Government Hospital

A digital video colposcopy training center and cervical cancer screening program will be inaugurated Thursday at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital// (KGH) at Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu. Colposcopy is a diagnostic tool to determine the cause of abnormalities found in Pap smears. ...

First Exclusive Women’s Clinic Launched in Chennai By Apollo Hospita

In line with the International Women’s Day celebrations, an exclusive women’s clinic has been launched by the Chennai-based Apollo hospitals. Ms. J. Jayalalitha, State Chief Minister, inaugurated the well women health care center on Wednesday. // The health care center would cater to nearly a...

IT Raids Target Chennai Doctors And Hospitals

The IT department raided on Wednesday doctors and hospitals in the global healthcare destination of Chennai to net an estimated Rs 100 million.// Six hospitals in Chennai, two in Kumbakonam, 350 km from here, and the offices and residences of 14 prominent doctors were raided by 300 IT officials ...

Diligence Of Chennai Doctors Appreciated: Anbumani

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday urged the State Government to immediately take up renovation and modernisation of the 80-year-old Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Tondiarpet in north Chennai.// After a visit to the cholera wards in the hospital, Anbumani told journa...

Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute

Chennai | August 01, 2005 Chennai's Adyar Cancer Institute director Dr.V. Shanta is among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay awards. Dr.Shanta was awarded the prize for public service and her "untiring leadership of the Cancer Institute as a centre of excellence and compassion for the ...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

Medicine Shoppe India (MSI), the sole franchisee for US based Medicine Shoppe International, with operations in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Baroda and Pune, has dropped Chennai from list of its target for operations in the country. According to informed sources, MSI, which recently drew up plans to expand...

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

The Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), in collaboration with the U.K.-based Oxford Brookes University, has opened a new Glycemic Index Testing Centre in Chennai . For the people of the city that subsist on rice and its products, this is a significant development. For now scientific...

Honoring of Organ Donor Families at Raj Bhavan in Chennai

MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation has organized a function for honoring of Organ Donor Families at Raj Bhavan on 7th of June 2007. Organ donation is the most selfless gift that one human being can give to another. Since 1994 in India almost twelve hundred transplants of ...

New School of Public Health in Chennai

A new School of Public Health has been established at Kattankulathur, off Chennai, capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu//. It will be functioning as part of the SRM Medical College Hospital and Research Center. P. Sathyanarayanan, Vice Chancellor, SRM University, said the Schoo...

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 ...

Double Knee replacement for a Kenyan in Chennai

Orthopaedic surgery in Chennai attracted a visitor from the Safari country of Kenya. A 68 year old grandfather with advanced osteoarthritis of both knees underwent bilateral// knee replacements here in a city hospital. DR.A.K.Venkatachalam, a renowned Orthopedic surgeon remarked that this was t...

India's First Stem Cell Transplant Center Launched in Chennai

LifeCell, a pioneer in stem cell banking and research in India, in collaboration with the US-based Cryo-Cell Inc Wednesday announced// here the launch of the country's first stem cell transplant center at Chennai. Stem cells, obtained from cord blood cells during the childbirth, has the poten...

Eye Laser Surgery Convention in Chennai

An intraocular implant and laser refractive surgery convention got underway today in Chennai, during which Laser surgeries //will be telecast live from a private eye hospital. Over 1000 ophthalmologists worldwide are taking part in the conference. The surgeries to be telecast live from Dr Aga...

First Frontal CSF Endoscopic surgery performed in Chennai

ENT and Plastic Surgeon Dr. P. Thulasi Das and his team has performed an Endoscopic surgery for Frontal Sinus cerebrospinal Fluid (CSF) // leak to a 25 years old patient in Venkateswara Hospital in Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. The patient was suffering from meningitis. Meningitis is the inflammati...

Stem Cell Facility To Be Established In Chennai

India's Chennai based Sri Ramachandra Medical College and Research Institute (SRMC&RI), and Asia CRYO-CELL Private Limited’s LifeCell have announced a joint venture towards establishing an exclusive stem cell transplant facility in the city.// The umbilical cord blood stem cells are reported to hol...

Free Treatment Center Established In Chennai

India’s Rajan Dental Institute along with the Hong Kong Cleft Lip and Palate Unit has established a center which will provide free treatment for congenital facial deformities in the city of Chennai//. The center was inaugurated on 6 December 2005 by Professor N. Samman, Director of the Hong Kong Cl...

Heartland Information Services Again Improves in Customer Satisfaction

...h virtually any health information system and software. Heartland's corporate headquarters is located in Toledo, Ohio, with work centers in Bangalore, chennai and Delhi, India. For more information, visit www.heartlandis.com . About KLAS ((TM)) KLAS is a research firm specializing in monitor...

Doctors of Indian origin unite to tackle global health problems - the creation of The first ever Global Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (GAPIO)

... chennai - at the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in Chennai, January 7-10, a con...ion and addressing health inequalities in India. chennai (PRWEB) January 22, 2009 -- At the Pravasi Bharatiya Divas convention in Ch...

India continues to progress in AIDS vaccine development efforts

...vaccines. "We are pleased to see that the MVA-based candidate tested in chennai was safe and showed promising initial immune responses. We do not know whet...y effective prevention technologies. The successful conduct of the trial in chennai re-affirms the need for continued vaccine development initiatives, where le...

International Diabetes Federation grant supports study to prevent type 2 diabetes in India

...of lifestyle interventions for diabetes prevention to real-life settings in chennai (formerly Madras) India. The Rollins School of Public Health at Emory Unive..." said Dr. Linda Siminerio, Chair of the IDF BRIDGES Review Committee. "The chennai trial led by Dr. Narayan and Indian investigators will help to address the ...

HIV Collaborative Fund Receives Gates Foundation Grant for AIDS Treatment and Prevention Advocacy

...e South India Positive Network serves aravanigal (members of the indigenous male-to-female transgender community) and men who have sex with men in chennai with prevention services and treatment education. -- Solidarity for AIDS Organization in the Teso region of eastern Uganda, formed when no other s...

Thomson Scientific Signs Multi-Year Agreement with The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)

...son Scientific in the Asia Pacific region; the group has operations in both chennai and Hyderabad. The chennai centre combines authoritative information with innovative technologies to e...

Rohm and Haas Expands in India

...ucts and technology in this important region. The chennai facility, located in the Sriperambudur industrial ...ntal standards set by the state of Tamil Nadu. The chennai facility will also operate under the company's "21...f Maharashtra. The combined capacity of Taloja and chennai (100, 000 to 110,000 metric tons per year) makes R...

Anchoring Lives Aboard Warship: Nimitz

... After being the focus of national attention, USS Nimitz, the lead aircraft carrier of the United States, has sailed off the chennai coast . While everyone talked about the possible radiation from the nuclear reactors powering the ship and debated over if the ship had nuclear...

India's Share in Global Diabetes Research is One Percent

...pared to the US with over 100,000 articles on diabetes. All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi, Diabetes Research Centre, chennai and Madras Diabetes Research Foundation have made signification contribution in the country's diabetes research work. However, Indian industr...

Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

...inated water. Now, the Tamil Nadu Farmers' Association (TNFA) is awaiting a chennai High Court order on the issue. 'We have incurred losses in crores o...r next generation farmers. We are now waiting for a good judgement from the chennai High Court and if we are not happy with the judgement, we will stage a mass...

Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully

... A hospital in chennai has created history by successfully conducting a unrelated bone marrow tran...was out of the question due to the prohibitive cost. When friends suggested chennai as an alternative, Sarah rushed here. Howard is now eager to return...

Tamil Nadu Orders Probe into Operation by Minor

... US then his son can perform a surgery. The Manapparai branch of the IMA then held an urgent meeting and sent a report to the IMA committee in chennai demanding action against the family. The IMA, however, does not have any power to take legal action nor does it have the CD as evidence. Tiruc...

Heart Care for Disadvantaged Children With American Help

... A hospital in chennai has tied up with an American university and a NGO in the US to bring low-cost heart care to disadvantaged children in India. There are an estimated 40...

Life After Death: Organ Donation

...en knows we need them here" - Author unknown A function to honor Organ donor families was held at the Durbar Hall of Raj Bhavan in chennai on 7th of June. It was organized by MOHAN (Multi-Organ Harvesting And Networking) Foundation to felicitate the commendable contributions of a few self...

Stem Cell Treatment Offers Hope for Paralysis Patients

...ar old patients - Prabhdeep Singh, a musician from Punjab who lost the power to move after a motor accident, and Srinivas, an aspiring accountant from chennai who suffered from Transverse Myelitis (a devastating inflammation of the spinal cord that can cause irreversible paralysis), have also found hope. ...

Asthma can Be Checked, Experts are Confident

... the availability, accessibility and cost of infrastructure. The Respiratory Research Foundation of India will conduct a free screening camp in chennai the capital of the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu on May 2, the World Asthma Day, its chairman Narasimhan said. The Foundation will also d...

Heartburn Shadowing Modern India

...evalence, Kolkata 68 per cent, Lucknow (65 per cent), Mumbai (75 per cent), chennai (66 per cent), Ahmedabad (68 per cent) and Hyderabad (72 per cent). "Fo...ncer of the esophagus, is among the top three cancers in Mumbai, Bangalore, chennai and Ahmedabad. AN ...

Busting the Organ Trade Racket in Tamil Nadu

...Nadu, led to the exposure of two more hospitals in chennai involved //in the illegal organ trade; their licen...llowing the sale of kidneys by poor fisherwomen on chennai coast. Further, 13 hospitals in Tamilnadu ha...ns be blood relatives of recipients. Hospitals in chennai were seen to be flouting these rules by allowing p...

Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Claims Another Set Of Victims

... In a tragic repeat of an accident, which shook chennai city last year, two youngsters were found dead in an air-conditioned car. // Ramu, 22, and Madhavan 24, both mechanics were found dead in a Maru...

Indian Army Join to Add Strength to the Cadaver Programme

... College, London is likely to operate on a few patients and do liver transplants over the next few days. Dr.Sunil Shroff from MOHAN Foundation, chennai spoke earlier on the state of cadaver transplant in India and the way forward. MOHAN has been involved with pioneering work with the programme for the...

Patents: Appellate Board Becomes Functional

...n who has been the Controller General of Patents, Design and Trademarks. He assumed the charge of the post of Technical Member (Patents), IPAB, chennai on April 2 itself. With the appointment of Technical Member (Patents), the Board now stands operationalised. The IPAB is now fully functional f...

LondonMet Keen on Widening Research Collaborations With India

...nd even Bangladesh," Bickerton lamented. LondonMet has been working with Indian counterparts for over 15 years and has offices in New Delhi and chennai and around 400 Indian students. The University of Pune has a bio-medical programme with the university. This week, LondonMet signed an MoU with C...