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Adding Credit To The Health Care Industry In India

Hurray to the achievement of an Indian who has worked all the way to get an autonomic nervous system research laboratory at the Tirunelveli government medical college hospital. This would be the country's first teaching hospital that uses technology// developed by an Indian. Srini Nageshwar, the man behind the achievement has felt the need for low-cost equipment and speedy health diag...

Indian hospitals require International Accreditation

Quality standards and strict hygienic conditions has to be monitored by all health care industries, with growing need of hospital care and increase in number of hospitals and physicians providing the health care, the healthcare standards should me monitored for the benefit of the // patients. Due to the specialty and facilities in Indian hospitals, there is an increase in patients f...

NABH Health accreditations final draft to be released by this month

Indian Hospitals would have to apply for Health care accreditation standards that will make them compile to Quality standards and strict hygienic conditions. Healthcare accreditation has become important// due to increased number of hospitals and physicians providing health care which may lead to sub-standard treatment to patients, an accreditation system will help to monitor the quality of hospi...

A New Study Discredits The Myth Of Sexual Intercourse Late In Pregnancy Speeds Labour & Delivery

A new study that appears in the June issue of the journal Obstetrics & Gynaecology has discredited the widely held belief that engaging in sexual intercourse during the final weeks of pregnancy can accelerate labour and delivery//. The study conducted by the Ohio state University Medical centre contradicts the belief and states that just the opposite was true among the 93 women who we...

Link between Mercury based Vaccines and Autism Discredited

Recent research by Canadian scientists has revealed that vaccines that contain mercury do not increase risk of autism//. McGill University Health Center scientists examined patterns between the developmental disorder and vaccines in 28,000 children and reported their findings in the journal Pediatrics. Their research revealed that autism rates were actually higher in children g...

NewYork-Presbyterian Receives Highest Accreditation for Bariatric Surgery

The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has accredited NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital as a Bariatric Surgery Center Network (BSCN) hospital with the highest possible designation (1A),// in recognition of the Hospital's ability to offer patients the best care available. The top-level designation is a first for New York state and one of only seven nationwide. An estimated 30 percent of U.S...

Australia Mulls New Accreditation For Overseas Doctors

Australia is finalising an assessment method for the accreditation of medical specialists from abroad, but many fear it could slow down //or even block the placement of much-needed doctors and other health professionals in the country. Australian Health Minister Tony Abbott has given his support to a national scheme for the accreditation despite a new study that has cast doubts on the p...

Kerala Hospital To Get Australian Accreditation

The Kerala Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS), a leading hospital here, has successfully completed formalities for an Australian health authority's accreditation that will// help it attract patients from abroad. "A team of three surveyors of the Australian Council for Health Care Standards International (ACHSI), under the leadership of Dr. John Waller, conducted an extensive, week-...

Kolkata Hospital Wins Accreditation for High Quality Patient Care

Kolkata's B.M. Birla Heart Research Centre Friday became the first in the country to win a new government accreditation// in recognition of its high quality patient care. The National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Health Service Providers (NABH) certification "is an endorsement of our focus on quality", Suyash Borar, the hospital's chief operating officer, told IANS....

Discredited Drug may Be Used to Aid Mental Development in Down’s Syndrome Patient

Researchers who experimented with a drug used previously in the treatment of epilepsy are planning to extend the study from lab rats// to human subjects. The researchers found that the drug called pentylenetetrazole, or PTZ, when administered daily to the rats which were bred to have genetic similarities to Down’s Syndrome patients, elicited marked improvement in learning abilities. <b...