Indian in Medical News

Prairie Island Indian Community Supports Fight Against Diabetes Locally and Nationally

Donates to American Diabetes Association Welch, Minn. (Vocus) May 29, 2009 -- The Prairie Island Indian Community understands the serious health issues that are associated with diabetes. Type 2 diabetes among Native Americans in the United States is 12.2% for those wh...

Sanofi-Aventis' and Roche/Chugai's Drugs Will Dominate the Indian Colorectal Cancer Drug Market Through 2013

Indian Oncologists Are Starting to Embrace Use of Targeted Agents Despite Their High Cost, According to a Report from Decision Resources WALTHAM, Mass., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Decision Resources, one of the world's leading research and advisory firms focusing on pharmaceutical and healthca...

Local Physicians of Indian Origin To Offer Free Health Screenings at The Hindu Temple of Canton

Number of Needy Citizens Expected to Increase over Previous Years DETROIT, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- The 7th Annual Health Fair sponsored in conjunction with Oakwood Annapolis Hospital and the Michigan Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (MAPI) is scheduled to be held from 9am to 1pm on ...

Mylan Announces Intention to Purchase Remaining Interest in Matrix Laboratories and Delist Matrix from Indian Stock Exchanges

PITTSBURGH, March 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mylan Inc. (Nasdaq: MYL ) today announced its plans to purchase the remaining interest in Matrix Laboratories Limited from minority shareholders pursuant to a voluntary delisting offer. Mylan, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, currently owns approx...

Ohio Patient Thanks India and WorldMed Assist For Heart Surgery Overseas; His Indian Surgeon Thanks U.S. for Superb Training

Henry Konczak logged on to www.WorldMedAssist.com to help him find the surgeon in India his U.S. cardiologist recommended. Just three weeks later, he was out of ICU with his mitral valve replacement overseas completed. He's now home and enjoying his new lease on life. ...

FDA Halts New Applications From Indian Drug Maker's Plant

Agency says Ranbaxy Laboratories facility falsified scientific data WEDNESDAY, Feb. 25 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health officials have halted the review of any new drug applications from a Ranbaxy Laboratories plant in India after determining the facility was falsifying scientific data...

Hispanic Leaders Tout Indian Point

CORTLANDT MANOR, N.Y., Feb. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hispanic business and community leaders including the Brooklyn Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Hispanic Energy Coalition expressed their strong support for the relicensing of Indian Point Energy Center at a Nuclear Regulatory Commi...

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 consortium of health care professionals was created - GAPIO - the world's first comprehensive health care organization with an emphasis on improving health provision and addressing health inequalities in India. ...

United Health Foundation Provides $45,000 for Scholarships to the American Indian College Fund for Arizona Healthcare Students

DENVER, Dec. 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Minneapolis-based United Health Foundation announced its commitment to American Indian education and desire to help solve health issues in Indian Country by donating $45,000 for nine $5,000 scholarships to the American Indian College Fund in support of ...

Top Indian Cancer Hospital to Introduce Advanced Radiosurgery Treatments With Novalis Tx from Varian Medical Systems and BrainLAB

MUMBAI, India, Oct. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- One of India's leading cancer hospitals will expand its program of advanced whole-body radiosurgery with the acquisition of a Varian/BrainLAB Novalis Tx(TM) radiosurgery platform. Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai is currently constructing a new facility t...

J.D. Power and Associates Reports: A Vast Majority of Southern California Indian Gaming Casino Customers Express Desire for a Smoke-Free Environment

Barona Valley Ranch Resort and Casino Ranks Highest in Satisfaction With the Casino Experience in Inaugural Study WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A large majority -- 85 percent -- of gaming customers at Indian casinos in Southern California report that they woul...

Jailed Indian Pediatrician Wins 2008 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights

WASHINGTON, April 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Global Health Council is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2008 Jonathan Mann Award for Global Health and Human Rights is Dr. Binayak Sen of Raipur, Chhattisgarh, India. Sen, a physician who helped establish a hospital serving po...

Statement By Robert McSwain, Acting Director, Indian Health Service, Regarding National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2008

WASHINGTON, March 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following release is being issued by the Indian Health Service: March 20, 2008 marks the second annual National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. This day gives us another opportunity to recognize that HIV/AIDS is a critical and growing health...

Activist Groups' Plea to Indian Prime Minister: 'Rollout Second-Line AIDS Treatment!'

NACO Centers Report 100,000 Patients on First-line ART; Advocates Press for Second-line Access NEW DELHI, India, Nov. 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is being issued by AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF): As part of its ongoing global campaign to improve access to lifesaving AIDS...

EmPower Research Launches Indian CRO Industry Report

NEW YORK, Oct. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- EmPower Research, LLC, a pioneer in the field of Business Research and Information Consulting, launched its first-ever study on the Indian Contract Research Organization (CRO) industry on Saturday. The report titled 'Indian Contract Research Industry' (CRO-ni...

Mira Nair Takes AIDS Message to Indian Cinema Halls

Indian American film director Mira Nair has joined India's top directors in a project to show short films on the impact of the Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) before the screening of Bollywood blockbusters. Nair said she got the idea of this collaboration of filmmakers to raise a...

Cheap Indian Medicines Illegally Flooding Pak Markets

The illegal inflow of affordable Indian medicine into Pakistan is continuing unabatedly through green channels because of their huge price difference in the two countries. According to the Daily Times, passengers coming from India prefer carrying cheap drugs, as the prices of Indian drugs ...

More Indian Doctors Questioned in Australia as UK Terror Plot Inquiry Widens

Indian doctors continue to bear the brunt of police inquiries as focus shifted to Australia. Investigators trying to unravel the hands behind the foiled terror attacks in UK raided two hospitals in Western Australia and also quizzed five doctors of foreign origin, four of them Indian. Ho...

Government Policies and Booming Economy Keep Indian Healthcare in Top Shape

With the demand for healthcare services set to more than double in the next five to ten years, the Indian healthcare industry appears ripe for investment. A robust economic reform process and inflated healthcare budgets have attracted big ticket foreign investments in several sectors, such as phar...

Millions Spent, but the Indian Capital's River Still Stinks

From a boat on the Yamuna River that flows past India's capital, it's easy to spot bubbles of fetid gas sent up to the water's surface by rotting sewage -- and that's after at least 350 million dollars has been spent on cleaning it up. Now, with New Delhi to host the Commonwealth Games in ...

Mr. Bean's Merchandise to Hit Indian Markets

Merchandise related to popular film and television character Mr. Bean will soon be available in the South Asian markets, including India . Toonz Licensing, Mr Bean's licensing agent for India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal has inked an agreement with Tiger Aspect Productions to bring the ...

Afghan Couple Turn to Indian Sperm Banks for Help

Kashmiri sperms stocked by Indian sperm banks are at a premium among Afghan couples, reports say. However much Islamist or Talibanized, infertile Afghan couple do scout around for sperm donors and invariably land in India. Ironically it is perhaps the never-ending conflicts, sparked by Is...

South Asians Seek Bone Marrow for Young Indian American

Diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, a young Indian American is hard put to find a matching bone marrow donor by July 10 as very few South Asians are listed in the US Bone Marrow registry. Since 28-year old Vinay Chakravarthy was diagnosed with a disease known as Acute Myelogenous Leu...

Extradition Nears for Indian Origin Rogue Surgeon Dr. Death

Australia's Minister for Justice and Customs, David Johnston, has confidentially approved the extradition of Indian origin rogue surgeon, Dr. Jayant Patel from the US. The move is likely to trigger Dr Patel's arrest in his hometown in Oregon, where he has been living since he fled to the U...

Brazil Opts for Indian Drugs Bypassing Merck

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has allowed his country to ignore US pharmaceutical giant Merck's patent on AIDS drug Efavirenz and opted for a cheaper generic alternative from India. With a decree he signed Friday, Brazil will be able to import generic versions of Efavirenz fro...

The Forgotten Indian Medical Genius

Yellapragada SubbaRow, an Indian from Andhra Pradesh in the 1940s pioneered path-breaking research in the US in biochemistry, helping to bring to humankind some lifesaving drugs widely used today. The admirers of Yellapragada SubbaRow, a name very few Indians would be familiar with, say he...

Doctor of Indian Origin Honored by California

The California state assembly has honored a graduate of the All Indian Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in recognition of his contribution to improving access to healthcare. Anmol Mahal, president of the California Medical Board (CMA), was honored with the Excellence in Medicine Award...

Bird Flu: Bangladesh Situation Serious, Indian on High Alert

The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned against the bird flu situation in Bangladesh and said it is "serious". The country needs a long term strategy to control the deadly H5N1 strain, the FAO said. Though no cases of human infection have been reported in Ban...

British Doctors Want Indian Immigrants Screened for TB

Amidst rising incidence of tuberculosis in Britain, senior doctors here want all immigrants from the Indian sub-continent to be screened for the disease. The doctors want the screening to also include immigrants from Africa. The Observer reported Sunday that two new outbreaks, in L...

Climate Change Signal Detected in the Indian Ocean

'From ocean measurements and by analysing climate simulations we can see there are changes in features of the ocean that cannot be explained by natural variability',said CSIRO oceanographer Dr Gael Alory. 'These oceanic changes are almost certainly linked to changes in the heat structure o...

British Doctor’s Pat for Indian Hospital

A retired consultant of Britain's National Health Service (NHS) has angered health officials here by stating that his wife got much better treatment// in India than in Glasgow. Consultant Mark Ziervogel, 70, and his wife Toni, 66, are keen cyclists and had gone to Rajasthan in February when T...

Red Wine Good for Nothing, Say Indian Doctors

Dismissing the widely held theory that red wine is good for health, leading Indian doctors Tuesday said// that no one in the world has proved the positive side of either the red wine or any category of alcohol. Scores of leading doctors assembled in the national capital to participate in a na...

Ancient Indian Herb May Prove Cure For Recurrent UTI

A Duke University scientist has come out with a possible herbal cure for urinary track// infection (UTI). Soman Abraham and team from the Duke University Medical Center found that the herb called forskalin or commonly known as the Indian Coleus plant, can significantly reduce UTI as well as h...

India Assures Help to Doctors of Indian Origin

The Indian government has assured assistance to doctors of Indian origin who are unable to find work in the National Health Service (NHS) in London due to changes in immigration rules. // Thousands of Indian doctors have been affected by the changes that make it difficult for non-European Uni...

Six More Quality Health Care Canters Proposed by Indian Government

The Indian government proposes to set up quality hospitals on the model of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, in Patna//, Raipur, Bhopal, Bhubaneshwar, Jodhpur and Rishikesh under the Pradhan Mantri Swastha Sureksha Yojna (PMSSY), Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare An...

Researchers Study Health of New Zealand's Indian Community

Researchers at Massey University here are carrying out a study on the health of South Asian women, especially among its large Indian community//, to see whether changes in diet affect their health. The research is led by doctoral student Pamela von Hurst from the university's institute of foo...

British Indian Doctors Win Another Reprieve

Doctors of Indian origin have won yet another reprieve in the ongoing recruitment to trainee jobs in Britain's National Health Service (NHS). //The health authorities has agreed to remove a restrictive clause in rules applicable to non-European Union doctors. At the high court, the Department...

Five Million Indian Women Suffer Mental Illness

New Delhi: The National Commission for Women has stressed the need to revamp the Mental Health Act 1987, in the light of the increasing number of mentally ill women// ; nearly five million women in India are grappling with mental illness. "Mental health in 21st century is a great threat. We ...

UK Indian Doctors Obtain Injunction Against New Rule

Doctors of Indian origin obtained an unprecedented emergency injunction Sunday against a new criteria laid down by the Department of Health. The new law potentially// restricted the employment chances of several non-European doctors in the current round of recruitment to the National Health Service...

French Psychiatrists to Study Indian Value System

Indian belief and knowledge are great healers and 140 French psychiatrists and psychotherapists are currently in Delhi to study this value system. // "The Indian value system and family support play a vital role in dealing with mental health issues and we are here to know more about it," sai...