International

International community warns India on HIV situation

The International Community has warned India that it is time to treat the HIV situation as a national emergency. Experts attending the Peoples Health Assembly at Dhaka, Bangladesh , have cautioned India not to be complacent about the looming HIV crisis in the country. Rebuffing the optimistic statement of Union Health Minister, Dr.C.P.Takhur, the experts said if corrective measures are not taken...

Key step forward on International Health Rules

The global health community has taken a key step towards ensuring rapid action against future outbreaks of infectious diseases and other threats to international public health. A resolution adopted today confirms and underlines the World Health Organization’s (WHO) authority to verify disease outbreaks from all available official and unofficial sources, and, when necessary to determine the severi...

ICMR along with other International Research organisation with drug development for Neglected Diseases

Malaria, Tuberculosisand leprosy, are the world’s most neglected diseases along with diseases such as kala azar(leishmaniasis),sleeping sickness( human African trypanosomiasis)and Chagas disease, that afflict the deeply impoverished in developing countries and account for 90% of the global disease burden however ironically, a mere 10% of global health research is devoted to these diseases.//...

International Osteoporosis Research Centre To Be Started In India.

Avestha Gengraine Technologies (Avesthagen) of India is collaborating// with Clinical and basic Research and Industrialization fund for Developing Countries (IFU) of Germany for Osteoporosis research. This joint venture is estimated of 5 million euro. Avesthagen said “"The alliance will cover diagnosis, treatment and prevention of osteoporosis and related bone disorders.” The research studies rel...

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...

International Conference On Malaria - 'Laveran To Genomics'

International conference on malaria was held to mark the 125 years of discovery of Malarial parasite in Algeria on November 6th 1880 by Charles Louis Alphones Laveran for which he was awarded the Noble Prize in 1907.// The inauguration meeting was attended by various scientists, Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss, Minister of state Health and Family Welfare Panabaka Lakshmi and other delegat...

Delhi To Host International Women’s Congress From Nov 2

Delhi will play host to 800 women from 55 countries who will be the fourth International Congress on Women from November 27. // The four-day international congress titled "WWH-2005" (women, work and health) will be held for the first time in South Asia. The earlier meetings were held in Barcelona (1996), Rio de Janeiro (1999) and Stockholm (2002). Among its main objectives, th...

International conference on Ayurveda to be held on Kerala

On the global ayurveda submit to be held on Friday about 100 delegates are proposed to participate from all parts of the world like Russia, Italy, Brazil, Britain and south Korea//. Scientist and research scholars of all leading Indian university and academic institutions will participate in the three-day submit of global ayurveda meet. On the eve of the birth century celeb...

International Teleradiology: The Future Of Radiologic Diagnosis

International Teleradiology can soon offer a solution to the silent prayers of numerous radiologists whose eyes crave for nothing more than a good night’s sleep. // It is not an uncommon sight to find patients being subjected to middle of the night CT scans or other forms of radiological examinations following arrival at the emergency department. Such examinations have no doubt yielded the neces...

John Mendelsohn M.D, chosen for an International Award

The president of The University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, John Mendelsohn, has been chosen as a co-recipient of a 2006 Dan David Prize// . This announcement was made in Paris, for his path breaking research in Cancer Therapy. The Dan David Foundation which is located at the Tel Aviv University distributed these annual awards which consist of three prizes of $1 million each...

Thailand To Procure Botulism Antitoxin Internationally

BANGKOK - Thailand has received emergency shipments of botulism antitoxin from Canada, England and the United States after an outbreak of the disease// in which more than 100 villagers in Thailand's northern Nan province contacted botulism after they consumed contaminated bamboo shoots prepared in a traditional manner. Thawat Suntrajarn, the head of Thailand's Disease Control Department...

International Rating System To Be Introduced For Hospitals In India

In order to curb medical negligence and bring in more accountability, India will soon launch an international rating system for hospitals//, according to the top officials of the government. "As per our suggestions, the health ministry has already set up a committee to look into the matter. Through an accredited body, hospitals will be rated throughout the country," said consumer affai...

An International Growth Standard For Childs Releases By WHO

Nutrition, The World Health Organization WHO has recently released its first-ever international growth standards for infants and young children. // The United Nations health agency found that all children are similar in how they develop if they are adequately nurtured and they claimed that the new guidelines were created to help make that happen. The W.H.O. says it now has scientific...

Astronauts Spacewalk On The International Space Station – NASA Report

The first spacewalk was successfully by two crewmen in the early April. Followed by them two astronauts finished up their maintenance jobs on the international space station within 6.5 hours on Thursday. // In 2001, a spacewalk was scheduled by 8 hours and 56 minutes. Except for a video camera to be fixed for another was left undone which is placed on a transport platform....

Fourth international urogynaecology conference on Jun 16

Chennai, June 10. Evolution of new methods of treatment in Urogynaecology will be the focus area at the fourth International conference and live workshop on Urogynaecology and Reconstructive pelvic surgery, that begins here on June 16. // A live televised demonstration of a pelvic surgery, being conducted at Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital (KGH), will be held on the occasion....

International Food Standards Meet Set For Chiang Mai Bangkok

Thailand will host a week-long meeting on the Codex Committee on Nutrition and Food for Special Dietary Uses (CCNFSDU) // , becoming the first Asian host for the meeting focusing on international food standards to benefit consumers, a senior Thai official said. Dr. Charal Trinvuthipong, advisor to Thailand's Agriculture and Cooperatives Minister said some 350 delegates from 169 member...

Venus Remedies Files 5th International Patent Application

Pharma company Venus Remedies Ltd today said it has filed its fifth International Patent application for its latest antibiotic fixed dose combination used in the treatment of Cystis Fibrosis. // The new antibiotic combination, active against multi-resistant strains of both gram- positive and gram-negative bacteria and provides a broad-spectrum coverage of bactericidal activity, it inf...

Center Launches New International Stem Cell Research Institute

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center this week launched an International Stem Cell Research Institute that will conduct both adult and embryonic stem cell research. // The academic medical center also announced the arrival of renowned Israeli developmental geneticist Nissim Benvenisty, M.D., Ph.D., as the institute’s co-director along with David I. Meyer, Ph.D., vice president of Research and S...

XVI International AIDS Conference To Be Held In Toronto In August

The conference on AIDS, which is held every two years in various cities around the world, is being held in Toronto this year from the 13-18 of August. // The conference, ‘AIDS 2006’, which is the largest of its kind in the world, will feature 20,000 participants from across 120 countries. This conference, whose theme this year is ‘Time to Deliver’, besides being a forum for the world’s...

Goa to Host International Vegetarian Congress

India will host the 37th edition of the International Vegetarian Congress in Goa from Sep 10.The six-day congress, organised by International Vegetarian Union//, will discuss the challenges vegetarians face across the globe. Jashu C. Shah, president of the Asian Vegetarian Union, said in a statement that the congress would help participants understand India as a country where vegetarianism is a w...

International Conference on The Costs And Benefits of HIV/AIDS Interventions in Developing Countries to be hosted by Harvard

According to UNAIDS, the available funding for 2006 was $8.9 billion against the need of $14.9 billion. The shortfall forces the national governments to find strategies to maximize the treatment and prevention strategies for their citizens. // The conference will attempt to address the issue through cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis. The conference, which will be held Wedn...

MedRP International Signs MoU with Kochi Based Info Vision

MedRP International, a medical staffing firm providing healthcare professionals to the medical community throughout the US, Monday entered into an agreement with// Kochi based InfoVision IELTS Training Center. The memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed between the company's Asia-Pacific Operations, vice president Peter Deane and P.M. Shaji of InfoVision, at a function held at th...

Vietnam Gets First International Standard Vaccine Plant

Vietnam’s first vaccine manufacturing plant meeting international Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) standards was inaugurated// reported the Central Epidemic Prevention Institute. The US$33 million plant, located in Hanoi, can make vaccines against hepatitis B, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, diarrhea, and typhoid. The Republic of Korean government loaned the project $28....

Two Day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine Inaugurated

Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss, Health & Family Welfare Minister has said that to shut out traditional medicine products on arbitrary technical barriers in the name of safety would be// against the interest of patients and consumers. Dr. Ramadoss was speaking at a two day International Conclave on Traditional Medicine, which he inaugurated here today. He said that in the global society we live in today, a...

International Collaboration Takes Aim at Rabies

The Massachusetts Biologic Laboratories (MBL) of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) and the Serum Institute of India today announce //the formation of an historic collaboration to bring to the world a new, more cost-effective approach for preventing rabies in people. The institutions will collaborate to test and manufacture a new monoclonal antibody (MAB) created by...

Indian Scientist Sues International Genetic Centre for $5 Million

Lawyers of a senior Indian scientist have asked the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (ICGEB) in New Delhi to pay $5 million in// compensation to their client for alleged "mental torture, violation of fundamental rights, denial of rights to live with dignity and liberty and causing damage to his reputation". Events leading to the unprecedented litigation i...

First International Gene Screen for Typical ALS Is on Track

The largest-scale search for genes that underlie sporadic amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common form of the disease, has crossed its first hurdle with the// successful compiling of genetic information on more than 1,000 patients and controls. Researchers in the study, supported by The Packard Center for ALS Research at Johns Hopkins, the National Institute of Neurologica...

New International Study to Test Exercise in Heart Failure Patients

Cardiologists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are helping to lead a large international study // involving 83 other sites that will test 3,000 patients in an effort to determine whether exercise really is good for heart failure patients. Though doctors have promoted the value of exercise for a variety of disorders for years, “exercise training has not been definitively...

Patrick Walsh Wins International Medicine Prize

Patrick C. Walsh, M.D., who served for 30 years as the director of the Johns Hopkins Brady Urological Institute, has been honored// by the Saudi Arabian-based King Faisal Foundation for his pioneering work in the area of prostate cancer research. Prince Khalid Al-Faisal, member of the Saudi royal family and director of the King Faisal Foundation, announced the winners of this year’s K...

Hearing Impaired Student Captures International Performance Award

Yew Choong Cheong, a West Virginia University student who plays and studies classical piano despite a loss of hearing, recently won the 2007 International Young Soloists//Award given by VSA arts. The international, nonprofit organization was founded in 1974 by Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith to create a society where all people with disabilities learn through, participate in and enjoy t...

AMSA Hosts International Health Conference

The Australian Medical Students’ Association (AMSA) is hosting the 56th General Assembly of the International Federation of Medical Students’ Associations (IFMSA).// Medical students from 70 different countries will travel to Perth on March 7 for the commencement of the biannual conference. AMSA is honoured to be hosting such a premier event, held last year in Santiago, Chile. <br...

International Conference On Thoracic Cancer To Be Held In Jordan

Jordan is to host a symposium on Thoracic cancer, reportedly the countries number one cancer killer. The conference is supposedly expected// to have specialist comprising of radiation oncologists, thoracic surgeons, radiologists and investigators. These experts are flying in from United states of America, Arab and several European countries. The symposium is held to discuss the latest findings i...

International Study Finds Ways to Maximize Effective Responses After Terrorism Incidents

A multi-disciplinary panel of blast-related injury experts from eight countries that have recently experienced terrorist attacks examined// and discussed their emergency medical response to blast events and identified common issues that could be used by others to enhance preparedness. The represented countries included: Colombia, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, United Kingdom, United States, Spa...

International Health Security to Be Tackled on World Health Day

Singapore, Acute threats to health in a globalized world are the focus of World Health Day Monday when political, business and opinion leaders gather here to highlight the need for collective action. // A high-level debate between Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, Norway's Minister of Foreign Affairs Jonas G...

India to Collaborate With International Vaccine Institute

India is all set to sign an agreement with the International Vaccine Institute (IVI) situated// in Seoul, capital of South Korea. The union cabinet has given its assent to the move. The agreement will encourage cooperation between India and the IVI. The country would now be able to play a role in the formulation of all international policies related to vaccines. The IVI is...

New International Health Regulations to Enter into Force Tomorrow

The revised International Health Regulations (IHR) will enter into force on Friday. The regulations consist of a comprehensive and tested set of rules and procedures, which envisages making the world more secure from threats to global health. The revised regulations were agreed by the World Health Assembly in 2005 and represent a major step forward in international public health s...

World Environment Day (International Polar Year)

- (Genesis 8:22, The Bible ). Our environment has been under threat for quite sometime now. Needless to say, we, the people, of this planet earth, are to be blamed. Global warming is threatening the Earth's endurance and our very exis...

International Day Of Action For Women's Health - 2007

The International Day Of Action For Women's Health falls on May the 28th, every year...

Sanctions Imposed On Zimbabwe Can Threaten International Health Security

Zimbabwes Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr. David Parirenyatwa, says that the illegal sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the West have severely compromised the country's health delivery system. Parirenyatwa is appealing to the ongoing World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland, to join the country in calling for the unconditional lifting of these sanctions. He calls the sanc...

Sports Physiotherapy Boosted by New International Qualification

Sports physiotherapists can now study online for an international-standard qualification thanks to the first course designed to meet the practice competencies set by the International Federation of Sports Physiotherapy (IFSP). The distance learning programme developed by the University of Bath is now accepting applications from practicing physiotherapists for the start of the progr...