NIV in Medical News

Vet Dies Of Suspected Bird Flu, Samples Sent To NIV

Experts fear that the death of an Akola-based 50-year-old veterinary surgeon could be due to bird flu. Samples of his organs have been sent// by the public health department to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) based at Pune to confirm the suspicion. The veterinary surgeon was deployed...

ATS Medical Announces First Use of the New ATS CryoMaze 10-S Probe

...se of the new ATS CryoMaze(TM) 10-S Surgical Cryoablation Probe for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. The cryoablation procedure was performed by niv Ad, MD, Chief of Cardiac Surgery at the Inova Heart & Vascular Institute in Falls Church, Virginia, a premier heart center in the United States. ...

ATS Medical Announces Participation in the International Society for Minimally Invasive Cardiothoracic Surgery Meeting

...will include "Rationale for a Complete Cox Maze III Biatrial Lesion Set" by niv Ad, MD, "Robotic Stand-alone Atrial Fibrillation Surgery: the ECU Experienc... Invasive Stand-alone Atrial Fibrillation Surgery: the INOVA Experience" by niv Ad, MD, and "Ablation of the Ganglionated Plexi: Fact or Fiction?" by Ralph...

Drug blocks two of world's deadliest emerging viruses

...ease in humans, with a devastating 75 percent fatality rate. More recently, niv outbreaks in Bangladesh involving human-to-human transmission have focused attention on niv as a global health concern. The researchers, based in Weill Cornell's pe...

Drug blocks 2 of world's deadliest emerging viruses

...ease in humans, with a devastating 75 percent fatality rate. More recently, niv outbreaks in Bangladesh involving human-to-human transmission have focused attention on niv as a global health concern. The researchers, based in Weill Cornell's pe...

ATS Medical Announces Participation in the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Thoracic Surgeons

... previously announced the first Frontiers in Cryoablation Symposium to be held in conjunction with the AATS on Sunday, May 11 with James Cox, M.D. and niv Ad, M.D. co-moderating the program. Titled "Current Techniques, Robotics and the Future of Minimally Invasive Cryoablation," the symposium is sponsore...

AtriCure Reports Fourth Quarter and Full Year 2007 Record Financial Results

...) bipolar ablation system when used to treat patients undergoing concomitant open-heart surgery. The principal investigator of the ABLATE trial is Dr. niv Ad, the Director of Cardiac Surgery Research at Fairfax Hospital Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery in Fairfax, Virginia. "As one of ...

Gynecologists Get First Hands-On Experience With Simbionix LAP Mentor(TM)

...pic pregnancy and tubal sterilization. "Simbionix invests heavily in bringing surgeons the most advanced laparoscopic simulation possible," explains niv Fisher, Simbionix VP of R&D. "The technological challenges met by Simbionix' R&D group are both vast and unique". The module uses Simbionix's new prop...

Twenty-two Chikungunya Cases Confirmed in Maharashtra

... "There are reports of 25 suspected cases of the deadly viral fever in neighbouring Sangli district and we have sent their blood samples to the niv in Pune for confirmation," said Iyengar. Health department officials said joint health director and chief of the chikungunya control mission, ...

Bird-Flu: A Child and Two Adults, Quarantined At Jalgaon

...00 cullers, who had effected the culling operations, have been isolated for a week, as per WHO rules. After a week, their blood samples will be sent o niv and upon clearance, they can head back to their places. ...

WHO Commends India's Bird Flu Response

...for strengthening the testing facilities, "We will be doing this by upgrading three regional disease diagnostic laboratories to relive the pressure on niv (National Institute of Virology, Pune) and NICD (National Institute of Communicable Diseases, New Delhi)," said Indian Council for Medical Research ch...

Bird Flu Test Results Negative: India

...s no human case of avian influenza till now. "Ninety-five samples have been tested at NICD (National Institute of Communicable Diseases) Delhi and niv (National Institute of Virology), Pune. Ninety had tested negative up to 21.2.2006. Four more have tested negative. One sample is still under test and...

Launch Of India’s First Virology Course At Pun

...ed institute has launched a course offering specialization in virology. The niv and the Institute of // Biotechnology and Bioinformatics of the University ... The two-year Master of Science (M.Sc.) course in virology, launched by the niv in July, is the first of its kind in the country. There has been no such sp...