Specialty

All Specialty Care Treatments Will Be Offered At Belle Vue.

In Kolkata Pradip Tandon the Chief of Belle Vue Clinic told the press that the clinic will be converted to a hospital by 2006. In this project Rs 30 crores is invested to transform this // clinic into a 200 bed hospital with all the health care facilities. A plastic surgery unit is also to be opened under the same roof with an investment of Rs 1 crore. He emphasized...

Inhospitable Response Curtail Growth Of Specialty Hospitals: United States

According to Bruce Wilson, a Milwaukee Cardiologist, and Chief of the Specialty Hospital in the United States, the Health Care System is in dire need of a shot in the arm.//Specialty Hospitals thought of as an answer to the ills of prevailing healthcare systems, was nipped in the bud, owing to vested interests and inadequate support. Wilson, in an opinion write-up in The Wall Street Journal, has...

Apollo to Open Super-specialty Hospital in Oman by Year-end

India's Apollo group of hospitals is all set to open its 100-bed super-specialty hospital in Oman by the end of this year//. A report in the Times of Oman newspaper quoted Apollo Medical Centre (AMC) managing director V.T. Saileswaran as saying that the hospital would become the first of its kind in the private sector in Oman. The centre is expected to fill the gap between...

Envisaged Specialty Training Programme For Junior Doctors Encounters a Speed Breaker

A UK-wide Specialty training programme, aiming to Modernize Medical Careers, for Junior Doctors is facing a stumbling block, even before the commencement of the program//; Doctors from Scotland have sought a clarification mainly about logistics, specialty subjects and whether doctors will be given the option of choosing a convenient location. They have put up these requests in a letter addressed...

Reliance Group to Develop Specialty Blood Products

New Delhi: Reliance Life Sciences, the biotechnology venture of Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Group, is developing specialty plasma proteins or blood products and building// a world class manufacturing unit to produce them. It has been encouraged to set up a manufacturing unit due to the response to its Factor VII product, which is proving a boon for hemophiliacs who have deficiency of Fact...

Vasan Group to Open Eight Specialty Eye Hospitals

Chennai: Vasan Eye Care Hospitals, one of the largest eye care hospital networks in southern India,// has set up its first branch here, with seven more in the offing. The Chennai facility has been set up in collaboration with K. Premraj, a prominent ophthalmic surgeon and managing director of Prems' Eye Clinic. The first facility would have 70 specialists. The Vasan Eye C...

Early Prostate Cancer: Specialty of Physician Influences Type of Therapy Received

Chicago:- A new study co-led by an urologist and a radiation oncologist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center shows that the specialty of the physician patients see can influence the type of therapy they ultimately receive. The study analyzed men with localized prostate cancer. It found that men aged 65 to 69 years who consult an urologist are more likely to undergo surgery to remove the pro...