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Harvest Technologies Announces Interim Study Results From Critical Limb Ischemia Trial in Chennai India

PLYMOUTH, Mass., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Harvest Technologies Corp. ( www.harvesttech.com ) announced today that the interim study report was completed for the first thirty (30) patients in the clinical trial of patients suffering with non-reconstructable critical limb ischemia due to advanced...

Date Rape Drug Seized at Chennai Airport

Officials of the Directorate of Revenue Intelligence (DRI) seized 50 kg of Ketamine Hydrochloride and arrested two persons in this connection//. Technically it is a veterinary anesthetic, but is increasingly as a date rape drug. A press release from the DRI said following a tip off, two passen...

New Screening Techniques for Cervical Cancer in Chennai Government Hospital

A digital video colposcopy training center and cervical cancer screening program will be inaugurated Thursday at the Government Kasturba Gandhi Hospital// (KGH) at Chennai, capital of Tamil Nadu. Colposcopy is a diagnostic tool to determine the cause of abnormalities found in Pap smears. ...

First Exclusive Women’s Clinic Launched in Chennai By Apollo Hospita

In line with the International Women’s Day celebrations, an exclusive women’s clinic has been launched by the Chennai-based Apollo hospitals. Ms. J. Jayalalitha, State Chief Minister, inaugurated the well women health care center on Wednesday. // The health care center would cater to nearly a...

IT Raids Target Chennai Doctors And Hospitals

The IT department raided on Wednesday doctors and hospitals in the global healthcare destination of Chennai to net an estimated Rs 100 million.// Six hospitals in Chennai, two in Kumbakonam, 350 km from here, and the offices and residences of 14 prominent doctors were raided by 300 IT officials ...

Diligence Of Chennai Doctors Appreciated: Anbumani

Union Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss on Saturday urged the State Government to immediately take up renovation and modernisation of the 80-year-old Communicable Diseases Hospital (CDH) in Tondiarpet in north Chennai.// After a visit to the cholera wards in the hospital, Anbumani told journa...

Magsaysay Award for Dr.Shanta from Chennai Cancer Institute

Chennai | August 01, 2005 Chennai's Adyar Cancer Institute director Dr.V. Shanta is among this year's winners of the Ramon Magsaysay awards. Dr.Shanta was awarded the prize for public service and her "untiring leadership of the Cancer Institute as a centre of excellence and compassion for the ...

MSI puts on hold plans for operations in Chennai

Medicine Shoppe India (MSI), the sole franchisee for US based Medicine Shoppe International, with operations in Mumbai, Navi Mumbai, Baroda and Pune, has dropped Chennai from list of its target for operations in the country. According to informed sources, MSI, which recently drew up plans to expand...

A Centre for Glycemic Index Testing Opened in Chennai

The Madras Diabetes Research Foundation (MDRF), in collaboration with the U.K.-based Oxford Brookes University, has opened a new Glycemic Index Testing Centre in Chennai . For the people of the city that subsist on rice and its products, this is a significant development. For now scientific...

Honoring of Organ Donor Families at Raj Bhavan in Chennai

MOHAN (Multi Organ Harvesting Aid Network) Foundation has organized a function for honoring of Organ Donor Families at Raj Bhavan on 7th of June 2007. Organ donation is the most selfless gift that one human being can give to another. Since 1994 in India almost twelve hundred transplants of ...

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Chennai in Medical Technology

Diakron Licenses Anticoagulant Drug Candidate from Merck & Co., Inc.

...develop, and, if approved, market and distribute the compound worldwide. In a simultaneous transaction, Orchid Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals Ltd., the chennai (India) based pharmaceutical major ("Orchid Pharma"), has signed an agreement to partner with Diakron as a significant shareholder and developer for t...

International Diabetes Federation Grant Supports Lifestyle Intervention Study to Prevent Type 2 Diabetes in India

... to prevent the devastating human, social and economic effects of diabetes," said Dr. Linda Siminerio, Chair of the IDF BRIDGES Review Committee. "The chennai trial led by Dr. Narayan and Indian investigators will help to address the major public health issue." The Federation, through BRIDGES, is committed...

Chennai in Medical Dictionary

Cervical spondylosis

...d Technologies to Treat Neck and Back Pain, A Patient's Guide. Cervical Spondylosis : Dr. A. Vincent Thamburaj, Neurosurgeon, Apollo Hospitals, chennai , India. Cervical Spondylosis is a non-specific term describing the ... However, in severe cases of cervical spondylosis where there is lo...

Chennai in Biological News

Hope for major advance in fighting world killer disease

...cs, and Leicester colleagues Uta Praekelt and Marie Singer, are working with scientists at the Robert Koch Institute in Germany and Anna University in chennai India, and with doctors at the Christian Medical College in Vellore, India, and at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. Their project, ...

Chennai in Biological Technology

Siemens to Launch PETNET Services in India

...will enable the healthcare providers in and around chennai to access the positron emission tomography-compute...e to offer this PET technology to the residents of chennai and the surrounding community is a giant step in m...ity of FDG, which means that many more patients in chennai and nearby areas will have access to world-class P...