The U.S. Food and Drug Administration''s Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee has approved Arena Pharmaceuticals'' and Eisai''s new obesity drug Lorcaserin. Word came from the FDA on ...
Posted Date: 5/17/2012 9:27:00 AM
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In order to overcome the human resource shortage in the health sector, the government has increased the number of medical seats at the post-graduate level in the past three years and has set up 46 new ...
Posted Date: 5/17/2012 9:23:00 AM
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Medical students are in for a bonanza with the government planning to double availability of undergraduate and postgraduate seats to meet a target of 80,000 MBBS and 45,000 PG seats in India by 2021.
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Posted Date: 5/17/2012 9:22:00 AM
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The Indian Academy of Medical Microbiologists (IAMM) and the Haffkine Institute, in association with the Becton, Dickinson and Company (BD)-India, launched an awareness campaign on health and safety o ...
Posted Date: 5/17/2012 9:21:00 AM
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Government today ruled out dissolution of the Medical Council of India, which was mired in a controversy sometime back, but said it would be brought under the proposed National Commission for Human Re ...
Posted Date: 5/17/2012 8:41:00 AM
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After permitting the recognition of post-graduate medical degrees of five English speaking countries for teaching as visiting faculty in India, the union health ministry will soon allow the overseas c ...
Posted Date: 1/14/2012 5:02:00 PM
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Bollywood actor Madhuri Dixit has joined Oral B Smile India Movement as the chief smile officer to promote a mission to ''Protect a Billion Indian Smiles, One at a time'' with the help of 10,000 denti ...
Posted Date: 1/14/2012 5:00:00 PM
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A completely drug-resistant strain of tuberculosis has surfaced in the Indian city of Mumbai.
The discovery has rung alarm bells among medical practitioners and authorities worldwide, especially ...
Posted Date: 1/14/2012 4:57:00 PM
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Indispensible one moment, forgotten the next. It''s a thankless industry that you work in and this is perhaps the one thing that CNBC-TV18''s India Healthcare Awards 2011 intends to change. This is th ...
Posted Date: 1/14/2012 4:56:00 PM
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Activities by Healthcare facilities represent 3-8 percent of the climate change footprint in developed-country settings. These statistics indicate that hospitals and healthcare facilities share huge r ...
Posted Date: 1/14/2012 4:54:00 PM
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Individuals that are looking for a place to invest their funds in the emerging markets have been advised by Barings that the Indian healthcare sector is currently offering some interesting options.
L ...
Posted Date: 12/19/2011 11:03:00 AM
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Data collected by the Federation of Obstetric and Gynaecological Societies of India (FOGSI) shows that pregnancy-induced high blood pressure (pre-eclampsia and eclampsia), which is responsible for 12% ...
Posted Date: 12/19/2011 11:02:00 AM
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India''s apex body for disaster management is preparing "mandatory" guidelines for hospitals that will cover fire and other emergency hazards, after a major tragedy struck a private super speciality m ...
Posted Date: 12/19/2011 10:57:00 AM
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The Supreme Court on Friday embarrassed the Union government and Medical Council of India (MCI) by forcing them to withdraw their pleas for one-year deferment of the first-ever National Eligibility-cu ...
Posted Date: 12/19/2011 10:55:00 AM
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With private clinics offering all sorts of stem cell therapies and cord blood banks dishing out misleading promises, top medical experts on Saturday have advised people to take all such promises with ...
Posted Date: 12/19/2011 10:51:00 AM
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India''s performance in the healthcare is sub-par when compared to developing countries, and the Health Ministry is not seen as an important portfolio in the country, a top official of the Centre for ...
Posted Date: 11/10/2011 9:23:00 PM
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GBI Research''s report, "Dental Device Market to 2017 - CAD/CAM and Minimal Invasive Cosmetic Dentistry to Drive the Market" provides key data, information and analysis on the global dental devices ma ...
Posted Date: 11/10/2011 9:21:00 PM
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Human life is evolving and so is technology . Healthcare, which is one of the major concerns in the 21Century , is entering a phase where technology is becoming an enabler. In the near future, say tec ...
Posted Date: 11/10/2011 9:19:00 PM
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Trips to the doctor usually include a common request.
"Stick out your tongue and say ahhh."
The muscular mass in the center of your mouth isn''t the focus of the inquiry. Is your throat red? Are ...
Posted Date: 11/10/2011 9:16:00 PM
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While it is a known fact that diabetes and hypertension are affecting many more people, the actual figures are truly shocking: half the population of Karnataka is possibly affected with either one or ...
Posted Date: 11/10/2011 9:14:00 PM
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In what appears to be yet another indictment of India’s dysfunctional government-run healthcare system, 10 babies died within 48 hours last week at a government hospital in Andhra Pradesh.
Four infan ...
Posted Date: 9/7/2011 5:06:00 PM
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The Indian medical tourism market is growing at an excellent rate and currently witnessing a high inflow of international patients who come to India for medical treatments due to the country’s lower h ...
Posted Date: 9/7/2011 5:02:00 PM
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Over a quarter of the world’s population lives in the 11 countries comprising WHO’s Southeast Asia region. These countries which include Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Indonesia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, ...
Posted Date: 9/7/2011 4:58:00 PM
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Welch Allyn, manufacturer of diagnostic products and medical devices, plans to ramp up its presence in India.
The US-based company has a range of products such as stethoscope, ophthalmoscope, BP mo ...
Posted Date: 9/7/2011 4:55:00 PM
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A group of 40 Indian students, who obtained the doctor of medicine degree from the Philippines, Monday moved the Delhi High Court after the Medical Council of India (MCI) allegedly denied them permiss ...
Posted Date: 9/7/2011 4:54:00 PM
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students of dentistry from various colleges in the city assembled at the gates of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGHUS) on Wednesday demanding a closure to the revised schedule.
Studen ...
Posted Date: 8/6/2011 8:46:00 AM
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The Supreme Court today asked an expert panel appointed by it to explore the possibility of exporting the existing stock of banned pesticide Endosulfan here to other countries.
The apex court, whic ...
Posted Date: 8/6/2011 8:41:00 AM
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ndian government officials say the country’s public health infrastructure is sorely deficient, but they argue it is improving because of several initiatives underway.
They acknowledge the government ...
Posted Date: 8/6/2011 8:30:00 AM
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With 724 hospitals and nursing homes and a bed-capacity of 36,352, the national capital has 2.14 beds per 1,000 persons, almost three times the national average. Yet patients in Delhi cannot get a bed ...
Posted Date: 8/6/2011 8:24:00 AM
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In India, a study by medical specialists revealed that about 10 percent apparently healthy Indian Army personnel have been found to have symptoms of chronic kidney disorder and over 37 percent trooper ...
Posted Date: 6/28/2011 10:26:00 AM
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Liver transplant India is bringing expert advice and the latest in medical advances to those who want to protect their liver, those who are suffering from liver disease, who are dying from liver cirrh ...
Posted Date: 6/28/2011 9:48:00 AM
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India and China will expand cooperation in healthcare sector and strive to improve healthcare services through increased bilateral exchanges. This was decided at a meeting of health ministers of the t ...
Posted Date: 6/28/2011 9:42:00 AM
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Dental Tattoo are a new thing in india. Dental tattoos are not a new thing with rappers and hip-hop singers of the west sporting them in music videos around 8 to 10 years ago and youngsters started to ...
Posted Date: 6/28/2011 9:40:00 AM
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Nations see the money flowing into healthcare and want a share for themselves. They also see real advantages to becoming healthcare delivery hubs.
India is forecast to have three percent of the globa ...
Posted Date: 6/28/2011 9:36:00 AM
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There are about 600 million people in India who are addicted to beetle nut and tobacco in one form or the other. Of these, around 40% suffer from cancer which is a multi-organ disease. Moreover, of th ...
Posted Date: 6/2/2011 5:37:00 PM
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Soaring medical cost in countries like U.S. has made India the next prominent destination for medical tourism . Millions of NRI plan their medical treatment and surgeries in India to get treated by lo ...
Posted Date: 6/2/2011 5:35:00 PM
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A study on the ill-effects of tobacco in the United States shows that the smoking rate in persons above 18 years dropped to an estimated 20.5 per cent in 2008, which is about half in 1965 (42%). But a ...
Posted Date: 6/2/2011 5:33:00 PM
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Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals is planning to open 1,000 telemedicine centres in the next three years (1,000 days).
K Ganapathy, president Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation and president ...
Posted Date: 4/8/2011 8:52:00 AM
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Even with so many medical breakthroughs and newer drugs available to cure and treat diseases, microorganisms find ways to evade the action of drugs used to cure the infection they cause. This is antim ...
Posted Date: 4/8/2011 8:51:00 AM
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Plenty of natural foods and compounds are good for your oral and dental health. These include fibrous plants that can scrub away some food particles and plaque during chewing, spices that are naturall ...
Posted Date: 4/8/2011 8:48:00 AM
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Several dentists from India and other non-EU countries have been caught in bureaucratic wrangles between professional governing bodies in Britain, a leading migrants campaign group said today.
Non- ...
Posted Date: 3/24/2011 10:43:00 AM
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Colgate has launched a campaign called "Ask the dentist" in an attempt to encourage regular dental checkups.
This campaign is designed to create awareness for the patients about regular checkups to p ...
Posted Date: 3/24/2011 10:40:00 AM
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On Tuesday, the Union Health Ministry held a discussion with the state government officials, doctors, and administrators working on the District Mental Health Programme over the Mental Health Care Bil ...
Posted Date: 3/24/2011 10:33:00 AM
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A quick, effective solution to the insomnia that plagues an estimated 15 to 30 percent of older adults — without drugs, without even needing to consult a physician.
University of Pittsburgh team, tes ...
Posted Date: 3/24/2011 10:31:00 AM
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Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the biggest threats to public health in the World Health Organisation (WHO) - South-East Asia Region, causing one death a minute. Although the total number of people a ...
Posted Date: 3/24/2011 10:28:00 AM
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The Supreme Court today gave the green signal to the central government and Medical Council of India (MCI) to hold a single eligibility-cum-entrance exam for MBBS and post graduate medical courses sta ...
Posted Date: 3/14/2011 5:20:00 PM
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For the first time, India is planning to introduce "tobacco control and cessation" into the curriculum of Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS). Dental Council of India (DCI) in its last executive committe ...
Posted Date: 3/14/2011 5:18:00 PM
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India has just one doctor for 1,700 people. In comparison, the doctor population ratio globally is 1.5:1,000. An internal note prepared by Medical Council of India''s ''Undergraduate Education Working ...
Posted Date: 3/14/2011 5:15:00 PM
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Dental Council president election which was to be conducted on march 5,6 th in delhi is postponed.It has been postponed due to a court order. ...
Posted Date: 3/14/2011 5:13:00 PM
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India''s apex body for the promotion of biomedical research said Wednesday the HIV vaccine has undergone the first phase of clinical trial and no side effects are found.
"The first phase of clinica ...
Posted Date: 2/25/2011 9:41:00 PM
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Apollo Hospitals has approached Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh state governments seeking permission to set up four medical colleges in these states. The company wants education to evolve as another bus ...
Posted Date: 2/25/2011 9:37:00 PM
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The role of healthcare in improving a nations wealth and spurring economic growth is well established. India is the among the fastest growing economies in the world and is poised to become the second ...
Posted Date: 2/25/2011 9:32:00 PM
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Continuing its protest against the government''s decision to introduce a three-and-a-half-year-long Bachelor of Rural Health Course (BRHC) in the country, the Indian Medical Association has now called ...
Posted Date: 2/25/2011 9:25:00 PM
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Individuals who like exploring various parts of the world and need some type of dental work done, can save money by combining vacation travel with dental travel by having their dental needs attended t ...
Posted Date: 2/7/2011 7:44:00 AM
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Medical teachers and postgraduate students of public hospitals in the city joined hands on Saturday to protest against the changes proposed by the Medical Council of India (MCI) in the MBBS curriculum ...
Posted Date: 2/7/2011 7:39:00 AM
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Changing lifestyle, smoking, erratic work routines and other lifestyle-related disorders are causing infertility among women, gynaecology experts said at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (A ...
Posted Date: 2/7/2011 7:36:00 AM
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A new formula has been created by British researchers that can possibly help in predicting the success rate of an in-vitro fertilization procedure. The new technique will help couples in deciding whet ...
Posted Date: 1/6/2011 5:16:00 PM
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Chief Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the 66th annual conference of All India Association of Physicians (API), APICON-2011, at the Gujarat University Convention Centre on Friday. Nearly 10,000 ...
Posted Date: 1/6/2011 5:15:00 PM
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Aspirants for dentistry will have some tough choices to make this year: they may have a range of top colleges they''d like to apply to for their post-graduation, but their choices will be restricted a ...
Posted Date: 1/4/2011 3:51:00 PM
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Dental Lasers Market to Grow at a CAGR of 5% to Reach Revenues of $162m in 2016.The global dental lasers market was valued at $112.8 million in 2009, and is forecast to grow at a Compound Annual Growt ...
Posted Date: 1/4/2011 3:48:00 PM
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts are developing a new lung cancer drug for Pfizer. Currently in the early phases of a stage 3 clini ...
Posted Date: 1/4/2011 3:46:00 PM
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The revised draft of the proposed National Council of Human Resources in Health (NCHRH) Bill paves the way for substantially curtailing the powers of the Medical Council of India (MCI) leaving it to d ...
Posted Date: 7/12/2010 5:11:00 PM
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This is the largest study of the risk of brain tumours in relation to mobile phone use conducted to date and it included substantial numbers of subjects who had used mobile phones for =10 years.Overal ...
Posted Date: 5/27/2010 10:39:00 PM
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Patients prescribed antibiotics by their GP (general practitioner, primary care physician) might develop resistance that could persist for up to 12 months, according to new research published in the B ...
Posted Date: 5/23/2010 3:00:00 PM
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15 cigarettes equal one DNA mutation" captures graphically the enormity of what was discovered when a UK-led team of scientists reported this week how they cracked the code of two killer cancers: smal ...
Posted Date: 5/23/2010 2:58:00 PM
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A report recently released by the President's Cancer Panel focuses on underestimated cancer risks related to environmental contaminants and other harmful exposures, including radon. The report, "Reduc ...
Posted Date: 5/23/2010 2:56:00 PM
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Researchers in the US have discovered that a latent form of HIV hides in progenitor cells in bone marrow, avoids detection by the immune system and retains the ability to reproduce and spread when the ...
Posted Date: 5/23/2010 2:54:00 PM
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In a statement today, StemSave™ Inc., the market leader in the field of stem cell recovery and cryo-preservation lauds research published in the current issue of the Journal of Dental Research citing ...
Posted Date: 5/23/2010 2:51:00 PM
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