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US requires 40,000 more health IT professionals
Washington, April 18 - United States alone requires an additional 40,000 IT professionals to move its healthcare toward a paperless system that cuts costs and medical errors.
Apr 18, 2008 - 3:24:21 PM
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Brain drain can be brain gain for source countries: UN
New York, April 16 - The so-called brain drain of migrants taking their skills and initiative to their new countries of residence can also drive growth in their homelands, according to a study by the United Nations University.
Apr 16, 2008 - 3:53:22 PM
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TB fatally stalking Southeast Asia's HIV patients
New Delhi, April 12 - India, Myanmar, Nepal and Thailand have some of the highest rates of tuberculosis --HIV co-infection in Southeast Asia, says a World Health Organisation - report.
Apr 12, 2008 - 10:16:22 AM
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Doctors paralyse Uttar Pradesh's biggest hospital
Lucknow, April 11 - Out to defy court orders against private practice, doctors of the King George's Medical University - here Friday paralysed all patient care services in Uttar Pradesh's biggest hospital.
Apr 11, 2008 - 9:12:33 PM
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Resistant super bugs defeat doctors
New York, April 1 - Drug-resistant super bugs have foreclosed treatment options for critically ill patients and forced doctors to prescribe medicines banned 20 years ago because of severe side effects.
Apr 11, 2008 - 2:23:33 PM
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Culling in Tripura to be complete by Friday, say officials
Agartala, April 10 - The operations to slaughter 42,000 poultry birds in Tripura's bird-flu affected villages are expected to be completed by Friday, officials said here Thursday.
Apr 10, 2008 - 10:12:47 PM
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India's rural health mission not delivering results: Unicef
Udaipur -, April 9 - India's rural health mission is failing to deliver results, says a top Unicef official, pointing out that half of the country's women still deliver babies at home and it still contributes 20 percent of the world's child mortality.
Apr 9, 2008 - 9:57:34 AM
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India unveils zinc tablet to control diarrhoea
New Delhi, April 7 - India Monday unveiled a zinc dispersible tablet to control diarrhoea, a disease that kills nearly 500,000 children in the country every year.
Apr 7, 2008 - 7:55:20 PM
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Saudi pharma market worth $1.3 billion
Dubai, April 7 - Saudi Arabia's pharmaceutical market is estimated to be worth more than 5 billion Saudi riyals -, which makes the country one of the largest markets for medicines in the Middle East.
Apr 7, 2008 - 5:46:26 PM
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Ujjain gets first medical care unit for AIDS patients
Bhopal, April 7 - A HIV community care centre has been set up to provide medical help to AIDS patients in Madhya Pradesh's Ujjain town, the headquarters of a district that has the second highest number of such cases in the state.
Apr 7, 2008 - 2:35:21 PM
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Government hopes to tackle shortage of doctors soon: Ramadoss
New Delhi, April 4 - Acknowledging the severe crunch India is facing in the number of doctors, nurses and paramedics, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said Friday that since the government recognises the medical degrees issued by five English-speaking countries, including the US, Britain and Australia, it would help tide over the shortage.
Apr 4, 2008 - 10:52:45 PM
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NRI doctor guilty of unethical tests on British patients
London, March 29 - An NRI psychiatrist from Assam faces the sack after being found guilty of conducting unethical drug tests on mentally ill patients, according to reports Saturday.
Mar 29, 2008 - 6:04:41 PM
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Healthcare commissioning- ?Adverse to patient care
The government’s new healthcare commissioning policy for England has not only jeopardised the future of many hospitals but has also led to considerable frustration and disappointment among patients, argue senior doctors in this week’s BMJ.
Mar 22, 2008 - 2:32:16 AM
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Ranbaxy launches new dental drug in India, Nepal
Mumbai, March 18 - Pharma major Ranbaxy Laboratories Tuesday launched the first-of-its-kind natural and probiotic drug for dental diseases in India and Nepal.
Mar 18, 2008 - 5:42:14 PM
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LIC and Reliance Life log good health insurance sales
Chennai, March 17 - Health is wealth - and that's certainly the case for Indian life insurers. Nearly 40 days after their entry into the long-term unit-linked health insurance business, the two life insurers - Life Insurance Corporation of India - and Reliance Life Insurance Company Limited - have been logging good business.
Mar 17, 2008 - 9:13:37 AM
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Healthcare reform in Hungary facing serious challenges
Budapest, March 17 - Hungary's plans to overhaul its ailing healthcare system by allowing private capital into the health insurance market are on the rocks as political pressure mounts following a referendum in which voters have rejected other welfare-state cuts.
Mar 17, 2008 - 7:54:52 AM
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Social stigma weakening India's fight against TB
New Delhi, March 14 - India lags far behind developed countries in managing tuberculosis - because of the social stigma attached to it and health workers are particularly vulnerable to the disease, says a new report.
Mar 14, 2008 - 9:24:57 AM
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Sachin Pilot wants law to fortify milk with Vitamin A
New Delhi, March 13 - Congress parliament member Sachin Pilot wants a legislation to make it mandatory for all dairy firms in the country to fortify milk with Vitamin A as India is home to 40 percent of the world's malnourished children.
Mar 13, 2008 - 9:27:15 PM
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Indian American doctor under scanner for malpractices
New York, March 8 - A prominent Indian American doctor in Las Vegas is being investigated for medical malpractices, which have led to a huge health scare in the community.
Mar 8, 2008 - 8:37:48 PM
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Armed forces lead the way in organ donation
New Delhi, March 7 - The 18-month-old son of Major Sidharth Malik fell from the balcony and was declared brain dead by doctors. Malik donated his son's kidney to give a fresh lease of life to a serving soldier.
Mar 7, 2008 - 5:47:43 PM
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Indian women cry just to be born
New Delhi, March 7 - As the world gets ready to celebrate International Women's Day Saturday, tens of thousands of Indian women are struggling just to be born. Experts say around one million female foetuses are being aborted in this country every year.
Mar 7, 2008 - 4:01:12 PM
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Doctors rubbish male pregnancy report in BIhar
Patna, March 1 - A team of doctors from the Bihar chapter of the Indian Medical Association - has rubbished a television report of a man being found seven months pregnant, and termed the whole episode as fake.
Mar 1, 2008 - 10:01:49 PM
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Kala-azar scare in Assam, alert sounded
Guwahati, Feb 21 - Health authorities in Assam have sounded an alert after seven people were admitted to the Gauhati Medical College Hospital with suspected kala-azar or black fever, a fatal disease that has been almost eradicated.
Feb 21, 2008 - 9:56:12 AM
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oxidative stress may be the culprit underlying aging , and is associated with many diseases .
ANN ARBOR, Mich.---Oxygen, although essential for human life, can turn into an aggressive chemical that is outright toxic to important molecules inside our cells. This oxidative stress is associated with many diseases, such as Alzheimer's, heart disease and cancer, and has been suggested to be the culprit underlying aging.
Feb 16, 2008 - 1:30:00 AM
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Gurgaon kidney scam or Nithari murders, apathy was same
Gurgaon, Feb 1 - Blood flowing in the drain outside D-5 and residents of the posh colony just outside the national capital finding the goings on inside the bungalow suspicious but not bothering enough to report. It could be Noida where 19 children from Nithari village were mutilated, but it is not.
Feb 1, 2008 - 9:35:51 AM
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Indian government rolls out free second line treatment to AIDS patients
New Delhi, Jan 2 - The new year began on a positive note for AIDS patients from poor families. The National AIDS Control Organization - will now provide free second line treatment for the disease, urgently needed by those who have developed resistance to the first set of medicines.
Jan 2, 2008 - 1:23:34 PM
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NRI brings specialty hospital to Haryana in memory of father
Banchari -, Dec 30 - For nearly a million residents of this backward area of Haryana, it is a blessing indeed. A multi-speciality hospital has opened here, thanks to a US-based non-resident Indian -.
Dec 30, 2007 - 11:04:20 AM
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Top 10 NRI newsmakers of 2007
Before bidding goodbye to 2007, here is my list of top 10 NRI newsmakers - the achievers and those who suffered.
Dec 25, 2007 - 9:22:30 AM
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AIIMS looking for new director, even abroad
New Delhi, Dec 20 - The Indian government Thursday cast its net wide in its hunt for a new head for the prestigious All India Institute of Medical Sciences -, saying it would welcome foreign applicants as it aims to take the institute to an international level.
Dec 20, 2007 - 8:37:11 PM
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Andhra doctors continue strike despite ban
Hyderabad, Dec 19 - The Andhra Pradesh government Wednesday invoked the Essential Services Maintenance Act - but junior doctors in government-run hospitals continued their strike for the sixth consecutive day.
Dec 19, 2007 - 5:22:49 PM
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Illegal kidney trade continues unabated in Lahore
Lahore, Dec 19 - An illegal trade in kidney transplants continues unabated in this capital of Pakistani Punjab despite the enactment of a law banning the practice.
Dec 19, 2007 - 12:33:00 PM
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4.5 percent of US prisoners report sexual abuse
Washington, Dec 17 - Nearly one in 20 inmates of US prisons reported being sexually victimized in the previous 12 months, according to a report.
Dec 17, 2007 - 9:50:30 AM
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Agra doctor's global drug racket case hanging fire
Agra, Dec 16 - Neighbours of Brij Bhushan Bansal here had no inkling of what was going on in the doctor's clinic till his arrest in 2005 for running a global illegal Internet pharmacy network along with his Philadelphia-based son. A US court has now sentenced the son to 30 years in prison, while the case against the Agra doctor is still hanging fire.
Dec 16, 2007 - 2:57:49 PM
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Indian doctors devise ethical norms for paediatrics
Jaipur, Oct 25 - Healthcare intervention for toddlers and adolescents should match a child's casual reasoning, language ability and self-understanding, says a module developed by two Indian doctors that has been accepted by the International Paediatric Association -.
Oct 25, 2007 - 9:41:32 AM
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XDR TB in South Africa traced to lack of drug susceptibility testing
In South Africa, the 2001 implementation of the World Health Organization�s anti-tuberculosis program may have inadvertently helped to create a new strain of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR TB). In a new study published in the December 1 issue of Clinical Infectious Diseases, currently available online, researchers tracked the developing drug resistance of one particular strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis over 12 years. They found that at the time of the 2001 adoption of the DOT+ strategy for multi-drug resistant strains, the strain was already resistant to one or more of the drugs mandated by that strategy, thus allowing the strain to survive and develop resistance to additional drugs.
Oct 22, 2007 - 4:00:00 AM
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Treating ailments with hot iron rods!
Jodhpur, Oct 15 - Hot iron rods are still used to treat the sick in some villages of Rajasthan.
Oct 15, 2007 - 2:02:53 PM
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A world of colours beyond leprosy's sting
Bharatapuram -, Oct 12 - Their fingers are deformed but nothing can stop their paintbrushes. For the 27 artists of the Bindu Art School near here, painting is a medium that transports them to a world far removed from the social stigma of leprosy.
Oct 12, 2007 - 10:28:03 AM
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Take steps to prevent dengue in Delhi: court
New Delhi, Oct 10 - Angry at the authorities' callous attitude, the Delhi High Court Wednesday asked the Delhi government's health department and Delhi's civic bodies to initiate steps to prevent the recurrence of dengue fever, which has claimed more than 200 lives in last two years.
Oct 10, 2007 - 8:02:37 PM
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New steps to curb overseas doctors in Britain
London, Oct 9 - Indian doctors should think several times before coming to Britain for jobs - the employment situation has been difficult for non-European Union doctors, and new proposals have been drawn to guarantee jobs to doctors trained in Britain.
Oct 9, 2007 - 3:46:42 PM
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NRIs, foreign couples throng Pune fertility centre
Pune, Oct 4 - Last month at the Ruby Hall Clinic here, a 60-year-old became a surrogate mother when she gave birth to twins. She had offered to be a surrogate for her US-based daughter, whose uterus had been removed due to genital cancer.
Oct 4, 2007 - 10:13:52 AM
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Medical seats in JIPMER increased to 100
New Delhi, Sep 21 - It's good news for medical college aspirants. The central government Friday increased the number of MBBS seats from 75 to 100 at the Jawaharlal Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research -, Pondicherry.
Sep 21, 2007 - 4:27:04 PM
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Osteoporosis drug approved to cut breast cancer risk
In 1997, FDA approved Evista, which is manufactured by Eli Lilly and Company, for the prevention of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and in 1999, for the treatment of osteoporosis in postmenopausal women.
Sep 15, 2007 - 1:39:48 PM
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NRI docs' healing touch for Bengal's poor
Kolkata, Sep 13 - Thanks to the initiative of around 20 NRI doctors, mostly from Britain and the US, a hospital is being set up here with the aim of providing quality healthcare at a low cost to the poor.
Sep 13, 2007 - 9:00:17 AM
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India to invest Rs.3 bn for nursing education
New Delhi, Sep 11 - India will invest Rs.3.19 billion for enhancing nursing education across the country within the next five years, Health Minister Anbumani Ramadoss said here Tuesday.
Sep 11, 2007 - 8:27:47 PM
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Mattel recall includes Batman, Sesame Street toys
New Delhi, Sep 6 - Barbie accessories are not the only toys that have been recalled by Mattel Toys India for posing health hazards. The list also includes Batman figures, Cookie Monster, Soccer Elmo, Ernie and Oscar the Groush.
Sep 6, 2007 - 2:56:28 PM
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Chennai to get speciality-imaging centre
Chennai, Sep 4 - The Bangalore based HealthCare Global Enterprises - and GE Healthcare Tuesday said they would set up a molecular imaging centre here to address the growing oncology needs of the region.
Sep 4, 2007 - 5:14:06 PM
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Court rejects Escorts plea against eviction notice
New Delhi, Sep 4 - The Delhi High Court has rejected the Escorts hospital's plea against the eviction notice it had been served for not providing treatment to the poor as part of the agreement for lease of public land.
Sep 4, 2007 - 4:44:34 PM
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Fortis to invest $500 mn to build 28 hospitals
New Delhi, Aug 27 - Fortis Healthcare, promoted by pharmaceutical major Ranbaxy, will invest at least $500 million to build 28 hospitals across the country, taking the total number of healthcare hubs under its umbrella to 40 by 2010.
Aug 27, 2007 - 6:50:01 PM
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Fortis to set up six medical colleges
New Delhi, Aug 27 - Fortis Healthcare, a leading private health service provider in the country, will set up six medical colleges in as many states with an investment of approximately Rs.10 billion.
Aug 27, 2007 - 4:40:04 PM
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Fortis to set up two health cities in Punjab
Chandigarh, Aug 26 - Fortis Healthcare, a Ranbaxy group firm, will set up two 'health cities' - integrated townships with hospitals and medical colleges - in Punjab with an investment of Rs.10 billion.
Aug 26, 2007 - 7:11:52 PM
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