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Posted by IANS-CT in Health on 03 18th, 2010 | No Comments

Azad overrules IMA’s objections to rural MBBS course

New Delhi, March 18 (IANS) The Indian Medical Association (IMA) has three problems with the government’s plan to create a special cadre of rural doctors through a truncated MBBS course, but the health ministry has refused to yield to its pressure and will push ahead on the subject as planned. According...
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Apollo plans 32 new hospitals in two years

Hyderabad, March 18 (IANS) India’s largest private healthcare provider Apollo Hospitals plans to set up 32 new hospitals in the country over the next two years. While 11 new hospitals will come up in the next fiscal year, 20 more centres will open in 2011-12, Apollo chairman Prathap C. Reddy...
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Kerala records 268 dengue cases in 2010

Thiruvananthapuram, March 18 (IANS) Nearly 270 cases of dengue have been reported in Kerala this year, catching the authorities unaware as the mosquito-borne disease usually spreads during the monsoon. According to the latest report from the Kerala health department, the state capital has accounted...
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Chhattisgarh short of over 1,700 doctors

Raipur, March 18 (IANS) Chhattisgarh’s state-run hospitals are short of over 1,700 doctors, Health Minister Amar Agarwal said Thursday. ‘Some 1,733 medical officers’ posts are vacant in government hospitals in all the 18 districts of the state. The government is doing its best to...
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Private hospitals disqualified from birth scheme in Madhya Pradesh

Bhopal, March 18 (IANS) Madhya Pradesh has disqualified private hospitals from a scheme to promote institutional deliveries – as opposed to births at home – after the World Health Organisation (WHO) found they were encouraging caesarean operations for financial gains. ‘While the...
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Posted by IANS-CT in Featured, Health on 03 17th, 2010 | No Comments

Vaginal Ring-New option for Indian Women

Vaginal Ring-New option for Indian Women
Vaginal Ring-A Guide Kolkata, March 17 (Calcutta Tube) For women who often forget to take their oral contraceptives amid busy schedules, doctors say the vaginal ring should come in handy. Promising negligible chances of pregnancy, it arrived in India about three months ago. Doctors say the product...
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Posted by IANS-CT in Health on 03 16th, 2010 | No Comments

Women’s car rally to create breast cancer awareness

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) Nearly 100 women, some of them survivors of breast cancer, will drive from Delhi to Jaipur April 2 to create awareness about the disease that kills over 40,000 women every year in India. ‘Breast cancer is one of the most common forms of cancer in cities and we hope...
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HIV positive people break barrier, literally

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) More than three decades after the first HIV case was officially reported in India, the community of infected people Tuesday took a huge step towards coming out of the closet and breaking barriers by releasing a book featuring their photographs. ‘For the first time...
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201 inmates of Tihar Jail are HIV positive

New Delhi, March 16 (IANS) As many as 201 inmates at the Tihar Jail here have tested positive for HIV infection between June 2008 and Feb 2010, Minister for Health and Family Welfare Ghulam Nabi Azad said Tuesday. ‘In Tihar Jail, since June 2008 to February 2010, 2,540 inmates have been tested...
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Posted by IANS-CT in Health on 03 15th, 2010 | No Comments

Iraqi amputees to wear Jaipur Foot

Jaipur, March 15 (IANS) Iraqis who have lost their legs in years of war and conflict would soon be mobile again, thanks to Jaipur Foot India would be providing them with. Indian experts Monday left for Iraq to provide the Jaipur Foot, artificial legs known to be cosmetically and functionally close...
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