Healthcare NGOs, physicians and networks of people with HIV/AIDS have sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging him to speedily ensure that India joins UNITAID, an international drug purchase facility. They say that in the next few years there will be huge fund shortages to buy essential medicines in countries like India. Malaria, […]
Attention span linked to TV watching
Watching TV more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a new study. The roughly 40% increase in attention problems among heavy TV viewers was observed in both boys and girls, and was independent of whether a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder was made […]
Dry Eye and Computer Vision Syndrome
To know about this one should know the function of eyelids, tear secretion and passage. The tears are secreted from the lacrimal gland situated outer upper portion of the eye and spreads over the cornea equally by the movements of the upper lid and are brought to the inner side of the eye passes through […]
Apollo plans Rs710-crore expansion; to set up hospitals in Navi Mumbai, Chennai
Apollo Hospitals has planned a massive Rs710-crore expansion programme, involving the setting up of a multi-speciality hospital in Mumbai and an orthopaedic hospital in Chennai. The group would invest around Rs600 crore for its Mumbai expansion. Apollo is in the process of finalising and acquiring land in Navi Mumbai, Thane, South Mumbai and Nashik, Preetha […]
Chiyaan Vikram launched Agarwal Eye Hospital
Leading actor Chiyaan Vikram declared open the new eye care centre of Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital at Ashok Nagar, Chennai. This new centre will be a secondary eye care centre with facilities to treat diseases like glaucoma, retinal degeneration, vitrectomy, macular degeneration and squint apart from cataract. The centre is outfitted with latest operational microscope, […]
Medical equipment exhibition in Chennai
A three-day international medical equipment exhibition will be organised in the Chennai from tomorrow. S Manivannan, CEO of Medicall, organisers of the exhibition, told mediapersons here that it would be a supermarket for medical equipment with around 200 companies participating in it, including some from China. “Last year, about 110 companies participated in the exhibition […]
Insurance cover for HIV+ likely
India’s 2.5-million-strong HIV population will finally have an insurance policy to fall back on, once they develop full blown AIDS. A Chennai-based private insurance firm, Star Health and Allied Insurance Company, is set to launch India’s first-ever health cover for HIV-positive people, early next week. Under the scheme, an HIV-positive patient with a CD-4 count […]
Orchid receives FDA approval for antibiotic drug
Pharma major Orchid Chemicals and Pharmaceuticals Ltd has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its abbreviated new drug application for Cefepime injection. Cefepime injection is a life saving cephalosporin antibiotic drug with an annual sale of $190 million, and is used in hospital settings. ‘Orchid’s Cefepime approval for the US […]
Govt to take measures against chikungunya
The Tamil Nadu Government has taken a new initiative for a joint action plan to control vector-borne diseases like chikungunya and dengue in the region. The health officials today met under the chairmanship of Chief Secretary L K Tripathy and discussed the new measures to prevent spreading chikungunya in the state. During the meeting, it […]
Call to merge four general insurance firms
Speakers at a seminar here on Saturday urged the Centre to merge the four public sector general insurance companies into a “monolith entity” to serve people better. The seminar was organised by the Chennai Regional General Insurance Employees Association as part of the All India Insurance Employees Association’s campaign to garner public support for the […]
The role of aspirin in a heart attack
Its role before, during and after a heart attack The main ingredient of aspirin is a modified version of a substance called salicylic acid. This salicylic acid is found naturally in many plants and trees. The fever reducing and pain relieving properties of the bark of the willow tree, which contains salicylic acid, was known […]
Global Hospitals Spreads its Wings to Chennai
Hyderabad-based Global Hospitals has recently acquired a Chennai hospital, Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Sankara Hospital. The Madras High Court permitted the Sri Kanchi Kamakoti Peetam charitable trust to encash the earnest money deposit of Global Hospitals for Rs 257 crore and complete the sale of the hospital at Permbakam in terms of the advertisement. At the […]
