AVAGMAH Online School announces online MBA in hospital management
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BLK Super Specialty Hospital unveils new logo, offering new healthcare facilities
BL Kapur Super Specialty Hospital unveiled a new logo as well as a glimpse of expanded facility hospital.
Find-and-treat TB service cost-effective, says study
A mobile X-ray service has proved to be a cost-effective way of treating homeless people and drug addicts with tuberculosis (TB), according to a study published in the British Medical Journal.
India needs 70 crores investment in healthcare by 2025
To reach the levels of other developing countries, India should aim to increase its bed density from 0.86 to 2 per 1000 population by 2025. To achieve this, it would need to add 17.5 lac beds with an estimated investment of 70,000 crores by 2025.
Maternal deaths fall 34%, but still 1,000 women die every day in India
Deaths from complications during pregnancy and childbirth have fallen by a third in the past two decades but 1,000 women still die needlessly every day, the World Health Organisation said recently.
Healthcare costs rose while insurance coverage fell
US workers whose wages stagnated over the last decade also saw their health insurance degrade, even as medical costs gobbled up a growing share of their income, two new studies show.
Inadequate funds hit NRHM
The absence of adequate funds under National Rural Health Mission has taken toll on various projects like CCSP training and School Health Programme.
Radiologic technologist job market still tight
The vacancy rate for radiographers has dipped for the eighth year in a row, and now stands at 2 percent.
Iran ready to supply medical equipment to neighboring countries
In the inauguration ceremony of medical equipment exhibition in west of Iran, Arsalan Azhari said that Iran has planned for increase of medical tourism and sanitation services in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Integration of paper and digital imaging and communications in medicine
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Of total expenditure, 7% spent on healthcare in Indian household
The out-of-pocket healthcare spending by Indians continues to push them further into poverty with the public spending on health is almost negligible, according to the India Health Report 2010.
Nano-sized ships to torpedo tumours devised
Lethal nano-sized ‘torpedos,’ deftly evading the body’s defence network, will discharge anti-cancer drugs into the heart of tumours and destroy them ruthlessly.
Indian biomedical research gets British funding
Biomedical research in India has received a shot in the arm with the Wellcome Trust, Britain’s largest health charity, entering into an agreement with the Indian government’s biotechnology department to fund cutting-edge research.
