Engineering next-gen heart valves to regenerate heart-like tissue
A team of researchers at Harvard’s Wyss Institute and the University of Zurich has created a next-generation heart valve that […]
Pig-to-Human Organ Transplant Gets Easier
Scientists have overcome a major hurdle for humans to receive life-saving organ transplants from pigs, thanks to a powerful new […]
Pushwaz Virk
MBBS, MBA, MPH, from Harvard University Health Services, Cambridge United States of America Pushwaz Virk
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ICRI forays into healthcare management Riding on the healthcare boom in India, Institute of Clinical Research India (ICRI), India’s first […]
Impetus of Project Management in Healthcare : Prof. Indrajit Bhattacharya, IIHMR, New Delhi
[This article was published in the April 2009 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Everything we do now is based on the concept of �Managing By Projects� or MBP, especially in health sector. In this scenario, it is absolutely essential to equip ourselves with knowledge of project management and its linkages with healthcare.
NEWS REVIEW – INDIA
[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
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Social network site may help fight malaria
The British entrepreneur who sold a soccer Web site at the age of 17 for US$ 40 million has switched his attention to help launch a social networking site designed to fight malaria.
Large US medical insurers agree cover for online doctor visits
Since the dawn of e-mail, patients have been pleading for more doctors to offer medical advice online. No traffic jams, no long waits, no germ-infested offices. There was always one major roadblock: Many health insurers wouldn’t pay for it.
Telemedicine Gets a Human Face
[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
This initiative of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka endeavours to take the dividends of the highly specialized field of human genetics to rural communities through an ICT platform, and draws on the infrastructure facilities of the newest Nenasala at the Kurunegala Hospital and that of the Koslanda Nenasala.
