Half a dozen eye hospitals in India are collaborating with a research centre here to create the inner layer of the cornea, the vital window of the human eye. It may allow 14,000 eye transplants a year.
Bill Gates: Go high end on R&D On a visit to New Delhi, Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft Corp, urged […]
IBM previewed a unique Social Accessibility collaboration software, developed by IBM Research, which allows Internet users to improve Web accessibility, particularly for those who are visually impaired.
Research is on to implant semicon chips in the retinas of people suffering from total blindness. A fair degree of success has been attained, as 7-8 implants have already been done in patients and partial vision restored.
The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has stated that the number of physicians moving to electronic health records jumped by more than one-third since 2001.
A plan to create the world’s largest online medical encyclopedia was announced recently. Known as Medpedia, the site will be free and available to the public when it launches at the end of this year.
A United Nations-backed meeting on the social, health and economic consequences of population ageing would start in Bangkok, Thailand in July, 2007. The two-day seminar is being held by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UNESCAP), in collaboration with the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) and the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA). Population ageing, due to declining fertility and increasing longevity, has increasingly come to pose a challenge to the Asia-Pacific region, with the number of older persons in the area to grow rapidly, surging from 410 million in 2007 to 733 million in 2025 to an expected 1.3 billion in 2050.
The State of the World’s Children 2007 examines the discrimination and disempowerment, which women face throughout their lives and it outlines what must be done in order to eliminate gender discrimination and empower women and girls.
Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, has recently praised the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, as it marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of its work in monitoring States
Expenses on heath in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has kept on growing faster than countries’ economies. OECD Health Data 2007 also notes that a growing share of the economy is devoted to health across OECD countries. Per capita health spending increased by more than 80% in real terms between 1990 and 2005 on an average in OECD countries, outpacing the 37% growth in GDP per capita.
The Healthcare Study Mission, a two day seminar organized by the CII Delhi State Council in the month of July, 2007, gave an insight into the professional management of Healthcare industry as also on quality patient care, satisfaction and personal attention at optimal costs. The two day Study Mission was aptly titled as “Showcasing the Best Practices In Healthcare”.
A new report on Human Development in the Pacific Islands titled
Medtronic, a US-based medical technology service provider, opened its first therapy and procedure training centre (TPTC) in South Asia, in Chennai recently, giving India it’s first training centre for doctors to learn how to place implants in the heart.
