He is a 15 years old boy and has become the world’s first child to live with an artificial but permanent heart. The Italian boy, suffering from muscle-wasting illness Duchenne’s syndrome, had the 10-hour operation last week to implant the heart and was said to be well in responsive to the medication, reports news agancies.
[This article was published in the October 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Well-coordinated chains of mother banks and storage centres, supported by NGOs and altruistic donors, is the way to go
Girish Rao, Chief utive Officer of Nova Medical Centers has recently resigned from the post, as announced by the organisation. Girish Rao will continue to be an Advisor to Nova Medical Centres, though. He will also remain a significant shareholder, investor, and founder of the business, informed Nova.
The Ethianum in Heidelberg is one of the first clinics in Germany to align itself consistently according to sustainability criteria, thus making it a hospital in keeping with the spirit of Siemens’ Green+ Hospital Program. Working in partnership with the Ethianum, Siemens has developed and implemented comprehensive solutions: These include energy management, patient care, and the communications infrastructure.
It is very crucial to bridge the gap in the context of medical education, where many of the emerging and demanding courses are not present in the conventional courses currently.
[This article was published in the August 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Union Health Minister Shri Ghulam Nabi Azad has approved the Bachelor for Rural Medicine Course (BRMC), giving all states the choice to adopt it. Minor changes are being made in the proposed course and the proposal has been sent to the Medical Council of India (MCI).
Established in 1991, the IGNOU School of Health Sciences has pioneered in developing competency-based programmes in various disciplines of health sciences.
Royal Philips Electronics and SpineMark Corporation, a leader in developing specialised centers for spine care, announced today a long-term partnership to build centers for spine care globally.
A new facility offering Indian women a major breakthrough treatment for uterine fibroids, a common gynaecological condition, is opening at Jaslok Hospital, Mumbai.
The Chennai based Dr Kamakshi Memorial Hospital (KMH) performed a very rare heart surgery on a 20 year old girl from Basara, Iraq. She had complaints of breathing, combined with bouts of cough and pain in the chest.
[This article was published in the July 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
Day care surgery or Ambulatory Surgery is a concept that is heralding change in ways of thinking and performing surgeries in the field of medicine.
[This article was published in the July 2010 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]
According to Fortis, this is the first time that this technique has been used in India to treat a patient with blocked arteries. In the technique, the patient did not have to undergo any surgery or stenting, which is usually happened in these cases.
BGS Global Hospitals, Bangalore today announced one more successful liver transplant surgery, on a hepatitis B +ve patient who had end-stage liver disease with multiple complications.
