In a government office in the Indian capital, Delhi, some 100 doctors, practitioners of ayurveda, unani and siddha, ancient Indian medical systems, are hunched over computers poring over ancient medical texts and keying in information.
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A team of doctors and engineers in the US is working to develop a new medical device to prevent thrombosis in small-diameter blood vessels in patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
Dental implants are estimated to have one of the highest growth rates amongst all dental device submarkets, according to a report by Sandler Research.
The Asian Development Bank will provide $49m to strengthen surveillance response systems to prevent the spread of communicable and tropical diseases in Cambodia, the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and Vietnam.
The U.S. handheld ultrasound market is expected to exceed US $1.2 billion by 2016 due to technological advances and improvements in three and four-dimensional capabilities by some of the major manufacturers including SonoSite, GE and Siemens, according to a new report by market research firm iData Research.
The Rural Nebraska Healthcare Network (RNHN), a consortium of nine rural hospitals and related clinics in western Nebraska, launched construction of an US $18M fiber optic medical network that aims at improving care throughout the Nebraska panhandle.
The global initiative to eradicate polio could provide net benefits of at least US $40-50 billion if transmission of wild polioviruses is interrupted within the next five years, according to a new study.
Major healthcare deals have been struck in the last couple of months, attracting about USD 379 million in 2006
The Mumbai-based firm has received approval from US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for its abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) to market a generic version of Schering Plough’s Clarinex tablets, Sun Pharma said in a statement.
The Netherlands has been named as having the best healthcare system in Europe, emerging as the overall winner in the Euro Health Consumer Index (EHCI) 2008.
Drug firm Lupin announced it has been granted final approval by the United states Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) for antihistamine Desloratadine tablets, used for treating allergies.
The New York Department of Health (DOH) and public-private partnership New York eHealth Collaborative (NYeC) recently presented a plan to change the face of healthcare for all New Yorkers by creating the country’s largest network for electronic medical records.
