SMT announces completion of patient enrolment of EverOCT Trial
Mumbai : SMT has announced the enrolment completion of EverOCT – Tetrilimus Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) Study. EverOCT study aims to evaluate the mal-apposition, degree of strut coverage and vessel…
Kolkata : Organ donation drive hits mistrust bump
Kolkata: Fears of the consequence in declaring a patient brain dead in an atmosphere of mistrust and violence that plagued private hospitals last year led to the latter pulling the…
Aster Pharmacy gets hard earned accolades for ‘Continuous Improvement’
Dubai/ Delhi: It is not for nothing that Aster Pharmacy has become a household name in UAE. It has emerged as the brand of choice amongst pharmacies due to its…
Two hospitals fail to detect newborn’s birth defect, family files complaint
Greater Noida: The family members of a four-day-old baby boy filed a police complaint against two hospitals in Dadri, alleging that they failed to detect a birth defect of the…
Mumbai gets second civic-run centre for transplant of bone marrow
MUMBAI: In a few weeks, a second civic-run centre will start performing bone marrow transplants in the city. The eight-bed centre housed inside Borivli’s new super-speciality hospital will offer the…
Stem cell study may result in stronger muscles in old age
SWEDEN, 23rd February, 2018 : As we grow older, our muscular function declines. A new study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden shows how an unexpectedly high number of…
This budget is the ‘budget for health’ : Rajendra Pratap Gupta
In 1997, my mother, who was a class one government employee, died of T4 stage cancer. In the 1 ½ year of cancer treatment, we had spent all the money,…
SC refuses to interfere, NEET age cap to stay
NEW DELHI: Candidates from the general category older than 25 years and those from the reserved category above 30 will not be able to appear in NEET this year as…
Doctors work on heart pump that can be had for 5 lakh
CHENNAI: The research wing of a city hospital is working on a low-cost heart pump, which can cut the cost of the device from 1 crore to 5 lakh. Mediville,…
‘Take action against errant hospitals’
NEW DELHI : Two days after the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) released its report confirming profiteering by four top private hospitals in medicine and consumable cost to patients, the…
