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The president of the Medical Council of India (MCI), Dr Ketan Desai, has submitted a letter to the Health Ministry seeking legislation to regulate the pharmaceutical industry’s practice of giving freebies to doctors to influence their prescribing habits. “The MCI has no jurisdiction over the pharma industry. The MCI’s ban on doctors accepting gifts, travel facilities and hospitality of any kind from any pharmaceutical or allied health care industry will only apply to doctors. But...

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Sponsors   To take the Kolkata, Bangalore and Mumbai initiatives forward, Hosmac Knowledge Forum, CSR arm of Hosmac India Private Limited, intends holding the next seminar on ‘Sustaining Quality in Healthcare: Accreditation & Beyond’, on 07th November 2009 at Trivoli Gardens New Delhi India. Accreditation of hospitals is a voluntary process, by which, an authorised agency or organisation evaluates and recognises health services according to a set of standards describing the structures and processes that...

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most of the time the health related problems are ignored in school and college age groups, so when it give rise to bigger problems then only we know such as anemia or valvular heart disease, i have started new community on orkut `health advice for students` to help the students plz be part of it

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From- Dr.Sameer Kumar Singh Balrampur Homoeopathic Clinic Naina Homoeo Care Centre shop no 6 ,Javed Market ,Near Arvindo Park. MunshiPulia,Indira Nagar Lucknow, Mob. 09415665518,9839027820.05224078327   Transmission of Homoeopathic Drug Energy from a distance - through Hair   ''There are more things in Heaven and earth, than are dreamt of in your Philosophy" …Shakespeare Introduction During his life time Dr Heinemann had introduced 3 modes of Drug administration of Homoeopathic medicine i.e. i) Medicine can be...

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Novartis, retailers lock horns over direct sales 10 Apr, 2009, 0003 hrs IST ,  Khomba Singh ,  ET Bureau NEW DELHI: An open battle has erupted between drug retailers in Mumbai and Novartis, a Swiss company, and its subsidiary Sandoz. Over 7,000 retailers and wholesalers have boycotted all the 198 medicines of the two companies, after the drugmakers refused to stop selling some of their high-margin medicines directly to consumers. Retailers say the two companies...

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Ahmedabad: More death factories churning out tonnes of bio-medical waste were unearthed from Ahmedabad’s godowns on Saturday exposing a network of suppliers and buyers involved in the business. Raids that continued on Saturday indicated that this contaminated waste was not only being used as raw material in plastic industry, but recycled back into medical industry too.    Even as the death toll in the hepatitis B outbreak in Sabarkantha district climbed to 56 with three...

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According to zee news, dealth toll from hepatitis in Gujarat has risen to 25. Read the entire story here. Six deaths have been reported in the last 24 hours and seven new cases of hepatitis identified, all from Modasa, they said. NDTV has reported that Sabarkantha district in north Gujarat is in the grip of the deadly Hepatitis B virus. Sabarkantha is just 2 hours away from Ahmedabad. The number of hepatitis cases registered in...

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Source: Hindustan Times Two life-saving liver transplants using one donor liver were done for the first time in India on January 31. In a 16-hour-long operation at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, 22-month-old Shourya Verma was given 20 per cent of his aunt Mukta's liver, while his own liver was transplanted into two-year-old Siya Thakur. The transplants - popularly called Domino's transplant because of its cascading impact on two lives - cured Shourya of Maple Syrup...

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ROCKVILLE, Md. - Emergent BioSolutions Inc. said it has received approval to sell its Lansing-made anthrax vaccine in India.Emergent said Biological E. Limited will market the BioThrax vaccine in India.BioThrax is the only anthrax vaccine approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.An Indian government authority that oversees disaster management issued a report in 2008 calling for that country to have a supply of anthrax vaccine, Emergent said.Emergent makes the BioThrax vaccine at its north...

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