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From today Vaxiflu-S will be available for Rs. 350 on prescription; it will be effective for one year India on Thursday launched its first indigenously manufactured anti-influenza vaccine that will protect people against the A(H1N1) flu, which has killed over 1,500 people in the country since the pandemic broke out last year. Manufactured by Zydus-Cadila Healthcare, Vaxiflu-S will be available in markets from Friday. The monovalent single-dose vaccine, available for Rs.350 on prescription, will be...

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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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Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India has come up with the set of measure for infection control at health facility. These measure are mentioned below. For full details refer to the original document here. Droplet Precautions: Advise healthcare personnel to observe Droplet Precautions (i.e., wearing a surgical or procedure masks for close contact), in addition to Standard Precautions, when examining a patient with symptoms of a respiratory infection, particularly if fever is...

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Forgetting your child's vaccination dates? Not anymore! meraMD has launched a free email reminder service to remind you of your child's vaccination. It's simple to use and can be accessed from anywhere over internet. For using this service you need to register with meraMD at http://www.meraMD.com/signup and select the user type as "General User".Once you have registered and activated your account, you can create your child's vaccination profile by entering your child name and date...

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In light of new cases of swine influenza, worldwide health agencies are urging health care workers who might come in contact with suspect cases to take full infection control procedures. Prevention of transmission of Influenza-Like Illness (ILI) between patients and Health Care Wokers (HCWs) requires an approach consistent with the PROTECT phase, including: raised awareness among staff, patients and visitors in health care settings about prevention, early detection and exclusion policies, through measures such as...

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The community seems to be headed in the right direction and will be complementary to the suggestions made in this post - http://blogs.gartner.com/anthony_bradley/2009/07/07/the-social-web-will-transform-health-care-period/ The Social Web Will Transform Health Care, Period. July 7th, 2009<!-- by Anthony Bradley --> Why is this? What do we care more about than our health or the health of our loved ones? I have talked to our healthcare clients about sites like www.patientslikeme.com and www.rateadrug.com for a while now with...

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Snippets related to health care sector from budget for 2009-2010 >> Pranab Mukherjee’s Budget has brought some cheer to the over 20 lakh patients suffering from breast cancer, Hepatitis B and rheumatic arthritis. Nine life-saving drugs used for the treatment of these diseases, as well as that of the influenza vaccine, have been exempted from customs duty, making them 10%-15% cheaper. The FM also reduced customs duty on two life-saving devices used in treatment of...

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MeraMD team wishes all its members a very happy doctors' day!    

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We got a coverage in an article written by Archana Rai on LiveMint. Read the entire article here Excerpts from the article -  "Information anytime, anywhere   New Delhi-based medical services portal, MeraMD.com, seems set to make this happen in short order. “In the next six months, we will have a database of patients’ medical records that they can access from anywhere,” says Anupam Kumar, founder, MeraMD.com, which is positioning itself as a complementary service to help...

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In just about 5 months of starting the medical networking site for doctors, meraMD.com is now 1000 strong and growing. Congratulations to all members - this was a really tough milestone as everyone knows that doctors are a very busy breed.  We thank all members for their continued support and request more help in enhancing this network further. A larger network will be beneficial to all members as its gathers greater knowlegde around the table...

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