After Malar, Fortis eyes Chennai’s Lifeline
The Ranbaxy group-promoted Fortis Healthcare appears to be in a tearing hurry to increase its footprint in the south. Fresh from acquiring the 180-bed Malar Hospital in Chennai, Fortis has now set its sight on the 450-bed Lifeline Hospital chain in Chennai. The Delhi-based healthcare major is believed to have made an offer to acquire [...]
Apollo, IIT Chennai join hands for new Lung Failure Treatment
Dr Paul Ramesh Thangaraj, Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Apollo Hospital, Chennai and Prof A Subrahamanyam, Department of Semi-conductor Physics, IIT Madras, have developed a method of splitting the water in the blood into hydrogen and oxygen. The oxygen thus formed binds to the blood and is delivered to the tissues effectively circumventing [...]
Chennai doc held for kidney racket in Mumbai
Ravichandran was arrested in Mumbai for his alleged involvement in a kidney racket.
Chennai is in the news in connection with another kidney racket.
A Chennai-based doctor has been arrested in Mumbai for his alleged involvement in a kidney racket. Police suspect he may be just one link in a large international network.
Mumbai police have arrested Dr [...]
Health workers say India should join UNITAID
Healthcare NGOs, physicians and networks of people with HIV/AIDS have sent a memorandum to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, urging him to speedily ensure that India joins UNITAID, an international drug purchase facility.
They say that in the next few years there will be huge fund shortages to buy essential medicines in countries like India. Malaria, tuberculosis [...]
Attention span linked to TV watching
Watching TV more than two hours a day early in life can lead to attention problems later in adolescence, according to a new study.
The roughly 40% increase in attention problems among heavy TV viewers was observed in both boys and girls, and was independent of whether a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder was made prior [...]
Dry Eye and Computer Vision Syndrome
To know about this one should know the function of eyelids, tear secretion and passage. The tears are secreted from the lacrimal gland situated outer upper portion of the eye and spreads over the cornea equally by the movements of the upper lid and are brought to the inner side of the eye passes through [...]
Apollo plans Rs710-crore expansion; to set up hospitals in Navi Mumbai, Chennai
Apollo Hospitals has planned a massive Rs710-crore expansion programme, involving the setting up of a multi-speciality hospital in Mumbai and an orthopaedic hospital in Chennai.
The group would invest around Rs600 crore for its Mumbai expansion. Apollo is in the process of finalising and acquiring land in Navi Mumbai, Thane, South Mumbai and Nashik, Preetha Reddy, [...]
Chiyaan Vikram launched Agarwal Eye Hospital
Leading actor Chiyaan Vikram declared open the new eye care centre of Dr Agarwal’s Eye Hospital at Ashok Nagar, Chennai. This new centre will be a secondary eye care centre with facilities to treat diseases like glaucoma, retinal degeneration, vitrectomy, macular degeneration and squint apart from cataract. The centre is outfitted with latest operational microscope, [...]
Medical equipment exhibition in Chennai
A three-day international medical equipment exhibition will be organised in the Chennai from tomorrow.
S Manivannan, CEO of Medicall, organisers of the exhibition, told mediapersons here that it would be a supermarket for medical equipment with around 200 companies participating in it, including some from China.
“Last year, about 110 companies participated in the exhibition and this [...]
Insurance cover for HIV+ likely
India’s 2.5-million-strong HIV population will finally have an insurance policy to fall back on, once they develop full blown AIDS.
A Chennai-based private insurance firm, Star Health and Allied Insurance Company, is set to launch India’s first-ever health cover for HIV-positive people, early next week.
Under the scheme, an HIV-positive patient with a CD-4 count not less [...]
