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Guardian Lifecare makes foray into Mumbai

10 July, 2008

Poised to leverage from the booming Indian fitness market, Guardian Lifecare, North India’s largest retail chain of health and beauty stores makes a foray into Western India with the opening of two new GNC stores...

Ludhiana doctor to receive Dr BC Roy award

10 July, 2008

Dr. Ajay Kumar, a Ludhiana-based doctor and a senior consultant in gastroenterology and hepatology at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in New Delhi, has been selected for the prestigious Dr. BC Roy award...

Acute space constraints for women patients in AIIM

10 July, 2008

A Parliamentary Committee on empowerment of women has objected to the lack of any separate indoor facilities for women patients at the premier All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)...

Siemens to install Indias 1st Magnetom Essenza

10 July, 2008

Siemens Medical sSolutions will install Magnetom Essenza, a 1.5 Tesla magnetic resonance imaging system (MRI) at Aatmajyoti MRI Center, Surat, also the city’s first hi-end, affordable MRI..

Schiller India launches MRI Monitor Maglife light

10 July, 2008

Schiller India recently launched a new MRI monitor, Maglife light, which is compatible with MRI Scanners up to 3 Tesla and is within reach of virtually every MRI Centre...

MIOT Hospitals launches Joint for Life campaign

10 July, 2008

MIOT Hospitals, Chennai recently launched ‘Joint for Life’ programme; a solution to the trauma of revision surgeries and the increasing need for a joint that lasts for life...

Government survey on NRHM states slow pace in impl

10 July, 2008

A government-funded review of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) revealed a slow pace in rolling out healthcare programmes, with a manpower crunch impeding its progress further...

India among worst hit by health worker shortage

10 July, 2008

According to a recent 110-page report by WHO, ‘Scaling up, Saving Lives’, the world is short by 4.3 million health workers with India.....

UNICEF NACO conducted Indias 1st National Youth

10 July, 2008

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and National Aids Control Organisation (NACO) recently conducted India’s first National Youth Peer Convention in Bangalore..

Wockhardt Hospitals gets the best website award

10 July, 2008

India’s leading chain of super speciality hospitals, Wockhardt Hospitals Group’s website was adjudged the best International Hospital Website for Patient Information..