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The goal of the collaboration is to develop safe and affordable treatments for Chagas disease, leishmaniasis and African sleeping sickness. The partnership’s aim is to deliver at least one treatment against one of the diseases in the next five years. It is being supported by a grant of £8.6million from the Wellcome Trust.

Tired legs are unpleasant or uncomfortable feeling in the legs, which manifests more mostly at the end of the day (evenings and nights). In order to spread awareness about enhancing lifestyle by taking care of one’s legs, Yogikripa Medichem has launched a website www.tiredlegs.in.

The new facilities will provide services such as cancer care centre to provide medical, surgical and radiation oncology services; paediatric cardiology services will be added to the cardiac care services; surgical gastroenterology and endocrinology services to compliment the gastroenterology and endocrinology departments; transplant facility for organ donation and transplant; day-care services for super specialty departments as also private wards for patients of super specialty departments.

HealthCare Global Enterprises Ltd, the specialist in cancer care, honoured the ‘Ray of Hope’ award constituted by HCG & ABCC to Jyotsna Govil, Honorary Secretary, Indian Cancer Society, Delhi and Laleh Busheri, Editor in Chief, Priva Asia, at the 3rd Asian Breast Cancer Congress. They were awarded for their outstanding dedication, commitment, exemplary work that they have done in making life more meaningful for cancer patients.

“Additional research is needed to confirm vitamin D as a potential treatment for women with uterine fibroids. But it is also an essential nutrient for the health of muscle, bone and the immune system, and it is important for everyone to receive an adequate amount of the vitamin.

The increasing penetration of smart phones and mobile broadband services the mobile is poised to play a greater role in healthcare in the coming years. The Indian market would be roughly one-tenth of the market opportunity in Asia Pacific over the next six years. Several different services, focused on spreading prevention and awareness, have been launched in the mobile health space in India.

India is all set to host the 5th Congress of Federation of Immunological Societies of Asia-Oceania (FIMSA) from March 14-17, 2012. The theme of the Congress is ‘Translational Immunology in Health and Disease’. Special emphasis will be laid on issues related to infections such as tuberculosis, malaria, Hepatitis C and HIV.

TAVI procedure can be performed in the cath lab through the groin in an angioplasty-like procedure without opening the chest or putting the patient on bypass. The patient can be discharged soon after the surgery, unlike in a bypass surgery.

The Group provides an extensive array of instruments and analytical systems for applications across a range of industries spanning automobiles and vehicles, human healthcare and veterinary, pharmaceutical and others. The Indian subsidiary is active in three business domains, automotive test equipment, process environment and medical.

Dr Hiremath who operated on both the patients went for a complex interventional angioplasty rather than a bypass surgery. Both the patients are now saved of all the complications of a major bypass surgery & discharged from the hospital in 48 hours.