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ALL INDIA INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCES, New Delhi has marked
a global first in pioneering stem cell medicine by injection
method. As part of a path-breaking study, conducted from February
2003 to January 2005, 35 cardiac patients were given stem
cell treatment and monitored at six, 12 and 18-month intervals.
All the patients were brought in at a stage when their hearts
were beyond bypass surgery. After six months, 56% of the affected
(read dead Muscle) area injected with these cells had shown
improvement. After 18 months, this went up to 64%. There will
now be a national stem cell center at All India Institute
of Medical Sciences, which will coordinate the research and
its applications. This opens up a window of hope for the long
queue of patients awaiting a heart transplant.
In a joint project of the Council of Scientific and industrial
Research (CSIR), India and Lupin Laboratories, Mumbai, researchers
have discovered a new anti-tubercular molecule for the treatment
of tuberculosis. The molecule, LL 4858-SUBOTERN, has the potential
to not only treat tuberculosis effectively but also reduce
the treatment time significantly. Patents have been filed
in India and the US. Researchers said the new molecule was
particularly effective against latent tuberculosis, where
the disease lingers without showing symptoms.
:Delhi
men ready to go anylength for looks
SANCHITA Sharma
New Delhi, December 27
IF COSMETIC surgery is anything to go by, Delhi's men are
more in touch with their feminine side than even Americans.
Delhi men account for 30 per cent of cosmetic surgeries as
compared to 20 per cent in the US, found a study by Max Healthcare
at its three Delhi hospitals. The analysis of 400 con secutive
cosmetic procedures done in 2005 also showed that cosmetic
surgery has gone up 280 per cent between 2004 and 2005. More
on the Web
India is becoming the next big destination for medical tourists
with its low-cost, high-quality medical care. A comparison
of medical costs in India and US. More on the Web
Rare
surgery in city
The Times of India, New DelhiI
Wednesday, December 28, 2005
New Delhi: In a rare form of surgery in India, an American
patient was operated for morbid obesity where doctors performed
a bypass of the stomach, in an effort to reduce the patient's
weight. Kanita Annette Raheja (29), a resident of Texas, underwent
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on December
21. She was discharged from the hospital on Tuesday. More
on the Web
Bhanu Pande & Sudipto Dey
New delhi 22 September
AIRPORT pick-up and drop, visa assistance, arranging foreign
exchange, hotel accommodation, sight -seeing and shopping,
interpreter services, preparing multicountty cuisine- these
are not the job profile of a hospitality sector professionaL
but one who works for a super-spedality hospital attending
to foreign patients - read medical tourists.
If medical tourism holds promise, Indian hospitals have realised
that the big bucks would come from the West. Hence there's
a rush amongst the hospitals to make themselves attractive
to medical tourists from Europe and the US. Eager to cash
in on the tr~nd. posh private hospitals wooing foreign patients
are offering services that are best assodated with five-star
hotels such as airpon pickups, plush Internet-equipped private
rooms and package deals that combine convalescence with luxuries
of tourist resorts. More on the Web
By Rupali Mukherjee / TNN
New Delhi:
India is giving Thailand stiff competition in healthcare
services for overseas patients with costs of surgery lower
by over 30%, and in fact, cheapest in the entire Southeast
Asia.
Medical tourism is fast emerging as a big.opportunity for
India, with its low-cost advantage, high quality healthcare
providers and an English speaking populace.
Besides offering surgery which is at least 30% cheaper than
Bangkok, we have an added advantage (over Thailand) with our
knowledge of English language, says Dr SK Sama, chairman,
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital.
The medical tourism market has been pegged to grow to around
Rs 10,000 crore by 2012, according to a study carried out
by CII-McKinsey.
"Hospitals that focus on quality and offer advanced
I ledures should be benefl aries," says a report on the
Indian pharmaceutical industry by Citigroup. More on the Web
Need
surgery, will travel
CBC News Online | June 18, 2004
A Canadian patient
Reporter: Cameron MacIntosh
Across Canada, thousands are on waiting lists for surgeries.
In some cases those waits can last for years.
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