Dr Neelesh Bhandari's List: India Healthcare News

New findings, published in the International Journal of Women's Health, show increased long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) usage in England was significantly associated with decreased teenage pregnancy rates (under 18 years) and abortion rates in women aged under 20 years.[

Perhaps the most important lesson for the U.S. in WHP’s telemedicine initiatives in India is its approach to scale. Rather than implementing a program and figuring out later how it might be brought to very large numbers of people, WHP is building scalability into the design through low-cost approaches, and a reliance on for-profit rural practitioners — effectively working with the private sector to build a new market for preventative health.

Describing neonatal and maternal mortality rates as a matter of grave concern, Prime Minister Narendra Modi today said his government wanted to effectively use its 'Make in India' and 'Digital India' campaigns to reach healthcare to the country's poorest of the poor.

The healthcare market can be extraordinarily competitive. Dentists, optometrists, general care practitioners and cosmetic surgeons must all remain on top of their marketing game if they want to bring in new clientele. Creating a strong, complex marketing strategy is a necessity—and may require the utilization of some unique techniques.

Despite reduction in prices of several medicines by NPPA, quality problems with US FDA, competition and slowdown in approvals, 50 top Indian pharmaceutical companies registered satisfactory growth in net sales and earnings before depreciation, interest, tax and adjustments (EBDITA). The net sales of Pharmabiz sample of 50 major pharmaceutical companies went up by 13.7 per cent to Rs.75,377 crore from Rs.66,314 crore in the corresponding period of last year. However, their other operating income declined by 13 per cent to Rs.2,244 crore from Rs.2,579 crore. <br />

he body of an unidentified man was found tied to a pillar in the common room of a boys' hostel of Kolkata's premier medical college, NRS, this morning.<br /> <br />The police, who had been tipped off by an unidentified caller, rushed to the hostel around 9am. They took the man to the hospital's emergency room. But the doctors declared him "dead on arrival".<br /> <br />Some construction workers at the hostel told NDTV the man had been beaten to death by medical students who stayed at the hostel, because he had allegedly been caught stealing.

Hanumappa Sudarshan, founder of Karuna Trust, which works to transform badly run government primary health centres into professional providers of healthcare services, was on Tuesday presented the Indian Social Entrepreneur of the Year 2014 award by finance minister Arun Jaitley.

They highlight five major problems set against a backdrop of "obvious corruption." There is a dearth of transparent research and a low quality of evidence synthesis. The difficulty of obtaining research funding for comparative effectiveness studies is directly related to the prominence of industry-supported trials: "finance dictates the activity."

As healthcare industry faces increasing expenditure, the emphasis shifts from treatment to prevention thorough use of nutraceuticals and better nutrition, say Frost & Sullivan analysts.

The development of new tools to combat bacterial infections was named as a top priority by President Obama in an executive order signed Thursday, Sept. 18, designed to address the growing problem of antibiotic resistance. As part of the executive order,<br />the administration released the "National Strategy on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria," a five-year plan to prevent and contain outbreaks and develop the next generation of drugs, test and vaccines.

Lawsuits filed by aggrieved patients are jamming up courtrooms across the country. Their names get splashed day after day across front pages of newspapers, on computer and television screens across the nation. It is the kind of exposure every doctor dreads. Chastened by medical litigation and intimidated by negative publicity, a culture of defensive medicine of unnecessary tests and medications or refusing patients with complex illnesses as a safeguard against future litigation, hangs over our hospitals.

In his Independence day address, our prime minister, Narendra Modi, had, among other issues, talked about three things – MAKE IN INDIA, DIGITAL INDIA and TELEMEDICINE. These points are among the many being discussed during the upcoming Asia Pacific Association for Medical Informatics (APAMI) conference in New Delhi from Oct 30th to Nov 2nd.

Scientists have designed a new class of antibiotic which seeks and destroys resistance genes in bacteria.<br /><br />The unique approach could be used to genetically engineer bacteria in our bodies to become less dangerous.<br /><br />The technology might also lead to new treatments for metabolic diseases like obesity, the researchers claim.

The addition of human and planetary health priorities to our fight against climate change is a bold - but necessary - step

If you are contemplating quitting medicine -- not because you don't love it, but because you crave a normal life -- seeing some or even all of your patients online can enable you to cut down on office hours, work from home at your own pace, set your own schedule, and care for patients in a way that more and more of them are telling surveyors they want.<br /><br />Conversely, if your practice isn't busy enough and you seek to increase revenue by seeing more patients, who are proving difficult to attract locally, offering virtual visits can significantly augment your income -- provided, of course, that you can see enough of them online to make it worth your while.

According to Advocate PP Hegde, Dr. Ranjeetha Shenoy of Davanagere was married to Dr. Gurukanth Rao, assistant professor of Medicine at KMC Manipal. After the marriage Dr. Ranjeetha resided with her husband only for 15 days and started insisting that he should come and reside in her parental house in Davanagere. <br /><br />When he refused she abandoned him demanding divorce and Rs 1 crore threatening to lodge false dowry case if money was not paid. <br />

CM Jitan Ram Manjhi, who is on a five-day trip to London, met a delegation of leading medical practitioners of Indian origin in Britain who showed keen interest in making investment in health sector and in opening state-of-the-art hospitals in Bihar.

He said he was doing a plethora of tests — eye exams, audiometry, pulmonary function tests, even Holter monitoring — to generate revenue in the office. “You ask yourself, which doctor would you want to go to? One who does every test — never mind that they are normal” — he laughed bitterly — “or one who doesn’t do such a thorough job? A lot of this is also being driven by patients asking for tests.”

Eighteen months ago, when the GSK China story first broke, if someone had said the outcome would be one British citizen in jail, a naturalized American citizen as well, an all-time record fine by Chinese regulators against the company, and the company’s China head and four other Chinese executives all with criminal charges handed down, you either would have been called an alarmist, or someone with particularly good information about what had been going on for years within the company’s sales teams.

Infants born between September 2013 and Aug. 25 of this year when the unnamed female nurse was put on leave after testing positive for tuberculosis were directed to undergo the screenings. They are being offered for free at a clinic set up at the El Paso Department of Health.