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Experts Promise New Era Of Treatment For Liver Cancer Patients With Atezolizumab-bevacizumab Combination
Researchers highlighted that 12.9 per cent of patients achieved complete resolution of tumours, and 25.8 per cent achieved partial resolution or shrinking of tumours. Overall, the disease did not progress in 66.12 per cent of the patients studied.
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Existing Antibodies Can Fight Against New Covid Variant: US CDC
The Food and Drug Administration in the coming days is expected to authorize the updated vaccines that target the XBB.1.5 subvariant of Omicron, and early data provide encouraging signs for the new shots, CDC said
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AR, VR Technologies Will Become Mainstream In Healthcare In A Few Years: Dr Mahesh Kappanayil
In an exclusive interaction with BW Healthcare World, Dr Mahesh Kappanayil, Clinical Professor of Paediatric Cardiology at Amrita Hospital spoke on the evolving technologies, their use cases in hospitals as well as in medical education and the dream of having an artificial heart in the near future
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Why Is India Ignoring Mental Health Of Its Moms?
Perinatal depression is the most common comorbidity of pregnancy and remains a major public health challenge around the globe. Several Indian studies published in the US journal National Library of Medicine have revealed that the prevalence of perinatal depression is anywhere around 22 to 23 per cen
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AIIMS Introduces Centralised Sample Collection, Electronic Report Distribution
This step aims to eliminate the need for patients and their attendants to traverse to other areas for sample submission or analysis. Simultaneously, AIIMS wants to ensure that all reports are made available electronically or can be obtained directly from the respective OPDs
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NMC Puts New Regulations On Docs In Abeyance; Directs To Follow Old Guidelines From 2002
In a new notification dated 23 August 2023, the National Medical Commission has set aside its earlier regulations released on 2nd of August which mandated doctors to prescribe generic drugs over branded ones and barred the clinicians from receiving any gifts or endorsements from pharmaceutical compa
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WHO Releases New Guidelines To Improve Testing, Diagnosis Of STIs
On Monday WHO in a statement said that during the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries had reported low coverage for prevention, testing and treatment services for STIs, which has led to a resurgence of STIs globally
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Gambia To Explore Legal Action On Maiden Pharma Over Toxic Cough Syrup
Gambia's government is "far advanced" in exploring avenues for potential legal action against Indian drugmaker Maiden Pharmaceuticals and a local distributor over toxic cough syrups believed to have killed dozens of children, it said on Friday
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Digital Health Adoption In India: Opportunities & Challenges
The eHealth ecosystem needs multiple stakeholders to come together – entrepreneurs, medical professionals, investors, regulators, hospitals, insurance, pharma & corporates working in alignment to improve the outcomes for patient
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Health Minister Directs DCGI To Punish Firms Making Spurious Drugs
Mandaviya has directed the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) to take stringent action against all pharmaceutical manufacturing companies that make spurious drugs. “There shall be no compromise with the quality of drugs manufactured in India”, he emphasised
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