Paltry budget allocation to health disappoints experts

February 26th, 2010 NEW DELHI - Health activists and experts Friday expressed disappointment over the low allocation to healthcare in the union budget and said more was needed to address the needs of the rural and urban populace. "We are still very far from the three percent of GDP that needs to be allocated to the healthcare system to provide quality basic healthcare for all and to start to improve India's very poorly performing health care system," Nisha Agrawal, chief executive officer, Oxfam India, said.

Chinese doctors dismiss HIV-like mystery disease as prostitute guilt

February 10th, 2010 BEIJING - A mystery illness with HIV-like symptoms has been reported by hundreds of Chinese, but doctors believe it is just "HIV phobia" caused by guilt from having sex with prostitutes. Many patients suspect they are being lied to when their HIV tests come back negative, even those who have had as many as seven tests, News.com.au reports.

MCI proposes 300 colleges to produce rural doctors

February 5th, 2010 NEW DELHI - The Medical Council of India (MCI) Friday proposed setting up of 300 medical colleges to provide education to rural students and deploy them there to provide basic healthcare facilities to villagers. "There are around 300 districts in our country where there are no medical colleges and we have proposed a medical college in each of these districts," MCI president Ketan Desai told reporters here.

Jyoti Basu critical, on ventilator

January 6th, 2010 KOLKATA - Veteran Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Jyoti Basu, hospitalised with a pneumonia attack, was in critical condition Wednesday, a medical bulletin said. "Basu is critical.

West Bengal seeks medical colleges in public-private partnership

December 4th, 2009 KOLKATA - The West Bengal government is in talks with the central government and the Medical Council of India (MCI) to explore the Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) model for developing medical colleges in the state, an official said. The state government will provide the hospital infrastructure including grants for free beds while the private entity will run the college, state Health Minister Surya Kanta Mishra said here Friday.

Swiss fine Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Bayer $5.7M for price-fixing of erectile dysfunction drugs

December 1st, 2009 more images more imagesSwiss fine drug firms $5.7M for price-fixingBERN, Switzerland — The Swiss branches of Pfizer Inc., Eli Lilly & Co. and Bayer AG were fined a total of 5.7 million francs ($5.7 million) by competition regulators on Tuesday for alleged price fixing of drugs for erectile dysfunction.

How do consumers choose among alternative medicines

November 18th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Alternative health remedies have gained immense popularity in the health care marketplace. Now, a new study sheds light on how people choose among the various available remedies.

Prioritizing low-cost, simple health measures can cut early deaths worldwide

November 16th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Scaling up simple, low-cost health measures involving basic maternal and newborn care can save the lives of almost a third of the children under age five who die each year, suggests a leading aid agency World Vision. The experts suggest that rebalancing health spending to ensure low-cost, simple interventions such as safe water and hygiene, must be a priority to make rapid progress against the top child killers pneumonia, diarrhea and malaria.

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