Shastry V. Mallady

MADURAI: A essential material required for treating bone cancer has been developed by scientists of the Fast Breeder Test Reactor at Kalpakkam.

Signs of the economic meltdown affecting the booming medical tourism industry in India have already started showing up. Providers of medical tourism claim that demand for surgeries that are not life-threatening has gone down this year.

Doctors will soon get a template for treatment ...

You may call it a prescription of sorts for doctors. The Union ministry of health and family welfare has begun drafting a set of standard treatment guidelines (STG) at the national level in an attempt to bring uniformity in medical care across the country.

LUCKNOW, July 18: There is new hope for those suffering from diseases like paralysis, osteo-arthritis, hair-fall and skin disorders. The "Kaya Chikitsa" department of the Faculty of Ayurveda in the Institute of Medical Sciences at the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) now offers treatment of these diseases through the leech therapy. Ayurveda experts at the BHU have been successfully using blood-sucking leeches to treat human ailments, including paralysis and osteo-arthritis.

WITH medical tourism to India expected to grow 30% annually till 2012, the demand for talent is going up at a brisk pace even as it opens up a whole gamut of job opportunities in the sector. Little wonder then that a full-time course on medical tourism launched by the Indian Clinical Research Institute (ICRI) has generated a great deal of interest in the medical fraternity.

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