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Bangalore, February 09, 2012: IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced the launch of a Smarter Commerce Center of Excellence (CoE) at the India Software Lab, Bangalore. The CoE will consist of a team of 25 technical experts selected from the B2B and Commerce Enterprise Marketing Management teams from India Software Lab.

Hyderabad, February 06....Does Yoga belong to us or West. We hear of westerners attaching much more importance to yoga than us. Nodoubt Yoga is a craze in the Western World. The proof of it is seen in Hyderabad now.

Medical Fair India 2012, formerly known as HOSPIMedica India, an international trade exhibition and conference on Diagnostics, Medical Equipment and Technology is to be held at Bombay Exhibition Centre, Mumbai, India from 2nd to 4th March 2012. This global event is jointly organized by Messe Düsseldorf, Germany (organiser of “MEDICA” world’s largest medical trade show) and its Indian subsidiary Messe Düsseldorf India Pvt. Ltd.

Bangalore… 24 January 2012: Expressing concern over the growing incidence of HIV, AIDS and diabetes in the state, Karnataka’s Medical Education Minister SA Ramadass on Tuesday said the government would shortly launch ‘Start Yoga, Stop HIV’ campaign to promote a healthy lifestyle.

Hyderabad, January 12, 2012… Don't get stressed over heart surgeries. The heart surgery will be no longer as traumatic as it was before. Minimally invasive cardiac surgeries (MICS) are becoming the order of the day. The trend has been in place in the US and Germany, Europe and other western countries. Increasing number of patients are opting for these quick procedures that heal faster and involve no breaking of bones.

Hyderabad… 9 January 2012: NephroLife, a pioneer in kidney care and a leading renal replacement therapy (RRT) provider, has established its presence in the heritage city of Hyderabad, by opening the first and exclusive state-of-the-art unit at the Challa Hospital, Ameerpet locality, to provide India’s first high-end networked dialysis under the guidance of renowned nephrologists.

S3V earmarks INR 140 crore for setting up a state-of-the-art integrated facility for the development and manufacturing of medical devices

Hyderabad, December 06... Bangalore based start up company S3V Vascular Technologies floated by four classmates of founding batch of PGPMAX at the Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad announces the launch of new company and its first product India's first Bioabsorbable Endovascular Drug Coated Stent "Avatar".

India adds 5 lakh new Pediatric Epilepsy cases every year. Nearly 10% of this number can be cured by the surgery.

Nearly 30% children do not respond to medicines. In such cases Epilepsy Surgery offers best solution, opined Pediatric Epilepsy Experts and Neurosurgeons

Department of Gynecology at KIMS successfully performs Sacrocolpopexy & Tubal Recanalisation using Robotic Assistance

Hyderabad, October 11, 2011: 456 million i.e 45 crore population in this country require vision correction either through spectacles, contact lenses or refractive surgery to be able to see and function normally. Everybody above the age of 40years develops presbyopia or need for wearing near vision glasses. Diabetes is growing at the rate of 195% in India, which can affect the eyes and lead to blindness. One of five children going to school have visual problem in India informed Mr. Vivke, Marketing Director of Lawrence & Mayo.

Robotically Assisted Surgeries have become order of the day

KIMS does 40 plus Robotic Assisted Surgeries in all specialties put together since their installation in June 2011

Not a single government hospital in Andhra Pradesh is NABH Accreditated, while many other states in the country are ahead of A.P: Dr. Girdhar J. Gyani, CEO of NABH and Secretary General of Quality Council of India

Star completes three years and celebrates 3rd Anniversary

Not a single government hospital in Andhra Pradesh is NABH Accreditated, while many other states in the country are ahead of A.P: Dr. Girdhar J. Gyani, CEO of NABH and Secretary General of Quality Council of India

Star completes three years and celebrates 3rd Anniversary

Hyderabad, September 26…..The Atlanta Foundation, in association with AP Tourism, Hyderabad Bicycling Club, Joy-of-Giving and Let us Vote are to organize a ride to honor the Father of the Nation here in city on October 2nd disclosed The Atlanta Foundation in a press note issued in city today.

From this year on, every October 2nd, a cycle ride will be organised to pay tribute to Gandhi in a way that would make Father of the Nation, the Mahatma proud!

We keep reading newspaper headlines frequently report about rising inflation. It is time for them to write about Infertility, says Dr. Narmada

Hyderabad… 16 September 2011: Biological E. Limited (BE), a leading vaccine and pharmaceutical company based out of Hyderabad, India has successfully completed the phase 2/3 study in healthy infants between 1 to 3 years old in India across eight study sites. This is an important milestone in the clinical development of this vero cell based inactivated JE vaccine manufactured in India based on the technology transfer agreement with Intercell.

NEW DELHI: Cases of coronary heart disease (CHD) between 2000 and 2015 are expected to nearly triple in India. While an estimated 2.7 crore Indians were suffering from CHD in 2000, the number is expected to increase to 6.15 crore by 2015, according to Union health ministry's latest national health profile projections 2010.

In 2005, India was estimated to have 3.5 crore CHD patients while in 2010, the number stood at 4.6 crores.

An interesting trend, according to the ministry's projections, is the stark increase in CHD cases in the age group of 20-29.

Johnson & Johnson has discovered counterfeit versions of its diabetes test strips in India, as the health-care giant continues a long-running global battle to eradicate the fake products.

According to a notice posted online by J&J's LifeScan business last month, the products were made to resemble OneTouch Ultra blood-glucose test strips. The fake products lacked certain features, such as the OneTouch trademark printed on the test strips.

NEW DELHI: Just about 1 in 3 people consume iodised salt in Tamil Nadu, Madhya Pradesh, Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh. While just less than half in Andhra Pradesh gets iodised salt, the number stands at just over half in Rajasthan, 60% in Orissa and 64% in Uttarakhand.

A report -- 'Iodized Salt Coverage Study 2010' -- conducted in rural households across eight states found that while use of adequately iodised salt had increased by 20% since the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) III conducted in 2005-06, the overall use in these states had reached just 47.3%.

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: India is seeking a postponement of the decision on a global ban on Endosulfan to the next meeting of the conference of parties to the Stockholm Convention in 2013, according to observers.

C. Jayakumar and Dr. Mohammed Asheel, observers from Kerala to the ongoing conference of parties to the Convention in Geneva, said in an email message that India had distributed a draft of its proposal among the Asia Pacific group of countries seeking their support for the postponement.