Full Coverage: Disease

26.12.2005 SRL Ranbaxy, a leading provider of pathology laboratory services, launched a first-of-its-kind national mass-screening project for hepatitis B for school students. The project in collaboration with Lions Club, Chennai, is in its first phase and aims to screen and diagnose over 1,00,000 school students in Chennai against hepatitis B virus.

20.12.2005 Health authorities in northern Pakistan and Pakistani-administered Kashmir, supported by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), has launched the third phase of an immunisation campaign to prevent the outbreak of communicable diseases in camps set up after the 8 October earthquake.

15.12.2005 Research-based pharmaceutical companies are actively searching for treatments and cures for the various diseases of old age and have come out with as many as 900 medicines for the same.

14.12.2005 HONG KONG (Reuters) - While the World Trade Organization (WTO) meeting in Hong Kong this week may hold promises of more free trade and a better livelihood for mainstream society, for some, it is a matter of life and death.

14.12.2005 With a toddler son in her arms, Uma Preman, a 25-year-old undergraduate, set out to fill a gap on account of which she had lost her husband to turberculosis. On August 4, 1996, Santhi Medical Information Centre (SMIC) was set up in the temple town of Guruvayur in Thrissur, Kerala. Till date, it is a one-stop centre dispensing information on doctors and hospitals the world over - John Mary reports for Outlook.