Award for TTK Chitra heart valve prosthesis

Posted in General Support group on Thu, 17 May 2001

TTK Healthcare and Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Science and Technology have bagged theNational award for successful commercialization of indigenous technology 2001 for developing artificial he...

OCT - Optical Coherence Tomography - the buzzword in cardiology

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 07 May 2001

The latest in cardiology is OCT, which expands into Optical Coherence Tomography. This breakthrough has made many cardiologists sit up and take notice and is revolutionizing angioplasty. This has been...

Heart disease in the newborn is related to maternal malnutrition

Posted in General Support group on Wed, 10 Jan 2001

In its December issue Heart has carried a study on maternal malnutrition in the first trimester of pregnancy and how it causes coronary heart diseases in the newborn.

Prince Charles lends support to Alternative Medicine

Posted in General Support group on Mon, 18 Dec 2000

In an open show of support to Alternative Medicine, Britain's Prince Charles has urged the government to allocate 10 million pounds ($14.21 million) to fund a five-year research program into the effec...