Soon, get online MBBS degrees

Next year, if you fail to make it to a prestigious medical college, don’t lose hope of studying medicine. A leading hospital chain is all set to offer India’s first MBBS programme through distance education.

Mumbai-based firm plan to launch CDs in healthcare

The Mumbai-based Dove Multimedia Private Ltd plans to launch CDs in health care next year.

MedRC provides e-Learning opportunities in health sciences

The recent launch of e-Learning programs at the Dr. NTR University of Health Sciences Digital Library at Vijayawada should prove to be a blessing for many health sciences graduate and post graduate aspirants.

ADB provides $400 million to expand health, education services for Indonesia’s poorest

The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has approved a US$400 million financial assistance package for Indonesia to improve education and healthcare services in the country’s poorest families.

US website helps parents identify autism early

Many parents of autistic children don’tunderstand the syptoms of autism in the children. Keeping this in mind a team of doctors has created a 21st-century “instruction manual” for how to deal with autism in children.

CWS – BITS Pilani using Telecom Technology to Provide Healthcare Services

UGC Centre for Women Studies (CWS) at BITS, Pilani has joined hands with Sewa Bharti, Pilani to open new vistas for the people by inaugurating a Telemedicine Centre, first of its kind in Shekhawati Region of Rajasthan.

Sri Lanka may attain the MDGs

The Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ratnasiri Wickramanayake officially launched the online version of MDGInfo Sri Lanka, a customized version of the DevInfo v5.0 database system, on 11 June 2007. The MDGInfo Sri Lanka database, developed by the Department of Census and Statistics, can be viewed on the www.statistics.gov.lk website. It contains information on the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) indicators.

Telemedicine Gets a Human Face

[This article was published in the July 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

This initiative of the ICT Agency of Sri Lanka endeavours to take the dividends of the highly specialized field of human genetics to rural communities through an ICT platform, and draws on the infrastructure facilities of the newest Nenasala at the Kurunegala Hospital and that of the Koslanda Nenasala.

Telemedicine course for doctors

MGR Medical University of Tamil Nadu, India is planning to provide a one-month telemedicine certificate course for doctors.

USDA offers $128 million fund for rural telemedicine in US

The U.S. Department of Agriculture will offer $128 million in loans and grants for telemedicine and distance learning in 2007.

FG, Nigeria to link UCH with 6 health centres via tele medicine network

The Federal Government (FG) of Nigeria said that telemedicine network would link the University College Hospitals (UCH), Ibadan, with other six primary health centres in Nigeria.

Chennai (India) to host International Conference on telemedicine

The first international conference on telemedicine will held in Chennai, India in November 2007. Apollo Hospitals, Sankara Nethralaya and Sri Ramachandra Medical University will sponsor the conference.

e-Learning in Reproductive Health : Dr. Naira Roland Matevosyan

[This article was published in the March 2007 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Although open access to the reproductive health (RH) literature accelerates the recognition/dissemination of the research findings, its actual effects are often controversial.