The diagnostic rip-off

While the health care industry has welcomed the corporatisation of diagnostic laboratories, serious questions persist on the quality of service many of these small as well as big players offer and the rates they charge.

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Physician Uses Video Emails to Discuss Lab Results wth Patients

 common scenario in a medical practice involves a physician discussing and interpreting test results with his or her patients during an office visit. We now learn that at least one physician is creating video emails that are sent to his patients to accomplish this same goal (see:  Click to play: YouTube and similar sites have more doctors getting ready for their close-ups). Below is an excerpt from the article with boldface emphasis mine:

 

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Pregnancy Now Being Outsourced to India

[Fifteen] young mothers of [the city of] Anand [in western India] are pregnant with the children of infertile couples from around the world. The small clinic at Kaival Hospital matches infertile couples with local women, cares for the women during pregnancy and delivery, and counsels them afterward....

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Metropolis (India) eyes 60% stake in London path lab chain

Mumbai-based Metropolis Health Services, which operates one of India's largest path lab chains with over 45 facilities, is in advanced talks to acquire a 60% stake in a London-based path lab chain. The target company, it is learnt, operates eight path laboratories across the UK.

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Biomoda, Inc. Teams with India’s Leading Diagnostic Testing Provider

Albuquerque, N.M. – (Business Wire), April 13, 2005 – Biomoda, Inc. and Metropolis Health Systems of Mumbai, India www.metropolisindia.com , have entered into an agreement for Metropolis to provide clinical samples for Biomoda's diagnostic test development Program.  This represents a significant ramping up of Biomoda's validation program.

 

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Lalpath Labs makes foray into South India

Bangalore, Sep 16 (UNI) Lalpath labs, the world-class diagnostic services chain having a wide footprint in North India, made its foray into the southern region by opening its lab in the city today.

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Metropolis Health eyes acquisition in Gujarat

Having set up a joint venture with Desai Clinical Laboratory in Surat, Mumbai-based diagnostic chain Metropolis Health Services is now eyeing an acquisition in Gujarat.

 

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ICICI Venture-Funded Metroplis Health To Buy Labs In India, Overseas

ICICI Venture-funded diagnostic chain Metropolis Health Services is looking at acquisitions in Gujarat, Maharashtra and Karnataka, says a report in Business Standard.

 

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Good management of private labs helps to generate funds and improves service quality

Tandem mass spectrometry is a multi analyte technology, which is able to detect about 30 metabolic genetic disorders in one test, from one same sample. This technology can detect the presence of disorders before the appearance of clinical symptoms, thus giving good time to the physician for saving the child from mental retardation, early death and other physical disabilities

 

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Vijaya diagnostic launches ‘Privilege Card’

Vijaya Diagnostic Centre, which offers a wide range of diagnostic services through eight of its branches in the twin cities of Hyderabad and Secunderabad, has launched 'Privilege Card' meant for a family, consisting of husband and wife plus two or three children.

 

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What ail genetic lab service and research in India?

A four-legged boy, born with two sets of penis, four testicles, two anal openings and a huge bulge in the abdomen recently created a furore in Lucknow, with even his parents refusing to take him home, unless he is surgically operated on to look like a normal child. The newborn is kept at Lucknow's King George Medical University, where doctors are debating on the risks involved in such a surgery.

 

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