The clinical research industry is rapidly spreading its wings and is all set to dominate developing countries from all over the world. The focus of this article will be nevertheless, Nigeria, which has a population of above 130 million and is called the “the Giant of Africa” being the most populous country in Africa
The term health care management is very generic and it actually involves multi disciplinary sections, right from front line healthcare professionals to hospital administration. With such a growing diversity in this sector, the careers spanning in this particular field is enormous and requires a lot of executives to fulfill the criteria in this field. People […]
Before a new drug gets approved in the market by a regulatory authority and is prescribed as “safe and effective when used as directed” it undergoes a series of trials in human beings (of course, before being tested in animals first) which we now know of as Clinical Trials. The whole process takes years and […]
Public Health is the discipline of caring and improving the health of public through education, promotional efforts for healthy lifestyles, and research activities to prevent and control diseases and injuries. Public health personnel study the effect on health of inheritance, personal selection and the surroundings in order to build up programs that safeguard the health […]
The global population is aging and becoming richer at rates that exceed the accessibility of quality healthcare services. These factors are pushing patients to consider global healthcare alternatives either to save funds or to evade long waits for medical treatment. It is projected that the global medical tourism market is rising at a rate of […]
Medical tourism also referred as health tourism, global healthcare or medical travel is originally coined by mass media and travel agencies to describe the swiftly growing practice of moving across intercontinental boundaries to gain health treatments in a cost effective manner. Medical tourism training is intended to help organizations deliver high quality patient care by expecting […]
More or less a decade following it was initially envisaged as a key occurrence, medical tourism sector in India is beginning to take off. More and more communities across the globe are avoiding expensive treatments or long stay at hospitals in their own countries, for the benefits presented by cost effective countries like India, Singapore, […]
Pharmacovigilance is the division of science relating to to the detection, inference, understanding and evasion of unfavorable effects, chiefly long and short term detrimental effects associated with medicines. In broader sense, it deals with collection, monitoring, estimating and analyzing information from medical service providers and patients on the evil effects of allopathic, biological and herbal medications and unconventional medicines. […]
Good Clinical Practice (GCP) is a well accepted global scientific quality and moral standard for performing clinical studies that engage human volunteers. ICH-GCP certification is mandatory for any professional who try to associate with clinical research anywhere around the Globe. This is making GCP training a compulsion to participate or carve a career in this […]
Individuals with medical or scientific degrees and having put up experience in their relative fields covering different areas as scientists or in middle/top management are by some way involved in health related communications work. Few may have acquired a degree in English language or Journalism or gained work experience in mass communications, and eventually ended […]