The Health Minister Vishwajit Rane inaugurated ‘The Clinic on Wheels’ for the diabetics in the state. These clinics will be equipped with all state of the art facilities to detect diabetes and offer treatment along with educational material to offer to spread awareness about the effects of the disease and how early diagnosis of high sugar levels can prevent complications at a later stage. 

A recent study by the researchers at University of the West of England has shown that an accommodation in a bustling locality can lead to “fewer friends”. This study was led by Joshua Hart of the University of the West of England, Bristol. This study supports result of the previous study that showed that the weight of traffic beside a person's home can determine their quality of life.  

A clinical trial of Amgen’s experimental bone drug on 7,800 postmenopausal women with osteoporosis showed a 68% reduction in the risk of spinal fractures in women with osteoporosis. Denosumab has been found to also reduce the risk of hip fractures by 40% and the risk of all non-spinal fractures by 20%. 

The results of a short term trial comparing experimental drug Ustekinumab with existing Enbrel carried out on 902-patients and presented at the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology Congress in Paris, indicate the superiority of Ustekinumab over Enbrel in treating moderate to severe plaque psoriasis. 

The 12-week trial saw one group of patients given one short of Ustekinumab at the start with a booster shot four weeks later, while other patients received two shots of Enbrel each week. 

With the aim to provide paramedical, medical and nurses training courses at its upcoming Apollo Aragonda Health Knowledge City in Andhra Pradesh, the Apollo Hospitals Group, on its 25th anniversary, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Indira Gandhi National Open University. The project, which will require an investment of Rs 1,000 crore over the next five years will be located on 100 acres. 

Decrease in the superbug MRSA, has bought the appreciation for the government. Health Protection Agency (HPA) reported that superbug MRSA cases had halved between 2004 and 2008. HPA collects the reports of both MRSA and Clostridium difficile infections.

According to Gordon Brown, some of the imposed initiatives like deep-cleaning of wards, bare-below-the-elbows policy etc, had been controversial, but they have helped make the progress.

Quarterly report of HPA's on MRSA articulates 836 cases, between April and June 2008. There is 14% decrease in the previous three months and a drop of 36% from the same quarter last year. Government claims that, since 2004, MRSA infections have now dropped by 57%.