Setting up women's support groups in poor areas can make a dramatic difference to the welfare of mothers and their babies, according to a new study. British and Indian researchers have worked on a project in two poor states in eastern India, Jharkand and Orissa since 2005. More than 40 per cent of babies die at birth in these regions.
People from the South Asian and black communities living in the UK are three times more likely to need a kidney transplant, but owing to the shortage of compatible donors, have to wait on average nearly twice as long as a white person for an organ to become available.
The world's first training centre for British post-graduate diploma MRCP, which enables medical graduates to qualify for the coveted membership of UK's Royal Colleges of Physicians, has been set up at the Trivandrum Medical College by its alumni.
The study led by Professor James Nazroo, from The University of Manchester, found no differences for a range of clinical outcomes of care for patients from ethnic minority backgrounds when compared with white patients.
Clinicians in Bradford are joining an investigation into why UK-born south Asians are more likely to develop MS than those who have migrated to the UK as adults.
The Department of Health (DoH) has launched a website as part of its national hepatitis C awareness campaign to provide specific advice and information relevant to people with origins from the the Indian sub-continent.
