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MedIndia Research Foundation inaugurated

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CHENNAI: Tamil Nadu Dr.MGR Medical University proposes to set up a bank to store umbilical cord blood with the aim of taking up stem cell therapy, its Vice-Chancellor K. Meer Mustafa Hussain said here on Saturday.

Inaugurating the MedIndia Research Foundation, a unit of MedIndia Hospitals, he urged doctors to conduct the therapy ethically, following the guidelines issued by the Indian Council of Medical Research.

The University also proposes to start diploma courses in age management clinics as in the United Kingdom to analyse the age of each organ against the chronological age of a person, Dr. Hussain said.

Citing World Health Organisation statistics that 15 million people in India remain carriers of Hepatitis C, he said the disease could remain dormant for 20 years and manifest as life threatening liver diseases. Medical education programmes could help spread awareness about containing infections of the respiratory tract and the GI tract among the paediatric and adult population, he felt.

The Foundation will work with the university and the ALM Post Graduate Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Taramani on various research projects, according to T. S. Chandrasekar, director of MedIndia Research Foundation.

The Institute Director G.Jayaraman and advisors to the Foundation M. Ahmed Ali and K. Raghuram spoke.

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