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  • NephroPlus announced first of its kind ‘Dialysis on Call’ service in Hyderabad

    NephroPlus, India’s largest dialysis care network in India and a trailblazer in redefining dialysis care in the country, has launched an innovative and much-needed home-based ‘Dialysis on Call’ service in Hyderabad today. With this initiative, NephroPlus expands its portfolio of service offerings by taking the dialysis setup to a patient’s place and conducting the procedure […]

    Number of lung cancer incidences on rise in women, says panelists at Neuberg Centre for Genomic Medicine

    Owing to reverse smoking, high lung cancer incidences seen in women 80-85% of patients continue to report lung cancer at advance stages Targeted tissue therapy fast becoming best alternative to chemotherapy for cancer treatment     The life expectancy of lung cancer patients has increased from less than a year to 3-5 years with the help […]

    A Little Supervision Can Prevent Burn Injuries among Children during Steam Inhalation

    By Dr Gururaj Biradar, Consultant – Pediatrics, PICU, and Neonatology, Manipal Hospitals, Whitefield The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic spread a lot of paranoia with it! As the world around started to shut down, misinformation soon took the form of rumors that spread like wildfire. While medical science did its magic in laboratories around […]

    Hepatitis B needs prompt attention

    By Dr. Vidyasagar Ramappa, Consultant – Gastroenterology, Columbia Asia Referral Hospital Yeshwanthpur (A unit of Manipal Hospitals) Hepatitis B is a liver infection caused by a virus with potentially serious consequences, that affects people of all age groups around the world. This infection can result in inflammation of the liver that can lead to serious […]

    Apollo Hospitals Group and Microsoft India redefine care process for MS Teams users

    ~Digital healthcare solutions integrated with Microsoft Teams to enable organizations empower their employees’ to manage their health and wellness~ Apollo 24|7 – the digital Arm of the Apollo Hospitals Group and Microsoft India have joined hands to launch Enterprise Solution that can be utilized by organizations to provide their employees access to a holistic health […]

    Hepatitis can’t wait!

    Dr. P. Basumani, Senior Consultant Gastroenterologist, Sri Ramachandra Medical Center, Chennai Even when COVID pandemic is actively ravaging our planet, we lose more than one million lives every year due to viral hepatitis – a condition of liver inflammation caused by viruses! Though there are five types of viruses that can cause hepatitis ( A,B,C,D,E), […]

    World Hepatitis Day

    By Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia The WHO South-East Asia Region is intensifying action to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030. Globally, an estimated 296 million people live with chronic hepatitis B and around 58 million live with chronic hepatitis C. In 2019 viral hepatitis caused […]

    Hepatitis Can’t Wait: Seek Care For Symptoms

    By Dr. Suraj Uppalapati  ,Consultant Gastroenterologist  Citizens Specialty Hospital  While the world is being gripped by a novel virus, let us take a moment to remember some of the older viruses on World Hepatitis Day. Hepatitis is defined as inflammation of liver which is brought to notice by elevated liver enzymes (AST or SGOT and […]

    Frequent Urination – Reasons and Prevention

    Spokesperson: Dr. Priyank Salecha, Urologist,at Apollo Spectra Hospital, Hyderabad Certain health conditions do not catch our eye at an early stage simply because the symptoms do not feel unusual or alarming till they progress to a worrisome level. It is quite normal to have fluctuations in the number of times a normal person passes urine […]

    Doctors at Fortis Gurgaon implanted the largest (in India) 3D printed customized hip implant in 60-year-old Tanzanian patient with damaged pelvic bone

    New Delhi: The Orthopaedics team at Fortis Memorial Research Institute, Gurugram recently implanted the largest (in India) custom-made 3D printed hip implant in a 60-year-old Tanzanian patient. Such customised implant was required as the patient’s pelvic bone had been badly damaged due to three previous hip surgeries. The team of doctors led by Dr. Subhash […]