Apollo Hospitals Heart & Lung and Liver Transplant teams give a new “Gift of Life” to 30 year old

Sugar disease growing at alarming rate in India: Metropolis Study

New Delhi: Metropolis Healthcare – the pathology specialists and multinational chain of diagnostic centers conducted a comprehensive analysis of over 18,545 samples in Delhi that were processed for fasting blood sugar for over the last three years. The in-depth analysis revealed that over 43% of all samples from male and female were diabetic. Delhi Fasting […]

Awareness and timely management key to bring down Acute Liver Failure mortality: Experts

New Delhi: The expert team of Department of Hepatology at Global Hospitals – one of the fastest growing chains of multi-super speciality, multi-organ transplant and quaternary care hospitals in Mumbai, shared their experience in treating and managing Acute Liver Failure patients medically and through transplantation. Acute liver failure is uncommon, life threatening, catastrophic illness which […]

DLF Foundation Showers Gift of Health and Awareness on the Women of Shikohpur Village, Gurgaon

DLF Foundation in collaboration with the World Healthal Trust (WHT) organized a Cancer Awareness cum screening program at Shikohpur Village, Gurgaon to give them a gift of health and safety from cancer on this festive season. More than 50 women attended the cancer awareness cum screening camp. Pamphlets on Endometrial cancer, Breast cancer, cervical cancer […]

Healthy Eating- Key to control diabetes

Mumbai: On World Diabetes Day, 14 November, ‘healthy living’ is this year’s International Diabetes Federation (IDF) and World Health Organization (WHO) theme. Irregular eating habits, stress, and today’s hectic lifestyle are major reason for type 2 diabetes and form a major aspect in the control of diabetes. Accordingly, the IDF and WHO are promoting ‘healthy […]

World Bank and University of Edinburgh Partner with ACCESS Health International to Launch First Course for Policymakers on Managing Markets for Health

Chennai : ACCESSHealth helped launch the first face to face policy maker course on Managing Markets for Health, created by the World Bank in partnership with the University of Edinburgh. Over twenty state health policymakers, along with international representatives from Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Kenya, and Tanzania and key Indian development partners participated. The national representation was […]

Scratching the Surface of Skin Disease

SINGAPORE : An international team of scientists, led by researchers from A*STAR’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), Institute of Medical Biology (IMB), and Bioinformatics Institute (BII), and P&G, have completed the first comprehensive genomic and biologic study of all species of Malassezia, one of the top skin disease-causing microbes. The breakthrough study identified multiple potential […]

Apollo hospitals and rotary international announces its second edition of “LYLF

Chennai:  The Centre for Liver Disease & Transplantation at Apollo Hospitals in association with Rotary International is organising its second biggest Night Marathon in Chennai “Love Your Liver Foundation – LYLF Night Marathon 2015”. This will be held on Saturday, 14th November 2015 at the Island grounds, Chennai. The press gathering was addressed by Dr. […]

Paras Hospitals discusses concerns regarding stroke epidemic in India on WORLD STROKE DAY

Gurgaon: India is following the footprints of other developing countries as a vast part of its population is suffering from both communicable and non-communicable diseases. As per National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), US, stroke claims a large number of victims in India with an estimated prevalence rate of stroke range at 84-262/100,000 in rural […]

A*STAR Findings on Breast Cancer Hold Potential for New Treatments

SINGAPORE :  – Scientists at the Bioinformatics Institute (BII) and Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), research institutes under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), have made discoveries that could lead to new ways of diagnosing and treating breast cancer. The scientists from both institutes used large-scale genomic data of breast cancers, demonstrating the […]