Nearly 1.4 million people have been displaced within Sudan or to neighbouring countries since the conflict erupted on April 15 The IKEA Foundation has donated €5 million to Médecins Sans Frontières - Doctors Without Borders (MSF) to provide urgent medical care and supplies to people affected by the recent fighting in Sudan. It
UNESCO India and Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, rated among India's top ten universities by the NIRF 2023 Rankings, have come together to launch a campaign to create awareness among women, especially young and school-going girls, about menstrual health and hygiene management. The event, held at Amrita
MGM Healthcare's Institute of Heart and Lung Transplant and Mechanical Circulatory Support has performed 600 heart and lung transplants in India. The team is responsible of managing India's largest adult and paediatric heart and lung transplant programme. Patients from Delhi who had undergone transplant procedures at
Cancer patients in India can now heave a sigh of relief, thanks to the availability of the cryoablation technology in the country. Cryoablation is a minimally invasive image guided (ultrasound or CT scan) treatment, that uses extreme cold to freeze and accurately destroy diseased tissue
Kauvery Main Hospital, Alwarpet, a leading multi-specialty hospital in Chennai, successfully treated a 70-year-old woman for heat stroke with multi organ dysfunction. The woman was admitted to the hospital with high fever and confusion. She was admitted to the ICU for stabilisation and further evaluation
Authored by Mr. Rahul Misra, Founder, Vesta Elder Care. The digital scenario in contemporary times has evolved from providing basic healthcare facilities to specialised healthcare for elderly patients. With an extensively busy schedule of family caregivers, monitoring and tracking elderly patients' healthcare may become a tiresome
Dr. Rajiv Lochan Lead ConsultantManipal Hospital Old Airport Road, Yeshwanthpur & Sarjapur Liver disease can be caused by numerous genetic and developmental problems with the liver which can lead to liver diseases. In children, biliary atresia, a condition where the bile ducts in the liver do
In a race against time, Axio Biosolutions, a leading Indian medical device manufacturer, came to the aid of the Border Security Force (BSF) unit deployed in Northeast India. The BSF team urgently required Axio's revolutionary haemostatic product, Axiostat, to address a critical situation. Despite the
~The patient underwent transnasal endoscopic tumor excision surgery for tumor removal. The procedure is rare and done only by neurosurgeons trained in endoscopic surgeries. The procedure doesn’t involve cutting the skull. The advantages of the procedure are no incisions on the head, minimal blood loss, and shorter
IORT is a special radiotherapeutic technique where a single dose of radiation is delivered directly to the tumor during surgery - - Fortis Bannerghatta is the only Hospital in India to provide IORT based radiation procedures - Fortis Hospital Bannerghatta successfully performed India’s Novel Intraoperative Radiation Therapy
