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Dr Chitra Ramamurthy, Senior Consultant- Fertility & IVF, Apollo Fertility JP Nagar, Bengaluru Infertility affects millions of individuals and couples worldwide, posing significant challenges to achieving parenthood naturally. In such cases, In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) emerges as a viable treatment option, offering hope and a pathway

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Dr Jisha Pillai, Dermatologist, Lilavati Hospital Mumbai   This article helps to understand the symptoms, causes, treatment, and precautions of scleroderma Scleroderma happens when one’s body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy tissues. Hence, one sees an overproduction of collagen, causing thickening and hardening of the skin and other

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Dr Aditya Gupta, Director of Neurosurgery and Cyberknife, Artemis Hospital, Gurugram   Radiosurgery is an advanced non-invasive and high-precision medical procedure that uses a focused beam of radiation to treat tumors and other medical conditions. It is a very special form of radiation therapy which delivers

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The percentage of fungal infections has gone up this year. Tinea (ringworm) of the groins, face, and scalp, Athlete foot types of fungal infections were commonly seen in men and women Resistant fungal infections that are resistant to treatment with standard antifungal treatments Given the escalating cases of

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Nearly 50% would require hospitalisation & a staggering 20% would undergo an amputation December 2021: India is known as the Diabetes capital of the world. Of the estimated 77 million diabetics in the country, 25% are expected to develop diabetic foot ulcers during their lifetime. Amongst

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Researchers have identified an anti-viral gene that impacts the risk of both Alzheimer's disease and severe Covid-19. A team from the University College London (UCL) estimated that one genetic variant of the OAS1 gene increases the risk of Alzheimer's disease by about 3-6 per cent in

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