Dr V Keshavan Senior Consultant Pulmonologist, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderaguda. Smoking of tobacco is one of the most important preventable causes of deaths worldwide, with 1 smoking associated death occurring every 6 seconds that results in around 6 million deaths annually. It has been estimated every cigarette smoked by
The participants took a route that resembled the shape of a bean (kidney), making it a one-of-a-kind event After the grand success of the first edition of the bean-shaped (kidney) Cyclothon, Manipal Hospitals organized a second edition - Cyclothon 2.0 across the 10 centres in Bengaluru.
The World Health Organization today called for accelerated action to provide quality, affordable, integrated and people-cantered comprehensive eye care for everyone, for addressing the increasing and disproportionate burden of vision impairment and blindness in the WHO South-East Asia Region. “Nearly 30% of the 2.2 billion people
- SURAKSHA is a community-based suicide surveillance system aimed at testing the feasibility of an indigenized pilot research model for rural Karnataka. - SURAKSHA will cover 32 panchayats in its first year, impacting various stakeholder groups. To improve access to mental health in the districts of Karnataka,
A Mental wellness app incubated by students at EdVenture Park will provide the platform In a first of its kind initiative, NGO Helping Hand Foundation that runs several Primary Health Care centers in collaboration with SEED-USA and mostly from 8 locations in the Urban Slums of the old city, launched
Publishes Nature, the world's leading multidisciplinary science journal A recent study published in scientific reports in the journal Nature finds that there is no link between the use of ranitidine and cancer risk. Ranitidine is used to treat and prevent gastric ulcers. The recent study evaluated the
To enable clinicians to rapidly test for TB and multidrug resistance as a first-line test, Redcliffe Labs becomes the first diagnostics company in India to launch the BD MAX MDR TB test which is performed on BD MAX™ molecular diagnostic system. Presently there are two different tests
Launches its new range of 25 allopathy ophthalmic products GUERISON, a global pharmaceutical player with a focus on ophthalmology business has finally set up its footprints in India’s ophthalmology market (north, east and west region of India) with the launch of its new range of 25
In BTK indication for its Sirolimus Coated Balloon Magic Touch PTA Concept Medical Inc. (CMI) is granted the second Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval in Below the Knee (BTK) indication, for its Sirolimus Coated Balloon Magic Touch PTA. This came after the company got its first
IPSC &THIT conference is the largest patient safety & healthcare IT-based international conference in India, organised by Apollo Hospitals & Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation. Over 200 Speakers and 2000+ delegates from 30 countries participated in the conference from organisations including WHO, JCI, ISQua, NABH, AIIMS, IITs,
