Earlier this year, a young man, Harish Nanjappa, died in a road accident on a highway outside Bengaluru. As he lay dying, without any treatment, he spoke of his wish to donate his organs.Today, the Karnataka state government named a new scheme to ensure treatment to accident victims after him. Under the scheme, accident victims […]
As the World Glaucoma Week ends on March 17, with over 11.2 million persons aged 40 years and older suffering from Glaucoma in India, researchers say that despite it being the second largest cause of blindness, it is more problematic than cataract, because the blindness caused by Glaucoma is irreversible. Over 70 per cent of […]
Obese people who have a band surgically strapped around their stomach to restrict food intake not only lose weight but will also suffer less from arthritic knee pain, a new study suggests. According to researchers, the pain proceeds from the deterioration and related inflammation in knee joints caused in part by the extra weight they […]
A team of researchers has identified a method for treating particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer that could potentially save thousands of lives each year. According to results from a SWOG clinical trial, those with tough-to-treat triple negative breast cancer, whose tumors also don’t allow for double-strand DNA repair, fare better when treated with a […]
The Ayushman Bharat-National Health Protection Mission (AB-NHPM), dubbed as Modicare, is touted by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) as the world’s largest healthcare programme. It is estimated to cost about Rs12,000 crore annually. To be rolled out in collaboration with the state governments, “Modicare” is expected to reduce Out Of Pocket […]
Turns out, freezing a nerve can ignite weight loss. According to a study led by the Society of Interventional Radiology, freezing the nerve that carries hunger signals to the brain may help mild-to-moderate obese patients lose weight. The treatment was determined safe and feasible in the initial pilot phase. “We developed this treatment for patients […]
A week after Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed to wipe out tuberculosis (TB) from India by 2025, the government has announced stringent steps including jail terms for doctors, hospital staff and chemists if they fail to report TB cases. The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare in a notification said clinical establishments (hospitals and clinics […]
You may soon be able to get a brain scan and move around at the same time. A lightweight, highly sensitive brain imaging device has been developed by British scientists that can be worn as a helmet, thereby allowing the patient to move about naturally. Test results of the scanner showed that patients were able […]
Scientists have discovered a new organ in the human body which they have dubbed the ‘interstitium’. According to a report in the Daily Mail, the interstitium lies beneath the top layer of skin, but is also in tissue layers lining the gut, lungs, blood vessels, and muscles. The organ is a network of interconnected, fluid-filled […]
The minimally invasive procedure direct anterior approach has been used first time in India by doctors in Hyderabad. A team of surgeons worked on a 53-year-old Somali patient, Mukhtar Hilowli, and performed a double hip replacement using the latest minimally invasive procedure the direct hip anterior for the first time in India. Minimally invasive surgery […]