This year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology/Medicine has been awarded to three physician-scientists for their discoveries on ‘how cells sense and adapt to oxygen and availability’. The award was shared by William Kaelin Jr at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard University in Massachusetts, Sir Peter Ratcliffe at Oxford University and the Francis Crick Institute in […]
In what can be considered a miracle, a baby girl who was born just 580 gm has made a remarkable recovery. The baby girl, who was born five months ago was handed over to her parents at Nagapattinam General Hospital. The baby, who was all bones and skin when born prematurely, and weighed just 580 […]
Doctor’s at Apollo Hospital, Delhi has recently saved the life of a 7-month-old girl suffering from a rare type of heart disease called type-3 truncus arteriosus (TA). The baby had a condition where she had only one great blood vessel parting the heart, which then branched into blood vessels going to the lungs and the […]
A new biomedical device can now measure the “tissue stiffness” and predict the patient’s risk of diabetic foot complications. The device has been introduced at an innovation camp at IIT-Bombay. According to Nishant Kathpal, the 27-year-old innovator who won a Rs 50-lakh grant for his startup, this is possibly the first device that can measure […]
The Maharashtra Medical Council (MMC) has introduced five security features in its redesigned medical passing certificates to curb the use of fake ones. The security measures include Individual QR codes, embossed logo, holograms, hidden (bleed) lines and watermarks. This step has been taken in connection with the controversial fake certificate scam associated with Maharashtra based […]
Everybody will have a turning point which can change the course of their life. Dr Nordan Otzer had two major turning points in his life, which changed his dreams for good. The year was 2007. Dr Nordan was working in a Tamil Nadu rural hospital. One day, he received news that his mother has cervical […]
For Matloob Hussain’s family in Uttar Pradesh’s Bareilly district, the central government’s healthcare scheme Ayushman Bharat sounds nothing more than a hollow claim. While the scheme aims at making interventions in primary, secondary and tertiary care systems, covering both preventive and promotive health, to address healthcare holistically, Hussain’s family had to run from pillar to […]
The Indian Council of Medical research has ordered terminating two clinical trials on baby foods funded by Nestle for violating the Indian law. This is the third Nestle-backed research study stopped by ICMR after violations were brought to the Union Health Ministry’s notice by an NGO, Breastfeeding Promotion Network of India, which monitors compliance to […]
A report on a 60-year follow-up of a clinical trial suggests that receiving BCG vaccination during early childhood is associated with reduced risk of subsequent lung cancer development. The results were published in the ‘Journal of the American Medical Association'(JAMA). The study, “Association of Bacille Calmette-Guerin Vaccination in Childhood with Subsequent Cancer,” was led by […]
India will soon see a definition and regulations for over-the-counter (OTC) drugs, two years after considering a proposal regarding the same.The new law will have a separate schedule and stringent regulations on quality, advertisement and pricing of such drugs. OTC drugs can be brought by the customer directly, not like prescribed medicines which cannot be […]