At 66, Dr Aquinas Edassery could’ve chosen retirement or could’ve run a clinic at home. But she wanted to come out of the comfortable life and serve the needed. From 2013, she chose to work for the tribal people living in the forests of Thuamul Rampur Block in the district of Kalahandi, one of the […]
Dhanya Nair from Kalyan was five months pregnant when an ultrasound scan revealed that her child had hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a rare condition that affects one in 10,000 births. It is a condition in which the left side of the heart is severely underdeveloped. In HLHS, unlike in a normal heart, the left […]
The Supreme Court has recently held that a doctor or surgeon cannot assure that the outcome of any surgery would be beneficial. The decision was held in response to a case between Dr SK Jhunjhunwala vs Mrs Dhanwanti Kumar. The appellant, Dr Jhunjhunwala, a doctor by profession had been practising medicine in Calcutta since 1969. […]
Scientists at the National AIDS Research Institute (NARI) are undertaking a study to determine the accuracy of an oral saliva test for HIV infection. The easy-to-use and cost-effective test will help increase HIV screening rates and also enable early diagnosis of the disease. The scientific committee of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has […]
For the first time in India, a team of doctors at Delhi Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has performed the catheter-based procedure of MitraClip to repair a leaking heart valve without surgery. Mitral valve is the valve connecting two chambers of the left side of the heart that receives impure blood from all over the body […]
The Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, the Indian Council for Medical Research and the Department of Biotechnology are joining hands to promote research in herbal drugs, some of which involve new drugs from marijuana. At a one-day conference on ‘Cannabis R&D in India’, union minister Dr Jitendra Singh said the government had granted a […]
An Infant from Pakistan has got a new lease of life after undergoing an operation at a city hospital in Delhi. The baby was diagnosed with a rare condition of a giant heart. According to doctors, this is the first documented case of the largest left atrium reported at this age. The 14-month-old baby with […]
The students graduating from the medical colleges in the country from 2019, will not only turn out to be good clinicians but also they’ll be good communicators. India has revised its medical curriculum after a gap of 21 years. The MCI Board of Governors on Friday finalised the new undergraduate curriculum that acknowledges the importance […]
Mehenoor Jain, mother of three was unaware that she had the rare ‘HH negative blood group’, which is also known as the Bombay blood group. It took more than 36 hours for the surgeons in Government Stanley Medical College and Hospital to source out a “rare” blood group to repair the blood vessels on the […]
In a first of its kind, a cadaver liver travelled by road from Chennai to Coimbatore was transplanted almost 27 hours after it was harvested. The organ, harvested at 11 am at Vijaya Hospital was connected to the perfusion machine (OrganOx) in the evening. It was then left Chennai at 9.30 p.m. and reached Coimbatore’s […]