Category: health

Mar 6: Wockhardt Hospitals successfully concluded its month-long women’s empowerment initiative, “I Am Fearless: Her Health, Her Strength,” witnessing enthusiastic participation from over 1,800 staff members across its centres in Mumbai Central, Mira Road, Nagpur, and Rajkot, along with impactful community outreach programmes.  Celebrating International Women’s Day through its annual…

Florida State University researchers have demonstrated that significantly increasing dietary folic acid in mice can prevent peripheral neuropathy, a condition commonly associated with diabetes and other health issues. The research, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PNAS, not only provides additional evidence that certain nutrients can help…

Urban,  Ill: Fried foods are popular with consumers, but their high fat content can contribute to health challenges like obesity and hypertension. If the food industry can offer lower-fat options of similar quality, people can more easily make health-conscious food choices. Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have explored microwave frying…

  Mar 04: The continuous movement of the vocal cords weakens and eventually stops as laryngeal cancer progresses. Researchers have, for the first time, discovered that restoring cellular vibration reduces the aggressiveness of advanced vocal cord cancer. When cancer cells were exposed to sound-wave vibration, a protein that promotes cancer…

Chennai, March 3: Strengthening their position as Centres of Excellence in Precision Oncology in the city, MGM Cancer Institute and MGM Healthcare Malar, Adyar have successfully administered Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy (CAR-T Cell Therapy), a next-generation cell-based immunotherapy, saving the lives of two elderly patients with aggressive cancers after…

Aster Volunteers and Varghese Moolan Foundation Launch 5th Phase of ‘Spandanam’ to Provide Free Heart Surgeries for Underprivileged Children Kochi, Mar 02: Aster Medcity, in collaboration with Aster Volunteers and the Varghese Moolan Foundation, successfully launched the fifth phase of the Spandanam – Touch A Heart initiative, providing free cardiac…

A new study published in JAMA Network Open reveals that participation in emergency department-based clinical trials delivers substantial benefits that extend far beyond improved patient outcomes. The study, co-led by Gail D’Onofrio, MD, MS, Albert E. Kent Professor of Emergency Medicine at Yale School of Medicine, offers compelling evidence that…

Pune, Feb 26: Doctors at Manipal Hospital Kharadi successfully treated a 70-year-old gentleman who developed life-threatening urinary bleeding just three days after undergoing cardiac angioplasty. The patient had been evaluated for ECG changes during a routine cardiology check-up and underwent a successful angioplasty. The patient was started on dual antiplatelet…

Researchers have discovered and characterized at the atomic level a mechanism that enables bacterial pathogens—including hospital bacteria Acinetobacter baumannii and Pseudomonas aeruginosa—to assemble antibiotic-resistant three-dimensional (3D) biofilms. These findings open a new avenue for developing therapies against multidrug-resistant bacterial infections by targeting the biofilm assembly.  Many pathogenic bacteria form 3D biofilms to protect themselves from the immune system, antibiotic treatments, and drying on environmental…

Nellore, Feb 25: Adani Krishnapatnam Port Limited (AKPL), a flagship asset of Adani Ports and SEZ Limited (APSEZ), today organized Mega and Multi Speciality health camp by Adani Foundation as an enabler of Adani Krishnapatnam Port Limited Corporate Social Responsibility for community people in Muthukur Gram Pachayat with Dr. Surya,…