Drug Abuse: Parents start to opt for voluntary testing of children

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Nanavati Hospital’s Specialised Drug Testing Laboratory is receiving 5-6 requests by walk-in parents and in-house patients on Monthly basis.Along with common drugs such as Cocaine, Amphetamine, Methamphetamine, Methadone and Opiates, experts cite rising abuse of deadly Phencyclidine (Angel dust), Barbiturates, and Benzodiazepines in patients aging 13-25 years. Mumbai: Over last one year, over 50-60 parents walked in Nanavati...

Aster CMI helps one-year-old baby with life-threatening autoimmune disease recover successfully

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In yet another brilliant medical and philanthropical initiative to help children suffering from life-threatening medical conditions, Aster CMI Hospital has helped one-year-old infant, recover successfully from a rare kind of serious autoimmune disease described as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), commonly known by the name lupus. Aarush (name changed) was suffering from SLE, an inflammatory disease caused when the...

Sakra World Hospital Conducts Karnataka’s First Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy Surgery

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Calcification of coronary artery plaques poses unique challenges in treatment with angioplasty and stent. Hard calcified blockages do not yield easily to balloon and therefore the stent doesn’t expand well. This effect long term outcomes of angioplasty. Various methods have been hitherto available to deal with this situation, such as rotablation , very high pressure balloons , atherectomy...

69 yr old woman suffering from multiple Myeloma with four relapses at Aster RV Hospital

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A diagnosis of cancer is more often than not a sentinel event in someone’s lifetime. There are several challenges to be faced in such an event like choosing the right treatment, dealing with side effects, absence from social life, financial constraints and family issues including challenges for the caregivers. The most important risk factor for getting cancer is...

Apollo Cancer Institutes, to host – ‘CANCER CI – 2020’, from February 13th

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Continuing its concerted efforts towards fighting cancer, Apollo Hospitals & CURE Foundation India, India’s foremost healthcare provider will be hosting 5th Edition of APOLLO CANCER CONCLAVE (ACC) and the 8th Edition of the CANCER CI 2020, an international conference aimed at improving cancer management in India and abroad. To be held from 13th to 16th February 2020, at HICC, this forum of International repute will...

Renowned ENT specialist, Dr E C Vinaya Kumar, bestowed with the ‘GHCEH Award -2019’,

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Dr. E. C. Vinaya Kumar, Head, Department of ENT and Cochlear Implant Clinic, Apollo Hospitals, Hyderabad and founder of Society to Aid the Hearing Impaired (SAHI); was presented the prestigious Global Health Care Equality Humanitarian Award -2019, by the American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (AAPI), USA at the recently held AAPI Symposium on Global Health care Equality at Kansas, USA. The award...

OGH acknowledges the contributions of 100 three-seater iron benches

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Osmania General Hospital (OGH), acknowledged the contributions of its alumni, NGOs and its partners in bringing about significant changes in the hospital services and facilities for the betterment of patients and their attenders in the last one year on the eve of the republic day celebrations organised at the hospital. Speaking on the side-lines of the Republic day...

Mission Homeopathy” organises ‘International Homeopathic Seminar’ in Mumbai

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The two-day international homeopathic seminar was organised by Doctor Amarsinha Nikam, under joint auspices of the “Mission Homeopathy” and Children Welfare Centre School at CWC at Versova in Andheri (West), in North West Mumbai on 11-12 January 2020. The seminar was very successful with presence of over 400 national and international homeopathic doctors. The book titled ‘Vital force...

Sankara Eye Hospital treats a 24 yr old suffering from an extremely rare eye tumour

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24-year-old Ganesh (name changed), a marketing executive, hailing from Tamil Nadu, spent months together running from pillar to post looking for treatment for a mass lesion that he had developed in his left eye, but in vain. It was then that one of the doctors referred him to Dr Mahesh Shanmugam, Head of the Department, Vitreoretina & Ocular Oncology, Sankara...

Apollo Doctors perform Living Donor Liver Transplant and CABG, in one sitting spanning over 14 hours!

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Apollo Hospital, Jubilee Hills, has accomplished a rare and complex feat of performing combined procedures of Living Donor Liver Transplantation and Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) operation, on a patient in a single sitting. The surgery spanning over fourteen hours, involved the expertise of multi-speciality teams including Cardiac, Oncology and Liver transplant. The 67-year-old male patient from Hyderabad, Mr Siva Prasad Rao,...