Many of us now spend more time in the office than we spend in our homes, and even if we do, sitting at the desk, along with sedentry lifestyles is very common today adding to our woes of unnecessary aches and pains, apart from sicknesses. Dwelling on this very aspect of our lives, Indian celebrity …
The WHO South-East Asia Region, despite recording the world's highest childhood immunisation coverage, continues to face measles and other vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks due to persistent immunity gaps among children and adolescents, health experts said. The issue was discussed at the 17th meeting of the WHO South-East Asia Regional Immunisation Technical Advisory Group (SEAR ITAG) in …
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei on Wednesday announced a biomedical breakthrough made by its AI system Claude. Amodei announced that Anthropic believes that a Claude-led discovery of a molecular machine could represent a new gene editing mechanism. According to Anthropic, Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the …
A 30-year-old woman who suffered severe damage to a finger joint in a road accident has regained movement in her left middle finger after undergoing a rare small-joint replacement surgery in Delhi, a private hospital said on Monday. The procedure was performed at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital on September 18, using a two-piece artificial implant …
Doctors in Mumbai have successfully treated a 70-year-old diabetic man who had suffered a major heart attack and developed multi-organ dysfunction by prioritising his failing heart to save his life. With his heart pumping at just 20 per cent, dangerously low blood pressure and deteriorating kidney and liver function, doctors at Wockhardt Hospitals in Mumbai …
In a rare and high-risk medical case, doctors in Navi Mumbai has successfully treated a woman, who was 20 weeks pregnant, after she developed severe abdominal pain, vomiting and jaundice. Investigations revealed a serious bile duct obstruction with infection due to stones, a condition that required urgent intervention. Given that she was in a pregnant …
When we think about health, our minds often jump to heart disease prevention, fitness goals, or maintaining a balanced diet. Yet, one of the most critical investments we can make is often neglected until later in life: our cognitive health. Building a resilient brain is not something to defer until retirement, it is a midlife …
Varun Dagar, a 22-year-old IT professional from Noida, has regained functional vision after undergoing a specialised corneal procedure by doctors in Delhi's Preet Vihar area. Varun was diagnosed with advanced keratoconus in both eyes, a condition that causes the cornea to become thin and irregular, severely affecting vision. Since glasses could no longer adequately correct …
The Union Health Ministry has advised states and Union territories to ensure that stem cell therapy is offered as standard clinical care only for approved disease conditions, while its use for autism remains restricted to duly approved clinical trials. The advisory, issued on September 16 to states and UTs that have adopted the Clinical Establishments …
A 17-year-old girl donated her stem cells to give her 10-year-old brother a second chance at life after he battled leukemia, a type of blood cancer, as Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre near here successfully conducted its first allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT). The boy, a resident of Durgapur in West Bengal, was …
