An AIIMS New Delhi-led review has brought together three decades of published childhood cancer survival evidence in India, providing policy makers the country's first consolidated picture of outcomes across major childhood cancers. The researchers screened 6,802 published articles up to December 2023 and included 182 studies from treatment centres across the country, covering 22,886 children, …
Pune doctors have given a new lease of life by performing a life-saving right mastectomy on a 27-year-old woman who was 26 weeks pregnant after diagnosing her with high-grade sarcoma of the breast, a rare and aggressive form of breast cancer. The medical team successfully treated the mother while ensuring the safety of her unborn …
For Dhivaji Dhurat, a 52-year-old resident of Malad, life had slowly begun to shrink. Simple tasks that once seemed effortless walking short distances, climbing a flight of stairs or carrying groceries started triggering chest pain and breathlessness. Having undergone a heart angioplasty 15 years ago, he feared that something was seriously wrong again. The discomfort …
A 38-year-old woman from Mozambique, who had been undergoing treatment for psychiatric symptoms, anxiety, and persistent stomach discomfort—all of which were attributed to a psychological condition gradually lost the ability to walk. She has now made a remarkable recovery after doctors in Mumbai came to her rescue to not only discover the hidden reason but …
From morning alarms and work emails to online banking, food delivery, streaming platforms, and late-night scrolling, screens have become impossible to separate from modern life. For many people, especially in urban India, the distinction between necessary screen use and excessive screen use has become increasingly difficult to define. Unlike earlier conversations around technology, the concern …
A study by doctors at Sawai Man Singh (SMS) Medical College has found that a simple scoring system can help quickly identify serious health risks in premature and low-weight newborns and improve their chances of survival. The study, conducted on 181 premature babies at JK Lone Hospital in Jaipur, has highlighted the usefulness of the …
Monsoon laundry is rarely straightforward. Clothes take longer to dry, balconies become unusable, and indoor drying racks quietly become part of everyday life. In compact apartments especially, hanging wet clothes inside bedrooms, living spaces, or near wardrobes often feels less like a choice and more like a necessity. But according to experts, that convenience may …
Doctors at a Delhi hospital have successfully performed a complex surgery to repair a life-threatening congenital oesophageal defect in a premature newborn weighing just 1.4 kg, one of a pair of twins. The baby, born at 34 weeks of gestation, was diagnosed with Type C tracheo-oesophageal fistula (TEF) with oesophageal atresia, a rare congenital condition …
For years, an 18-year-old girl from Sreerampore, Hooghly, lived behind a mask, avoiding social interactions and struggling with everyday activities like eating and speaking due to a rare vascular malformation that had gradually engulfed almost her entire lower lip. It began as a small lesion eventually grew into a massive 7 cm × 7 cm …
A 27-year-old woman, Shahad Siraini from Oman, whose health rapidly deteriorated due to a rare hormonal disorder, found a new lease on life after Mumbai doctors came to her rescue to conduct an advanced minimally invasive surgery. It also started when unexplained weight gain initially soon escalated into a complex medical condition. Within three months, …
