Eleven years of swallowing her own hair left a 20-year-old woman with a massive 1.16-kg hairball filling her stomach, which doctors at a private hospital here removed after she developed severe abdominal pain and repeated vomiting. The woman, a student, had been consuming strands of her own hair since she was around nine years old, …
Doctors in Pune have given a 32-year-old woman from Nairobi a new lease of life after suffering from a severely weakened condition with severe nutritional deficiencies, recurrent abdominal infection, sepsis, continuous pus drainage and a persistent leak following previous surgery. The woman had undergone 11 weight-loss and revision procedures over 15 years, when she reached …
Higher vitamin B12 levels in parents before conception and higher red blood cell (RBC) folate concentrations in mothers after conception could be related to lower risk of birth defect, suggesting that nutritional status may play a role, a study has found. The findings, published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, support the potential importance …
For millions of women around the world, persistent exhaustion is treated not as a medical red flag, but as an inevitable tax on daily life. Between balancing careers, family responsibilities, and social obligations, feeling constantly drained is frequently normalised, brushed off as burnout, or dismissed as ordinary stress. Yet beneath this pervasive culture of ‘just …
The monsoon brings relief from the heat but also increases the risk of infections, dehydration, and even water-borne illnesses. While everybody should generally take care, those living with kidney disease should take necessary precautions and stay safe during the monsoon. Doctors say it is because the rainy season is linked to pleasant weather but can …
Doctors in Kolkata have successfully treated an elderly man helping him regain his vision after a sudden bout of severe headache, followed by an inability to open his right eye and rapidly worsening vision. The 70-year-old Kolkata resident Rabindranath Das came Manipal Hospital Salt Lake, where doctors discovered a large pituitary tumour with internal bleeding, …
Doctors at Midnapore Medical College and Hospital in West Bengal have successfully performed a Caesarean section on a 25-year-old woman suffering from the rare neurological disorder Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT) disease. Both the mother and newborn are reported to be healthy. According to hospital sources, the surgery is believed to be the first such procedure performed on …
For the modern professional, stress has evolved from an occasional deadline-driven adrenaline spike into a chronic state of being. Extended hours, remote-work boundary collapse, and high-pressure environments keep the body's fight-or-flight response on high alert. While corporate wellness initiatives often emphasise mindfulness apps, time management systems, or lifestyle modifications, a growing body of clinical evidence …
A cancer diagnosis leads to anxiety, panic and fear in patients. Many patients often worry about how treatment will affect their job and career. There are often questions such as, “Will I have to stop working?” “What if there is a break in my career?” or “Will I ever be able to work like before?” …
The Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a groundbreaking new drug for the most common form of pancreatic cancer, offering US patients a more effective treatment against one of the deadliest types of cancer. FDA officials gave expedited approval to the first-of-a-kind pill, called daraxonrasib, that blocks a mutated protein that fuels tumour growth …
