HEALTH

64 years old Narasimha with Acute Pulmonary Thromboembolism & Pneumonia was given new lease of life by doctors at Kamineni Hospitals

The research, conducted at Amrita Hospital, Kochi, found that a stethoscope could avoid unnecessary use of more expensive investigations like echocardiography and allow for substantial reductions in healthcare costs

Almost one-third of popular medicines – antibiotics, anti-allergic, vitamins, painkillers, syrups and life-saving drugs sold in India are fake, counterfeit, or substandard. Nearly 35% of fake drugs sold all over the world originate from India

The team identified ursolic acid, which is found in apple peel, and tomatidine, which comes from green tomatoes, as small molecules that can prevent acute muscle wasting caused by starvation and inactivity.

Daily bathing of paediatric patients with disposable clothes containing two percent chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) reduces bloodstream infections by 59 percent, a study shows.

Researchers have concluded that the risk of hypertension was 22 % higher among women who lived within 100 meters of a highway or major arterial road than women who lived 1,000 meters away.

A team of researchers from Japan suggest that high levels of insulin in the blood could lead to heart failure and might be harmful if the patient has chronic high blood pressure.

There was a time when obesity and genetic constitution were considered to be the main cause of diabetes. Today of course, Diabetes is classified as a lifestyle disease which requires management of diet and exercise. A new study now reveals that diabetics are more prone to anxiety and depression than those with other chronic diseases. The first of its kind study reveals that insulin resistance in the brain actually can produce a behavioral change and lower levels of the key neurotransmitter dopamine in areas of the brain associated with anxiety and depression.

Today interventional radiology has become synonymous with modern medicine. Dr Sandeep Bagla, and his team of interventional radiologists have come up with a new least invasive treatments with fewer complications than other minimally invasive, treatment for men with benign prostatic hyperplasia. It can deliver solutions with less risk, less pain and shorter recovery time than traditional surgery.

Cancer is one of the leading cause of mortality, morbidity and disability in India. Lung and oral cancers are the most common cancers among men while cervical and breast cancers are the most common cancers in women

People with low self-esteem are more likely stay in unhappy relationships. Sufferers of low self-esteem do not tend to voice relationship complaints with their partners because they fear rejection. But finally but this could do more harm than goo

Intermittent fasting may help people live longer and healthier. Fasting in mice has been shown to extend lifespan and to improve age-related diseases.