Doctors remove 14 live round worms from a woman’s bile duct without surgery
In an extremely rare case, Doctors at Fortis Hospital Shalimar Bagh recently removed 14 live round worms (measuring 15 – 20 cm each) from a 38-year-old patient’s bile duct. This was a daunting task....
View ArticleA 6 cm plastic dentures removed from 60 year old stomach at Zen Hospital
Mr Abdul Gani a 60-year-old from Saki Naka realize that he had swallowed his plastic denture while drinking water. A doctor at government hospital tried to remove it through endoscopic but failed after...
View ArticleBladder cancer: Robotic surgery as effective as open surgery
The results, published in the journal The Lancet, may help patients and doctors to make informed decisions on the use of robotic surgery, which is not cheap, the researchers said. There has been an...
View ArticleNow, fewer complications for patients with leadless pacemakers
Approximately a million pacemakers are annually implanted in patients to provide electrical stimulation to regulate heartbeat. Conventional pacemakers are surgically placed under the skin of patient’s...
View ArticleHow helpful is prehabilitation before heart surgery?
Older and frail patients could benefit from prehabilitation before surgery, finds a study. Prehabilitation is the process of enhancing an individual’s functional capacity to enable him or her to...
View Article2cm long vaccine needle stuck inside 3-day-old baby boy; treated at Mumbai...
A 3-days-old boy from Chembur was taken to Panvel nursing home for vaccination. After 19 days of vaccination, it was noticed the baby experienced high fever and swelling in the right thigh. Hence, they...
View ArticleYou heard it right: A cochlear implant will help you hear again like before
A cochlear implant is an electronic device that takes over the work of the human ear in converting sounds to electrical signals that the brain understands as sounds and delivers them to the brain via...
View ArticleMyth buster: Treatments for tennis elbow do not provide many benefits
A recent meta-analysis has found that treatments for tennis elbow do not provide many benefits. According to the ANI report, the study appears in the American Journal of Sports Medicine. The painful...
View ArticleCM of Odisha asks for treatment continuation of conjoined twins at AIIMS
Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday requested Union Health Minister J.P. Nadda for the continuation of treatment of Jaga and Balia twins at AIIMS, New Delhi. In a letter to Nadda, the...
View ArticleNew procedure repairs leaking heart valve without surgery
Doctors have given a 65-year-old Delhi-based patient suffering from heart valve leakage, a new lease of life using a unique treatment procedure. The patient was suffering from a severe case of heart...
View ArticleStudy says this deadly bacterium is present in everyone’s skin
It’s not just MRSA and E. coli, but scientists have identified another form of bacterium, present on the skin of every person, that is becoming increasingly dangerous due to antibiotic resistance. The...
View ArticleDoctor claims to make history by performing world’s first in-human...
Dr Tejas Patel, an internationally renowned cardiologist, performed the world’s first cardiovascular stent surgery in a female patient, operating from a remote area, claiming to make history in...
View ArticleReport says soon C-sections to be performed by robots
Robotics are expected to become so sophisticated, hospitals may not need surgeons. Controlled by healthcare assistants, the machines will soon be delivering babies by carrying out C-sections as well as...
View ArticleNow you can manage post-surgical pain with less opioids
Opioids are a class of drugs that are routinely prescribed for postoperative pain management. However, the required amount of opioids isn’t something that experts in the field are sure about, yet....
View ArticleExpert Speak: When is a spine surgery required?
If you are troubled by back pain, you are not alone. Almost 83 per cent of people at some point in their lives have suffered from back or neck pain. Back pain lasting for 4 to 6 weeks is common which...
View ArticleExercise pre surgery can protect muscle from ischemia-reperfusion injury
Exercise can help you achieve weight loss, prevent obesity, keep diseases away and give you overall health benefits. A new study has now shown why it is even more important to exercise. The research by...
View ArticleMore people die after surgery than from HIV, TB, and malaria combined: Study
A new study now reveals that around that world 4.2 million people die every year within 30 days after surgery. The study further states that half of these deaths occur in low and middle-income...
View ArticleAmazon Alexa can aid doctors during surgeries
Amazon Echo with in-built Alexa or Google Home smart speakers can not only play your favourite songs at home but can also assist doctors during medical procedures, say researchers. Smart speakers can...
View ArticleNew procedure repairs leaking heart valve without surgery
Doctors have given a 65-year-old Delhi-based patient suffering from heart valve leakage, a new lease of life using a unique treatment procedure. The patient was suffering from a severe case of heart...
View ArticleStudy says this deadly bacterium is present in everyone’s skin
It’s not just MRSA and E. coli, but scientists have identified another form of bacterium, present on the skin of every person, that is becoming increasingly dangerous due to antibiotic resistance. The...
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