With the second wave of the pandemic touching India, the daily average cases went on to around 1,00,000. Later in June, when the number of cases weakened in big cities, the pandemic started spreading across rural areas of the country. As said in a report produced by the State Bank of India, by mid-M...
CK Birla Hospitals – CMRI & BM Birla has taken precautionary measures to fight against corona virus. Regarding this, Dr. Simmardeep Gill, COO, CK Birla Hospitals said, “We at CMRI & BM Birla Hospitals, are well equipped when it comes to raising the awareness about corona virus or COVID-1...
Medica Superspecialty Hospital recently organised an interactive session with Dr. Gary S. Mintz who invented the Intra Vascular Imaging (IVAS) and pioneered the technique. He is from the Cardiovascular Research Foundation, Columbia Hospital, New York, USA. Dr. Mintz discussed his observation on some...
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a form of lung disease leading to the scarring of lung tissue resulting in breathing troubles and deprivation in the supply of oxygen to the body. Its major cause of occurrence can be related to environmental causes such as exposure to dust or chemicals, ...
Hospital and bio-medical waste management is one of the most important health aspects of the government. Bio-medical waste can be a huge health issue. It is reported that only 15% of the total health care activities (infectious, toxic and radio-active) is considered hazardous and focus attention is ...
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, recently introduced a health check up programme that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and draws on a massive repository of medical records to predict health risks from non-communicable diseases in a simple score sheet and pledges to bring the threat down to the...
Bone cancer develops in the skeletal system and destroys tissue. It can spread to distant organs, such as the lungs. Dr. J. Prakash, MBBS, MS(Ortho), M. Ch(Ortho), ATLS(USA), Fellowship in Orthopedic Oncology(CMC Vellore), Consultant Ortho Onco-surgeon, ILS Hospitals, spoke to BE regarding the treat...
Obesity is a major health problem at present. A medical journal ‘The Lancet’ in 2016 stated that there are about 30 million obese Indians. It is expected that by 2025, this number will cross 70 million. People adopt various measures to overcome this situation but they attain little success. Exce...
In the 2020-21 Budget, the allocation for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of AYUSH has been increased marginally - from `66,466 crore in 2019-20 to `69,234 crore. However, the ` 2,768 crore additional allocation cannot compensate for the price rise in the health sector. Ke...
What is ailing workplaces? Factors like lost productivity, escalating absenteeism, and indirect expenses give birth to a negative work environment, which impacts business and leads to mental health problems. Mental health is a serious issue which often goes overlooked, regarded either as a taboo or ...