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Dr.Palak Dengla, HOD Physiotherapy, Aster RV Hospital Shoes are facilitators of health and fitness. We almost walk 5 times the circumference of the earth in an average lifetime. Yet we seldom pay attention to our feet and footwear in spite of them bearing the entire body weight and primary movers of the human body. Most […]

On World Tuberculosis Day, India Health Fund and ACT For Health come together to support Swaasa® – a first-of-its-kind AI-based app that can detect active TB cases within seconds March 24, 2023, Mumbai: India Health Fund, a Tata Trusts initiative, is collaborating with ACT, a non-profit venture philanthropy platform, to support Salcit Technologies in piloting

Cases of dengue fever and other zoonotic diseases will keep increasing owing to climate change, and prevention via early warning is one of our best options against them. Recently, researchers combined a machine learning model with remote sensing climatic data and information on past dengue fever cases in Chinese Taiwan, with the aim of predicting

by Dr. Prateek Nayak, Consultant – ENT Surgery, Aster CMI Hospital, Bangalore What is tinnitus and can it lead to hearing loss? It is common to experience a ringing sound in your ears every once in a while. Almost every one of us experiences a ringing now and then. However, if you are constantly hearing

– Dr Bimal Chhajer, Director, SAAOL Heart Centre, New Delhi In the recent days a lot of doubts have been created about stents – excessive cost, unnecessary use and dubious quality. More than 6 lacs stents have been implanted in the year 2021 netting a Rs. 6000 crore extra/ill gotten money to the cardiologists and

March 2023: Led by the University of Birmingham and the University of Leeds, the Cancer Research UK-funded FOxTROT trial found that giving colon cancer patients chemotherapy before surgery cuts their risk of the disease coming back, according to the results of a Cancer Research UK-funded clinical trial. The FOxTROT trial showed that Giving the first

Bangalore, 17th March 2023: The Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aster RV Hospital launched ‘Parthi Well Woman Clinic’. The event was inaugurated by popular Sandalwood Actress Pranitha Subhash. Through the initiative, the hospital is offering complimentary Pelvic Scan at Aster RV Hospital till 30th April 2023 to create an awareness on endometriosis which is generally

By: Dr. Pavan Asalapuram , co-founder, EMPE Diagnostics Did you know that India accounts for about 27% of the tuberculosis global burden? According to the annual report on TB in India 2022, India accounted for 27 per cent of the tuberculosis global burden with more than 20 lakh TB cases being reported in the country

Mumbai – First Shockwave Intravascular Lithotripsy (IVL) assisted complex angioplasty was done successfully by Cardiologist Dr. Hemant Khemani & Anesthesiologist Dr. Sagar Yesale in Apex Superspeciality Hospital, Borivali on a patient who was suffering from coronary Heart disease. The Shockwave C2 Coronary IVL Catheter is used before implanting a stent, to open the arteries that

By Dr. Keni Ravish Rajiv, Consultant – Neurology & Epileptology, Aster CMI Hospital, Bangalore Epilepsy is a neurological disorder that hinders our brain activity when it sends messages through cells. This sudden change in electric activity often leads to epileptic seizures. These seizures can cause a person to lead involuntary movements in the body, like