In a first of its kind surgery in India, a government hospital in Tamil Nadu city Coimbatore has removed a double aneurysm from a patient’s brain. A 65-year-old woman from Periya Negamam, a panchayat town in the district, had been complaining of headaches which were occurring over a period of time. For many, this is …
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When Canadian model Elly Mayday was diagnosed with ovarian cancer, it wasn’t the end of her modelling career. Far from it. In fact, Mayday used her modelling career as a platform, courageously sharing her experience with cancer as she battled the disease. Mayday passed away on March 1st this year. In remembering her story, we …
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India’s shortage of surgeons could get worse in the coming years, new government data suggests. The number of medical trainees studying to become surgeons is declining. Of 2,029 surgery seats in super speciality courses for the 2018-19 academic year, 189 went unfilled. Super speciality courses are those for which candidates have to clear National Eligibility-cum-Entrance …
When Dr Hema Saxena took four days’ leave for Diwali, it plunged the hospital where she works into chaos. Dr Saxena is the sole anaesthetist at the Government Doon Medical College in Dehradun, Uttarakhand. In Dr Saxena’s absence, the hospital registered a backlog of more than a hundred surgeries. Patients were left waiting for days, …
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Egyptian national Eman Abd El Aty, former world’s heaviest woman, passed away at a hospital in Abu Dhabi on Monday, September 25, shortly following her 37th birthday on September 9. Before her time at the Abu Dhabi hospital in the United Arab Emirates, Abd El Aty – an Egyptian national – had undergone extensive weight …
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Controversial surgeries — the first of their kind in India — have been successfully performed involving the transplantation of a uterus from mother to daughter. Currently there are no guidelines issued for uterus transplants, the surgeries are deemed to be experimental as there is no track record. Due to this the surgeries are considered elective, …
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