Published News » Health

Health »

7
Vote
1 Comment  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: aiims surgery first-robotic-surgery health Add To 
Summary: Doctors at AIIMS perform major robotic surgery

The country's first robot- assisted urological surgery was today conducted at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences here.

The operation was carried out by Dr P N Dogra, Professor and Head, Department of Urology, on a 50-year-old woman who was suffering from cancer of urethra and urinary bladder last week.

The surgery called the 'Anterior Pelvic Exenteration' involved removal of the urinary bladder, uterus, fallopian tubes,

Health »

3
Vote
Discuss  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: asthma health Add To 
Washington, Mar 25 (ANI): Indians, Bangladeshis and Black Africans have a similar or lower prevalence of asthma than White children, while Black Caribbean and Mixed Black Caribbean/White boys are more likely to have asthma, according to a study of UK schoolchildren.

Health »

5
Vote
Discuss  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: pancreatic cancer aerated drink water health Add To 
Aerated Drinks Intake Linked To Pancreatic Cancer

Those who drink sugar-sweetened carbonated drinks were 87% likelier to develop pancreatic cancer than those who don’t.
Soda Intake Linked To Pancreatic Cancer reveals the study published in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention .The study was a collaboration between the University of Minnesota and National University of Singapore, begun in 1993 and evaluated 60,524 men and women who enrolled in the Singapore Chinese Health Study, for

Health »

6
Vote
Discuss  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: retinoblastoma narayana nethrayalaya canada Add To 
Narayana Nethrayalaya inks pact with Canada on eye cancer

Bangalore-based Narayana Nethralaya has entered into an agreement with ‘Hospital for Sick Children’ (Sick Kids) in Toronto, Canada to give further impetus to treating retinoblastoma, an eye cancer that affects children below five years of age.

Facilitated by Healthy Kids International, a Sick Kids organisation that supports many international projects, the pact will facilitate improving Narayana Nethralaya’s capacity for genetic an

Health »

7
Vote
Discuss  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: yoga ayurveda sweden health Add To 
India offers yoga expertise to Sweden
India has offered its expertise in yoga and Ayurveda to Sweden.
Many countries, including the U.S., France, Germany, Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Canada, have already asked for teachers and qualified manpower in this area, Union Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad said after inaugurating Indo-Swedish Health Week with his Swedish counterpart Maria Larsson.
“Sweden may also find Ayurveda and yoga to be quite useful and beneficial in the pub

Health »

11
Vote
Discuss  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: anti-obesity health banned alert Add To 
Over 20 drug companies marketing anti-obesity drug sibutramine under a variety of brand names are likely to soon face a ban on selling the medicine.

The apex drug regulator, Drugs Controller General of India [ Images ] (DCGI), has initiated steps to ascertain the safety profile of the medicine. DCGI started the probe after an expert committee of its European counterpart, European Medicine Agency (EMA), recommended complete withdrawal of the drug from European markets due to serious side effe

Health »

11
Vote
Discuss  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: copper health alzheimer Add To 
The accumulation of copper in the body due to copper water pipes can lead to Alzheimer’s and heart disease, reveals a new study.

The researchers at the University of Michigan learned that old copper water pipes used in households lead to amassing of the metal in human body, thus creating various health problems early in life and becoming fatal as one crosses 50.

The study revealed that copper and iron may be vital when one is young, but with age the body cannot deal with such elements ef

Health »

9
Vote
Discuss  | Read More | |  Bury | Tagged: mind ted ramachandran education Add To 
Vilayanur Ramachandran tells us what brain damage can reveal about the connection between celebral tissue and the mind, using three startling delusions as examples.