The Pink Facts of Breast Cancer

Columns |  Features | By Dr Rajeev Kumar | 0 Comment | 13 Aug, 2018

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in Indian women, and is also the commonest cause of cancer deaths in women. Here are 8 facts every woman should know: Younger women have a higher...Read more

Empowering recovery through rehabilitation

Columns |  Features | By Dr Vijay Janagama | 0 Comment | 25 Jul, 2018

To be able to recover from a critical illness is considered a blessing. But not many see the hardships a patient undergoes before resuming to his active lifestyle post recovering from a tra...Read more

Cancer- Growing incidences & Timely intervention

Columns |  Features | By Dr. Gowri Kulkarni | 0 Comment | 19 Jul, 2018

According to The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), India will see 17.3 lakh new cases of cancer — with breast, cervix and lung cancer being the most prominent — by 2020...Read more

The road ahead for genome editing

Columns |  Features | By Dr. Supriya Shivakumar | 0 Comment | 26 Jun, 2018

Genome editing has dominated the headlines as the “future of biology” over the past few years. This transformative technology can provide the ability to cure diseases at the gen...Read more

Lunch Hour Treatment for Dry Eyes with new Advanced Technology

Columns |  Interviews | By Dr Saurabh Mittal, Ophthalmologist | 0 Comment | 23 May, 2018

The two categories of dry eye disease are evaporative dry eye and aqueous-deficient dry eye. Both conditions can involve pathology of the meibomian glands, lacrimal glands, lids, tear film,...Read more

World Malaria Day- SEARO makes progress in malaria elimination

Columns |  News | By Dr Poonam Khetrapal Singh | 0 Comment | 24 Apr, 2018

The WHO South-East Asia Region has made world-beating progress in the quest to eliminate malaria. Since 2010 the Region’s malaria incidence has been slashed by half. Associated mortal...Read more

Igenomix offers a relief from Genetic Disorders

Columns |  Features | By Dr Rajni Khajuria | 0 Comment | 16 Apr, 2018

Genetic disorders are a type of disorders that generally run in the family genes. You might not be aware of it but you could possibly be a carrier of a genetic disorder. Every year there ar...Read more

Biosimilars: Important in overall advancement of Indian Pharmaceutical Market

Columns |  Views | By Dr. Cartikeya Reddy | 0 Comment | 02 Apr, 2018

Biosimilars for the Indian Market: In our view biosimilars are going to play a vital role in advancing the overall Indian Pharmaceutical Market. There is still a significant unmet need for...Read more

Personalized Medicine tailored for Cardio Vascular Diseases

Columns |  Features | By Dr. Pratibha Logaraj | 0 Comment | 30 Mar, 2018

Heart Failure, is considered to be one of the most leading causes of mortality in developed and developing nations. The disease is characterized by loss of cardiomyocytes (cardiac muscle ce...Read more

The epilepsy burden in India

Columns |  News | 0 Comment | 29 Mar, 2018

Epilepsy is a disease of the brain characterized by recurrent seizures, which are brief episodes of involuntary movement that may involve a part of the body (partial) or the entire body (ge...Read more

Solving the supply-demand gap in Healthcare with Smart Patient Monitoring

Columns |  News | By Dinesh Seemakurty | 0 Comment | 05 Mar, 2018

Last month, the National Health Protection Scheme (NHPS) 2018-2019, was announced by the Honourable Finance Minister, Mr. Arun Jaitley. The scheme intends to deliver health insurance to mor...Read more

The unreliability of conventional genetic tests

Columns |  Features | By Dr. Archana Bilagi, Dr. Aparna G, Dr. Ashraf Mannan | 0 Comment | 01 Mar, 2018

Genetics tests are primarily used to establish a clinical diagnosis. They also come with an added benefit of predicting prognosis, identifying carriers, as well as act as a guide in reprodu...Read more

Celebrating 50 years of Mending Hearts- Dr. Christiaan Barnard

Columns |  Features | 0 Comment | 02 Dec, 2017

On 3 December 1967, South African doctor, Dr Christiaan (Chris) Barnard, performed the world's first human to human heart transplant at Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town. It has been 50 yea...Read more

World AIDS Day- HIV is our trickiest viral foe

Columns |  Features | 0 Comment | 01 Dec, 2017

The world is haunted by the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), but the real threat is the discrimination the people face from others after being exposed to the effects of HIV. HIV is so d...Read more

World Heart Day- Healthy Heart Beats the Best!

Columns |  Features | 0 Comment | 28 Sep, 2017

Every individual’s blood cholesterol level influences the chances of a heart disease. In fact, the higher the blood cholesterol level, the greater the risk of developing a heart disea...Read more

Enhance awareness, action to eliminate hepatitis in South-East Asia Region

Columns |  Interviews | 0 Comment | 28 Jul, 2017

Viral Hepatitis is a major public health problem in the South-East Asia Region, and every person has a stake in controlling and eliminating it. Each year viral hepatitis infects millions of...Read more

Invest in IT backbone and interoperability standards in Healthcare

Columns |  Interviews | 0 Comment | 12 Jul, 2017

Indian healthcare sector aspires to provide quality healthcare to all and to meet the enormous need for efficient healthcare management, digital health can play a very crucial role. The int...Read more

Cardiac Issues: Proper infrastructure capabilities & wider Insurance Coverage needed

Columns |  Interviews | 0 Comment | 03 Jul, 2017

There are no published data on the market size of Cardiac Surgery and Cardiology. About 32 million Indians have Cardiac issues. The industry data that we have is that there are about 1 mill...Read more