Here are the top health stories for the day: NEET MDS results 2024 declared The National Board of Examination in Medical Sciences (NBEMS) has declared the result of the National Eligibility cum Entrance Test for Master of Dental Surgery NEET MDS 2024. NEET-MDS 2024 was conducted by the NBE on March 18, 2024 in a […]
Pune: In violation of the Nursing Home Act and other regulatory norms governing hospitals, the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) Health Department has taken strict action against 23 private hospitals by issuing them a show cause notice on Friday. The notices were issued after the PMC health department found that several private hospitals in the city […]
Hyderabad: The toll in the explosion within a chemical reactor at a facility of pharmaceutical firm in the Telangana’s Sangareddy district climbed to six, as officially confirmed by the police on Thursday. Four individuals lost their lives, and sixteen others sustained injuries in the explosion that took place at the SB Organics Ltd’s factory, situated in […]
Chennai: Taking cognizance of the complaints from students alleging poor teaching quality, the Directorate of Medical Education in Tamil Nadu has instructed the faculties of the 11 new medical colleges in the State to focus on improving the teaching quality at the medical colleges. Directions have also been issued to the deans of the concerned new […]
New Delhi: In a remarkable medical achievement, doctors at a city hospital successfully conducted a rare combined liver and kidney transplant on a critically ill 46-year-old patient from Uzbekistan. The complex surgery, which lasted 16 hours, utilized organs donated by the patient’s wife and daughter, marking a significant milestone in modern medicine. Combined organ transplants are […]
Researchers have found in a small randomized controlled trial that an initial image-assisted Abrams needle biopsy (IA-ANPB) can match medical thoracoscopy (MT) to diagnose people with pleural effusion. Image-guided or assisted needle biopsies and the increasing use of medical thoracoscopy (MT) have significantly increased the diagnostic accuracy of pleural diseases. However, there is no consensus […]
Geneva: The World Health Organization (WHO) released new guidelines on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of chronic hepatitis B (HBV) infection at the 2024 Asian Pacific Conference for the Study of Liver Disease (APASL) in Kyoto, Japan. The 2024 HBV guidelines provide updated evidence-informed recommendations on key priority topics. These include substantial simplification and expansion […]
Iron plays a vital role in the growth and development of young children. In low- and middle-income countries, anaemia is a significant health issue, and young children are vulnerable to iron deficiency anaemia. Previous research studies have shown the association between low iron and poor development outcomes in children. A study published in PLOS ONE […]
South Korea: A recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine has shed light on the potential application of non-invasive optical imaging methods in orthodontic diagnosis. Jae Ho Baek from F.E.S. Research Lab in Ulsan, Republic of Korea, found that non-invasive optical diagnostic devices, including optical Doppler tomography (ODT) and optical coherence tomography (OCT), […]
University of New Mexico researchers have found that even low to moderate alcohol use by pregnant patients may contribute to subtle changes in their babies’ prenatal development, including lower birth length and a shorter duration of gestation. In a new paper published in the journal Alcohol Clinical & Experimental Research, a team led by Ludmila […]