Bengaluru: A renowned nephrologist Dr Sundar Sankaran has recently taken to social media to address the issue of receiving an overwhelming number of spam calls from HDFC bank’s loan department. Terming the callers as a ‘nuisance’, the Bengaluru-based doctor who is a program director at Aster Institute of Renal Transplantation Bangalore in a post on […]
Chennai: Doctors, who qualified in last year’s MRB examination held to recruit assistant surgeons for 1,021 posts, are upset with the new recruitment notification issued by the Medical Services Recruitment Board (MRB) inviting applications for 2,553 vacant posts of assistant surgeons temporarily in the Tamil Nadu Medical Service. According to a recent report by The Hindu, […]
Here are the top health news for the day: NMC extends deadline for submission of annual declaration details In a major relief to medical colleges across the country who were asked to submit their Annual Declaration details/data of respective Institutions on National Medical Commission (NMC) portal as required in the NMC Act, 2019 and various […]
Latur: A shocking case of assault has emerged from Latur in Maharashtra, where a lift installation technician was allegedly thrashed by a doctor and five others over a monetary dispute, reportedly triggered by caste discrimination. The victim had got a contract of Rs 19 lakh to install a lift in a new hospital and had started […]
Bhubaneshwar: A court has sentenced life imprisonment to five robbers, including a woman, for the brutal murder of an elderly couple, both retired doctors, in Sailashree Vihar, Bhubaneshwar in 2015. The convicts were found guilty of the murder of a 73-year-old doctor and his wife 67-year-old wife. The victims, an eye surgeon and a pathologist […]
According to research conducted at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and published in the journal PLOS Genetics, drinking kombucha tea may help reduce fat accumulation and lower triglyceride levels. When a person has too much fat stored within their body, particularly triglycerides, it can increase their risk for several health conditions, including […]
COPD patients having severe disease and recent exacerbations are more likely to continue chest wall oscillation therapy suggests a study published in the Respiratory Medicine. High-frequency chest wall oscillation (HFCWO) is a form of airway clearance therapy that has been available since the mid-1990s and is routinely used by patients suffering from retained pulmonary secretions. […]
Turkey: Treatment with isotretinoin improves the severity of anxiety symptoms, depression, and attention performance in acne vulgaris (AV), according to a recent study published in the International Journal of Dermatology. However, the researchers found no significant change in patients’ impulsivity severity based on self-reports and behavioral performances based on the Go/No-go Task (GNG) and Balloon […]
A new paper in Rheumatology, published by Oxford University Press, finds that rheumatic diseases can lead to reproductive problems, though some conditions have more detrimental effects than others. Immune-mediated diseases are a varied group of conditions, but each display an aberrant activity of the immune system. Some diseases, such as juvenile idiopathic arthritis and type […]
A recent case study published in the BMC Nephrology reported a 75-year-old man who developed acute kidney injury (AKI) stage 3, as classified by the Kidney Disease: Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) criteria, weeks after undergoing Whipple surgery for distal cholangiocarcinoma. This case highlighted the critical connection between post-surgical malabsorption, inadequate pancreatic enzyme replacement therapy and […]