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CallHealth Academy to bridge employability gap in healthcare delivery indu
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Hyderabad [India], Nov.10 (ANI-Businesswire India): CallHealth Services Pvt. Ltd. has announced plans to set up the CallHealth Academy for Medical Pioneers and Innovation (CHAMPIONS) - a unique mobilization and development initiative aimed at building a service ready workforce that will ac
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1 out 6 breast cancer patients have symptoms other than lump
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 8 (ANI): A new research says that almost 17 percent women, which is one in six women, diagnosed with breast cancer go to their doctor with a symptom other than a lump.
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Are second opinions effective in prostate cancer care?
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], Nov. 7 (ANI): A new analysis finds that many patients, suffering with prostate cancer, go for second opinions from urologists before getting treated, but surprisingly, these second opinions are not associated with changes in treatment choice or improvements in perceiv
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Epilepsy is treatable and treatment simpler with advanced technology, says
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kochi [India], Nov 5(ANI): With advancement in healthcare, epilepsy is eminently treatable now. Nearly 70% of patients who are initiated to the advanced treatment, as a result of latest technology, become free of seizures or epileptic fits within 1 to 2 years and in about half of them, the d
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Manipal Hospitals to adopt IBM's 'Watson for Oncology' supe
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Oct 28 (ANI-NewsVoir): Watson for Oncology, IBM's renowned cognitive computing platform, is now in India. Developed by IBM in collaboration with Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Centre, New York, Watson for Oncology is a supercomputer engineered to help oncologists ide
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Post blindness, brain can relearn to see
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
WashingtonD.C. [US], Oct. 26 (ANI): A new study investigates the brain's capability to process visual information after many years of total blindness, by studying patients affected by Retinitis Pigmentosa, a hereditary illness of the retina that gradually leads to complete blindness.
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Surgery could escalate trouble among terminally ill cancer patients
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [US], Oct. 26 (ANI): Patients with disseminated advanced cancer who undergo surgery are far more likely to endure long hospital stays and readmissions, referrals to extended care facilities and death, found a recent research.
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Fire in Malaysian hospital claims six lives
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kuala Lumpur [Malaysia], Oct. 25 (ANI): A fire that broke out at a hospital in Johor Bahru in southern Malaysia on Tuesday morning claimed the lives of six patients.
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Ray of hope to improve HIV drug therapies
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Oct.24 (ANI): A new research, through the use of nanotechnology, now aims to improve the administration and availability of drug therapies to HIV patients.
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New programs to help patients better prepare for surgery, recuperate faste
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C [USA], Oct.24 (ANI): Two new Enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) programs are now helping patients better prepare for surgery and recuperate faster afterward.
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Nawaz has 'Panama kay aansoon': Imran
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad (Pakistan), Oct. 21 (ANI): After Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif choked up while talking about "gareeb mareez" (poor patients) who earn barely enough to eat much less medicines, taking a swipe at him within a few hours, Tehreek-e-Insaf chief Imran Khan on Friday said
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SUM Hospital fire: Odisha Health Minister resigns
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Bhubaneswar (Odisha) [India], Oct. 21 (ANI): Odisha Health Minister Atanu Sabyasachi Nayak resigned from his position after 25 patients were reported killed and over 100 sustained injuries in an inferno that broke out at SUM Hospital in Bhubaneswar on Monday evening.
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