Affecting young children, neuroblastoma is a sympathetic nervous system tumour. In the Netherlands, this diagnosis is given to 25 kids each year. Surgery to remove the tumour tissue is a crucial component of the therapeutic strategy. Since November 2014, treatment for Dutch children with sol
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 19 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Mohana Perumal, the 36-year-old farmer from Salem, who also used to drive a rented auto as a secondary profession, got a new lease on life at Rela Hospital with a successful heart transplant from a brain-dead patient in Madu
Surgery requires a variety of instruments and methods, as well as the skill of the surgeon, especially when removing cancerous tumours. Surgery to remove lung cancer tumours will now be a little bit more precise thanks to the new imaging agent Cytalux.
Researchers from the University of Jyvaskyla and the Central Finland Health Care District have developed an AI based neural network to detect an early knee osteoarthritis from x-ray images. AI was able to match a doctors' diagnosis in 87% of cases. The result is important because x-rays are
Youth who underwent metabolic and bariatric surgery as teenagers are at heightened risk for alcohol use, according to the first study to document long-term alcohol use and associated issues in this population. Researchers found that after eight years, nearly half of the study participants ha
A randomised clinical trial has found that treating pancreatic cancer patients with chemotherapy before surgery significantly improved 1-year survival rates compared to immediate surgery.
"Youngsters with a poor lifestyle can suffer from critical heart blockage. Hence, it is crucial to get regular health checkups. There is a widespread notion that bypass surgeries are unsafe. However, this is untrue bypass surgeries are much safer than hernia and gallbladder surgeries which i
Chennai (Tamil Nadu) [India], December 12 (ANI/NewsVoir): Kauvery Hospital Chennai, a unit of Kauvery Group of Hospitals, a leading multispecialty healthcare chain in Tamil Nadu, successfully performed the procedure of minimally invasive radiofrequency ablation (RFA) on a 75-year-old woman,
Andhra Pradesh Governor Biswabhusan Harichandan on Sunday released the book on advances in cancer surgery and said that risk factors causing cancers can be identified through regular health check-ups and can be treated to prevent them.
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], December 9 (ANI/GPRC): In a first in the field of cardiology in India, a LAMPOON -TMVR was performed on a cardiac patient who had already undergone an Open Heart Surgery a few years back.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi spoke to Bihar Deputy Chief Minister Tejashwi Yadav on Tuesday to enquire about the recovery of Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) president Lalu Prasad Yadav who underwent a kidney transplant surgery in Singapore.
Rashtriya Janata Dal's (RJD) Misa Bharti on Tuesday extended gratitude to the people for their wishes on the behalf of her father Lalu Prasad Yadav who underwent a kidney transplant surgery in Singapore on the previous day.