Dr. Srinivas L, Pediatric Cardiologist, Jupiter Hospital, Mumbai When a child is born, the first thing every parent wants to know is whether the baby is healthy. But imagine that moment when parents hear the words, “Your child has a congenital heart defect.” Heart diseases are often considered as age-related associated with medical conditions such …
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By Dr Balbir Singh, Chairman and Head, Max Hospital, New Delhi (Saket) If you have an irregular pulse, experience palpitations, shortness of breath, chest pain, fatigue, and weakness, you could be suffering from a heart disease called atrial fibrillation (AF).Studies have reported AF as a growing epidemic with an expected doubling of its prevalence in …
SynPhNe adopts telehealth to ensure continual therapy to their patients SynPhNe starts online therapy sessions for patients affected with stroke and other neuromuscular disorders to ensure continual improvement even during lockdown COVID-19 and lockdown provides impetus to telemedicine and telehealth Mumbai, May 6th, 2020: The COVID-19 pandemic has left a large number of …
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Delayed vaccination is manageable and not as life-threatening as the current pandemic Experts advise parents to immediately prioritise immunisation, post-lockdown; ensure important vaccinations at-birth at the maternity clinic, esp. polio-DTP and measles April 22, 2020: India and the world today are confronted with an unprecedented global health exigency in the form of COVID-19. During these …
Health Issues India, in partnership with SPAG, announces the first in a series of webinars titled SPAG Dialogues. These are a series of webinars to engage with and inform members of the media fraternity and thought leaders to discuss the various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first in this series will cover “Battling the Infodemic …
The outbreak of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), which the World Health Organization (WHO) characterised as a pandemic last week, continues to grow by leaps and bounds. Confirmed cases worldwide number thus far at 187,375 (at the time of writing), of which 99,050 are active. The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in 7,477 deaths. Of the 99,050 …
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(March 16th, 2020, New Delhi) PandemiCast, a new weekly video podcast, will look at how the COVID-19 pandemic is derailing health policy worldwide. The link to it is here. In its first week, the PandemiCast panel will look at why various governments are reacting so differently to the pandemic. Public policy experts and journalists from …
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By Rakshit Tewari, a public healthcare consultant and an advocate for rational and affordable access to equitable healthcare The year 2019 had healthcare on the ballot with the government riding on the Ayushman Bharat wave, promising affordable healthcare to all. The year 2020 will tell us if the Government will be able to make affordability …
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New Delhi, February 3, 2020: The Union Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, in the 2020-21 Budget statement announced an additional five percent health cess on imports of medical devices. In the current scenario, India imports over seventy percent of its medical devices with a fourth of them from the US. Medical device imports rose by 24 …
New Delhi, January 29th, 2020: Parliamentarians from across party lines have joined hands and formed a coalition to support India’s efforts to eliminate malaria by 2030. The group called “Parliamentarians for Malaria Elimination” includes eleven Members of Parliament (MPs) belonging to different states, including many with a high malaria burden. More MPs are expected to join …
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