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1 week, 5 days ago

Complicated neuro surgery performed on child

Neurosurgeons at KIMSHEALTH performed a transnasal endoscopic surgery on a one-and-a-half year-old girl who had been brought to the hospital in a comatose state and was diagnosed with life-threatening brainstem cavernoma, a rare congenital defect where a cluster of blood vessels in the brain becomes inactive, leading to haemorrhage. A statement issued by the hospital said that transnasal endoscopic brainstem …

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1 month ago

The top 10 things children get stuck up their nose, according to Queensland Children's Hospital

ABC

Young children are notorious for the things they stick up their noses that often end up in a trip to a doctor's surgery or hospital emergency department. "That child was really starting to complain of headaches, that they couldn't smell, and they were starting to get some very bloodstained snot coming out of the right side of their nose," said …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Indian man, 40, suffers brain haemorrhage after exposure to loud DJ music: Report

Hindustan Times

A man in Chhattisgarh suffered a brain haemorrhage recently, with doctors pointing to loud DJ music as the likely cause. The case of the 40-year-old, who had no prior medical history of high blood pressure or other health complications, has raised alarms about the potential health risks associated with prolonged exposure to excessive noise. This revelation led doctors to suspect …

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4 months, 1 week ago

Kolkata rape-murder case: Chaos as mob storms hospital amid night protest

Hindustan Times

Hundreds of people smashed through police barricades to storm the RG Kar Medical College and Hospital in Kolkata early on Thursday, wrecking the emergency unit, several wards and medical equipment at the government facility where a junior doctor was raped and murdered last week, even as the streets throbbed with irate protesters in midnight marches that crisscrossed the city. “The …

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1 year ago

Doctors in Bengaluru remove 3-cm-long bullet stuck in Yemeni man's head for 18 years

Firstpost

The bullet was lodged deep inside the man’s left temporal bone and he used to regularly witness chronic headaches and persistent ear discharges A 29-year-old Yemeni man, who lived with a 3-cm-long bullet in his head for nearly 18 years, had last week got the metal removed at a private hospital in Karnataka’s Bengaluru. However, the bullet had left the …

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1 year, 2 months ago

City hospital performs rare procedure to remove twin tumours from woman’s neck

The Hindu

City hospital doctors performed a rare procedure to remove two huge tumours from a 48-year-old woman’s neck. The procedure involved simultaneous removal of rapidly-growing twin neck masses in the thyroid and parotid glands on the right side. Sanjeev Mohanty, senior consultant and head of ENT, head and neck surgery, MGM Healthcare, performed the procedure on the patient, a homemaker in …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Conference of paediatricians on treating children with airway disorders gets under way

The Hindu

A three-day “Chennai Paediatric Airway Congress” is under way at Kanchi Kamakoti CHILDS Trust Hospital. Doctors from various paediatric specialities involved in treating airway disorders in children are taking part in the conference. Member of Legislative Assembly and Member of State Planning Commission Ezhilan Naganathan inaugurated the conference, which was organised by the Chennai Airway Team, on Friday. The Chennai …

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1 year, 5 months ago

KEM Hospital gets state-of-art laparoscopic system as donation

Hindustan Times

Mumbai: The KEM Hospital received the latest state-of-art laparoscopy system which is unavailable in the best of the city’s corporate hospitals. HT Image Mehta, a businessman, who had earlier donated medical instruments/machines to KEM hospital’s various departments like cardiology, ophthalmology, ENT and nephrology, said, “This latest system, the Elite Viscera Laparoscopic system by Olympus will help doctors in treating patients …

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1 year, 7 months ago

CM Jagan calls for regular audit of vacancies in state hospital

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy has directed the health officials to fill all the vacancies in the government hospitals in the state and provide good infrastructure with sufficient medicines at these facilities. Chairing a high-level review meeting with health minister Vidadala Rajini and senior officials at his camp office here on Monday, the Chief Minister called for regular …

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1 year, 9 months ago

WHO puts Kerala girl on World Hearing Day poster

The Hindu

Rizwana was six years old when she first heard the music of the rain and the joyous twitter of birds in the morning. A final year MBBS student at the Government Medical College Hospital, Kottayam, Rizwana is a living example that early newborn screening and consistent interventions can save many hearing impaired children from being disabled for life. It is …

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1 year, 10 months ago

Doctors concerned as cases of viral infections rise across Telangana

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Extreme changes in weather conditions spread over the past few days and mass gatherings of people at various venues are resulting in the fast spread of viral infections across the state, caution experts. Noted pulmonologist Dr. K. Bhuma Reddy said that of late many people are coming with cough, cold, running nose and fever complaints. Edino virus might be …

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2 years, 1 month ago

Delhi AQI at 500: Nose and throat infections jump by 90%, doctors express concern

India Today

Scores of people in Delhi NCR have been experiencing ear, nose and throat infections over the past few days. The capital city's air quality index has peaked at 500, falling under the "hazardous" category, with many regions going up to 750, as people can actually smell the ash particles in the air. Dr Neeraj Agarwal, MBBS, MS-ENT at Pristyn Care …

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3 years, 3 months ago

PGI doctors perform endoscopic removal of tumor through nose

India TV News

Endoscopic surgeons S.S. Dhandapani and Rijuneeta at the PGIMER here have performed total removal of complex planum meningioma, adherent to neurovascular structures, through the nose of two patients using 4K endoscopy system. Their MRI scans revealed planum meningioma of 3 cm size at the base of the skull, abutting critical vascular structures such as anterior cerebral and internal carotid arteries …

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3 years, 5 months ago

Calls for more Indigenous doctors to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people

ABC

Growing up in Port Stephens in New South Wales, Worimi man Kelvin Kong always knew he wanted to give back to his community. Professor Kong is one of about 600 Indigenous doctors in Australia and advocates argue more medical practitioners are needed to improve the health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Culturally appropriate healthcare Advocates say having …

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3 years, 6 months ago

Decoding Long Covid: ENT Explains Why Patients Can Have Hearing Loss, Headaches After Recovery

News 18

As we reach what seems to be the end of the deadly second wave of Covid-19 in India, several recovering patients stare at a long haul of dealing with persisting symptoms — now being defined as ‘long Covid’ by doctors. In light of the situation, News18 will run a 15-day series ‘Decoding Long Covid‘ where doctors with different specialisations will …

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3 years, 6 months ago

IIT-Hyderabad develops oral solution to treat Black Fungus

India TV News

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad, have developed an oral solution to treat Black Fungus and other fungus and are ready to transfer the technology to take it forward, the premier institute said. "With the two years of advancement of examination, the researchers are now confident that the technology can be transferred to suitable pharma partners for large-scale production. …

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3 years, 7 months ago

90 percent black fungus cases can be treated with medication, surgeries, say experts

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Speaking at a black fungus awareness talk on Sunday, senior ENT specialist and surgeon Dr. M Mohan Reddy expressed concern over the increasing rate of fungal infection in the city saying that the situation is so bad that hospitals in the city are overflowing with mucormycosis cases. Dispelling myths relating to the disease, Dr. Reddy said that even though …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Limited supply of antifungal drugs puts private docs in spot

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Restricted supply of antifungal drugs and the complicated procedures for getting them from government agencies have put private ENT hospitals that treat black fungus cases in a tight spot. Only five vials of 50 mg per patient per day of amphotericin B injections are allotted for private hospitals by the state government. A senior ENT specialist on condition of …

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3 years, 7 months ago

150 admitted to ENT hospital with black fungus infection in Hyderabad

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: As many as 150 persons have been admitted with black fungus infection or mucormycosis at the Government ENT Hospital here in the last three days. Doctors say they have only 50 unoccupied beds and the hospital is now full with in-patients of black fungus infection. Those who were under home treatment and did not take steroids have also reported …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Black fungus: Top doctors answer all FAQs about new threat in Covid times

India Today

At Doctors’ Roundtable with India Today TV Consulting Editor Rajdeep Sardesai, top experts answer all your FAQs as black fungus or mucormycosis becomes a new threat across states in Covid times. DR. SUBRAMANIAN SWAMINATHAN, DIRECTOR, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, GLENEAGLES GLOBAL HEALTH CITY, CHENNAI: We have been aware of such fungal infections in most vulnerable, including diabetics with poorly controlled sugar levels …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Black fungus patients increase but drugs not available in Telangana, say doctors

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Shortage of medicines to treat black fungus affliction is a major challenge. Amphotericin B deoxycholate is a conventional drug that has side-effects affecting kidney but doctors say they can get a kidney specialist to manage the patient and stop the fungus invasion if the medicine is available. But, in order to not allow the fungus to regrow, we need …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Surge in black fungus cases baffles Hyderabad doctors

Deccan Chronicle

Hyderabad: Specialist doctors at the ENT and eye hospitals – both private and government – in the city are baffled by the growing number of black fungus cases by each passing day. Two to five cases of black fungus or mucormycosis per day are reported in these hospitals for the last one week. Dr Manish Gupta of the Government ENT …

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3 years, 7 months ago

Separate wards, medical teams in Maharashtra hospitals to treat Mucormycosis, says Rajesh Tope

Firstpost

The state government has decided to set up separate wards as treatment for Mucormycosis, also known as black fungus infection, needed ophthalmologists, ENT specialists, neuro and plastic surgeons, etc, under the same roof Aurangabad: The Maharashtra government plans to set up separate wards at hospitals to treat people with Mucormycosis, a rare and dangerous fungal infection which has been found …

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3 years, 7 months ago

‘Mucormycosis is still a rare occurrence’

The Hindu

Although the number of reported cases of mucormycosis, a serious fungal infection, has noticeably risen during the pandemic, its occurrence still remained rare and there was no need for panic, said a group of doctors from Apollo Hospitals here on Friday. Ram Gopalakrishnan, senior consultant, Infectious Diseases, Apollo Hospitals, said while no studies had been done on the increase in …

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Complicated neuro surgery performed on child

The top 10 things children get stuck up their nose, according to Queensland Children's Hospital

Indian man, 40, suffers brain haemorrhage after exposure to loud DJ music: Report

Kolkata rape-murder case: Chaos as mob storms hospital amid night protest

Doctors in Bengaluru remove 3-cm-long bullet stuck in Yemeni man's head for 18 years

City hospital performs rare procedure to remove twin tumours from woman’s neck

Conference of paediatricians on treating children with airway disorders gets under way

KEM Hospital gets state-of-art laparoscopic system as donation

CM Jagan calls for regular audit of vacancies in state hospital

WHO puts Kerala girl on World Hearing Day poster

Doctors concerned as cases of viral infections rise across Telangana

Delhi AQI at 500: Nose and throat infections jump by 90%, doctors express concern

PGI doctors perform endoscopic removal of tumor through nose

Calls for more Indigenous doctors to improve health outcomes for Aboriginal people

Decoding Long Covid: ENT Explains Why Patients Can Have Hearing Loss, Headaches After Recovery

IIT-Hyderabad develops oral solution to treat Black Fungus

90 percent black fungus cases can be treated with medication, surgeries, say experts

Limited supply of antifungal drugs puts private docs in spot

150 admitted to ENT hospital with black fungus infection in Hyderabad

Black fungus: Top doctors answer all FAQs about new threat in Covid times

Black fungus patients increase but drugs not available in Telangana, say doctors

Surge in black fungus cases baffles Hyderabad doctors

Separate wards, medical teams in Maharashtra hospitals to treat Mucormycosis, says Rajesh Tope

‘Mucormycosis is still a rare occurrence’