Malathy Iyer
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United States
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Seven out of 10 live organ donations made by wives & mothers: Mumbai hospital survey
Wives and mothers make the biggest living organ donor pool, according to an analysis carried out by a city hospital. → Read More
Pushing Movement To Seek Dignified Death: Doc
Mumbai: After notarising his ‘living will’, Dr Nikhil Datar, a gynaecologist from the city, put up a copy on social media so that others can use it as. → Read More
Does surgery work better for diabetes than pills?
India News: The medical fraternity stands divided on what works better for treating diabetes → Read More
Bmi: Bariatric op for diabetics? Docs spar over new BMI guidelines
Science News: This debate has divided the Indian medical fraternity barely two months after international medical associations of surgeons said Asians with a BMI (b → Read More
Mumbai doctors link fairness cream to kidney illness in family
India News: MUMBAI: Soon after 20-year-old biotech student Vibha (name changed) started using a locally made fairness cream she had bought from her beautician in . → Read More
Mumbai hospital relief to UP cop suffering from baffling new auto-immune condition
When UP police inspector Girish Upadhyay (58) first came to Mumbai in October 2022, he was so weak that he needed two people to prop him up and his ne → Read More
XBB, BA.2.75 most common in Maharashtra, BF.7 strain not a big threat: Experts
Despite the recent discovery of the BF.7 variant in the state, genome research experts indicate the XBB and BA.2.75 strains are still the most prevale → Read More
BF.7 causing fresh Covid surge in China found in three Mumbaikars; all recover
For the first time, the BF.7 sub-variant, which is responsible for the ongoing Covid outbreak in China and reportedly claimed 60,000 lives in a month, → Read More
In Mumbai, Now, study shows 'long Covid' lasts for less than a year
Three years after the Covid pandemic began and affected over 500 million people, there is evidence that 'long Covid' - the term used to describe debi → Read More
Saviour sibling, 2, 'cures' 6-year-old sister of thalassemia
India News: MUMBAI: Siblings Kayra and Krishiv share more than just their birthday (September 11). → Read More
'No need to panic as Covid cases at their lowest in Maharashtra, but caution advised'
While Covid cases increase in Chinese cities, cases in Mumbai - the country's worst hotspot during the first and second waves of the pandemic in 2020 → Read More
In Mumbai, doctor family's case stirs debate over cough syrups for kids
A south Mumbai family of doctors had a harrowing time last Thursday (December 15) when, for about 20 minutes, they couldn't find pulse in their 30-mon → Read More
Scientific bid launched to find a 'tree solution' for air pollution problems
India News: MUMBAI: With Mumbai's air pollution levels breaching "safe" levels often this month, a scientific effort is on to find a "tree solution" - right from . → Read More
How a tiny pump is saving heart attack patients' lives
India News: In critical cases the ‘Impella’ can ensure adequate blood circulation during surgery and recovery, but its high cost limits its use → Read More
HIV testing for infants hit by kit shortage for 3 months
HIV testing for children born to positive mothers has stopped or slowed down in many states, including Maharashtra, for three months due to unavailabi → Read More
India measles capital of world with 9,490 cases in April-September
During the Covid pandemic, measles cases in India dropped to the lowest in many years, with 5,700 cases in 2021 and 5,604 in 2020, mainly because the → Read More
Desi antibiotic under trial in Europe saves woman’s life
India News: “Our drug, WCK5222, which is at present undergoing clinical trials in some European nations, was mentioned by the World Health Organisation as a promi → Read More
80% of 777 Jammu and Kashmir pellet victims have partial vision loss: Study
India News: A huge majority of those who received eye injuries due to gun pellets in Srinagar between July and November in 2016 have suffered some degree of visio → Read More
A 1st for Mumbai: XBB & XBB.1 variants of Covid found
Amid global concern of rising Covid reinfections due to newer Omicron subvariants, the latest Covid genetic sequencing report in Mumbai found two high → Read More
New cancer treatment that could save millions of lives
India News: Unlike aggressive cancer treatment options like chemo and radiation, CAR-T cell therapy trains the body’s own defence systems to kill cancer. But the → Read More