Mohali: To mark World Hepatitis Day, Punjab Institute of Liver and Biliary Sciences (PILBS), Mohali — the state’s premier super-specialty institute dedicated to liver care — is organising a comprehensive liver health camp on July 28 (Tuesday). The camp will start at 9am in the institute OPD.In line with this year’s global theme, “Let’s break…
Panaji: Goa Dental College and Hospital (GDCH), the state’s tertiary care centre for the early detection, diagnosis and management of oral precancerous lesions and oral cancer, recorded an average of 12 oral cancer cases a month—including new and follow-up patients—in 2025.The hospital also detected an average of 44 precancerous oral lesions each month during the…
T’puram: More than 1,500 people in Thiruvananthapuram district have been referred for specialized diagnostic tests after a large-scale cancer screening programme detected symptoms suggestive of oral, breast and cervical cancers, according to the latest health department data.The screening, conducted between Jan 31 and July 22, covered 1,24,050 people across the district. Preliminary assessments identified 977…
Chennai: Tamil Nadu’s intensified tuberculosis surveillance identified 48,469 patients in the first six months of 2026, after 93,203 cases were diagnosed in 2025, health minister K G Arunraj said on Wednesday, urging greater community participation to eliminate the disease. A total of 2,390 village panchayats were certified TB-free in 2025, underscoring progress in the state’s…
BY: Dr. Deepak RaghavanHYDERABAD/CHENNAI: Prostate cancer, one of the top cancers affecting Indian men, is increasingly being diagnosed at an earlier age, making timely screening and advanced treatment options more important than ever, according to urologists.Dr. Deepak Raghavan, Senior Consultant, Urology, Apollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai, said while prostate cancer is most common in men…
New Delhi : Five-year-old Bhavya knew hospitals better than playgrounds. Diagnosed with severe sickle cell disease in infancy, he endured repeated episodes of excruciating pain, hospital admissions and was dependent on blood transfusions.Every few months, his family would rush him to hospital as the inherited blood disorder disrupted what should have been a normal childhood.Today,…
Senior diabetologist Dr Sandeep Srivastava spoke after inaugurating‘Diabetes Karnataka–2026’, a two-day awareness programme organized by MedBell Global Health Care and Research Foundation in Belagavi on Saturday evening. Dr Girish Sonwalkar, DCP Narayan Baramani, Dr Madhav Prabhu are seen Belagavi: Diabetes is not inherently a life-threatening disease and can be effectively managed with timely medical advice…
Participants at the 4th annual conference of the Cardiological Society of India in Patna on Saturday Patna: Early detection and timely treatment are crucial to reducing deaths from heart disease, cardiology experts said at a conference in Patna on Saturday, while calling for better facilities to diagnose and treat cardiac ailments in Bihar.The message emerged…
Shillong: Meghalaya has consistently been registering high cancer cases in the country, prompting health officials and cancer specialists to call for early screening, lifestyle changes and HPV vaccination among vulnerable groups.Health and family welfare minister Wailadmiki Shylla urged people to take advantage of free screening facilities available across the state’s healthcare network.The minister was addressing…
Mumbai: Concerns over India’s nursing shortage and the need to strengthen the workforce dominated discussions at ANEICON 2026, the annual two-day conference of the Association of Nurse Executives India (ANEI), that began in Mumbai on Friday.Speakers highlighted that India has only 1.9 to 2.2 nurses per 1,000 population–lower than the World Health Organisation-recommended ratio of…
