Why does heartburn gets worse at night?
Heartburn is a common disorder that affects a lot of individuals on a daily basis. Most people mistake a heart-related illness for this condition, but it is a gastrointestinal problem instead. This happens as the food and the acid contained in the stomach returns to...
India’s culture of coping with cancer
Cancer is one of the top burdens for healthcare in India causing morbidity and mortality. There is substantial geographical variation in the incidence of cancer in India. In the NE region, for example, the incidence of cancer for both sexes is highest in India. But...
WhatsApp and Messenger apps for Healthcare is The Next Big Innovation
The COVID-19 pandemic urged an era of telemedicine into healthcare which was long due. Doctors and healthcare providers are now using different alternatives to in-person visits like video-calling, zoom meetings and messenger apps like WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger...
How to choose a good deaddiction Treatment Centre
The most important choice you ever make could be the choice to attend a recovery facility for opioid or alcohol deaddiction treatment. Once you have determined that you or anyone close to you requires healthcare, finding an appropriate organization to provide it is...
How can pharma companies engage patients using real-world data?
Patient adherence is important in the pharma industry. Lack of adherence and improper use of medication often results in significant lost sales for pharmaceutical firms as well as poor real-world outcomes. One of the significant ways to support and engage patients,...
Future of Cancer Treatment Post-COVID-19
Reports are emerging about how cancer treatment is being deprioritized, postponed, and withdrawn as the world faces the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. All who have recently been diagnosed with cancer or are in the midst of cancer treatment are facing disruption for...
Transformation healthcare through interceptive medicine
Our cells adopt developmental pathways to form a functional, stable body, during which they acquire complex roles in tissues and organs. But when they deviate from their safe path, they accumulate changes that remain undetected before symptoms emerge, leading to...
Genome sequencing accelerates cancer detection
Genomic information has proven crucial in recognizing hereditary diseases, characterizing the mutations that drive cancer progression, and monitor disease outbreaks in the past years. With today's sequencers, steadily declining sequencing costs and the ability to...
Doctor explains how COVID-19 impacts our heart
It is still underestimated how dangerous SARS-COV-2 infection can be for patients with serious comorbidities, weak immune systems, and health conditions. Two of the most affected organs due to coronavirus are the heart and lungs. It is assumed by healthcare experts...
Decline in reporting and spread of STDs due to ‘sexual distancing’
The coronavirus pandemic which has troubled healthcare of the world has a silver lining as it successfully curtails the spread of STDs. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the STDs such as chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis were on a rise and reported regularly. But after...
Wearing a mask reduces COVID-19 infection risk of the wearer by 65%
Recently, Dean Blumberg, MD, chief of pediatric infectious diseases at UC Davis Children’s Hospital spoke on a college livestream about coronavirus and explained the benefits of wearing the mask. He said that wearing a mask reduces the wearer’s COVID-19 infection risk...
Potential coronavirus vaccine of Zydus Cadila begins its human trials all over India
Gujarat based pharmaceutical company Zydus Cadila on Wednesday, July 15th has begun the human trials of its potential coronavirus vaccine. The company had developed plasmid DNA vaccine candidate- ZyCoV-D at its Vaccine Technology Center at Ahmedabad. The Potential...
PGIMER will study the common mistakes while removing PPE made by Healthcare workers
Around 27 healthcare workers in Chandigarh, Panchkula, and Mohali hospitals have tested positive, many of whom have acquired it while tending toward the COVID-19 patients. It takes 30 minutes each to put on and remove the PPE worn by healthcare workers who care for...
A spike in demand for immunity-boosting medicines of AYUSH in Dakshina Kannada district
Recently we have been seeing a tremendous rise in immunity-boosting medicines all over India after propagation of it by the AYUSH Ministry. These medicines are seeing huge sales after claiming to cure COVID-19. Recently, a spike in the demand for such...
COVID-19 transmission in the womb can occur from the infected mother, says a recent study
Till now there were no cases reported of COVID-19 transmission in the womb. Numerous infants have now been delivered to COVID-19 infected pregnant mothers, most of whom have no respiratory disease or clear molecular evidence for SARS-CoV-2. But a recent study...
India’s Healthcare industry needs more investment like done in IT sector
In recent years, India saw tremendous development in the IT sector because the government explored the potential of it in our country. It saw big investments and now India’s IT sector sits as in the list of the top countries for IT. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, chairperson...
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