World Hearing Day is held on 3 March each year to raise awareness on how to prevent deafness and hearing loss and promote ear and hearing care across the world. This Year’s Theme is “Ear and hearing care for all! Let’s make it a reality”. Hearing loss can affect anyone right from newborn to elderly […]
World Cancer Day is being observed on February 4th every year from the Year 2000. Started by Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to campaign and spread awareness about cancer by adopting, different themes every year, in 2022 UICC called for a 3 year campaign for impact and chose a common theme for years 2022-2024 […]
Every year in India 1.39 million new cancer cases are detected. By 2025 the annual incidence of cancer in India is projected to be 1.5 million. Every year 8.5 lakh patients die due to cancer in India. This makes cancer a big problem. There are both non modifiable risk factors in the form of gene […]
Most mistakes in laboratory medicine, if not all of them, happen at the pre-analytical stage of the testing procedure. 1 Pre-analytical factors must therefore be given the same careful scrutiny and examination as the more conventional direct analytical parameters when assessing and evaluating biochemical assays. Correctness the first time, every time, must be a top […]
As there is not one profile that suits all CPAP patients, we believe patients need to be treated individually and more effectively. S.Box is much more than a treatment device; it is an innovative concept of ‘precision medicine’ that puts the patients at the center of their treatment. Sefam Connect Reserved for healthcare professionals, ‘Sefam Connect’ is a […]
SRL Diagnostics, India’s leading diagnostic services provider launched its newest upgraded state-of-the-art laboratory at Gurugram. The Gurugram reference laboratory sprawled over 25,000 sqft will serve as the nodal laboratory for all its reference labs in North India and East India. The facility was inaugurated in the presence of luminary doctors; Prof. Dr. Ashok Seth (Padmashri, […]
Asclepius anatomy tables unveiled for virtual anatomy exploration at Medicall Chennai last week. Mr. Vishu, Business Development Director for TAIWAN MAIN ORTHOPAEDIC BIOTECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd. Taiwan, showcased Asclepius – Virtual Dissection Table equipped with life size male and female human cadaver with 100% annotation for the human body parts to facilitate advanced learning for the […]
Diagnostics account for 70 percent of all therapeutic decisions. IVD tests comprise medical devices that diagnose, monitor, screen, and assess predispositions to diseases from assays in a test tube or a controlled environment outside the organism, contributing to the available medical information of a patient. The global IVD market was estimated at $85 bn in […]
The outbreak of Covid19 in December 2019 has once again brought zoonotic infections into focus. As per WHO estimates, 61 percent of all human diseases are zoonotic in origin. Zoonotic (or Zoonosis) are infections or diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans – like dengue, malaria, chikungunya, rabies, salmonella infection, E coli infection, […]
Mumbai, 7th March 2022: Wockhardt Hospitals launches Diabetic Foot Ulcer clinic (DFU) to reduce chances of foot amputation due to Diabetes by using “Growth Factor Concentrate Therapy” (GFC). This is a path breaking therapy where growth factors derived from the patient’s own platelets are further purified and used as an acellular growth factor giving consistent […]
