Indian Surgeon Conducts 70 Surgeries During His Holidays In England
A doctor with dedication and diligence in Britain of Indian origin hit headlines after conducting 70 //operations during his holiday period. NHS in the UK is well known for its long waiting lists and sometimes patients have to wait for years before getting a routine operation. This has brought NHS under criticism. Satya Agarwal of the Worthing and Southlands Hospital in Sussex h...Heart Center at Sinai Conducts Landmark Study on Aspirin Resistance
With coronary artery disease the single leading cause of death in the western world, aspirin is used by millions of patients as a prevention and treatment regiment for this deadly disease.// In the largest study to date on the effectiveness of aspirin, researchers at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore recently demonstrated that aspirin resistance is rare, less than 5 percent, at all doses (81 mg...Agra Surgeon Conducts Fifty Operations at One Go
A passion for surgeries without taking a break has helped a doctor here to conduct 50 operations at one go by //using his unique technique of single hole surgery. Doctor Ajay Prakash started operating patients at the Shanti-Ved hospital in Agra at around 10 p.m. Thursday night and continued surgeries without a break till 10 a.m. Friday morning, removing 45 gall bladders and five appen...Army Hospital Conducts First Multiple Organ Retrieval and Transplantation
For the first time, a premier Indian Army hospital here has conducted an accident victim's multiple organ retrieval and transplantation to give a new lease of life to three individuals. The retrievals were conducted at the Army Hospital (Research & Referral) here Wednesday night and the organs were transplanted Thursday on two patients at the same facility and on a woman patient in...Chennai Hospital Conducts Bone Marrow Transplantation Successfully
A hospital in Chennai has created history by successfully conducting a unrelated bone marrow transplant in an eight-year-old Ugandan boy using the cord blood cells from an American donor, at a fraction of what the procedure would cost internationally. Howard Kafeero from Uganda suffered from Fanconi anaemia (FA), a genetic disease that could have been fatal. Seven months ago, he wa...