The Union Health Ministry has advised states and Union territories to ensure that stem cell therapy is offered as standard clinical care only for approved disease conditions, while its use for autism remains restricted to duly approved clinical trials. The advisory, issued on September 16 to states and UTs that have adopted the Clinical Establishments …
A 17-year-old girl donated her stem cells to give her 10-year-old brother a second chance at life after he battled leukemia, a type of blood cancer, as Homi Bhabha Cancer Hospital and Research Centre near here successfully conducted its first allogeneic bone marrow transplant (BMT). The boy, a resident of Durgapur in West Bengal, was …
A review of available evidence has linked exposure to air pollutants with an increased risk of death by suicide or suicidal thoughts, with particulate matter PM2.5 and PM10 and nitrogen dioxide (NO2) posing the greatest risks. The findings, published in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health, underscore the need to consider environmental exposures as …
Doctors in Mumbai have finally given relief to a 25-year-old woman from Jalgaon in Maharashtra, who was suffering from a persistent, heartbeat-synchronous “whooshing” sound in her ear for over five years, with a minimally invasive procedure The woman's case highlights how identifying an underlying vascular cause can help patients with persistent pulsatile tinnitus receive effective …
For an 18-year-old college student and a passionate biker from Mizoram, the freedom to breathe easily had become a distant reality after a life-threatening illness in 2025, but doctors in Kolkata came to his rescue with timely intervention. It all started following an episode of Herpes Zoster Encephalitis, a serious infection and inflammation of the …
Doctors at a hospital in Thane have given an elderly woman a new lease of life after treating her with a timely procedure amid complex history of heart disease and bleeding. At 71, the woman with severe aortic stenosis faced an additional challenge that made treating her heart condition particularly complex. Along with the narrowing …
A week of high decibel dhols, bursting firecrackers, and late-night aartis wrecks Mumbai's circadian rhythms, leaving the city thoroughly exhausted. When festive celebrations push bedtimes deep past midnight, our internal clocks take a severe hit. As Dr. Mihir Gangakhedkar, consultant in pulmonology at Fortis Hospital in Mulund aptly puts it, “You cannot expect to have …
When rescue dog Chloe is not tumbling across the grass on a farm outside India's tech capital Bengaluru, she is learning to sniff human breath for cancer with a little help from AI. Fitted with a 3D-printed helmet and harness packed with sensors, Chloe is part of experimental efforts to use dogs' extraordinary sense of …
Doctors in Kolkata have successfully treated a 35-year-old schoolteacher who arrived with severe pain, tingling and numbness in his right hand, accompanied by bluish discolouration of several fingers. With the risk of permanent damage to the limb increasing by the hour, timely diagnosis and intervention became crucial. A critical vascular emergency initially appeared to be …
In keeping with the observance of Rashtriya Poshan Maah (National Nutrition Month) every September, mobilising communities and reinforcing key nutrition, health and caregiving behaviours among pregnant women, lactating mothers, children, adolescents, and their families, the ninth edition this year will be launched on Wednesday at the Rudraksh International Cooperation and Convention Centre in Uttar Pradesh's …
