Health
Bhubaneswar: A one-year-old boy was rushed to hospital in a serious condition after contracting Covid-19, but he has beaten the virus after spending eight days on a ventilator. Aman Patnaik, from Nilagiri area of Balasore district, was admitted to SUM Hospital here on September 21, while running high temperature and having seizures as well. “It…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here successfully removed a large tumour weighing about 500 grams from the chest of a 21-month-old baby, last week. The baby boy, weighing 8.5 kg, had been losing weight and feeling tired on simple excertion for the past 7 to 8 months, and there…
Bhubaneswar: SUM Ultimate Medicare’s (SUMUM) Department of Nuclear Medicine and its high-end PET-CT scan has completed a year in service of people. It has also earned the distinction of conducting the highest number of PET-CT scans in a calendar year in the city. Last year, in July, SUMUM became the first hospital in Odisha to…
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan (SOA) here, successfully performed a rare surgery on a 25-year-old suffering from a congenital life threatening cardiac ailment recently. Sarada Prasanna Patra, who had difficulty in breathing and was unable to do any work, was admitted to…
A diet rich in dairy fat may be linked to lower risk of heart disease, a new study has found. A study done on a Swedish cohort and published in the journal Plos Medicine – the researchers have challenged the view that dairy products should be avoided due to saturated fat. The study was done…
Covid-19 could well become like common cold by spring next year because people would have developed immunity boosted by vaccines and exposure to the virus, an expert from Oxford University has said. Speaking in context to Britain, Professor Sir John Bell of medicine at Oxford University said the country (England) “is over the worst” and…
The Delta variant of the coronavirus has become the most dominant strain globally, as the other three variants of concern make up for a tiny fraction when sequenced, the WHO has said. “Less than one percent each of Alpha, Beta and Gamma are currently circulating. It’s really predominantly Delta around the world,” Maria Van Kerkhove,…
The first dose of a Covid-19 vaccine has significantly improved mental health of people, a recent study in the US has found. The global coronavirus pandemic has affected people’s lives including jobs and finances – leading to mental distress According to a study mental health among people worsened in the US around March 2020 and…
Acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) is potentially a fatal condition involving lung damage, and experts associate it with Covid-19. Most of the fatalities are caused due to ARDS, and there is a lack of treatment for severe Covid-19-associated ARDS. A recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, has found that…
