Bhubaneswar: A 30-year-old woman suffering from a rare blood disorder has been successfully treated at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital recently. The woman, hailing from Jajpur, was admitted to the hospital here in the last week of May for anemia and bleeding, which required repeated blood and platelet transfusions spread over one…
Bhubaneswar: Doctors should serve the society with passion which will go a long way in avoiding unsavoury incidents of attacks on medical professionals, Prof. (Dr.) Sanghamitra Mishra, Dean of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, said on Monday. “Doctors have a special place in society and such happenings should not occur and will not…
Bhubaneswar: Prof. (Dr.) Sanghamitra Mishra, Professor and Head of department of Critical Care Medicine, has been appointed as the new Dean of the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of Siksha ‘O’ Anusandhan Deemed to be University here. Prof. (Dr.) Mishra, who will join the new post on Wednesday, replaces Prof….
Bhubaneswar: Surgeons at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medical sciences of SOA, have successfully removed a 3 kg tumour from the chest of a 23-year-old woman which had compressed her left lung and pushed the heart and windpipe to the right of the chest cavity. After visiting few hospitals where…
Bhubaneswar: The need to instill hope in the minds of people suffering from schizophrenia was stressed at a programme organised to observe World Schizophrenia Day at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital on Tuesday. “There is a need to instill hope in the minds of the patient and the caregiver so that they…
Bhubaneswar: For the first time in Odisha, Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, faculty of medicine of SOA here, has successfully performed autologous stem cell transplantation on a lymphoma patient. The challenging procedure, often referred to as bone marrow transplantation (BMT), was done recently on a 33-year-old patient suffering from lymphoma, a type of…
Bhubaneswar: Awareness about Lupus, a little-known ailment which mostly afflicts women of child bearing age, is the key to fight the complex disease, experts said at a rally held here to mark World Lupus Day on Tuesday. Lupus is an auto-immune disease which mimics the symptoms of many other ailments confusing both the physician and…
Bhubaneswar: A Medical Education Department, as required under the National Medical Commission rules, was inaugurated at the Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital, SOA’s faculty of medical sciences, here on Monday. The department was inaugurated by SOA’s pro-vice chancellor and dean of the institute Prof. Gangadhar Sahoo in the presence of the medical superintendent…
Bhubaneswar: In a rare single surgery, neurosurgeons of Institute of Medical Sciences and SUM Hospital here have removed multiple tumours weighing more than 500 grams from the brain of a 30-year-old woman. The woman, belonging to Daspalla in Nayagarh district, had come to the hospital with complaints like headache, vomiting and declining eye sight. She…
Bhubaneswar: Children are getting increasingly afflicted by rheumatoid arthritis these days but the problem can be addressed through proper diagnosis, tests and treatment, said Prof. Surjit Singh, director of the post-graduate Institute of Medical Research, Chandigarh. Speaking at the two-day 13th conference of the Odisha branch of Indian Rheumatology Association at IMS and SUM Hospital…
