Apollo launches Heart Challenge to motivate India to walk to a healthy heart!

New Delhi: Apollo Hospitals, Asia’s largest healthcare group, announced the Apollo Heart Challenge on the occasion of World Heart Day (September 29). The hospital major has invoked people of India…

This World Heart Day, adopt these 7 tips for a healthy heart

New Delhi: Cardiovascular diseases are the most common cause of death in India. World Heart Day (September 29) is observed to draw attention to various aspects of heart diseases, focus on how…

Hospital privacy curtains may harbour dangerous germs: Study

TORONTO: Privacy curtains in hospitals can become breeding grounds for resistant bacteria, posing a threat to patient safety, according to a study. The research, published in the American Journal of…

Bengaluru doctors perform rare heart surgery

Jim (58), from California, was on a business trip to India. On reaching Bengaluru, the fever that had subsided before his travel flared up again and he was brought to…

Apollo Cradle poised to greatly improve neonatal care across India

New Delhi: Apollo Cradle, India’s leading hospital network for Women and Children extends significantly its safety net to cuddle newborn babies all across the country. With launch of its largest…

Delhi HC: What’ve you done to improve govt hospitals?

NEW DELHI: Alarmed at the state of government-run hospitals in the city, Delhi high court on Wednesday sought to know specific steps taken by the government to improve the health…

Delhi AIIMS maintains highest standards of meritocracy and learning: Choubey

New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) in New Delhi has maintained the highest standards of meritocracy and learning and established itself as an apex medical institution…

This 16 month old weighs 25kg!

CHANDIGARH: Chahat weighed 20kg when she was 9-month-old and is now 25kg at 16 months. She is twice the weight of a normal child at her age. Chahat is one…

Asia Healthcare in final talks to buy Nova IVI fertility

Asia Healthcare Holdings, the platform backed by global investors TPG Growth and Temasek Holdings, is all set to acquire Nova IVI Fertility, one of the largest operators of fertility clinics…

Why docs of pvt hospitals aren’t ready to be on negligence panel

GURUGRAM: No specialists or super-specialists from private hospitals want to be on the panel of the district medical negligence board that takes up complaints of negligence against other private hospitals.…