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Covid sops disappear, health check tests now costlier by at least 20 per cent, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites Pune: Health check tests are about 20 per cent more today than what you would have paid last year. Now that the competitive intensity has eased off in the market after the pandemic, some diagnostic chains and online players are gradually increasing the prices of health packages and specialised tests. Bengaluru resident …

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PGI to start live relay of its clinical autopsy conferences, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites New Delhi: How did a patient die despite proper treatment or why could not the medical team identify a patient’s disease even after a battery of tests? These and many more medical mysteries involving unexplained deaths will be relayed live from Chandigarh’s PGIMER to medical institutions in Nepal and Southeast Asian countries …

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Study finds genes linked to neurodevelopmental problem in infants, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites Washington: Expanding newborn screening (NBS) to include detecting genes linked to an increased risk of neurodevelopmental disorders (NDD) will do more harm than good, claimed a recent Paediatrics article. The authors of the new article worry that increased genome sequencing would exacerbate existing health disparities, despite the fact that some experts think …

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ICMR worried over rising resistance to last-resort antibiotics in India, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites Representational image A latest study by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has found that the resistance to last-resort antibiotics is rising in India, ToI reported on September 24. ICMR has found the abuse of antimicrobials (antibiotics, antivirals or antifungals) to be the reason for this, which is says has led …

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Surgeons perform second pig heart transplant, trying to save a dying man, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites Washington: Surgeons have transplanted a pig‘s heart into a dying man in a bid to prolong his life – only the second patient to ever undergo such an experimental feat. Two days later, the man was cracking jokes and able to sit in a chair, Maryland doctors said Friday. The 58-year-old Navy …

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Immune cells are critical to efficacy of coronavirus vaccinations: Study, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites Washington: A study has provided fresh information on a vital subset of immune system cells required for successful vaccination against the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic virus. The study, led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and the New York Genome Centre, focused on T cells, which, along with B cells, form the …

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13k PG medical seats vacant after 2 rounds of counselling, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites New Delhi: Nearly 13,000 postgraduate seats are vacant in medical colleges across the country after two rounds of counselling, health ministry sources said on Friday while justifying the need to reduce qualifying percentile to zero. Ministry sources said India has a total 68,142 PG medical seats. These seats are filled on the …

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Millions of people live with chronic pain, mental problems: Study, ET HealthWorld

Add To Favorites Arizona: According to a new study published in the journal PAIN by the University of Arizona Health Sciences, roughly one in every twenty persons in the United States suffers from both chronic pain and anxiety or depression, resulting in functional impairments in daily life. Prior research has shown that chronic pain along …

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