Health

Over the years, humanity has invented numerous life-saving devices and equipment. One that immediately comes to mind is pacemaker. What a pacemaker does is essentially control your heartbeat. It is usually utilized for patients who have low heart beat or irregular heartbeat. A pacemaker comprises a small battery and electronic circuit that sends electrical pulses to the heart. This ensures …

For many of us, removing earwax is a regular routine. Even a slight itch in the ears can trigger our desire to remove earwax. Fingers, hairclips, cotton swabs, and anything else that can come handy is used to remove earwax. Some people may also be obsessed about removing earwax, based on the thinking that it’s a dirty thing to have …

There was a time when people fought wars over control of salt resources. Those things are no longer relevant, as industrial production of salt has made it easily available. Prices have also come down considerably. The white stuff that we use every day is essentially sodium chloride. Most of it is derived from sea water post evaporation. Considering our current …

Kidneys are among the key organs in our body. Working as filters, their primary function is to remove toxins from the blood. The toxins are then passed out through urine. Kidneys also perform other functions such as removing excess fluid from the body, maintaining electrolyte balance and secreting certain hormones. If our kidneys don’t work properly, it might lead to …

Medical professionals running private practices sometimes get so busy helping their patients that they forget that they also have a business to manage. When this occurs, those same health care workers do not hesitate to hire an accountant to organize their bookkeeping and offer a few temporary solutions. Still, they might be overlooking another solution that would prove to be …

It’s biology 101: every living being, in one way or another, relies on the sun for its continued existence. Sunshinemakes plants grow, which nurture animals. People set their daily rhythms to the movement of the sun and plan their holidays around its abundance. They play in the sunshine, bask in the sunshine, read, work and garden in the sunshine. It …

Pune – Minimally access brain surgery technique uses specialised endoscopes with high resolution video cameras to perform surgery of the brain. This technique can be used to diagnose and treat neurological conditions such as brain tumours, hydrocephalus (fluid build-up in the brain) and movement disorders. Traditional brain surgery requires removing a part of the skull to allow access to the …

Article by Dr. Manjunath Malige, Chief Endocrinologist and Diabetologist, Aster RV Hospital, JP Nagar, Bengaluru Diabetes is a chronic illness in which your body’s normal mechanisms for managing blood sugar, also known as blood glucose levels, fail. Blood sugar levels rise as the meal is broken down by the body. Your body’s cells take the sugar into your circulation and …

The role of vaccines in protecting humanity is unprecedented. Covid-19 is probably the best example that we have witnessed live and have been able to understand the importance of vaccines. Earlier also, vaccines have helped protect us from numerous diseases such as smallpox, polio, ebola, chickenpox, tetanus, whooping cough, rubella, mumps, measles, diphtheria, hepatitis A and B, pneumococcus, rotavirus, meningococcal …

When it comes to diseases, some are curable whereas others are not. Diabetes belongs to the incurable group, which means people have no option but to learn to live with it. But what makes diabetes incurable? Is there any specific reason why diabetes cannot be cured? To answer such questions and to better understand diabetes, here are some important things …