In an interaction with FM, Anjali highlights the need to get as many people vaccinated as quickly as possible against the pandemic. 

Since mucormycosis is highly dangerous, killing between 46% to 96% of the patients, and often leads to complete blindness if not death, it is better to prevent it by taking due care in treatment protocol and maintaining proper hygiene in ICUs and the whole hospital environment, says Dr V Mohan

Dr Lucica Ditiu, Executive Director of Stop TB Partnership, speaks about the international body’s ambitious goal to make the world free of the curable infectious disease and how the programme has been impacted by various challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sapien was established in a visionary partnership with Apollo Hospitals, a pan-India network of 71 multi-specialty hospitals that allowed us to create a multi-centric, pan-India biobank covering all diseases. We started with one hospital in 2012 and now have a pan-India footprint of more than 20.

In an interaction with S Harachand, Prof Harding says that there is no need to wait until a patient is dying to introduce the benefits of palliative care, as integrating palliative care much earlier into the treatment cycle of a terminally ill patient will not only improve outcomes but can at times even prolong the life of the patient.

In conversation with Divya Choyikutty, Kallo explains, Raul Kallo is the CEO & Founder of Viveo, his company’s big plans for India and what makes Viveo Health different.

we are going through an interesting period as these developments have led to positive changes in pathology education, training and practice, ultimately benefiting the patients, says Dr Shivayogi Bhusnurmath

Dr Ranjit Nair, Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Germin8 Solutions Pvt Ltd (Germin8) —a Big Data analytics company focused on AI-based social media research and analysis, in this month’s Straight Talk with Editor

Seema Arora ResMed India’s National Marketing Head said that there should be strict data protection laws in place and only that will ensure that patient data is secured and protected when implementing digital health policies at the national level.

A strong critic of the traditional English (British) medical education system that is still followed in India, Dr G Richard Olds says that Indian medical education system has challenges on several fronts

The polygenic risk score for coronary artery disease, if implemented at the population level, would help in better stratification of high-risk individuals, says Dr Vedam Ramprasad, CEO, MedGenome Labs

“We help chip off India’s
high incidence of medical error deaths”

Dr Rajagopal is of the view when support is given to COVID-19-affected people to make realistic, not idealistic choices, the disproportionate demand on irrational aggressive life support measures will drop and the health systems will be able to give optimal care to those who will benefit. Edited excerpts from his conversation with FM

Prof Mahendra K Verma from IIT-Kanpur, who led the study, warns that India, which exhibited linear growth and has now reached exponential growth, is yet to show a
similar succession or signs of flattening the curve.

Anu Acharya has been at the forefront of genomics for many years. She is a
co-founder and CEO of Mapmygenome, a company that pioneers personalised, preventive healthcare via personal genomics tools.

Geriatricians care for the full spectrum of diseases seen in general/internal medicine; imparting special focus on elderly individuals.

On the flip side, there is a high chance that there may have been many missed diagnoses in other parts of the country, given the
absence of a robust surveillance system.

According to Dr Madhavan V Pillai MD, a physician specialised in Internal Medicine, Hematology and Medical Oncology and certified by American Board of Internal Medicine, the biggest challenge that the scientific world is facing at present is this variation.

If the country wants to hit its target of eliminating the disease, extensive screening and vaccination are the only way forward, says Dr Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan

Innate immune proteins have been fighting infections in all living organisms for millions of years and bacteria have never been able to develop resistance against them. Despite this well-known fact, no one explored the possibility of leveraging this mechanism to counter one of the worst medical crises in modern times:  antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Now, for […]

Quality care in a hospital is a combination of several standards and practices and not just the medical procedure. While medicine itself is an art that is based on science and clinical evidence, quality care also requires a culture that values not only the patient’s disease, but also his emotional wellbeing as well the confidence […]

Along with a distinguished career in the Army Medical Corps (AMC), Air Marshal (Dr) Pawan Kapoor has also been one of the strongest voices in India’s Healthcare Quality movement. He has been a founder member of the NABH and continues to serve as a mentor to the NABH. He retired in December 2017 as Director-General, […]

Breast cancer is the most common cancer among Indian women in terms of incidence as well as mortality. Its prevalence in younger age-groups in India is higher than the global average.

For Metropolis, the next level of growth is not merely chasing business but making an impact in the community with the science that it deals with.

Thyrocare Technologies Ltd, which disrupted India’s biochemistry tests and general diagnostics scene with rock bottom prices more than a decade ago and grabbed a sizable share in the Rs 40,000 crore market, has now entered the NGS segment

Vijay Chandru, Co-Founder and Director, Strand Life Sciences, and INAE Distinguished Technologist at Indian Institute of Science, is an academic turned entrepreneur.

Dr Patrick Serruys is one of the greatest authorities on angioplasty and coronary stenting in the world today. Currently, he is the Director of the Clinical Research Program of the Catheterization Laboratory,

There are quite a few in the development stage across the globe, targeting ribosomes. But, in general, it seems that many of the big companies do not think that antibiotics are a profitable business for them.

Prof K Rajasekharan Nair was the former Director, Professor & Head, Department of Neurology, Medical College, Trivandrum. One of the pioneering leaders in neurosciences in India

India’s first scientifically documented IVF baby Harsha Chawda is 33 years old now and is the mother of two —a boy and a girl, who were also born in the same hands that gave birth to their mother three decades ago.

HIV surveillance is now carried out only by the government of India. Surveillance by private organisations has almost stopped now.

It is important to make sure that scientists have access to the best advice so that they can get their research published quickly and in a robust form that can be used as a research tool by other people. Any research, which meets the basic and the strong elements of novelty and conceptual advance shouldn’t ideally face any such issue.

One of the major breakthroughs in the area of gynaecological endoscopy that the world is now waiting for is cheaper robotic surgery. And, it is shortly expected from India, a country that has already produced many innovative endoscopic devices and is also home to…

One of the serious concerns in the Indian healthcare scenario at present is the absence of a compulsory continued medical education (CME) system for doctors to update themselves with the fast-evolving changes in medical science.

Dr B S Ajaikumar is chairman and CEO of Health Care Global. He founded HCG to realize his vision of making advanced cancer care accessible to all. His contribution to the field of cancer care in India as well as his success as a first-generation physician-entrepreneur has been widely recognised.