By Dr. Aditi Malpani
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Know More about Geriatric Medicine

Geriatric medicine as a speciality looks into complete holistic care of the elderly. Aging leads to various changes in the body. With increased longevity, chronic and degenerative disease is on the rise. The health needs of older adults are different...

By Dr. Meenal Agarwal
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Preconception screening programme

Do you want a healthy pregnancy and child? Are you having difficulty in conceiving or having IVF failures? Have you experienced miscarriages in the past and are worried for future pregnancy outcomes? Are you married to a close blood relative?...

By Dr. Farokh Master
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Homoeopathy in cancer

Cancer comes under the category of chronic diseases, defined in homeopathy as a ‘derangement of the vital force with an insidious onset and a gradual progress during which the vital force offers imperfect resistance so that the disease if not...

By Dr. Rahul Nerlikar
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Total Hip Replacement – How to prepare and what to expect

Total Hip Replacement (THR) is a major surgical procedure. In the right indication, a THR promises to relieve hip pain and stiffness, and greatly improve mobility. To prepare for THR, we recommend the following things: Make sure that there will...

By Dr. Sarang Rote
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Brain Tumours

World Brain Tumour day is observed on 8th June every year since 2000. This day was first observed by German Brain Tumour Association (Deutsche Hirntumorhilfe e.V.). A non-profit organization, it was started to raise public awareness and educate people about...

By Dr. Sadanand Naik
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Identification of Vitamin B12 Deficiency in Indian Vegetarians

Vitamin B12 is important in DNA synthesis and its role is mainly noticed in blood cells and nervous tissue cells. Vitamin B12 deficiency is caused by Dietary deficiency - Chiefly in vegetarians, since B12 does not have a plant based...

By Dr. Vidya Ganapathy
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Children’s Mental Health

As parents, we experience various emotions when going through the parenting journey, joy, anger, irritation, sadness. Along with each of these emotions is a sense of responsibility, a sense that we are responsible for fostering the well-being and growth of...

By Dr. Archana Kadam
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Autism: Guide for parents

Autism spectrum disorder is a group of developmental disorders, wherein the child has primarily difficulties in social communication, behaviour, play and sensory processing issues. Do’s for parents In case you feel that your child is not pointing to what he...

By Dr. Bharti Patil
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Occupational Therapy

Occupational therapy is an important part of the rehabilitation team. It is the art and science which facilitates development of skills and functions required to be independent in the activities of daily living. The word ‘occupation’ refers to the therapeutic...

By Dr. Vipul Chakurkar
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Hypertension in adolescent and young adults

Hypertension or high blood pressure (BP) is typically a disease of adults above the age of 40 years. But a good percentage of individuals in their adolescence, 20’s or 30’s are being diagnosed with hypertension. High BP at this age...