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Jul, 2021
After losing weight and appetite, the man was diagnosed with cancer and had to undergo surgery Despite having tested positive for Covid-19, a 54-year-old man underwent a complicated surgery to treat pancreatic cancer. The Bhubaneshwar resident found that he…
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Jul, 2021
The boy was playing badminton with his friends when the shuttlecock landed on a tree on May 28 at Boisar in Maharashtra’s Palghar district. While removing it, his right thumb got stuck in a wire and was severed. A 12-year-old boy has regained 50% of his thumb movement a month after it was severed and doctors at Mumbai’s Wockhardt Hospital performed a six-hour replantation surgery at midnight to reattach it.…
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Jul, 2021
Two variants of the coronavirus disease have recently come into focus as cases emerge around the world and in India. Mumbai-based experts unpack how these new ‘variants of interest’ differ from previously-known variants Eleven cases of the Kappa variant…
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Jul, 2021
A team of doctors of a Mira Road hospital removed a 50-gram rare cardiac tumor that had grown in the heart of a 28-year-old Covid-positive woman from Kolhapur Dr Upendra Bhalerao, surgeon, Wockhardt Hospital, Mira Road, said the patient had complained of breathlessness, swelling over legs and was on high oxygen support. Echocardiography revealed a 7cm x 6.5cm x 5cm massive tumour in the right-side upper chamber (atrium) of her…
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Jul, 2021
That dull burning feeling in your chest not going away? Is it a heart attack or a normal chest pain? How to differentiate? Chest pain can be caused due to several reasons other than a heart attack. It could…
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Jul, 2021
Obese women of childbearing age usually find it difficult to conceive secondary to various problems such as PCOS causing hormonal imbalance. Despite multiple attempts, failure in losing weight can cause distress and trauma in such women. At such times, bariatric surgery comes to the rescue as it is one of the most effective treatments to tackle obesity and help with improving the chances of conception. Dr. Harsh Sheth, a leading…
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Jul, 2021
Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai Central successfully kickstarted the much-awaited Sputnik V vaccine drive. Wockhardt Hospital, Mumbai Central successfully kickstarted the much-awaited Sputnik V vaccine drive. A gap of 21 days between two doses has been approved in India. To ensure…
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Jul, 2021
Music jump rope is a special type of jump rope and is among the group of exercises that is performed with background music, where the participants must move their hands and feet to match the beat and tempo of the music The Department of Physical Therapy, Korea Nazarene University, Republic of Korea (South Korea) in 2017 carried out an interesting study, titled “The effects of dance music jump rope exercise…
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Jul, 2021
A lot of people are wondering if drinking is permitted after getting the Covid-19 vaccine? Well, we have an answer for you! There are some people who believe there’s no harm in drinking alcohol, after a few hours of…
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Jul, 2021
Wockhardt Hospital Nagpur in association with Rotary Club of Nagpur ELITE successfully conducted a Mega Vaccination Drive on Sunday 4th July 2021 with an aim to inoculate five thousand beneficiaries. This Mega drive was organized focusing on covering a large number of people in a single day to ramp up the scale of vaccination and to increase the population which has received at least the first dose of the jab…
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