Health & Fitness

Chennai, 28 July 2026: Overcoming multiple anatomical and surgical challenges, surgeons at MGM Healthcare successfully performed a rare and highly complex mitral valve replacement on a 14-year-old girl who had severe mitral valve disease that caused debilitating breathlessness and left her largely bedridden. The girl suffered from severe mitral regurgitationRead More →

Chennai, July 2026: In a rare surgical achievement, MGM Healthcare has successfully performed a robot-assisted coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery on a 49-year-old man from West Bengal suffering from complex triple vessel coronary artery disease. The patient, a known case of coronary artery disease, had previously undergone two angioplasty proceduresRead More →

Chennai, July 2026: Kauvery Hospital launched ‘Kauvery 3X Chennai’, an integrated robotic surgery programme that brings together advanced robotic technology, comprehensive surgical expertise, and highly skilled multidisciplinary teams across all its three Chennai hospitals under uniform standards of care. The robotic programmes will be offered based on the 4th generationRead More →

Chennai, July 2026: In a heart-touching tale, a 40-year-old man from Chennai met his stem cell donor who had saved him from a rare and life-threatening blood disease for the first time, almost two years after the transplantation. DKMS Foundation India, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the fight against bloodRead More →

Madurai, July 2026: Meenakshi Mission Hospital and Research Centre (MMHRC), Madurai, hosted MADHURAM 2026, the 11th edition of the Indian Academy of Pediatrics (IAP) – Paediatric Haematology Oncology Chapter’s Midterm Continuing Medical Education (CME) programme. The three-day event, held from July 17 to 19, showcased the latest advances in paediatric haematology,Read More →

Chennai, July 14, 2026: Averting the need for traditional open spine surgery, expert orthopaedic surgeons at SIMS Hospital successfully performed an advanced single-incision endoscopic procedure on an 84-year-old patient with multi-level spinal stenosis and degenerative scoliosis, a spinal deformity that had caused severe lumbar nerve compression and left him unableRead More →

Chennai, July 2026: Kauvery Hospital, Alwarpet, has successfully treated two failing heart valves in a patient without repeat open-heart surgery, in what is believed to be the world’s first reported completely catheter-based treatment following a Ross procedure. The procedure was performed on a 58-year-old man who had undergone a complexRead More →

Tiruchirappalli, July 2026: Rela Hospital, one of India’s leading centres for liver disease management and transplantation, inaugurated its new facility in the city. The centre, operating from Shweta Speciality Hospital, will provide comprehensive care for liver and digestive disorders. Its services will be expanded in phases to include a liverRead More →

Chennai, July 4, 2026: Shri Rajendra Vishwanath Arlekar, Honourable Governor of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, today inaugurated the two-day Indian Intraocular Implant & Refractive Surgery Convention 2026 (IIRSI Convention), the country’s premier scientific conference on eye surgery and the flagship annual event of the Intraocular Implant & Refractive Society ofRead More →