Health & Fitness (Page 2)

Chennai, August 2026 Reinforcing its commitment to public health and emergency preparedness, Kauvery Hospital and Chennai Airport jointly inaugurated the HeartSafe Initiative, installing 13 Automated External Defibrillators (AED) at Chennai International Airport, enhancing the airport’s capability to respond swiftly to sudden cardiac emergencies.The initiative was inaugurated in the presence ofRead More →

Chennai, August 2026: Strengthening its comprehensive liver care services, Gleneagles Hospital, Perumbakkam, Chennai, a part of the Fortis Healthcare Network, has launched a new Liver OPD Suite, a dedicated, high-capacity clinical hub for the evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of liver diseases. Designed as a comprehensive liver care facility, the suiteRead More →

Madurai, July 30, 2026: Building on a decade of expertise and trusted care in robotic surgery, Meenakshi Super Speciality Hospital (MSSH) has further strengthened its robotic surgical programme with the Toumai™ MT-1000 Pro Robotic Surgical System, marking the next chapter in its journey towards advanced robotic-assisted care. The next-generation platform is designedRead More →

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 →