Category: Patient Care
Founded 50 years ago, the Cancer Patients Aid Association believes in the ‘total management’ philosophy when it comes to treating the disease By Rajalakshmy R It was in 1969 that Y K Sapru sowed the ...
The Lancet recently identified a set of treatment practices that are best avoided in cancer care By Christina Tom Jose A team of nine doctors recently published an article in The Lancet, a popular medical ...
The startling reports on the burgeoning cancer incidences in India underline the dismal lack of infrastructure to meet the rising demand for cancer care. While the small number of dedicated cancer care centres seems unable ...
Danseuse Shubudha Varadkar talks about how following her passion blindly eventually helped her heal By Christina Tom Jose Shubadha Varadkar has adorned the world’s best stages with her dance. However, the 57-year-old Odissi dancer is ...
Portea Medical brings world-class healthcare standards to home-based medical care. By Rajalakshmy R For Meena Ganesh, MD & CEO of Portea Medical, India’s largest and fastest-growing home healthcare company, it was an incident in her ...
The importance of getting the right superspecialist on board and availing the services of a Tumour Board Diseases can be classified into four main types, viz. infectious, deficiency, hereditary, and physiological diseases. Another way of ...
An NGO founded by actor Deepika Padukone is giving voice to mental health issues in India By Aatika H Jain I was 18 when I suffered from depression and anxiety. When triggered, I ended up ...
While we remain obsessed with our physical fitness, another aspect of our general well-being remains neglected. Our mental health is the sum of our psychological well-being—how we perceive ourselves and others, our ability to cope ...
The World Health Organisation, in a recent study, marks India as the most depressed nation in the world and one of the highest-ranking countries for several other mental disorders. Unless the plummeting mental health quotient ...
A Bengaluru-based theatre group rises up to the challenge of creating a play from Dr Siddhartha Mukherjee’s award-winning book on cancer By Rosy Jose It is hard to look at a tumour and not come ...
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