Health

Chennai, January 29, 2026: MGM Healthcare Malar, Adyar has successfully performed a complex liver transplant on a two-year-old boy weighing just nine kilograms after his liver failed to produce essential enzymes to clear harmful metabolic waste substances known as oxalates, produced excessively due to a rare genetic disorder, leading to kidney stones and subsequent kidney…

Race Kit Distribution Sets the Stage for Kauvery Hospital’s K10K Cancer Awareness Run Chennai, 31st January 2026 – Kauvery Hospital has begun the final countdown to the 4th Edition of the K10K Cancer Awareness Run with the successful distribution of race kits to participants. The main run is scheduled to take place on 1st February…

CHENNAI | January 28, 2026: Former Union Minister of State for External Affairs and senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Smt. Meenakshi Lekhi on Wednesday attended the release of “Fragile Frontiers – A Reflection on Innovation, Power Politics, and the Evolving Frontiers of Space”, a book authored by Dr. Srimathy Kesan, Founder and Chief Executive…

Chennai, 24th January 2026: Shri Bone & Joint Clinic marked a significant milestone in Chennai’s healthcare landscape with the successful launch of Shri Physio & Rehab (SPR), its expanded and upgraded rehabilitation and wellness facility, at Indira Nagar, Adyar. The inauguration was attended by eminent members of the medical fraternity, senior doctors, healthcare professionals, well-wishers, and…

Chennai, 22nd January 2026: Kauvery Hospital, Alwarpet has successfully performed a highly complex and rare TAVR-in-TAVR-in-SAVR procedure with bioprosthetic valve fracture on a 78-year-old patient, marking one of the first such procedures in the world. The advanced transcatheter intervention was undertaken to treat a repeatedly failing heart valve in a patient with a long and…

Chennai, January 21,2026:Dr V Mohan, Chairman of Dr Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre and Madras Diabetes Research Foundation has been invited by the President of India, Her Excellency, Smt. Droupadi Murmu for ‘At Home Reception’ at Rashtrapati Bhavan to coincide with the Republic Day celebrations on 26th January this year. Dr Mohan is among 11 doctors…

Chennai, January 12, 2026: The 26th Annual Conference of the Indian Society of Vascular and Interventional Radiology (ISVIR 2026) was successfully held from January 8 to 11, 2026. The four-day scientific meeting emerged as one of the largest interventional radiology conferences in India, with participation from over 900 national faculty and delegates and more than 65…

The advanced system by Siemens Healthineers allows for high- quality ultrasound images of the heart, both from outside the chest (Transthoracic Echocardiography) and from inside the esophagus (Transesophageal Echocardiography) Chennai, Tamil Nadu, 05, 2025: Madha Medical College and Research Institute (MMCRI) has proudly announced the installation of the advanced Acuson Origin ultrasound system powered by…

●      About 25% of external biopsies required repeat testing, and 62.5% of these were malignant, revealing a high rate of missed breast cancers in fragmented diagnostic pathways. ●      Complete and accurate triple assessment takes just 125 minutes at an integrated one-stop centre, versus multiple centres and prolonged timelines in fragmented pathways. Chennai, 25 December 2025: A comprehensive study…