Lungs
- World
Covid virus starts losing ability to infect within 5 minutes in air: Study
London: Coronavirus’ ability to infect people starts decreasing within five minutes of being airborne and the virus loses about 90 per cent of its infectivity within 20 minutes of being in air,…
- Telangana
Hyderabad traffic police arrange green channel for live organ
Hyderabad: The Hyderabad Traffic Police on Wednesday facilitated the transport of live organs (lungs) by providing non-stop movement to the ambulance carrying them. The police arranged a green channel for transportation of…
- Hyderabad
Rachakonda traffic police arrange a green channel for live organ
Hyderabad: The Rachakonda traffic police facilitated the transport of live organs (lungs) by providing non-stop movement to the ambulance carrying them. The police arranged a green channel for transportation of lungs from…
- India
Woman moves SC for Rs 1 cr aid for husband’s lungs transplant
New Delhi: The Coronavirus has unleashed its wrath on the lives of a young couple who were married just a year ago. The husband is hospitalized since early May, after contracting Covid-19, and…
- Offbeat
4-yr-old Russian boy who spent 3 years on ventilator gets new lungs
Chennai: A four-year-old Russian boy who was on ventilator for the past three years at MGM Healthcare is now doing fine after a bilateral lung transplant, said doctors here. The Russian boy was…
- India
Overcome fear if you want to defeat COVID-19: Dr M Qutubuddin
New Delhi: Dr M. Qutubuddin, a US-based psychiatrist, has called on people to fight against COVID-19 by conquering, taking precautionary measures and having positive thinking. “People across the world are scared in this…
- Hyderabad
Beware, self medication could be dangerous: Medical experts
Hyderabad: Medical experts believe that the self medication to treat COVID-19 could be extremely dangerous. In view of the surging deaths in the second wave of Corona pandemic, the experts are apprehensive…
- Top Stories
COVID-19 not just lung disease, can also cause dangerous blood clots: experts
New Delhi: There is increasing evidence to suggest that COVID-19 is not just a disease of the lungs as initially thought but can also cause dangerous blood clots which need to be immediately…
- Hyderabad
Hyderabad: Lungs transported between two hospitals in 7 minutes
Hyderabad: The city’s traffic police department once again came to the rescue of a patient and facilitated the transport of a live organ in about seven minutes, which saved a precious life. The…
- Hyderabad
Coronavirus resurgence: Cost of HRCT, D-Dimer tests tripled
Hyderabad: Amid rise in coronavirus cases in India, private labs and hospitals have again started charging higher fees to conduct various tests. The tests which used to cost around 350-500 till the…
- World
Scientists decode how coronavirus damages lung cells within hours
Boston: Following months of interdisciplinary research assessing tens of thousands of lung cells infected with the novel coronavirus, scientists have created one of the most comprehensive maps to date of the molecular activities…
- News
Doctors remove toy bulb from 9-year-old’s lungs
Hyderabad: Doctors at a Hyderabad hospital removed a bulb from a nine-year-old boy’s lungs after he had accidentally swallowed it. Prakash of Mahabubnagar in Telangana had accidentally swallowed the toy bulb while…
- Health
New research may explain severe virus attacks on lungs
Washington: In a new study, researchers have described how different kinds of immune cells, called macrophages, develop in the lungs and which of them may be behind severe lung diseases. The study,…
- Health
New therapies to reduce lung fibrosis developed
Washington: To suppress the impact of lung fibrosis, concerning COVID patients, scientists have been developing new treatment therapies, targeting the complications developed by the mutual relationship between the two. Philip S. Low,…
- Hyderabad
Doctors perform India’s first double lung transplant on COVID patient
Hyderabad: In a first of its kind procedure in India, doctors at the Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences (KIMS) here successfully performed double lung transplant surgery on a Covid-19 patient. The 32-year-old patient…
