Category: Health Care
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Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences signs MoU with Harvard Med School
April 2018, Kochi Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center of Harvard Medical School has signed a memorandum of understanding with the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi to collaborate on research and education initiatives in critical care, pain medicine, and anesthesiology. The memorandum identifies joint research and an exchange of faculty and students as areas for…
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International Yoga day celebrations at Amrita Institutions
21 June 2018 International Yoga Day was celebrated across the Amrita Institutions and different Ashram centers across the country. Amma initiated Yoga practices during her program in Santa Fe {news}. Speaking on the occasion Amma gave a message saying that “Yoga is the means of awakening the infinite strength within, by training the body, mind and…
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Football-sized tumour from the jaw was removed at Amrita Hospital
The surgeons at Amrita Hospital removed a football-sized tumour from the jaw of Amar Samad, a 19-year-old tribal boy from Jharkhand, India. The surgery, which was done at no charge, took 14 hours. It involved the reconstruction of Amar’s jaw using his leg bone. It was the largest jaw tumour of its kind ever reported.…
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Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda Laboratory
Amrita Centre for Advanced Research in Ayurveda (ACARA) Laboratory at Amrita School of Ayurveda of Amrita Vishwa Vidhya Peetham, has been set up with the blessings of Amma. Inspired by Amma’s vision to foster the global acceptance of Ayurveda through world-class multidisciplinary research, the lab is constructed. Ayurveda Research lab and studies will help 1.…
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Amrita Hospital researchers find way to ‘burn’ liver cancer
Researchers at Amrita Hospital have turned a substance commonly found in bones into a potent weapon that can seek and kill tumour cells. Tiny particles of calcium phosphate, a biomineral that is a natural constituent of the bone, when doped with similarly small iron particles, can become what medical scientists call a theranostic agent, a…
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$95 million worth free medical care to 4.33 million patients at Amrita Hospital
8 October 2017, Amritapuri – Amritavarsham64 The President of India, Shri Ram Nath Kovind, present certificates for totally free surgeries at Amrita Hospital to five onstage beneficiaries. These five individuals were representative of 1,940 economically challenged people receiving such certificates — including 200 recipients of heart surgeries, 70 of neuro surgeries, 20 of kidney transplants,…
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Segula Meso – open your eyes
Zambia, Africa Embracing the World, Zambia, in collaboration with Vision Without Borders, organized Cataract Surgeries for 216 patients at Petauke, an Eastern Province in the country, in the last week of August 2017. The operations and the hospital care were given totally free to the patients. The volunteers also ensured that the patients were picked…
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Upper double arm transplant at Amrita Hospital for a female recipient from a male donor
Shreya Siddanagowda was only 19 years old when she tragically lost both of her arms in a bus accident last year. Today she received the upper double-arm transplant at Amrita Hospital. Shreya has two arms again, and her doctors expect her to regain 85% of her hands’ functioning within 18 months. The procedure that gave…
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Hanging brain matter removed, tribal boy gets a face lift at Amrita Hospital
July 2017, Kochi Manikandan, the son of plantation workers in Palakkad, Kerala, was born with a rare medical condition called Eencephlocele. Encephalocele is a rare congenital disorder in which bones of a baby’s skull do not close completely in the mother’s uterus. This creates an opening through which brain tissue and cerebro-spinal fluid protrude out…
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Can Ayurveda and Allopathy go hand in hand? Amma addresses a group of doctors
8 Aug 2017, Amritapuri Ashram Amma met with 25 speakers from Amrita Samyogam – the International Conference on Integrative Medicine that was recently hosted on August 6th and 7th at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi. This was the largest conference on Integrative Medicine held in India and the delegates and speakers came…