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What's the difference between Laparoscopic vs. Open Incisional Hernia Repair
Health Charcha - October 03, 2022 12:42 - 20 minutesIn this episode, we have with us Dr Parthasarthi, COO, Lead Consultant, department of Hernia Surgery and Upper GI and Robotics Surgery at Gem Hospital, Tamil Nadu to help us understand the difference between Laparoscopic vs. Open Incisional Hernia Repair.
Tackling Infertility in Women suffering from Morbid Obesity
Health Charcha - August 26, 2022 13:42 - 23 minutesObesity is increasingly being recognized as a worldwide epidemic. According to National Family Health Survey-5, one out of every four Indians is now obese. Obesity has risen from 21% to 24% among women and 19% to 23% among men on a national level. To answer the most commonly asked questions abou...
Young Hearts Run Free | Dealing with Congenital Heart Disease
Health Charcha - July 05, 2022 00:30 - 21 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja spoke with Dr. R. Krishna Kumar, Head of Department | Professor, Department of Paediatric Cardiology, School of Medicine, Kochi about Congenital Heart Disease and how prevalent it is. Tune in to know more!
Heart Health in the times of Corona | How safe is TAVI
Health Charcha - July 03, 2022 01:30 - 22 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, host Deepti Ahuja spoke with Dr Harinder K Bali, MBBS, MD(Medicine) and DM (Cardiology) about the special kinds of safety measures after the minimally invasive procedure that the patients and their families need to keep in mind during the pandemic. Tune in to kn...
I am Ironman | What is TAVI?
Health Charcha - July 01, 2022 07:32 - 22 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, host Deepti Ahuja spoke with Dr Kaushal Pandey, Sr. Consultant Cardiac Surgeon, P.D Hinduja Hospital and Research Centre, Mahim about what does a TAVI procedure involve and what happens after one undergoes the TAVI procedure? Tune in to know more!
Listen to your heart, they say | Diagnosis & Treatment of AS
Health Charcha - June 29, 2022 07:44 - 31 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Ashwin B. Mehta, HOD & Director Cardiology, Jaslok Hospital and Research Centre, Mumbai about the kind of tests that are performed to diagnose Aortic Stenosis and what if our loved ones have had the prognosis of having AS. Tune in ...
All about Aortic Stenosis
Health Charcha - June 29, 2022 07:40 - 19 minutesA healthy heart beats around 100,000 times a day. Your heart’s job is to supply oxygen-rich blood to the rest of the body. It does that by pumping blood through four heart chambers with the help of four heart valves that open and close with every heartbeat. The aortic valve controls blood as it f...
Brain Tumor Recovery | Will I ever be myself again?
Health Charcha - June 28, 2022 08:02 - 18 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. CE Deopujari, Neurosurgeon in Bombay Hospital Marine Lines, Mumbai about how can a patient improve his quality of life with the available modern techniques and what are some of the therapeutic ways that can help the patient after s...
Precautions to take before Surgery
Health Charcha - June 27, 2022 15:42 - 11 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Dwarakanath Srinivas, Professor and Head, Neurosurgery, NIMHANS about how has Covid impacted brain tumour treatment and how can one mentally prepare himself for this surgery? Tune in to know more!
Brain Tumor Surgery: Robots have arrived !
Health Charcha - June 21, 2022 07:18 - 24 minutesHow has neuronavigation and cranial robotics evolved the management of brain tumours and how does that apply to you? We will find out in this episode with Dr. Manas Panigrahi, HOD Neurosurgery at KIMS Hospital, Hyderabad. Tune in to know more!
I have Brain Tumor. What should I do next?
Health Charcha - June 15, 2022 13:19 - 12 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Sudhir Dubey, Director and Head of Minimally Invasive Neurosurgery at Medanta, The Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon about things, situations or environments that increase the risk factor of getting a brain tumour. She also discusses whether all brain tumo...
What is Brain Tumour
Health Charcha - June 08, 2022 18:30 - 26 minutesIn this episode, we speak to Dr.Amitabh Chanda - Neurosurgeon at Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences, Kolkata. He talks about brain tumor, a mass or growth of abnormal cells in your brain. There are different types of brain tumors. Some brain tumors are noncancerous (b...
What is a Hernia | Symptoms and Treatments
Health Charcha - June 06, 2022 18:30 - 15 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Ashwind Bawa, Associate Professor of Surgery, Dayanand Medical College, Ludhiana about Hernia; a disease that occurs when an internal organ protrudes through the wall of a muscle or a tissue that normally contains it. If ignored, it could be fatal....
What are some myths about Parkinson’s Disease?
Health Charcha - April 29, 2022 18:30 - 17 minutesPeople are diagnosed with Parkinson’s at an average age of 60, anything younger than 50 is considered young-onset Parkinson’s, or YOPD. Rarely, Parkinson’s disease may be diagnosed in people younger than 40 — current estimates are that about 2 percent of the 1 million people with Parkinson’s were...
Life after DBS. What next? | Post Surgery Care and Caregiver Support
Health Charcha - April 23, 2022 02:30 - 18 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr Aditya Gupta, Director of Neurosurgery at Artemis Hospital, Gurgaon about the DBS surgery experience and how it feels after that. The host also asks about some of the things one needs to watch out for during the 1st couple of weeks.
What are the advanced treatment options for Parkinson’s? | DBS
Health Charcha - April 21, 2022 04:20 - 15 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti Ahuja talks to Dr. Ravi Gopal Varma, Lead – Consultant Neurosurgeon, Aster hospital, Bangalore about some of the advance treatment options available for a person affected by Parkinson’s and she is also intrigued to ask what does DBS do for a person who is Parkinson’s ...
How can I manage Parkinson’s Disease?
Health Charcha - April 15, 2022 04:30 - 17 minutesIn this episode, host Deepti asks Dr. Vijayashankar Paramanandam.MD, DM (Neurology) if Parkinson’s can be cured or reversed. The host is also intrigued to know if Parkinson’s too has stages like cancer? Tune in to know more!
What is Parkinson’s Disease?
Health Charcha - April 11, 2022 12:02 - 17 minutesParkinson’s Awareness Month is observed in April. Parkinson’s Awareness Month is an opportunity to increase awareness about the ailment and its symptoms, as well as to support victims. More than 10 million people worldwide are living with Parkinson’s as per Frontiers in Neurology. So in this epis...
Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month | A revision
Health Charcha - March 30, 2022 13:19 - 17 minutesWe lost one of our favourite Bollywood actors, Irrfan Khan to Colorectal Cancer disease. And do we really need a reason to better inform ourselves about the kind of cancer that is increasingly beginning to affect young adults and is the 3rd most common amongst men worldwide? So, to give us a d...
12: Ae Dil hai muskil | Post-surgery care
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:37 - 15 minutesDid you Know Pacemakers are now Bluetooth enabled and can connect to your smartphone In this episode, we have with us Dr Girish B Navasundi who introduces us to Bluetooth based pacemakers and the importance of managing this device post-surgery. Dr Girish will discuss what a pacemaker check-up me...
11: Dil to bachcha hai ji | Are leadless pacemakers safe?
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:35 - 11 minutesTechnology and medicine have gone hand and hand for many years. This episode of Health Charcha with our expert, Dr Sanjeevkumar Kalkekar is devoted to discussing the advances in the cardiac space. He shares valuable inputs on how technology has impacted pacemaker surgery and important tips for p...
10: Dil Dhadke | All about pacemakers
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:32 - 11 minutesDid you know Our heart has its own electricity!!! In this episode of Health Charcha, we will discuss Dr Viveka Kumar will discuss about pacemakers and how they are used to treat electrical abnormalities of our heart. He also encourages to listen their heart and if experiencing something unusual ...
9: Dil cheez kya hai | Heart & related diseases
Health Charcha - February 26, 2021 04:30 - 20 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, Dr Praveen Chandra will discuss the health of the most talked-about yet too often neglected organ -The Heart. He explains the basics of heart, complications associated with heat-related illness and shares numerous things you can do to lower the risk for heart d...
8: Obesity- Not Just a Cosmetic Problem
Health Charcha - February 18, 2021 16:08 - 26 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha our expert, Dr. Muffazal Lakdawala answers queries related to the various myths that people have in their minds regarding obesity. He establishes the link between being obese and living with other associated diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and infertili...
7: Know more about heartburn
Health Charcha - January 28, 2021 13:21 - 18 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, We discuss about a condition which impacts millions of people who experience extreme heartburn and its associated unpleasant effects - GERD, or Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease. Many GERD sufferers are unaware of the dangers of chronic acid reflux or of the avai...
6: Endometriosis & its Power of Invisibility
Health Charcha - January 22, 2021 06:37 - 35 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, gynaecologist Dr Anshumala Shukla Kulkarni talks about this invisible illness which affects one in 10 women worldwide - Endometriosis. Dr Anshumala creates much-needed awareness around the condition which unfortunately being shrugged off as severe menstrual pai...
5: Hernia
Health Charcha - January 07, 2021 14:16 - 20 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, Dr Ajay Kriplani, will talk about the very simple yet strangulated subject called as Hernia. Concerns about and pain associated with hernias can prevent people from engaging in activities that they normally love to do, and ignoring symptoms can sometimes lead to...
5: The One about Hernia
Health Charcha - January 07, 2021 14:16 - 20 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, Dr Ajay Kriplani, will talk about the very simple yet strangulated subject called as Hernia. Concerns about and pain associated with hernias can prevent people from engaging in activities that they normally love to do, and ignoring symptoms can sometimes lead t...
4: Ignore no More. Period.
Health Charcha - December 31, 2020 11:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, we have Dr Milind Telang who will discuss the most common problem face by women - Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB) and aims to help you make sense of various gynaecological conditions and symptoms, which may have a negative impact on your life. If you are experie...
4: Ignore no More. Period.
Health Charcha - December 31, 2020 11:00 - 19 minutesIn this episode of Health Charcha, we have Dr Milind Telang who will discuss the most common problem face by women - Abnormal Uterine Bleeding (AUB) and aims to help you make sense of various gynaecological conditions and symptoms, which may have a negative impact on your life. If you are experi...
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