Susannah Morgan Susannah Morgan woke up from surgery with temporary paralysis of her face When Susannah Morgan learned that an operation to remove a benign tumour in her neck could leave her with a crooked smile she was “frantic”. The 45-year-old was advised to have it removed in case it turned cancerous but she was … Read more
39 minutes ago By Michelle Roberts, Digital health editor, BBC News ©2024 Takeuchi et al. CC-BY-ND Taking inspiration from human skin ligaments, the prototype face can be made to smile Japanese scientists have found a way to attach living skin to robot faces, for more realistic smiles and other facial expressions. The breakthrough came from copying tissue … Read more
A teenage girl who donated her hair to a cancer charity found out a year later she has cancer herself. Kiya, 15, sat a GCSE exam on the same day she was diagnosed with stage four Hodgkin’s lymphoma after discovering a lump in her neck. Twelve months after donating her hair to the Little Princess … Read more
Representative Image by Santanu MishraCo-Founder, and Executive Trustee, Smile Foundation The Covid-19 pandemic has been a harsh reality-check and has exposed the gaps of overall healthcare system across the world. The virus has shown the world that there is an urgent need for a paradigm shift in the provision of healthcare. Instead of a patient … Read more
By Cara Murez HealthDay Reporter FRIDAY, Dec. 4, 2020 (HealthDay News) — Could a genuine smile be the key to getting a less-painful vaccination? Researchers from University of California, Irvine, say yes. That genuine smile, which brings up the corners of the mouth and creates crow’s feet around the eyes, can reduce the … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Santanu Mishra, Co-Founder and Executive Trustee, Smile Foundation to know more about the adoption and implementation of telemedicine in providing healthcare services to the most underserved sections of society. With guidelines set under the “Telemedicine Practice Guidelines” by the Medical Council of India, how would you evaluate the future? … Read more