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