All of us know that prevention is better than cure and its importance cannot be overemphasized. However, not every disease is preventable and screening provides us with the second best option of catching them early. Although there are various definitions for screening it can simply be summed up as detecting disease early in asymptomatic (those without any symptoms) individuals.
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Medical care of a child is different from that
Medical care of a child is different from that of an adult, and no one knows this as well as a Paediatrician (Child specialist). Similarly, the Orthopaedic care of a child is different from that of an adult.
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The current era of sedentary lifestyle is coupled with an exponential growth of lifestyle diseases like Diabetes Mellitus and high Blood Pressure, but very few people have heard of Chronic kidney disease as a public health menace. The numbers are simply frightening in 2005.
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Aarav's mother looked visibly anxious when she came into my chamber and declared that Aarav has a "weak immune system" as he was falling ill frequently. She was not fully satisfied by the advice given by Aarav's regular paediatrician and had taken a second and then a third opinion. She wanted to see Pediatric Super Specialists. Since Aarav often had cough during his recurrent illness she had come to me but he also had recurrent diarrhoea.
Dengue fever is a dreaded disease because in a proportion of patients it can result in multiple organ failure and death within a matter of few days. The dengue virus which gets into the human body by mosquito bite causes extensive damage to various organs and their functions. Fever can be very high and body aches can be crippling.
