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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Dr Neetu Talwar, Senior Consultant,
Division Of Paediatric Pulmonology, FMRI, Gurgaon
Pneumonia in simple terms means an infection of the lungs. In pneumonia one or both lungs are affected due to a variety of causes leading to collection of some fluid in the lung tissue. As a result, there is loss of area available for gas exchange leading to difficulty in breathing as well as fast breathing to maintain the desired air exchange.
