Mysuru: Columbia Asia Hospital in city has launched Videonystagmography (VNG) Test for Vestibular Disorder at its premises recently. This Test is invaluable in predicting early stroke, even before it is picked up on MRI and is also useful in assessing the response to treatment of various balance disorder. VNG testing is a series of tests…

Mysuru: Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysuru, has launched a state-of-the-art Dental Care Unit at its premises here.  Dr. Venkatesh, District Health and Family Welfare Officer, inaugurated the Unit which offers unique services like cosmetic dental treatment and smile designing, full mouth rehabilitation, implants fixation and management and other general dental services like restoration, scaling, extraction, minor…

Mysuru: Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysuru, had organised a corporate quiz and a talk on Cardiology and a Basic Life Support  training session by Dr. C. B. Keshavamurthy and Dr. Sasirekha at the Hospital premises recently.   Around 65 people participated in the corporate quiz and about 100 people attended the health awareness session.  Basic Life Support…

Mysuru: Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysuru, as part of its tenth anniversary celebrations, conducted  month-long social activities at various institutions across city.  The Hospital had organised health check up at the Government Deaf and Dumb School on July 6 where 82 children were screened. Col. Rahul Tewari and Anantha Gowda, HR General Manager of Jubilant Generics,…

Mysuru: “Being active during pregnancy is going to improve the health of baby and mother, it also avoids other health related complications,” said Dr. K. Veena, Consultant, Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysuru. She was speaking at the ‘Parent Craft’ — an educative awareness programme for pregnant women and their family members — organised…

Mysuru:  Doctors at Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysuru, have successfully performed two rare Blood Group Incompatible (ABOi) kidney transplants recently, on two men, who have been on dialysis. In both the cases, their respective wives donated the kidneys and gave them a new lease of life. In an ABOi Incompatible Kidney Transplant, the blood group of…

Mysuru:  Deputy Commissioner Abhiram G. Sankar recently inaugurated the new CT Scan machine at Columbia Asia Hospital on Mysuru-Bengaluru Road here. This state-of-the-art 64-slice CT scanner will help in better diagnostic of images and in determining when surgeries are necessary by reducing the need for exploratory surgeries and the length of hospitalisation.   The new…

Mysuru: Columbia Asia Hospital, Mysuru, in association with Cardiological Society of India (CSI), Mysuru Chapter, conducted an Inter-School Health Quiz for the students of Class 8 and 9 in the city as part of the “Women’s Heart Day” celebration. The objective of the quiz was to educate young minds about the symptoms of heart diseases…