The year 2011 was full of small and big medical breakthrough that put Chennai on the world surgery map.
In April, orthopaedic surgeon Vijay Bose’s team performed two complex hip replacement procedures using an iPod for easy navigation.
In June, south India’s first swap liver transplant was performed in Chennai, when two Sri Lankan donors swapped parts of their livers to save their relatives suffering from end-stage liver disease.
DC was the first to report about the multi-drug-resistant malarial parasites causing difficult-to-treat forms of malaria. DC’s reports on drug-resistant superbacteria showing up at city hospitals served to warn readers against popping OTC antibiotics even for minor throat infections.
The news of a leptospirosis vaccine developed at Port Blair first appeared in DC.
DC’s report that at least one-third of Chennai’s traffic policemen were hard of hearing due to continuous exposure to vehicular noise prompted several ENT specialists to come to their help.
The diabetes epidemic continues to surge forward - one in five people in urban TN is diabetic, findings of the study by Sri Ramachandra University revealed.
This marks up the prevalence rate of the lifestyle disorder from 17 per cent to 20 per cent of the general population.