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In recognition of World Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) Awareness week, HD Medical Inc. today announces it has screened over 50,000 children for CHDs using HD Steth™. These screenings have been conducted at multiple locations in India, helping to save over 35 lives to date. HD Medical plans to expand the screenings to over 500,000 children worldwide. The children diagnosed with CHD were provided life-saving treatments and surgeries by the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospitals in India.
CHDs are the most common types of birth defects. One out of 100 babies are born with CHD worldwide and nearly 40,000 infants in the U.S. are born each year with CHDs. In India, each year approximately 300,000 children are born with CHD and approximately 25 percent die before their first birthday. The absence of early screening and sophisticated pediatric care is causing over 250 deaths among children every day in India. Conve
HD Medical, Inc.: HD Medical s HD Steth Screens Over 50,000 Children for Congenital Heart Defects
- Plans to Expand Screenings to Over 500,000 Children Worldwide -
In recognition of World Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) Awareness week, HD Medical Inc. today announces it has screened over 50,000 children for CHDs using HD Steth. These screenings have been conducted at multiple locations in India, helping to save over 35 lives to date. HD Medical plans to expand the screenings to over 500,000 children worldwide. The children diagnosed with CHD were provided life-saving treatments and surgeries by the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospitals in India.
CHDs are the most common types of birth defects. One out of 100 babies are born with CHD worldwide and nearly 40,000 infants in the U.S. are born each year with CHDs. In India, each year approximately 300,000 children are born with CHD and approximately 25 percent die before their first birthday. The absence of early screening and sophistica
Filipino nurses in UK brace for new coronavirus variant as PM announces another lockdown By JOJO DASS
Published January 6, 2021 8:51am DUBAI, United Arab Emirates Health workers across the United Kingdom, among them over 18,500 Filipinos, are bracing for yet again another variant of the novel coronavirus that causes COVID-19. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Monday, January 4, 2021, announced a nationwide lockdown while mass inoculation speeds up in an apparent race against time to flatten the curve as numbers reach unprecedented levels since March last year. “I am scared. But I have learned to adapt,” said 33-year-old Rose Ann Viterbo-Soriano, who works at Chelsea and Westminster National Health Service (NHS) Foundation Trust and assigned at West Middlesex University Hospital in Isleworth, west London.
Eating disorders in children have soared during the pandemic and experts are now warning parents to be vigilant.
Isolation from friends, exam cancellations and loss of extracurricular activities caused stress and encouraged them to focus on eating and exercise, suggested the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health.
Increased use of social media while staying at home can also give children unrealistic ideas of how their body should look, say experts.
Eating disorders in children have soared during the pandemic and experts are now warning parents to be vigilant (file image)
This is combined with anxiety about family money troubles, catching the virus and loved ones dying from it.