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Disturbed by gas ?

Disturbed by GAS in the bowel ?
The excessive flatulence can be embarrassing and make you feel uncomfortable around others. However, it can usually be controlled with changes to your diet and lifestyle. Flatulence is a normal biological process and is something everyone experiences regularly.
Some people pass wind only a few times a day, others a lot more, but the average is said to be about 5 to 15 times a day.

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Shortness of Breath in a young male

Clinical scenario: A 30-year-old male presented with a history of shortness of breath of one-day duration. He denied a history of fever, PND, orthopnea or palpitations.On examination, the patient was conscious, oriented hemodynamically stable.

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Low back ache & weight loss in an elderly lady

Clinical scenario: A 65-year-old lady presented with complaints of generalized body aches, arthralgia, loss of appetite and weight of 2 years duration.On examination, she was found to have pallor, severe malnutrition with BMI of 14kg/m2 , tenderness present over thoracic and lumbar vertebrae.

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He was wrongly diagnosed as celiac disease

Clinical scenario:

A 32 year old, male , building contractor by occupation presented with chief complaints of -Loose stools of  8 months duration .There was history of  progressive weight loss generalised weakness and fatigue at work.

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He was wrongly diagnosed as chronic liver disease

Clinical scenario: A 19-year-old male was referred to our hospital with breathlessness on exertion and fatigue for 1 year and a history of gastrointestinal bleeding. Three months prior to this presentation, he had three episodes of painless hematemesis and was found to have variceal bleeding. He was transfused with four units of blood and was subjected to two sessions of variceal band ligation.

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Doc! I can not see, he suddenly cried!

Clinical scenario : A 48-year-old, obese, non-diabetic male presented to our clinic with  history of abdominal distension and generalized edema  of 1-month duration.  He denied history of fever, jaundice, breathlessness or similar history in the past.

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Recurrent liver abscess

Clinical scenario : A 48 yr old male  presented with h/o Fever and abdominal pain of 10 days duration  On examination he was conscious oriented  and had stable vitals , temp 38° C ,he had mild hepatomegaly , rest of clinical examination was unremarkable  Investigation: WBC 12,0000  Liver function test normal. An ultrasound revealed  Liver abscess .Patient was given  Antibiotics and abscess was drained .He became a febrile and was discharged home.

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Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) signs MOU with Republic of Malawi, Africa

The Yenepoya (Deemed to be University) and High Commission of Malawi, signed a Memorandum of Understanding on 22nd July 2019 for the purpose of educational cooperation, extending health services and strengthening of the relationship between two countries in terms of health, education and skill development.

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Exercise

Today we discuss about exercise, a wonderful medicine to take care of your body.

Benefits of exercise

It can reduce your risk of major illnesses, such as heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes and cancer by up to 50% and lower your risk of early death by up to 30%. Exercise is the miracle cure we’ve always had, but for too long we’ve neglected to take our recommended dose. Our health is now suffering as a consequence.

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Yenepoya Varsity awarded the regions first Medical Technology and Rapid Prototyping Facility

In view of nurturing and creating a ecosystem for preparing countries technological and product development capabilities in biopharmaceuticals including vaccines, biologics, medical devices and diagnostics to a level that will be globally competitive over the next decade (under i3 programme), the National Biopharma Mission (NBM) with the Funding from Department of Biotechnology (DBT) (Program co-funded by World Bank loan) and the Implementing agency Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC) has awarded a Medical technology and Rapid Prototyping facility to be established at Yenepoya (Deemed to be University).

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