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074: Axel Runyutu Relates his Journey Through his Second Kidney Transplant in India

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Axel Runyutu is from Nairobi, Kenya who had his first kidney transplant in 2006 in Nairobi but the kidney failed again in 2012. This transplant alone costed him around $25,000.  He was on dialysis for more than 2 years and just a month ago, he underwent his second Kidney Transplant in India that costed him $13,000 – $15,000 (including pre evaluation workup, transplant surgery, post surgery hospital stay – ICU) with the assistance of Bharat Soin of India Medicare Solutions. Find out how Axel is doing a month after his second transplant.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

  • About Axel’s  first kidney transplant in 2006 in Nairobi
  • How he experienced complications from his first kidney transplant which progressed and resulted him to undergo dialysis again
  • How he was introduced to Bharat Soin who assisted them to facilitate the process while in India
  • How his cousin generously acted as the kidney donor for Axel’s surgery
  • The driving factors which led him to the decision of having the surgery done in India
  • The after care treatment he received for while in India
  • The cost differences of kidney transplant he received in Nairobi and in India
  • About his life lessons and recommendations to patients who intend to receive the same treatment.
  • How he funded his treatment to be able to receive the surgery overseas

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The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

IBM’s TrueNorth processor mimics the human brain

“IBM today unveiled what it’s calling the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip, a processor that mimics the human brain’s computing abilities and power efficiency.”

“Known as TrueNorth, IBM’s chip could cram supercomputer-like powers into a microprocessor the size of a postage stamp. Rather than solving problems through brute-force mathematical calculations, like today’s processors, it was designed to understand its environment, handle ambiguity, and take action in real time and in context. Plus, it could be among the most power-efficient chips in the history of computing, enabling new types of mobile apps and computing services, IBM principal investigator and senior manager Dharmendra Modha said in an interview.”

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062: Medical Concierge service in India and around the world with Aanchal Bhatia

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Aanchal Bhatia on Healthcare ElsewhereAanchal Bhatia is the President and Chief Clinical Psychologist of Texas Medical Concierge, a global company based in India and Texas that provides medical concierge and telemedicine lounge services. These services allow clients to have access to the worlds leading doctors for any type of healthcare need.

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  • About the company that caters to patients globally which provides medical concierge and telemedicine lounge services
  • About how patients are able to access doctors of different specialization and their services depending on their healthcare needs
  • About the types of things that they are focusing on
  • About a campaign that they started advocating the widespread of respiratory disease
  • About the major cause of death in India
  • What kinds of diseases they have already treated
  • About the after-care treatments they provide their patients
  • About Aanchal’s recommendation or tips to patients who considers medical tourism to have their treatment done

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The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

A shot against heart attacks?

“Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists collaborating with researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed a “genome-editing” approach for permanently reducing cholesterol levels in mice through a single injection, a development that could reduce the risk of heart attacks in humans by 40 to 90 percent.”

“For the first iteration of an experiment, this was pretty remarkable,” said Kiran Musunuru of HSCI, an assistant professor in Harvard’s Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB), and a cardiologist at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Musunuru stressed, however, that it could take a decade of concerted effort to get this new approach for fighting heart disease from the laboratory to phase I clinical trials in humans.

“The research was published online today byCirculation Research, a journal of the American Heart Association. Qiurong Ding, a postdoctoral fellow in Musunuru’s laboratory, is first author on the paper.”

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052: Providing Medical Assistance for Overseas Patients Seeking Treatment in India with Sanit Bahri

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Sanit Bahri on Healthcare ElsewhereSanit Bahri is the founder and CEO of a medical tourism company based in Bombay, India called Medsurge Healthcare Consultants. Basically, they are inclined to providing quality medical assistance to patients overseas who are seeking treatment options in India. Sanit is a very experienced Medical Tourism Consultant, wherein, he has helped a total of 901 patients over the last four years. In this episode, he shared about a 13-year old Nigerian girl who had to undergo a liver resection. The father of the child has intended to bring his daughter to India but due to poverty, he admitted her daughter into a local teaching hospital in Lagos, Nigeria instead. The patient was in oxygen support and her condition has aggravated. In order for them to proceed with the treatment and travel to India, the father had to loan money  for their finances. Find out more of how Sanit and his company have helped the patient and the success of the treatment thereafter.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

  • About Sanit Bahri’s medical tourism company in India
  • How Sanit assisted a 13-year old Nigerian girl to get her needed treatment in India
  • About the success story of the Nigerian patient after her treatment
  • How much the surgeries, the patient had undergone, costed
  • About the Typical Questions an International patient should ask when considering to travel overseas to receive treatments
  • About the after-care treatments the patient receives after a certain procedure
  • About the packages Sanit is offering to patients and its inclusions

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The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

“Sometimes the best solutions are the simplest ones. This is the philosophy that Northeastern professor Vladimir Torchilin and his team took in new research carried out in collaboration with physics professor Dmitri Lapotko from Rice University and presented in a paper published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine.”

“You start with two very well known and simple things,” Torchilin said. “Nanomedicines and nanoparticles.” Both allow clinicians to steer materials to specific cells in the body using recognition factors that are disproportionately expressed on . In the case of drug-loaded tumor-targeted nanomedicines, cancer cells welcome much higher concentrations of . In the case of nanoparticles, it’s tiny tumor-targeted crumbs of gold that end up inside the .”

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038: Surgical and transplant options in India with Medical Tourism Facilitator Shaveta Dhanda

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Shaveta Dhanda on Healthcare ElsewhereShaveta Dhanda was born with a deformed hand but did not let that stop her from attaining a Masters degree and starting her own company as an adult. She tells the story of how the loss of her parents compelled her to start a business that would help people find high quality healthcare at an affordable price. During the interview, Shaveta shares a story of how she helped her very first patient and how she has created a service built around compassion and trust that is patient centric. Additionally she shares how she founded the 361 Healthcare Group and another initiative to help people with organ transplant needs.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

  • How Shaveta’s experience with her own parents healthcare issues shaped how she works with the people she helps.
  • The different kinds of medical treatments that are available in India
  • The huge cost savings for world class care with Indian Doctors and facilities
  • Learn about the 361 Healthcare Group that she also founded to help people all over the world find affordable healthcare
  • Discover why she founded the Survivors organ transplant India Initiative to help provide hassle free transplants for patients with donors who have already been identified.

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The Onwards Medical Breakthrough

Researchers develop sequencing platform that generates “clinical-grade” data from small amounts of tumor sample DNA

“A large team of researchers with members from several universities and hospitals in the U.S. has developed a sequencing platform that generates “clinical-grade” data using whole exome sequencing (WES) from small amounts of DNA extracted from clinical tumor samples. In their paper published in the journal Nature Medicine, the team describes their new method and how it might soon be used in routine clinical practice.”

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036: Traveling to India for a variety of procedures with Medical Tourism Facilitator Vishal Loroia

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Vishal Laroia on Healthcare ElsewhereVishal Loroia is the CEO of UniHealth, a medical tourism facilitation company in Delhi, India that helps people from around the world find the best options for medical treatments in India at a very affordable price. They help over 1,000 patients per year find high quality medical treatment. About half of their patients come from Iraq however they serve people from all over the world.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

  • How a woman from Africa was misdiagnosed with Cancer and how her Doctors in India helped her
  • Hear the story of a man from Pakistan with kidney cancer received successful treatment
  • The story of a couple from England who had plastic surgery in India for a fraction of the cost
  • How Robotic surgery is changing the way surgeons are working in India and elsewhere
  • How UniHealth helps people from around the world by donating services and resources  to those who have urgent needs

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Researchers Restore Grasp Ability in Paralyzed Hand

“(Medical Xpress)—For the first time scientists have been able to restore the ability to grasp with a paralysed hand using spinal cord stimulation. There is currently no cure for upper limb paralysis, where there has been damage to the nerves which send messages to the muscles from the brain, such as happens after a stroke or .

But now Wellcome Trust-funded researchers at Newcastle University, working with macaque monkeys, have shown that by connecting the brain to a computer and then the computer to the , it is possible to restore movement. The discovery opens up the possibility of new treatments within the next few years which could help stroke victims or those with  regain some movement in their arms and hands.”

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033: Medical Facilitator helps patients find treatment in India with Sagar Brahmbhatt

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Sagar Brahmbhatt Interviewed on Healthcare Elsewhere about Medical Tourism in IndiaDiscover how Sagar Brahmbhatt ‘s company, HealthPlacid MediInnovations helped an English woman find treatment to overcome her kidney problem along with other specialities. Many surgeries and treatments in India can be taken care of for as little as one tenth of the cost in Europe or North America. Sagar and his team have taken the time to research and partner with over 160 healthcare providers and hospitals around the world to help with aftercare, which is a very important part of any procedure or treatment.

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In This Episode, You’ll Learn

  • How Sarah from England was able to resolve her kidney problem in India without surgery
  • Pricing information on what several procedures cost and the typical savings involved
  • The different types of procedures available in India for medical tourists
  • Some of the other facilities and countries that Sagar and his team have partnered with to provide more choices
  • Why the quality of healthcare in India is so high but the cost is so low

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Today’s Medical Breakthrough is titled:  Engineered measles vaccine wipes out woman’s cancer

“A potent dose of engineered measles virus has been shown for the first time to have completely wiped out a woman’s cancer, US scientists reported this week.”

“Here we have got a therapy that you give once, and the outcome can be long-term remission of cancer,” said lead author Stephen Russell, a hematologist who co-developed the therapy described Wednesday in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings journal.

“We believe it can become a single shot cure.”

One of the coolest parts of this is the tracking of the virus that Doctors can use to verify its efficacy.

“However, using advanced imaging studies, doctors were able to track the path of the measles virus in her body and found it was indeed attacking the areas where tumors were growing.”

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018: India – A Leading Healthcare Destination with Bharat Soin of India Medicare Solutions

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In 2010 Bharat Soin and his associates noticed the growing trend in medical tourism and knew India had an incredible amount to offer to the world. Together they founded India Medicare Solutions, a company that works with over 38 contracted JCI, NABH and NABL accredited hospitals in India.

India Medicare Solutions has clients all over the world and ensures they have access to India’s quality healthcare at affordable prices. Their patient-centric care encompasses a variety of procedures from Bariatric Surgery to Neurosurgery preformed by specialists with over twenty years of experience in the field.

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  • Two success stories Bharat shares about patients who traveled to India for treatment
  • What the average prices for surgery and recovery are
  • The top 5 things patients must consider before choosing a medical tourism destination
  • Their revolutionary intake process that provides patients the best medical options possible
  • How patients’ local physicians are kept involved in their patients care

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Today’s onwards breakthrough comes from Consumer Physics, a US venture capital-backed Israeli company. They have created a handheld scanner device that detects the makeup of food products. This scanner called SCiO, is taking technology used by food scientists to detect the ingredients and calories in food and pills. This technology will hopefully be available soon as part of a cell phone.

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