June 15, 2016
The Amrita Blood Collectors and Donors (ABCD) Forum at the Health Sciences Campus organized a skit in connection with the World Blood Donor Day at the hospital. The theme of the 2016 World Blood Donor Day, 14 June, was “Blood connects us all”. It focused on thanking blood donors.
Read more
June 8, 2016
Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences received Kerala State Pollution Control Board’s Excellence Award for its efforts to control pollution and environmental protection.
Read more
June 7, 2016
India’s top medical experts assembled at a two-day ‘National Conference on Healthcare Management’ at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences and Research Centre (“Amrita Hospital”) during May 20 – 21, 2016 to call for frugal innovation to make healthcare affordable without sacrificing quality.
Read more
May 20, 2016
Haryana Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar laid the foundation stone for the Mata Amritanandamayi Math’s new two thousand bed Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre (Amrita Hospital) in Greater Faridabad on May 9, 2016. The ceremony took place in the presence of Swami Amritaswarupananda Puri, Vice Chairman of the Mata Amritanandamayi Math.
Read more
May 17, 2016
India’s very first two double hand transplants were carried out successfully at the Amrita Hospital, Kochi, in September 2014 and January 2015, respectively. Now, just over a year later, the. . .
Read more
May 8, 2016
The scheduled Amrita Medical Entrance Examination – 2016 on 15th May 2016 for MBBS / BDS courses stands cancelled with immediate effect. Students who have applied for Amrita Medical Entrance Examination 2016 need to write National Eligibility cum Entrance Test (NEET) to be conducted by GOI/MCI/CBSE on 24-07-2016. You may check CBSE website for further information in the matter.
Read more
May 2, 2016
Dr. Akshay Omkumar, second-year MCh resident in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Amrita School of Medicine, won the first prize in the Prof. R. N. Sinha Memorial Essay Competition 2015 for the topic “Toe Transfer v/s Allotransplantation in Bilateral Amputees at Below Elbow Level”. Dr. Akshay received the award at the Kerala Plastic Surgery State Conference held at Trivandrum on April 23, 2016.
Read more
April 13, 2016
Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham was featured in the International Comparative Research Base (2009-14) – A Bibliometric Analysis.
Read more
April 4, 2016
A 67-year-old woman, Amaloor Pavam, underwent a rare medical procedure at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS) to repair the damaged aortic valve of her heart without opening of the chest. The non-surgical procedure, called Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), was performed by a team led by Dr. C. Rajiv, Professor of Cardiology, AIMS, Kochi. The team performed this procedure for the first time in Kerala.
Read more
March 24, 2016
In connection with World Kidney Day 2016, the Department of Nephrology at Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, organized various public awareness programs in Kochi, especially in schools aimed at educating teachers and parents about how to recognize symptoms of kidney disease in children at the earliest.
Read more
Prev
