Cardiac patients need to be extra cautious during Diwali, Tech-innovation to help prevent after effects – ET HealthWorld

Cardiac patients need to be extra cautious during Diwali, Tech-innovation to help prevent after effects – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: IHL has developed a tech-driven Heart Health Calculator, which serves as a preventive tool that helps in heart risk assessment using several factors, including age, BMI, BP and cholesterol levels. Senior Cardiologist and Padma Shri Awardee at Sir Gangaram Hospital, New Delhi, Dr Mohsin Wali said, “Heart diseases are preventable, and besides lifestyle … Read more

Omicron: ‘First signs of cautious optimism’

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Dr Susan Hopkins, epidemiologist for the UK Health Security Agency, has called early findings about Omicron’s severity a cause for “cautious optimism”. The agency’s research has suggested that people catching the new Covid variant Omicron are 50% to 70% less likely to need hospital care compared with previous variants. More on this story: Omicron up … Read more

Coronavirus: Plan to exit lockdown ‘cautious but irreversible’, says Boris Johnson

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Mr Baker, who is the deputy chair of the lockdown-sceptic Covid Research Group of Tory MPs leading the call, said schools should return on 8 March, hospitality should re-open by Easter and all other elements should be back to normal by 1 May – when all people in the top nine priority groups have been … Read more