Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16
Swedes have been able to change their legally recognised gender since 1972 – but this will make it easier. Source link
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AI, robots, drones: How Amazon is working to ‘change’ how people buy medicines – ET HealthWorld
New Delhi: Amazon Pharmacy is leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) to significantly improve the speed and accuracy of their prescription fulfilment process. This translates to same-day medication delivery for customers in select cities. The AI technology automates tasks that previously took pharmacists hours to complete, reducing them to minutes or even seconds. This frees up pharmacists … Read more
No major change in employment status or wages in 10 years: Data
Women planting paddy seedlings in an agricultural field in Nagaon district of Assam. | Photo Credit: Ritu Raj Konwar On March 11, Bahutva Karnataka, a forum for concerned citizens and organisations, released a report titled ‘Employment, Wages and Inequality’, at the Press Club, Bengaluru. The report analyses the progress in various employment-related indicators in the … Read more
Rishi Sunak declines to back MP’s Down’s syndrome abortion law change
As the law stands in England, Wales and Scotland, doctors can authorise an abortion if “there is a substantial risk that if the child were born it would suffer from such physical or mental abnormalities as to be seriously handicapped”, meaning that if a foetus is found to have Down’s syndrome, the pregnancy can be … Read more
Sensor-based strategies and AI are going to totally change the way we manage patients: Dr Jagmeet Singh, Harvard Medical School – ET HealthWorld
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Dr. Jagmeet Singh, Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Cardiologist and Principal Advisor of SmartCardia, to figure out the latest advancements in sensor-based technology and AI and how they will be game changers in patient care. Sensor based technology & AI impacting healthcareI think medicine in its … Read more
UnitedHealth says online platform fully functional after Change Healthcare hack – ET HealthWorld
– UnitedHealth Group said the electronic prescribing for its pharmacy services is now fully functional, with claims submission and payment transmission also available after cyber attack on its tech unit Change Healthcare impacted services. UnitedHealth said on Thursday that electronic payment functionality for its payments platform will be available for connection on March 15, adding … Read more
Neuralink: Can Musk's brain technology change the world?
“It’s nothing novel, but implantable technology takes a long time to mature, and reach a stage where companies have all the pieces of the puzzle, and can really start to put them together,” says Anne Vanhoestenberghe, professor of active implantable medical devices, at King’s College London. Source link
Climate change: Rise in Google searches around ‘anxiety’
Studies suggest women are more affected by the issue than men. Source link
Change in two key police posts in Ernakulam
The reshuffle at the State police top brass has brought in changes in two key posts in Kochi City and Ernakulam Rural police. S. Sasidharan, Deputy Commissioner of Police, Kochi City (Law and Order and Traffic) has been posted as District Police Chief, Malappuram. He has been replaced by K.S. Sudarshan who was serving as … Read more
Our Future Health: One million sign up to help change healthcare
He told the BBC: “Most of my patients come in with things like a heart attack, stroke or cancer, and we know these diseases have developed over many years. With Our Future Health we are trying to move our model of healthcare from the treatment of disease at a late stage when people have symptoms, … Read more