New Delhi: With chatbots increasingly being relied upon for making sense of one’s symptoms or test results, a study has shown that AI tools may not fare so well in conversations closer to real-world interactions, even as they perform well on medical exam-like tests. The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, also proposes recommendations … Read more
Image for representation only | Photo Credit: AP India’s drugs regulator on Friday (October 25, 2024) directed manufacturers of 49 medicines to recall their products after samples were found to be “not of standard quality”. Also, action has been initiated to book the makers of four spurious drugs. Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) Rajeev … Read more
Sydney: Every time you are prescribed medicine in hospital a computer will prompt your doctor about the appropriateness of the medicine and its dose. Every time health professionals update patient records on the computer they need to fill in the appropriate information in the correct spot, or choose an option from a drop-down menu. But … Read more
An anti-corruption charity says it has identified significant concerns in contracts worth over £15.3bn awarded by the Conservative government during the Covid pandemic, equivalent to one in every £3 spent. Transparency International UK found 135 “high-risk” contracts with at least three red flags – warning signs of a risk of corruption. Twenty-eight contracts worth £4.1bn … Read more
Eastern Ganga King Anantadeva Varmas inscription was found by ASI authorities near Jami of Vizianagaram district. | Photo Credit: Special arrangement Archaeological Survey of India’s Epigraphy wing Director K.Muniratnam Reddy said that inscriptions of Eastern Ganga King Anantadeva Varma were found in Jami of Vizianagaram district in Andhra Pradesh. According to him, the inscriptions dated … Read more
Apian Ltd/PA Wire The drones travelled 68km (42 miles) over the Northumberland coastline Drones can be safely used to deliver urgent blood stocks between hospitals, a new project suggests. Researchers from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) sent 10 identical blood packs from Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust’s Wansbeck Hospital to Alnwick Infirmary in Northumberland and … Read more
Nottinghamshire Police Valdo Calocane was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia three years before the killings A review has found “a series of errors, omissions and misjudgements” in the care of a killer who stabbed three people to death in the Nottingham attacks. Barnaby Webber and Grace O’Malley-Kumar, both 19, and 65-year-old Ian Coates were killed by … Read more
Landslide survivors join the search operations at disaster-hit Chooralmala in Wayanad in Kerala on August 9 morning. | Photo Credit: E.M. Manoj A Kerala Forest department’s search and rescue team on Friday (August 9, 2024) located four bodies, one mangled beyond recognition, downstream of Soochipara waterfalls some distance away from the landslide-hit localities in Vythiri … Read more
BBC Nelly Naylor (top left), Rob Reiss (bottom left), Katie Drinkwater (centre), and Louise Nichols (top right) are just some of many thousands who have been waiting for an assessment It would take more than eight years for the NHS to see all adult patients waiting for ADHD assessments in many parts of the UK, … Read more
New Delhi: The findings of a new study has brought good news to a field of medical science which can benefit 10 million people across the globe. We are talking about Parkinson’s disease, the world’s fastest growing neurodegenerative disorder. The study has been published in Nature Communications. A team of researchers, led by scientists at … Read more