WHO’s new AI-powered chatbot SARAH is giving wrong medical answers – ET HealthWorld

WHO’s new AI-powered chatbot SARAH is giving wrong medical answers – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: The World Health Organisation is wading into the world of AI to provide basic health information through a human-like avatar. But while the bot responds sympathetically to users’ facial expressions, it doesn’t always know what it’s talking about. SARAH, short for Smart AI Resource Assistant for Health, is a virtual health worker that’s … Read more

Embracing the Digital – Giving Life Sciences a New Lease of Life and Direction – ET HealthWorld

Embracing the Digital – Giving Life Sciences a New Lease of Life and Direction – ET HealthWorld

By Subhro Mallik As the life sciences industry braces itself for the rising challenges of keeping up patient and employee engagement, there is an overriding need for resilience. Considering the major shocks and stresses felt by the industry in recent years, life sciences organizations must learn to repair, recuperate, and spring back faster and better … Read more

Centre giving ₹1,747 crore for AP fibernet project 

Centre giving ₹1,747 crore for AP fibernet project 

Gowtham Reddy addressing the media in Vijayawada on Saturday. | Photo Credit: G.N. Rao AP State FiberNet Limited (APSFL) Chairman P. Goutham Reddy has said the Central government was giving ₹1,747 crore for implementing the fibernet  project due to the persistent efforts made by Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan Reddy to garner funds. The APSFL has … Read more

Assam teacher arrested for giving daughter answers inside exam centre

Assam teacher arrested for giving daughter answers inside exam centre

File photo of students appearing for the ongoing Assam’s HSLC (Class X) Examination stage a protest in front of the office of the Board of Secondary Education, Assam (SEBA). Assam police on March 18 arrested a teacher in southern Assam’s Cachar district for allegedly giving answers to his daughter in the sick room of an … Read more

Monkeypox Vaccine Supply Stretched by Giving Smaller Doses

Monkeypox Vaccine Supply Stretched by Giving Smaller Doses

By Ernie Mundell HealthDay Reporter WEDNESDAY, Aug. 10, 2022 (HealthDay) — As at-risk Americans stand in long lines across the country, trying to get the Jynneos monkeypox vaccine, U.S. officials on Tuesday announced they will modify dosing instructions for the shot to help stretch the supply. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration said that instead … Read more

‘Giving birth in 2020 was isolating and lonely’

‘Giving birth in 2020 was isolating and lonely’

Women have spoken about how they gave birth in “nightmare” circumstances due to the pandemic restrictions. Sophie’s baby Margot was born at 38 weeks and immediately taken to intensive care at Whipps Cross Hospital in east London because she needed to be resuscitated. Although Sophie and her partner were able to visit briefly a couple … Read more