IIHR technologies help improve food and nutrition security among tribals in various States: Union Agriculture Minister  

IIHR technologies help improve food and nutrition security among tribals in various States: Union Agriculture Minister  

Various technologies developed and promoted by ICAR – Indian Institute of Horticultural Research (IIHR) have had a great impact on tribal areas in many States, noted Arjun Munda, Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare during his maiden visit to IIHR on Sunday.  He said that eight major technologies from the institute were selected and … Read more

Hill highway project will improve tourism prospects: Minister

Hill highway project will improve tourism prospects: Minister

Minister for Public Works P.A. Mohamed Riyas on Monday said the completion of the ongoing hill highway project in Kozhikode would help improve the tourism prospects of the district. Opening the construction works of the Thalayad-Malappuram stretch of the road project at Kattippara, he pointed out that the State government had already succeeded in completing … Read more

AI might improve heart attack diagnosis to reduce pressure on emergency departments: Research – ET HealthWorld

AI might improve heart attack diagnosis to reduce pressure on emergency departments: Research – ET HealthWorld

Washington: According to new research from the University of Edinburgh, funded by the British Heart Foundation and the National Institute for Health and Care Research, and published today in Nature Medicine, an algorithm developed using artificial intelligence might soon be used by doctors to diagnose heart attacks with greater speed and accuracy than ever before. … Read more

AI-based method to improve lungs CT scan reading – ET HealthWorld

AI-based method to improve lungs CT scan reading – ET HealthWorld

Indore: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Indore IIT has collaborated with an Indore-based hospital and a medical college in Odisha to develop an Artificial Intelligence (AI) based method to read lungs CT scan ground glass opacity with more than 90 per cent accuracy. IIT-I in association with the Kalinga Institute of Medical Sciences, Odisha, … Read more

New technology to improve cancer detection and treatment – ET HealthWorld

New technology to improve cancer detection and treatment – ET HealthWorld

Sydney: Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney have created a novel tool that enables doctors to skip invasive biopsy operations and to track the effectiveness of treatment by detecting and analysing cancer cells from blood samples. More than 1,50,000 Australians are diagnosed with cancer each year, making it one of the top causes of … Read more

Can metaverse improve public health? Find out here – ET HealthWorld

Can metaverse improve public health? Find out here – ET HealthWorld

Tokyo: The ‘metaverse‘ has captivated the popular imagination as a universe of infinite possibilities that can affect all parts of existence. Until the rebranding of Facebook as ‘Meta’ in 2021, discussions regarding the utility of entirely immersible virtual environments were limited to a small number of tech and Sci-Fi circles. Since then, the concept of … Read more

Disha to improve practical skills of engineering students

Disha to improve practical skills of engineering students

V.S. Anitha, Principal, Government Engineering College, Wayanad, handing over the Memorandum of Understanding to Azeez Chollampat, president and CEO of Exalture, a software company based in Kochi. The Government Engineering College, Wayanad (GECW) in association with Exalture Software Labs, a software company based in Kochi, has launched a programme titled Development and Integration of Students … Read more

Philips scraps 6,000 jobs in drive to improve profitability, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Philips scraps 6,000 jobs in drive to improve profitability, Health News, ET HealthWorld

Amsterdam: Dutch health technology company Philips said on Monday it would scrap 6,000 jobs to restore its profitability following a recall of respiratory devices that knocked off 70 per cent of its market value. Half of the job cuts will be made this year, the company said, adding that the other half will be realised … Read more