Bhopal: Breast cancer survival rates in India remain low and rarely diagnosis and treatment can improve the survival rates. MP health department is looking into computer analysed thermal images to generate an automated interpretation report indicating breast health. A proposal for the project aims to cover 351 community health centres across Madhya Pradesh. Upon medical … Read more
New Delhi: To address the escalating incidence of pre-diabetes and diabetes in the country, a private hospital has unveiled a pioneering diabetes remission clinic. The initiative, a collaboration by Fortis C-DOC and Twin Health USA, has introduced the Whole-Body Digital Twin technology that uses advanced algorithms and machine learning to provide patients with tailored strategies … Read more
The government is working on policy intervention to promote mass manufacturing of assistive devices in India by incentivising the private sector to undertake R&D for such technology and scale up production while providing monetary support to persons with disability to avail assistive technology services to reduce the out-of-pocket payment. NITI Aayog has started discussions with … Read more
By Shantanu Mukherjee, Anushka Iyer and Shruti Gupta Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the flavour of the season. Since Open AI’s chatbot, ChatGPT, exploded onto the scene in November 2022, AI has become the single most exciting thing in tech: Microsoft invested $ 10 billion in OpenAI and integrated its engine into Microsoft’s suite of products; … Read more
New Delhi: In continuance with the national mission of expanding the drone ecosystem in India, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), Union Health Ministry successfully conducted a trial run of blood bag delivery by drones under its iDrone initiative. The trial run as part of a path-breaking validation study has been undertaken for the … Read more
Cancer awareness: National Cadet Corp cadets taking part in the cancer awareness program organised by The Hyderabad Archbiocese Social Service Society on the occasion World Cancer Day in Hyderabad on Thursday, February 4, 2021 | Photo Credit: RAMAKRISHNA G On March 14, the Minister of State for Health said cancer cases in India will cross … Read more
New Delhi: The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) has limped back to normalcy after a cyberattack crippled its operations for nearly two weeks. Online registration of patients was resumed after access to servers were restored and lost data recovered. The attack on AIIMS’s hospital IT system, followed by unsuccessful attempts to hack the … Read more
New Delhi: The website of the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) faced around 6,000 hacking attempts over a span of 24 hours on November 30, about a week after online services of AIIMS-Delhi were crippled by a ransomware attack. A government official said hacking attempts on ICMR’s website were allegedly made from IPs originating … Read more
Chandigarh: PGI is researching application of artificial intelligence/ machine learning algorithms to predict critical events such as mortality, length of ICU stay etc. Dr G D Puri and his team, led by Dr Rajarajan Ganesan are making inroads into the world of AI in medicine with the support of the cardiothoracic vascular surgery team under … Read more
The WHO has branded antimicrobial resistance a global health and development threat and called for urgent multisectoral action. (Representative image) Covid-19 has led to a higher antimicrobial resistance with the pandemic impacting antimicrobial stewardship and pushing back years of work to control it, scientists said at a webinar organised by Tata Institute for Genetics and … Read more