Wadhwani Institute deploys AI solution for TB treatment at Haryana’s govt health facilities – ET HealthWorld

Wadhwani Institute deploys AI solution for TB treatment at Haryana’s govt health facilities – ET HealthWorld

New Delhi: Wadhwani Institute for Artificial Intelligence has announced the deployment of an AI solution titled Comprehensive Loss to Follow-Up And Mortality Prediction (CLAMP-TB), developed under the USAID-supported TRACE-TB Project. The AI solution will help to predict the risk of ‘loss to follow-up’ (LFU) and mortality among TB patients when they start TB treatment from … Read more

Book fest of State Institute of Languages under way

Book fest of State Institute of Languages under way

A book festival organised by the State Institute of Languages (SIL) at the Karyavattom campus in connection with the Kerala University campus festival – Kerala University Gala (KuGala) 2023 – got under way on Tuesday. The three-day festival is being jointly organised by the Kerala University Departments Union and the researchers’ union. Minister for Culture … Read more

Sanctions on Moscow impacting payments to Russian companies, says report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Sanctions on Moscow impacting payments to Russian companies, says report by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

Russian S-400 anti-aircraft missile launching system. Representational file image. | Photo Credit: AFP In what could possibly have an impact on Russian arms supplies to India as the war in Ukraine drags on, Western sanctions on Moscow are impacting payments to Russian defence companies as well as reducing their access to semiconductors, according to the … Read more

Fortis cancer institute installs Karnataka’s first IORT system for cancer care – ET HealthWorld

Fortis cancer institute installs Karnataka’s first IORT system for cancer care – ET HealthWorld

Bengaluru: Fortis Cancer Institute announced the installment of Karnataka’s first IORT (Intraoperative radiotherapy) system for the treatment of breast cancer. IORT is a single dose of radiation given to selected early-stage cancer patients which reduces the time for radiation therapy from 30 – 40 days to 30-40 minutes. Doctors at the institute have successfully performed … Read more

Covid: Colchester Institute students board bus to get jabbed

Covid: Colchester Institute students board bus to get jabbed

By Laurence Cawley and Kate ScotterBBC East image captionStudents at Colchester Institute are being “strongly encouraged” to get vaccinated against coronavirus As the first proper week of classes get under way at a college in Essex, an NHS vaccination bus has rolled on to campus. What is the uptake among its students and how are … Read more

Did not export Covid vaccines at the cost of Indians, says Serum Institute

Did not export Covid vaccines at the cost of Indians, says Serum Institute

Serum Institute of India has said that it has not exported doses of the vaccine at the cost of Indians. In a statement, the company has said that in January 2021, the company had a large stockpile of vaccine doses. The vaccination drive had started successfully and the number of daily cases being recorded were … Read more

Chinese hackers target Indian vaccine makers Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech: Security firm – ET HealthWorld

Chinese hackers target Indian vaccine makers Serum Institute, Bharat Biotech: Security firm – ET HealthWorld

NEW DELHI: A Chinese state-backed hacking group has in recent weeks targeted the IT systems of two Indian vaccine makers whose coronavirus shots are being used in the country’s immunisation campaign, cyber intelligence firm Cyfirma told Reuters. Rivals China and India have both sold or gifted Covid-19 shots to many countries. India produces more than … Read more