Vehicles wading through flooded Beach Road after a spell of rain in Visakhapatnam on Monday, Aug 14, 2023. | Photo Credit: K.R. Deepak Amid a rise in flood-related incidents in the country, including loss of life and property, the government Thursday launched an app to disseminate real-time information on the flood situation in affected areas. … Read more
Lucknow: The UP government has instructed chief medical officers and chief medical superintendents of women’s hospitals to enter real-time data about newborns into the mother-newborn tracking application (Mantra app) to monitor children’s health and child mortality. Deputy chief minister Brajesh Pathak, who also holds the portfolio of health minister, asked officials to implement this immediately … Read more
Photo used for representation purpose only. | Photo Credit: Nagara Gopal The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) will now take less than two hours to complete instead of three hours and the candidates will be able to see their official score release date upon completion of the test, according to the Educational … Read more
Kolkata: Learning from the COVID and the current ARI surge, where patients had complaints of having had to hop from one hospital to another for a bed, the West Bengal Clinical Establishment Regulatory Commission (WBCERC) has decided to develop a portal that will provide real-time bed vacancy data at private hospitals. This will be applicable … Read more
New Delhi: The National Health Authority (NHA) under its flagship scheme of Ayushman Bharat Digital Mission (ABDM) has launched a public dashboard for near real-time information on the scheme. The ABDM public dashboard displays detailed information on the core registries under the mission – Ayushman Bharat Health Account (ABHA) numbers, Healthcare Professionals Registry (HPR) and … Read more
Mumbai: Integrated pharmaceutical solutions provider ACG has introduced an innovative product that connects production machines at any facility and stores the relevant information on a single platform digitally. This data can be viewed over the web on any device with a secure connection by individuals having authorized access to the information. The technology can provide … Read more
by Akhil Malhotra Disease surveillance — collection, analysis and interpretation of disease-related data — is key to public health. Depending on the disease being tracked, its impact and infectiousness, public health departments regularly collect information such as demographics, symptoms, exposure, contact history, progress made, care received and other epidemiological characteristics. This information is then used … Read more
Kolkata: The state has launched an exclusive online portal that will show bed availability in private and government Covid hospitals in real time. Patients or their families can log into the portal and apply for beds by uploading the Covid-positive report. This could bring respite to residents, who have been running from hospital to hospital … Read more
An astronaut, wandering in space, directly tweets her selfies with the rover. Another astronaut posts stunning shots of the Moon from space and also streams videos in the vacuum. Not fiction. This may soon be a reality! In a rare solution to internet connectivity issues, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Nasa) and Nokia are … Read more
Russia, which had claimed to have made the first successful coronavirus vaccine, is expected to approve its second vaccine on October 15. In India, the first coronavirus vaccine from Russia, Sputnik V, has suffered a setback. The second coronavirus vaccine has been developed by Siberia’s Vector Institute, which completed early-stage human trials of the vaccine … Read more