AI-powered alerts systems saved over five lakh lives during 2024 Kerala floods, said MoS Communications

AI-powered alerts systems saved over five lakh lives during 2024 Kerala floods, said MoS Communications

International AI Summit during the ongoing India Mobile Congress (IMC) 2025 at Yashobhoomi, New Delhi on Thursday, October 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: Haider Ali Khan The AI-powered alerts systems saved over five lakh lives during the 2024 Kerala floods, said Dr. Pemmasani Chandra Sekhar, MoS, Communications while addressing the International AI Summit during the … Read more

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Cash to self-isolate would have saved lives, Covid inquiry told

Covid inquiry Dido Harding said she had repeatedly urged greater financial support payments during the pandemic If the UK had spent more money helping people to self-isolate during the pandemic then fewer people would have been infected or died, the former head of NHS Test and Trace has said. Baroness Dido Harding, who was in … Read more

‘My life was saved by a stranger on the other side of the world’

‘My life was saved by a stranger on the other side of the world’

Fi Lamdin & Emma Petrie BBC News Caters Photographic Luke Melling, right, meets Alastair Hawken three years after a life-saving stem cell donation A man with a rare form of blood cancer has travelled 10,000 miles to meet the stranger who saved his life. Luke Melling, 31, from Melbourne, Australia, says he was “staring death … Read more

‘My surgeon saved my smile with hologram technology’

‘My surgeon saved my smile with hologram technology’

Susannah Morgan Susannah Morgan woke up from surgery with temporary paralysis of her face When Susannah Morgan learned that an operation to remove a benign tumour in her neck could leave her with a crooked smile she was “frantic”. The 45-year-old was advised to have it removed in case it turned cancerous but she was … Read more

Girl’s life saved by pioneering study of rare diseases

Girl’s life saved by pioneering study of rare diseases

Lisa Hawker The family of a young girl say her life was saved after a pioneering study was able to diagnose her incredibly rare genetic disorder, leading to better treatment. Jaydi Hawker, 11, has a form of dwarfism thought to affect fewer than 50 people in the world. There are thousands of such genetic disorders … Read more

Allergies: ‘My school’s EpiPen saved my life when I collapsed after drinking ginger beer’

Allergies: ‘My school’s EpiPen saved my life when I collapsed after drinking ginger beer’

BBC Elaine Fraser recognised the symptoms of anaphylactic shock thanks to training by the school where she works When teacher Elaine Fraser collapsed at home after drinking a ginger beer, she had no idea she had an allergy. “It escalated unbelievably quickly,” Elaine recalls. “My chest was concave trying to pull in breath.” The 53-year-old … Read more