Kochi: A Kerala-based hospital has developed and implemented new computational tools which can accurately identify the “epileptic focus”, the accurate identification of which is a major challenge in epilepsy surgery. The Centre for Epilepsy at Amrita Hospital here conducted multiple studies between the years 2015 and 2019 in around 100 difficult-to-treat epilepsy patients in this … Read more
The ED has provisionally attached 28 immovable properties and other assets worth ₹80.65 crore belonging to TRS MP Nama Nageswara Rao in an alleged money laundering case. File | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Telangana government and the Centre have been at loggerheads for a while now. While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is making … Read more
By Devidas BhaleraoThe Healthcare community is a trusted fraternity, and this calls them to take extra caution while taking out a treatment regime. The slightest error can cause a life to the patient, hence out of all the parameters during patient care, medical errors stand out in terms of preventable occurrence. A medical error essentially … Read more
July 12, 2022 – The BA.5 Omicron subvariant is dominating now and accounts for 65% – or about two-thirds – of the virus causing COVID-19 in the United States, federal officials said on Tuesday. Although no evidence yet points to BA.5 causing more severe disease, hospitalization numbers are up in the past few months and … Read more
Holly Greenberg was a 24-year-old graduate student in the mechanical engineering lab at Brigham Young University (BYU) when she stumbled on the idea that folded paper cranes might have any relevance to her work. Greenberg was interested in compliant mechanisms – that is, objects whose motion comes from bending, folding, and twisting. One of her … Read more
New Delhi: Amid growing health concerns due to COVID-19, a need was felt to upgrade the skill set of anganwadi workers and improve the existing healthcare infrastructure. The announcement made by Nirmala Sitharaman, Finance Minister, Government of India in the Union Healthcare Budget 22-23 for up-gradation of two-lakh anganwadis has given impetus to this long … Read more
New Delhi: As India gets ready to roll out one of the largest vaccine programmes, billionaire Mukesh Ambani on Tuesday said his group is working with authorities to provide technology tools and backbone for mass inoculation against Covid-19. Ambani’s telecom venture Jio was rolled out four years back, offering free voice calling and dirt-cheap data. … Read more
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NEW DELHI— Facebook Inc. FB -4.18% banned a member of India’s ruling party for violating its policies against hate speech, amid a growing political storm over its handling of extremist content on its platform. The removal of the politician, T. Raja Singh, is an about-face for the company and one that will be politically tricky … Read more
SINGAPORE—Facebook Inc. said it is preparing to legally challenge Thailand’s government in connection with orders to block access to a group on the website focused on the Thai monarchy, a politically sensitive subject in the country. The private Facebook group, called the Royalist Marketplace, was created in April and quickly became a forum to debate … Read more