New Delhi: Employers can now utilise the TAWS-16 tool, developed by the National Institute of Mental Health and Neurological Sciences (Nimhans), to gauge employee work-related stress. TAWS-16 is the first instrument in India to solely assess work-related stress, despite the fact that several businesses are already evaluating their employees’ stress levels in a variety of … Read more
Kolkata: A team of experts from Kolkata and technological institutes in Tamil Nadu has developed a health parameter-based model to predict the possible onset of Type II diabetes. It can teach people about the potential risks of diabetes and help them with suggestions for preventive measures that can save lives, say, experts, who have applied … Read more
Jaipur: The health department issued directions to update and verify professional and personal details on the ‘health portal’. The department has clarified that the Dynamic Assured Career Progression (DACP), permission for foreign travel, NoC required for different works, transfers, postings and all such works will be done through the health portals from now onwards. The … Read more
Jodhpur: Indian Institute of Technology – Jodhpur (IIT-J) is studying the mechanisms behind Klebsiella pneumoniae one of the pathogen which is identified by World Health Organisation (WHO) as a significant cause of hospital-acquired diseases such as pneumonia, bloodstream infections, and infections among ICU patients and newborns. Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the pathogens on the … Read more
Monkeypox is not yet a global health emergency, the World Health Organization (WHO) ruled on Saturday, although WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said he was deeply concerned about the outbreak. “I am deeply concerned about the monkeypox outbreak, this is clearly an evolving health threat that my colleagues and I in the WHO Secretariat are … Read more
The World Health Organisation (WHO) and the Indian government have established the Global Centre for Traditional Medicine in Jamnagar, in the state of Gujarat, to create a reliable body of evidence and data for practices and products that many millions of people use, the chief of the global body said on Monday. “Recognising that almost … Read more
Bengaluru: Qure.ai, a health tech firm using AI for medical imaging diagnostics, has raised $40 million in a funding round led by Novo Holdings and HealthQuad, with participation from existing investor MassMutual Ventures. Novo Holdings is owned by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. HealthQuad is an India-based digital health focused venture capital fund with $200 million … Read more
The WHO has time and again urged the people and governments across the globe to be careful in lifting Covid curbs as the virus is still very much in circulation. Maria Van Kerkhove, Covid-19 technical lead at the World Health Organisation, has said that the Coronavirus is well on its way to becoming endemic, but … Read more
Sydney: AI filtering and analysis of open-source data could stop future epidemics from becoming global pandemics. Serious infectious diseases have become more frequent in the past decade. Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, infectious diseases such as tuberculosis, malaria and influenza killed more than 17 million people a year. COVID-19 has claimed at least six million … Read more
The decision was taken in view of the increase in near- and medium-term supply of available vaccines, even when vaccine equity remains an important challenge to be addressed, the statement said. Taking into account the global epidemiological situation, widespread spread of the Omicron variant of SARs-CoV-2 and replacing other circulating variant as the dominant variant-of … Read more