Getty Images The biggest quango in the world is to be scrapped. That is how the government unveiled the move to bring NHS England, which runs much of the health service in the country, back under the control of the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). With more than 14,000 staff, it is around … Read more
New Delhi: China has conducted the world’s first satellite-based, ultra-remote surgeries, a breakthrough in medical technology that could transform trauma care, especially in high-intensity combat zones. The operations were performed using the Apstar-6D broadband communications satellite, positioned 36,000km above Earth, according to South China Morning Post. Doctors from the People’s Liberation Army General Hospital successfully … Read more
Melbourne: Last week, two big names in the artificial intelligence (AI) and wellness industries announced a collaboration to develop a “customised, hyper-personalised AI health coach that will be available as a mobile app” to “reverse the trend lines on chronic diseases“. Sam Altman (head of OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT) and Arianna Huffington (a former media … Read more
Image for representation. | Photo Credit: Reuters India is the world’s second largest source of nitrous oxide (N2O), a greenhouse gas that heats up the atmosphere far more than carbon dioxide. Nearly 11% of such global man-made emissions in 2020 were from India, topped only by China at 16%. The major source of these emissions … Read more
1 hour ago Emma Grimshaw and PA Media,BBC News, West of England PA Jordan’s Iron Man-style arm means he can now grip his scooter A five-year-old boy born without a left hand is believed to have become the youngest in the world to receive a bionic hero arm. Jordan’s life-changing Iron Man-style arm was an … Read more
The surgery did not restore vision in the grafted eye, but experts do not rule out the possibility. Source link
Aaron James lost his nose, mouth and left eye in a work-related accident. Surgeons in New York successfully performed the reconstruction that included a whole-eye implant. His vision was not restored, but the first-of-its-kind procedure may help advance transplant medicine. “If some form of vision restoration occurred, it would be wonderful, but… the goal was … Read more
Jakarta residents like Farah are being told by their doctors to move out of the Indonesian capital. Source link
Dr Rajendra Pratap Gupta, Co-chair, Global Digital Health Summit, Founder, Health Parliament spoke to ETHealthworld’s Prathiba Raju about how every doctor must prepare to embrace digital health in the next two years. What is the future of digital health adoption in India? India is the world’s fastest-growing market for Digital Health. The government of India … Read more
