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Academy of Digital Health Sciences launches ‘AI for All’ healthcare initiativeTwo new educational programs are being introduced to support this goal. These programs are designed to equip professionals with the skills ...- Reliance’s Anant Ambani launches Vantara University to build global talent in wildlife sciences.Reliance Industries Executive Director Anant Ambani launched Vantara University in Jamnagar, Gujarat, a pioneering institution dedicated to...
- FSSAI’s star rating proposal ineffective in curbing unhealthy foods, says doctors panelNational food regulator Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI)’s star rating labelling proposal for packaged foods will be in...
- Covaxin may provide better defence against Omicron: Top health expertK Srinath Reddy called for laboratory and clinical tests to understand how the Omicron variant, which has the highest spike protein mutatio...
- Covid-19: India’s Covid R-naught tops 1 again, up from 0.9 a month agoThe R-value is a tool epidemiologists and policy makers use to check if cases are growing faster or shrinking quickly. The reproduction fac...
- Newly formed four city clusters to intensify India’s COVID-19 genome sequencing effortsResearch institutes in Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi and Pune form these four clusters. “The consortium will track the emergence of viral...
- COVID-19: Consortium of four Indian cities funded for enhanced genome surveillanceEstablished with support and seed funding from Rockefeller Foundation, the new effort will track the emergence of viral variants correlated...
- Prioritise vaccination for children to avoid third wave risk: ExpertsThe US and Canada have started vaccinating those above age 12 years, as the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines in use in those countries have rece...
- Provide COVID-19 vaccines for free as health emergency needs public financing, says expert"Vaccination should be free because any public health emergency, particularly of an infectious disease, requires public financing to suppor...
- New Covid variant raises concern, but unlikely to impact vaccine developmentA number of European countries have banned flights from the UK as the British government warned that the potent new strain of the virus was...
- Ignore numbers, focus on death count: ExpertsWith India set to surpass Brazil for the second-highest number of Covid-19 cases, experts said enhancing testing will increase the absolute...
- High sero prevalence in cities indicate India's IFR might be low, despite doubts about under reporting of deathsThere is growing consensus that the infection fatality rate (IFR) might be much lesser for India, despite the doubts over the accuracy of C...
- Covid-19 deaths could top 18,000 in India, says public health expertThe country is still in the ascending limb of the epidemic, said Prof D Prabhakaran, Director, Centre for Control of Chronic Conditions (CC...
- COVID-19 cases to peak in India in mid-July if lockdown lifted this month-end: EpidemiologistThe country at present is definitely at a lower trajectory in terms of COVID-19 deaths compared to anywhere in the world which means it has...
- Doctors suggest having fruits could help keep coronavirus at bayIt is always better for Vegetarians or non-Vegetarians to have a lot of fresh fruit and vegetable .
- Karnataka sees gradual growth in number of Covid-19 casesA state can be considered safe only when there is a decrease in the number of cases over a longer period of time, unlike now
- In the wake of celeb suicides, how are people coping with depression and thoughts of harming themselvesA constant flow of social media posts on suicide can act as trigger for vulnerable patients.
- Malnutrition India's biggest health hazard, air pollution a close secondIschaemic heart disease that is greatly influenced by air pollution has gone up from rank 5 to number 1, diabetes from rank 22 to rank 5 an...
- Hepatitis C free India achievable: Expert"India is facing a serious threat from Hepatitis C virus (HCV). It is, however, going to take a lot more than low-cost drugs to get patient...
- Good health key to sustainable development, say expertsHealthy people are better able to learn, work and contribute to the economies and societies, said Sandeep Kumar, Director, AIIMS, Bhopal.
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