Lightspeed may lead $50-60 million round in healthcare company Qure.aiVenture capital fund Lightspeed will lead a $50-60 million investment in Qure.ai through its growth fund. Sources said the VC fund will inv...
18 Sep, 2024, 09.23 PM IST
CSIR announces Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prizes-2022 to 12 scientistsIn the field of Engineering Sciences, Debdeep Mukhopadhyay of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Techn...
11 Sep, 2023, 08.35 PM IST
Tata Trusts' IHF backs startup that built low cost test to determine drug resistant TBHealSeq is incubated at the India Institute of Science (IISc) innovation – Bangalore in March 2020. The start-up works on biomarker discove...
24 Mar, 2022, 06.39 PM IST
ET Startup Awards 2021: Nominees for Best on CampusThe award will showcase a startup whose impact can be judged both by the idea and the execution. The founders should have been students who...
22 Sep, 2021, 06.00 AM IST
Wadhwani Institute of AI testing tool to detect Covid-19 through cough patternsThe idea behind the initiative is to help health care and civic authorities speed up testing by filtering out patients with Covid-19-like s...
17 Sep, 2020, 07.37 PM IST
Masks for Covid-19 pandemic may end up eliminating tuberculosis by 2025 target“If masks become routine in India, just like they are in Japan, then we could well meet our target of eliminating TB by 2025,” said pulmono...
27 Aug, 2020, 08.20 AM IST
TB detection, treatment suffer amid lockdownThis is despite the Union health ministry sending a directive to states to not stop TB elimination programme in the country, warning that p...
14 Apr, 2020, 11.43 AM IST
India and US collaborating on combating COVID-19: Ambassador Sandhu"In the present context of COVID-19 pandemic, close collaboration in the areas of diagnostics and therapeutics of the disease is underway,"...
26 Mar, 2020, 11.10 AM IST
10 social innovators get Infosys Foundation-established awardsThis year, Infosys Foundation identified winners from different parts of the country across four award categories:Health care, Rural Develo...
19 Feb, 2020, 04.43 PM IST
This app detects tuberculosis by listening to the sound of your coughA machine learning algorithm was fed data of nearly 7000 infected TB cough. The result- a mobile app that can detect TB with over 85% accur...
30 Dec, 2019, 11.43 AM IST
Let AI do the health checkIT services firms and Startups are partnering with healthcare providers to develop medical devices powered by artificial intelligence & mac...
02 Aug, 2019, 09.31 AM IST
Drug to treat MDRTB to be made available across the country: GovernmentUnion Health Minister J P Nadda, in a written reply, said that the states are being prepared to monitor the treatment of patients with Beda...
11 Apr, 2017, 09.30 PM IST
Getting through in the age of automation and Artificial IntelligenceInnovation is critical for accelerated growth and sustainability to keep people gainfully engaged.
18 Mar, 2017, 05.24 PM IST
2016: A busy year for health ministryThe year also saw conduct of a single and uniform entrance examination for admissions to virtually all government and private medical colle...
31 Dec, 2016, 02.02 PM IST
TB patients in India: WHO stresses on need to improve treatment, but heath ministry says all fineThe WHO reckons India needs to improve diagnosis and treatment of patients to shrug off the lethal distinction of being the world's TB capi...
27 Oct, 2013, 04.26 AM IST
- Cancer to be one of the deadliest diseases of the coming decades: Lancet
Cancer is on its way to become one the deadliest diseases in the coming decades, according to a research paper published in medical journal...
01 Jun, 2012, 06.32 PM IST
- Scientists develop cost-effective nuclear medicine kit
A new cost-effective nuclear medicine kit has been developed by Indian scientists to tackle growing number of infectious diseases in the co...
28 Jan, 2007, 04.49 PM IST