Tag: Diseases
Workshop held on animal infectious disease prioritization in New Delhi
Alka Upadhyaya outlines plans to establish FMD-free zones in eight states for enhancing animal health and export opportunities
Tobacco epidemic grips Indian youth: KPMG report
KPMG Report Exposes Consumption of Tobacco among 49% of Young Adults, Calls for Collaborative Tobacco Control Measures
AIC-CCMB invites applications for the HealthHacks Hackathon 2023
Through this event, organizers are looking for passionate individual student innovators, research scholars, or early-stage startups
DBT & Gates Foundation renew partnership to accelerate research & innovation...
Through the renewed MoU, the partnership will articulate and implement new strategic direction and to continue awarding and administering a suite of programs in the larger field of public health
USAID supports Qure.ai with Rs. 2.45 crore fund to scale AI...
The financial assistance will help Qure.ai expand its artificial intelligence solution to screen for lung diseases across 15 states in India
Researchers devise new strategy for developing drug molecules
Utilizing the tools of Organic Chemistry and Biophysics to design molecules that target protein interface, researchers developed a universal privileged scaffold approach designing a variety of inhibitors
IIT Madras-led team identifies gene variation that increases risk of metabolic...
They found that 15% of Indian & other South Asian populations had this variation & that people carrying this variant are 1.5 times more likely to have hypertension, Type-2 Diabetes, coronary artery disease
Study unravels cause of compromised immunity in gastric patients
The study revealed that outer membrane proteins HomA and HomB form a small β-barrel along with a surface exposed globular domain
New insight into a key protein could lead to novel treatments...
A team of scientists from Japan conducted a detailed study, the results of which were published in Allergy, focusing on PU.1, a transcription factor known to regulate gene expression in various types of immune cells
Food borne diseases cost India a whopping $15 billion each year,...
Pointing towards alarming statistics, Dr Harsh Vardhan said, “‘Eat Right India’ and ‘Fit India’ Movement will prove to be game-changers in the health sector of the country..................