Tag: Health
“We must unlock out of Corona responsibly”: Ashwini K Choubey at...
Mr Ashwini Kumar Choubey, Minister of State for Health and Family Welfare was Chief Guest at the ASSOCHAM organized Web Conference on Relevance and the importance of Health and Wellness in COVID-19.................
Aarogya Setu is now open source, govt seeks suggestions to make...
In line with India’s policy on Open Source Software, the source code of Aarogya Setu has now been made open source. The source code for the Android version of the application is now available for review and collaboration..................
Amid COVID-19, Dr Harsh Vardhan elected as Chair of Executive Board...
The Union Health Minister, Dr Harsh Vardhan has been elected as Chair of the Executive Board of World Health Organization for the year 2020-21 at the 147th session of the Executive Board, in a meeting that was virtually held.................
Ayushman Bharat completes 1 crore treatments, PM interacts with 1 croreth...
With more than 21,565 hospitals empanelled so far, the states of Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Chhattisgarh, Kerala, and Rajasthan have emerged as the top-performing states providing highest number of treatments under the scheme.................
IIT Madras startup develops wearable tracker to detect early COVID-19 symptoms
Muse Wearables’ wrist-based wearable can give real-time alerts on the vitals of the user and is expected to hit the market by the end of June 2020....................
Role of supercomputers in boosting drug discovery
In this contributory column, Deepak Jha, Deputy General Manager- AIPF, NEC Technologies explains how faster computational power plays an integral role in expediting the overall drug discovery process and bringing down the effort from years to months..............
COVID-19: Managing kidney health during continuous lockdown
Dr Girish N. S., Head of Nephrology, Department, Columbia Asia Hospitals (Hebbal) offers his advice on managing kidney health during these COVID-19 times, and the lockdown period...................
DBT-BIRAC COVID-19 Research Consortium recommends 70 proposals for funding
The shortlisted proposals include 10 vaccine candidates, 34 diagnostics products or scale-up facilities, 10 therapeutics options, 02 proposals on drug repurposing, and 14 projects which are categorized as preventive interventions......................
Piramal Swasthya attends over 2.5 lakh calls on COVID-19 via special...
The Health Helpline in partnership State Governments of Assam, Jharkhand, Bihar and Chhattisgarh attended to these calls during the lockdown period from March 25, 2020 until date. On average, the 104-Health Helpline received around 20,000 calls in a day.............
COVID-19: ICMR to leverage IBM Watson Assistant to bolster rapid response...
The virtual agent has been deployed on protected pages of the ICMR website and can be accessed only by authorized personnel who are involved with sample collection and testing in hospitals and diagnostic labs..................