Global Nutrition Report 2018 which gives a comprehensive analysis of food and nutrition issues reveals that the global burden of malnutrition is unacceptably high and now affects every country in the world. Malnutrition costs a staggering $3.5 trillion per year and this sum dwarfs the costs of being overweight and obese, which the report's authors tallied at $500 billion annually. The report pub...
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India has shown Impressive Gains in Reduction of Maternal Mortality
Maternal Mortality Ratio (MMR) has significantly declined in India as nearly one thousand fewer women now die of pregnancy related complications each month in the country according to the recently released Sample Registration System (SRS) bulletin - 2016, India has shown impressive gains in reduction of Maternal Mortality with 22% reduction in since 2013. MMR of India has declin...
WHO Report on Ambient Air Pollution Alarms India
World Health Organization (WHO) report that states 9 out of 10 people in the world breathe air containing high levels of pollutants figured 14 Indian cities in a list of 20 most polluted ones in the World in terms of PM2.5 levels in 2016 and warns that the combined effects of household air pollution and ambient air pollution will become increasingly hard to address if not tackled early. In terms...
BioMind AI-Powered System Diagnosing Neurological Diseases
BioMind, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered system, proficient in diagnosing neurological diseases such as meningioma and glioma with an accuracy rate of over 90% that can diagnose brain tumours and predict brain hematoma expansion cases and would prove to be incredibly valuable on being integrated to existing medical practices, has been developed by Artifi...
Artificial Intelligence to Interpret Chest X-rays
qXR, an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool to interpret chest X-rays, which identifies 15 of the most common chest X-ray abnormalities, including Tuberculosis, with more than 90% accuracy, has been developed by the Mumbai-based Qure.ai, a health-care AI start-up. qXR uses a heat map or bounding box to point out abnormalities to the clinician. It was trained on over 1.5 million X-rays to detect 15...
Healthy States, Progressive India
“Healthy States, Progressive India”, a comprehensive Health Index report released by NITI Aayog on February 9, 2018; ranks states and Union territories innovatively on their year-on-year incremental change in health outcomes, as well as, their overall performance with respect to each other. It is the first attempt to establish an annual systematic tool to measure and understand ...
‘Modicare’ is World’s Largest Government Funded Health Care Programme
Health Sector Initiatives, as part of Ayushman Bharat Programme, aimed at making path breaking interventions to address health holistically, in primary, secondary and tertiary care systems, covering both prevention and health promotion, that will build a New India 2022, were announced by the Union Minister for Finance and Corporate Affairs, Shri Arun Jaitely while presenting the General Budget 2...
Natural Intestine Bacteria as World’s Smallest Data Recorder
Natural Bacterial Immune System has been converted into the World’s Smallest Data Recorder by researchers at the Columbia University Medical Centre (CUMC) in the U.S., laying the groundwork for a new class of technologies that use bacterial cells for everything from disease diagnosis to environmental monitoring. Scientists taking advantage of immune system ‘memory’ modified an ...
Medical aspirants celebrate the Single Entrance Exam National Eligibility cum Entrance Test 2017
Aspirants for medical undergraduate courses have a reason to take a sigh of relief! As NEET (National Eligibility cum Entrance Test) test has replaced AIPMT from...
NEET for MD, MS To Be Held In December
National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test (NEET) for Post-Graduate Diploma courses will be conducted by National Board of Examinations (NBE) from December 5-13. And for dental courses, NEET will take place from November 30 to December 3 this year in 86 centres across 41 cities as per the recent statement from the health.
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