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Nov 16 2018November 16, 2018

Machine Learning Is Helping Psychiatric Epidemiology In A Big Way

Leave a Comment / Health, Information, research / By SLSV / November 16, 2018 November 16, 2018

A severe and disabling psychiatric disorder like schizophrenia comes with delusions, hallucinations and cognitive impairments whose symptoms appear bleak in their early stages but have the potential to subject the patient to lifelong trauma. Early diagnosis of schizophrenia and many mental disorders is an ongoing challenge, and clinicians have a tough time comprehending treatment strategy …

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Nov 15 2018November 15, 2018

IIT Roorkee Researchers Create Fluorescent Carbon Nanodots For Detecting Cancer

Leave a Comment / Education, Health, Information, Innovation / By SLSV / November 15, 2018 November 15, 2018

Researchers at Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee have created fluorescent carbon nanodots that can serve as “theranostic” (therapeutic and diagnostic) agents for cancer. Led by P Gopinath, a team of IIT Roorkee researchers has extracted these nanosized carbon materials from the leaves of the rosy periwinkle plant. P Gopinath said, “Such events of real-time …

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Nov 14 2018

Online pharmacies are helping to lower health costs in India

Leave a Comment / Health, Information, research / By SLSV / November 14, 2018 November 14, 2018

In September, the All India Organisation of Chemists and Druggists (AIOCD) held protests against the Central government’s draft proposal to formalise online sales of drugs. Despite online pharmacies contributing only 2-3% of total drug sales in India, the drugs association felt threatened enough to call for a pan-India bandh. The protests saw participation by 8.5 …

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Nov 12 2018

Like Polio, India Can Eradicate Pollution, Says Senior UN Official

Leave a Comment / CSR, CSR Reporting, Eco-Friendly, Health, Information, Pollution, research / By SLSV / November 12, 2018 November 12, 2018

UN Environment chief Erik Solheim has expressed confidence that the country can tackle air pollution, which he said is one of the world’s biggest killers and a global public health emergency. UNITED NATIONS: India has scripted success in eradicating polio and tackling other health emergencies and there is no reason why the country cannot …

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Nov 9 2018

Tired of pollution? Try IITian Prateek Sharma’s Rs. 10 ‘Nasofilters’

Leave a Comment / ChangeMaker, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Health, Information / By SLSV / November 9, 2018 November 9, 2018

Air quality in Delhi and many parts of north India has hit dismal levels, and is expected to get even worse with winter setting in and Diwali just a day away. While the government is taking efforts to curb air pollution, entrepreneur and ex-IIT-Delhi student Prateek Sharma has come up with a short-term, cost-effective way to …

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