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Governance Health

Rare Diseases Policy has been Finalized and Put in Public Domain

The Policy aims at lowering the incidence and prevalence of rare diseases based on an integrated and comprehensive preventive strategy encompassing awareness generation, premarital, post-marital, pre-conception and post-conception screening and counselling programmes to prevent births of children with rare diseases, and within the constraints on resources and competing health care priorities, enable access to affordable health care to patients of rare diseases.

By Kautilya / July 27, 2021

Health Research

IIT Ropar Develops First-of-Its-Kind Oxygen Rationing Device – AMLEX

To increase the life of medical oxygen cylinders three fold, the Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar has developed a first-of-its-kind Oxygen Rationing Device – AMLEX that supplies a required volume of oxygen to the patient during inhalation and trips when the patient exhales CO2. This process saves oxygen which otherwise unnecessarily get wasted.

By Kautilya / July 24, 2021

Economy Health

Indian Start-up Makes Affordable and Dual Powered Defibrillator; Sanmitra 1000hct

The device works with both AC mains and a hand-cranked generator built into the unit, and does not require any battery change. The start-up has reported that the device’s battery has been tested for a large number of charge-discharge cycles therebymaking it cost-effective. The device is ideal for hospitals located in cities and remote areas. So far, over 200 devices have been deployed across India and Africa, as per the stats provided by the start-up.

By Kautilya / July 23, 2021

Health Research

Scientists Develop Novel & Cheap 3D Robotic Motion Phantom that can Reproduce Human Lung Motion

A group of Indian scientists have developed a novel and cheap 3D robotic motion phantom that can reproduce the lung motion of a human during breathing. The phantom is part of a platform not only emulates the human lung motion as a patient is breathing but can also be used to check if the radiation is being correctly focussed on a moving target.

By Kautilya / July 23, 2021

Health

IIT Hyderabad Develops India’s 1st Rapid Electronic COVID-19 RNA Test Kit COVIHOME

Hyderabad: India’ first artificial intelligence-powered COVID-19 test that allows self-testing at home called ‘COVIHOME’ has been developed by scientists at the Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad (IITH). On obtaining ICMR approvals, and after commercialisation, the kit will be available in the market at an affordable price.

By Kautilya / July 20, 2021

Food and Frolic Health

Must-Have Millets – A Detailed Look at nutri-Cereals that Offer Food and Nutritional Security

Millets are marvellous sources of nutrition. Traditional and rural societies everywhere in the country and agricultural scientists in the top echelons of the Indian government have long known it. But it took free India 70 years to notify millets as “Nutri-Cereals”–in 2018–which was also nationally declared as “The Year of Millets”.

By Kautilya / July 19, 2021

Health

Koraput’s Wild Crops Possess Immense Potential for Nutritional Security & Health Benefits

“There are 122 wild edible plants used by 20 tribal villages in Koraput belonging to seven tribal groups, namely – Paroja, Bhumia, Gadaba, Bhatra, Saora, Gonda, and Kondha. The edible plants include wild fruit (39) species mostly consumed by the tribes compared to leafy vegetables (24), tuber (21) and flower (4),” informs Dr. Panda.

By Kautilya / July 12, 2021

Health

A New Way to Speed Up Wound Healing in Diabetic Patients

A team of scientists led by Dr. Vaijayanti Kale, a former scientist of the Department of Biotechnology’s Pune-based National Centre for Cell Science (DBT-NCCS) and Prof. Jayesh Bellare of the Department of Chemical Engineering at IIT-Bombay has come up with a solution that could break the impasse.

By Kautilya / July 11, 2021

Health

DBT-NIBMG Creates World’s First Database of Genomic Variants of Oral Cancer

DBT-National Institute of Biomedical Genomics (NIBMG), Kalyani an Autonomous Institute funded by the Department of Biotechnology, Government of India has created a database of genomic variations in oral cancer; the first of its kind in the world. NIBMG has made this database publicly-accessible.

By Kautilya / July 11, 2021

Health

Supervised Mindfulness Meditation Benefits Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment & Early Alzheimer’s Disease

Mild Cognitive Impairment & early form of Alzheimer’s is a condition in which memory deteriorates, but a person remains functionally independent. Among several treatment options, meditation is one non-invasive and cost-effective approach to bring relief to such patients.

By Kautilya / July 9, 2021

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