Health-Technologies

Plant-based diets have been recommended for better planetary health also as it would be more sustainable with lower environmental impacts and improving food and nutritional security of the generations. There is an urgent need to transform current diets for improving health of population and to achieve equity in benefits at social, economic and environmental levels. Furthermore, the ongoing COVID-19...

India's leading digital financial services platform Paytm today announced the launch of COVID-19 Vaccine Finder on its Mini App store. The platform helps citizens to check the availability of vaccination slots for a specific date by individually entering different PIN codes or district details along with age group ( 18+ or 45+). In case the slots are saturated for...

Bill Gates has been in the headlines for several reasons since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. The tech mogul was celebrated, mocked and even scathingly criticised for his stand on the production and distribution of a vaccine candidate for the novel disease. A new comment by Gates puts him in a bad light yet again, as the tech...

The Tamil Nadu government on Monday, April 26, gave permission to Vedanta's Sterlite Copper plant Thoothukudi to operate for four months to produce oxygen in the wake of depleting oxygen reserves amid an unprecedented upsurge in coronavirus cases. The decision was taken at an all-party meeting presided over by state Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami, paving the way for the partial...

As part of the ongoing five-day National Horticulture Fair 2021, farmers from the Northeast, Maharashtra and Goa on Thursday participated in a virtual interaction programme with scientists from the Bengaluru-based Indian Institute of Horticultural Research and the Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR). They discussed fruit tree canopy management and the rhizome rot disease in a banana plantation. Assam is...

By Dr. Meghana Reddy, Senior Consultant, Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia Asia Hospital, Whitefield Pregnancy is a beautiful phase in a woman’s life. From cravings for favorite food to shopping for the baby, most women spend time to provide the best for their baby. While everyone is busy planning for the new member, the mother’s nutrition and well-being often takes a...

The health ministry has asked states and Union Territories to increase percentage coverage of beneficiaries for COVID-19 vaccines and increase and optimise vaccination sessions per day. Union Health Secretary Rajesh Bhushan in a meeting with state health secretaries and officials through video conferencing today reviewed the status of the vaccination drive and asked them to begin vaccination of frontline workers...

COVID-19 vaccination programmes in China and India will stretch until late 2022 due to the sheer size of population, and more than 85 poor countries will not have widespread access to vaccines before 2023, a study showed on Wednesday. While rapid development of vaccines has raised hopes for an end to the year-long pandemic, concerns over unequal distribution have also...

World Health Organization experts on Tuesday cautiously backed delaying second injections of the Moderna coronavirus vaccine in some situations, as they have already done for the Pfizer-BioNTech jabs. The WHO's Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunisation (SAGE) also insisted that international travellers should not be prioritised for any Covid-19 jabs for the time being. During a meeting last week, the...

Despite dozens of deaths of people shortly after they were vaccinated against coronavirus, scientists say the evidence available so far does not incriminate the new anti-Covid vaccines. Health agencies stress however that the vast majority of post-vaccination fatalities were elderly, already vulnerable and often sick. Here's a review of the situation: Elderly, vulnerable Norway sparked alarm last week when it reported the deaths...