Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Health Minister Harsh Vardhan today released the first batch of anti-COVID drug 2-DG (2-deoxy-D-glucose). The 2-DG has been developed by the Institute of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences (INMAS), a lab of the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) in collaboration with Dr Reddys Laboratories (DRL).“In the ongoing second COVID-19 wave, a large number of ... Read More »
As the nation is witnessing the second wave of Covid-19 and amid the fear of third wave, Motherhood Hospital, one of India’s leading hospital dedicated to women and child, brings home vaccination facility for children at doorsteps. The service is aimed at easing out the burden of parents having to visit the hospital for immunization of their newborns/infants, thus ensuring ... Read More »
Uttar Pradesh’s Shriti Pandey has constructed two COVID care centres on the outskirts of Patna and Jalandhar, Punjab using stubble. These buildings are inherently thermally insulated and trap carbon dioxide and heat. The civil engineer took less than 80 days to set up a fully functioning centre in Patna for her client ‘Doctors For You’ (DFY), in collaboration with the ... Read More »
Researchers are now able to wirelessly record the directly measured brain activity of patients living with Parkinson’s disease and to then use that information to adjust the stimulation delivered by an implanted device. Direct recording of deep and surface brain activity offers a unique look into the underlying causes of many brain disorders; however, technological challenges up to this point ... Read More »
Humans all over the world have thrown away so much stuff, that we are running out of places to put it. There are no places you can go anymore—from Antarctica to the top of Mount Everest, and even deep into the ocean, thousands of miles from land and thousands of feet deep—where you won’t find tons of our trash. Think about how ... Read More »
The Indian healthcare sector has adopted cloud computing and data analytics to maximize the vast amounts of data it generates. While this would improve patient care, collaboration, and research, the hospitals also see that technologies will transform the healthcare sector and equip for future emergencies. With the adoption of emerging cloud technologies, data analytics will transform the healthcare sector and ... Read More »
*A great thought* *In a restaurant, one well-known chef cooked very tasty pulav using high quality rice. As soon as the pulav was ready, its aroma spread all over. Everyone’s mouth started watering ?* *Now they were all eager to taste the pulav. About a hundred people were served the pulav.* *Just when every one was about to take the ... Read More »
Found this gem of a piece written by some anonymous soul … WE ARE NOT IN THE SAME BOAT … I heard that we are in the same boat. But it’s not like that. We are in the same storm, but not in the same boat. Your ship can be shipwrecked and mine might not be. Or vice versa. For some, quarantine is optimal: moment ... Read More »
We are not living a zero waste life – yet. Because guess what? It doesn’t happen overnight. And if you try and make that significant of a life change happen immediately, chances are, it won’t stick. That’s a major misconception about the zero waste lifestyle. We read stories about zero waste rock stars who haven’t produced trash in years , but that’s just ... Read More »
“Heliotropism” Sunflowers ? turn according to the position of the sun. In other words, they “chase the light.” This facing the sun phenomenon is called HELIOTROPISM You might already know this, but there is another fact that you probably do not know! Have you ever wondered what happens on cloudy and rainy days when the sun is completely covered by ... Read More »
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