“”Diseases know no boundaries”” India and Sri Lanka will enhance their relationship when it comes to working together on health, India’s top diplomat to the country has said. “Diseases know no boundaries,” Indian High Commissioner Taranjit Singh Sandhu asserted in a public statement while inaugurating a three-day Medicare conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He continued, …
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Ahead of 2014 Lok Sabha elections five years ago, both the Congress and the BJP, promised the people of India that they were entitled to the ‘Right to Health’. The Constitution of India guarantees this. Elaborate manifesto promises were made to improve the accessibility and quality of healthcare. Now, as this year’s polls approach, it …
A more centralised approach to tackling rabies is needed if the disease is to be effectively handled in India, an expert claims. Lack of coordination between medical groups ands the veterinary community, should place managing India’s rabies burden into the hands of the central government. This is an alternative to its being left in the …
A 39-year-old who tragically died as a result of a car accident has potentially saved the lives of six other individuals through his donated organs. Could the man’s loss and the lives he saved prove an inspiration to Indian to donate their own organs following their deaths? India faces considerable shortages of organ transplants …
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An estimated one in twenty Indians suffer from an illness classified as a “rare disease”. Fifty percent of these cases afflict children. Despite this, the illnesses remain neglected, both in terms of funding for research, as well as public awareness. Rare diseases — despite the infrequency that the name infers — cumulatively affect around 350 …
Artificial intelligence (AI) is certain to play a pivotal role across all aspects of modern life in the coming years. Healthcare is no exception. Google’s recent announcement of an AI-driven algorithm to detect eye disease in those with diabetes is a case point, and begs the question: To what extent will AI play a role …
A pioneering e-health project will first be used in India. The collaborative project between is Google and its sister company Verily is an an algorithm, designed to screen medical imaging for two diabetes-related conditions that impact millions of people worldwide. The conditions are diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema. Because of the diseases targeted, the …
A US citizen named Amy B. Scher travelled to India in 2007 to receive treatment for Lyme disease, treatment she could not find in the US. Does India hold the cure for Lyme disease, or is it simply more familiar with what is a relatively elusive disease? She recounts her experiences in a recent article …
The University of Copenhagen in Denmark has recently released a study examining a novel approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease. With a potential future crisis of the disease on India’s hands, any new knowledge on how to prevent the condition could be a vital lifeline. India’s looming dementia crisis Two decades ago Alzheimer’s disease was …
India has a considerable issue with illegal organ rackets. The issues stretch back years and have left many impoverished, rural villages being manipulated into providing kidney donations to gangs which sell off the organs to international buyers. On February 17th, a manhunt began for Dr Ketan Kaushik, a Delhi-based private practitioner who handled a kidney …
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