Many millions of Indians are descended from groups of fewer than a hundred people. As a result, they are more prone to some inherited diseases, according to a new study described in Nature. India is currently the second most populous nation in the world, with a population exceeding 1.3 billion. In such a large population, …
Last week, Narendra Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit Israel. In the process, he may have secured the health sector a much-needed technological boost. Israeli Consul General David Akov has expressed Israel’s interest in sharing with India database technology that would integrate with the Aadhaar system currently used in India. The Aadhaar …
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A $6 million 3D printing facility for medical devices is soon to be built in Andhra Pradesh. Think3D, an Indian subsidiary of Singapore based Think3D Labs Pte Ltd. has announced plans for the site to be established in Vishakhapatnam. Its construction will be in collaboration with Andhra Pradesh Medtech Zone (APTZ) a specially formed initiative …
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The Indian Supreme Court has ruled that privacy is an inherent right of Indian people. This is a landmark verdict which could have implications for biometric database Aadhaar. The largest biometric database in the world Aadhaar is a national identification system, promoted by the Indian government. More than 1.12 billion Indians – more than 88 …
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India has over 1.3 billion people, nearly 20 percent of the world’s population. Despite this, in genetic databases only 0.2 percent of genomes sequenced are Indian. Genome sequencing databanks have been dominated by European genes since the concept came to fruition. In 2009, 96 percent of genomes sequenced were of European ancestry. As of 2017, …
Medical marijuana is now a real possibility in India. The country’s first ever research and development (R&D) licence to cultivate cannabis and study its medicinal properties has been granted to the Council of Science and Industrial Research (CSIR) and the Bombay Hemp Company (BOHECO). The two organisations will collaborate on a project examining the potential …
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A vaccine for the chikungunya virus is entering human trials, despite the vaccine only being in phase I trials, the media are once again hailing it as a predestined success. The vaccine is being developed by Hyderabad-based Bharat Biotech. Currently there are no commercial chikungunya vaccines available; Bharat Biotech hopes its vaccine will become the first offering hope …
India will “go above and beyond” on climate change, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The pledge was made during a speech with new French President Emmanuel Macron regarding the Paris Agreement on climate change, which India ratified last year. Modi’s declaration comes shortly after U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the United …
Tuberculosis (TB) patients in India can receive financial help – if they have an Aadhaar number. “Conditional cash assistance for TB patients” TB patients will have to produce an Aadhaar number if they are to access Nikshay, a web-based application, according to a notification sent by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare on June …
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Hospitals in India are finding a myriad of different ways of using 3D printing technology to provide more advanced and reliable healthcare. The usage of this technology are incredibly varied, from 3D printing skeletal structures to the creation of replica organs for use in trial run surgeries. Could 3D printing be an emerging medical field …
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