Hospital and bio-medical waste management is one of the most important health aspects of the government. Bio-medical waste can be a huge health issue. It is reported that only 15% of the total health care activities (infectious, toxic and radio-active) is considered hazardous and focus attention is ...
Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals, Kolkata, recently introduced a health check up programme that uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and draws on a massive repository of medical records to predict health risks from non-communicable diseases in a simple score sheet and pledges to bring the threat down to the...
Bone cancer develops in the skeletal system and destroys tissue. It can spread to distant organs, such as the lungs. Dr. J. Prakash, MBBS, MS(Ortho), M. Ch(Ortho), ATLS(USA), Fellowship in Orthopedic Oncology(CMC Vellore), Consultant Ortho Onco-surgeon, ILS Hospitals, spoke to BE regarding the treat...
Obesity is a major health problem at present. A medical journal ‘The Lancet’ in 2016 stated that there are about 30 million obese Indians. It is expected that by 2025, this number will cross 70 million. People adopt various measures to overcome this situation but they attain little success. Exce...
In the 2020-21 Budget, the allocation for the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and the Ministry of AYUSH has been increased marginally - from `66,466 crore in 2019-20 to `69,234 crore. However, the ` 2,768 crore additional allocation cannot compensate for the price rise in the health sector. Ke...
Leading health experts and scientific researchers from across the world are engaged in a relentless quest to explore diagnostic resolutions to the COVID 19 epidemic in China—the disease triggered by the neoteric coronavirus—that appears ominous enough to transmogrify into a worldwide pandemic.Ho...
B M Birla Heart Research Centre thriving at 30 - cardiac care destinationCK Birla Hospitals - B M Birla Heart Research Centre, India’s first NABH accredited dis-tinctive super-speciality hospital, focuses on cardiac care based on three key principals - clinical excellence, quality cardiac care and...
“This book is authored by me. Would you like to buy it?”, an old man with several copies of his self-published book walked around the Kolkata Book Fair and approached the visitors. This has been a common sight at the Kolkata Book Fair over the years. The fair has emerged as a cultural iden...
Sikkim is all set to host the Global Cinema Festival 2020 – a first-of-its-kind film festival in Sikkim - from February 28 to March 1, 2020, in the state capital, Gangtok. The initiative by the present state government is well-placed to encourage the film industry in the state and promote film tou...
The latest edition of the Tata Steel Kolkata Literary Meet 2020 was inaugurated on January 22, 2020, at the Victoria Memorial. Renowned English author Joanne Harris, especially known for her award-winning novel ‘Chocolat’, inaugurated this year’s edition in the presence of Chanakya Chaudhary, ...
