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...
Vietnam has improved its growth rate from 2.8% in 1986 to 7.1% in 2019. Its policy, ‘doi moi’ (to make a change) was introduced in 1986. This policy aimed to open its economy and encourage free trade. There was a dramatic increase in foreign investment into Vietnam. As per a 2019 World Ban...
With increasing waves of nationalism throughout the world, we had thought that globalisation was in retreat. But the Corona virus threat has proved us wrong. In the new networked world of the social media, a virus, like all other intangibles, can sail past all physical walls. Apart from an epi...
The Supreme Court (SC) of India on March 4, 2020, struck down the restrictions imposed on Indian banks by the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) that said that the banks should not facilitate or engage in any transactions in Bitcoin or in any other type of cryptocurrency. The RBI had brought in a circular ...
At a recent press conference, the Indian Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman told that depositors of Yes Bank need not be apprehensive as their money is safe in the bank. She also added that the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had been continuously monitoring the transactions made by the bank since 2017...
Professor Amit Bhaduri was educated in Presidency College and Calcutta University, MIT, USA and Cambridge University. He is a critique of mainstream neo-classical economic theory. He is also an activist and strong critique of corporate led economic growth and ‘development terrorismʼ.He recently g...