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How artificial intelligence is making diagnosis faster and more accurate

It addresses the shortage of radiologists and pathologists and frees up doctors to deal with complex cases

Spike in fever cases: Dengue, malaria, swine flu take over from Covid-19

Some cities like Delhi and Mumbai are also witnessing cases of leptospirosis and gastroenteritis fevers

Online pharmacy platform Tata 1mg turns unicorn after raising $40 mn

Funding round was led by Tata Digital; Tata 1mg has become 105th unicorn in India

Drones in healthcare: Delivering vaccines to life-saving drugs sustainably

State governments, as well as e-commerce players, are taking initiatives to launch healthcare services through drones into remote areas

Ambulance operator MUrgency takes over Ziqitza Healthcare for $110 mn

MUrgency Global Services, the ambulance service provider backed by many investors, on Friday said it has bought Ziqitza Healthcare at an enterprise value of USD 110 million.

Technology can democratise healthcare delivery: Cardiologist Devi Shetty

Shetty noted that with digital aid, people from all strata of society and even from the remotest locations across the country can reach out to top physicians in the country for consultation

Future health depends on radical change in digital technologies: Report

Digital technologies are transforming all areas of life and health, a trend that has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic, but the benefits of these advances are not reaching everyone equally.

Govt to support 75 startup innovations for healthcare challenges

Jitendra Singh on Tuesday launched a programme to identify 75 startup innovations in telemedicine, digital health, health with big data, artificial intelligence, blockchain and other technologies.

Data scientists developed an AI Device to support healthcare systems

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Glenmark arm, Emcure, 3 other pharma cos line up Rs 7,000-cr IPOs

The healthcare sector is in the limelight for the second consecutive year

Microsoft doubles down on cloud healthcare business with $16 bn Nuance buy

The deal comes after the companies partnered in 2019 to automate clinical administrative work such as documentation

Elon Musk-backed 'Neuralink' shows how monkey plays Pong with mind

Elon Musk-run brain-machine interface company Neuralink on Friday posted a YouTube video where a monkey can be seen playing a video game by navigating an on-screen cursor using his mind

World Coronavirus Dispatch: Myanmar health workers protest coup, stop work

UK's Covid hero dies at 100, study says Sinopharm jab works against South African strain, Europe's sluggish vaccination may prolong economic slump and other pandemic-related news across the globe

JD Health International seeks $3.5 billion in Asia's biggest health IPO

By comparison, its biggest competitor, Alibaba Health Information Technology, has a market capitalisation of around $34.6 billion.

Our gross margin is at an all-time high, says Practo CEO Shashank N D

The last three years saw us fine-tune our business model and get closer to our vision of building quality health care for a billion Indians, said CEO N D

Thyrocare, Dr Lal PathLabs: Healthcare stocks can rally more, charts show

A new all time high shows bullish sentiment is here to stay in these stocks.

Practo is looking to scale faster riding on Covid-19, says CEO Shashank ND

As telemedicine became the preferred medium for consultations, the firm saw over 70 per cent first time-users and 44 per cent users coming from non-metro cities

Portable hospital to vaccines: Low-cost Covid solutions from universities

IIT Delhi has developed the world's cheapest RT-PCR based diagnostic kit, priced at Rs 399; IIT Madras-backed Modulus Housing's portable hospital can be installed by four people in two hours

IIT Kanpur partners with Bharat Dynamics for manufacturing ventilators

The indigenous ventilator has been developed by IIT Kanpur's incubated startup

IIT Guwahati develops affordable, diagnostic kits for testing Covid-19

The VTM kits are the first-stop source used to collect nasal and oral swab specimens from an individual source to a laboratory safely for culture and testing