Healthcare

Sometimes if an ambulance arrives on time, even a minor delay due to vehicular traffic can end up costing a life.

The Better India talked to Dr Shanthanu Chakravarthy, a doctoral scholar at IISc, who pursued the design, prototyping, control, haptics, and simulation of an endoscopy simulator.

These useful helmet stickers give out important details, so the accident victims can get timely medical help.

Starting with 200 cabs, drivers working with Wagon Cab will be armed with medical supplies and be qualified to perform first aid.

When Avilash inquired as to how someone who led a healthy lifestyle could get cancer, the answer he got was that perhaps the pesticides in her food resulted in a long-term buildup of harmful chemicals in her body.

The App is based on authentic and well researched India-specific databases and uses guidelines prescribed by ICMR.

In India, only 6 people survived this deadly infection, since 2010 and in 2016, thousands succumbed to it.

This includes giving a cash prize of Rs 50,000 to the hospital where the organ is retrieved and a cash prize of Rs 1 lakh to Rs 5 lakh to the family of the donor. This prize will be given every year for five years.

In a state like Kerala, where households consume fish on a daily basis, continuous ingestion of formalin might have catastrophic consequences for public health.

It turns out that you can diagnose diabetes in just a puff of air. Like a breathalyser, the device takes in your breath and analyses for a particular marker.