Healthcare

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.

Meet Dr Namperumalsamy, the Chairman Emeritus of Aravind Eye Hospital in Madurai, Tamil Nadu, who has been replacing cataracts safely and quickly to a record of one every 15 minutes.

Did you know women account for 93% of all sterilizations? Irrespective of government policy, its time we men took the plunge and made a difference by undergoing sterilization ourselves.

Like a scene out of a comic book, scientists at the institution’s Facilitation Centre for Industrial Plasma Technologies (FCIPT) in Gandhinagar, treated normal water with non-thermal plasma.

The device analyses a set of enzymes to determine whether or not a person is at risk of a heart attack. And takes only 10-15 minutes to display the result.

As the success of this amazing initiative has shown, a small act of kindness can make a huge difference in someone's life. Here's how you too can transform someone's world!

In cities, traffic jams can hold up ambulances, while in rural and remote areas, the condition of roads can affect the response time. Counteracting this is the first-aid drone.