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Delhi hospital uses extreme cold therapy to treat cancer patient unfit for surgery
''It is safe and the risks involved are generally lower than in...
Fatigue of long Covid as bad as that in cancer patients, says study
''Our research has revealed that long Covid can leave people with...
WHO recommends two new drugs to treat patients with COVID-19
According to the WHO Guideline Development Group, it is “strongly recommended” for patients with severe or critical disease in combination with corticosteroids. The group of international experts based their recommendation on “moderate certainty evidence” that it...
Money smarts arouse passion in millennials
According to a new survey from buy-now, pay-later company Affirm, millennials see the ability to manage finances as the No. 1 attractive trait in a partner The whipsawing economics of recent years have made millennials keenly aware of financial stability, even more so...
Technology can democratise healthcare delivery: Cardiologist Devi Shetty
Devi Prasad Shetty,Chairman,Narayana Hrudayalaya, "If they don't need an operation, I don't need to touch them. And if I don't need to touch them, I don't need to be there. I can be anywhere. I can talk to them, get the data and explain to them what the problem is and...
Bharat Biotech says Covaxin booster shot neutralises Omicron
"The neutralisation activity of Covaxin-boosted sera was comparable to what has been observed in mRNA vaccine-boosted sera against the Omicron variant.More than 90% of all individuals boosted with Covaxin showed neutralising antibodies,"Bharat Biotech said in a...
78% of Indians feel insurance is an important part of financial planning: SBI Life Survey
But 38% of the Indians feel that the situation could worsen over the next three months and their top three worries attributed to (1) Rising medical/ treatment cost (2) Instability of Jobs (3) concerns around Health of family/self Mumbai, January 12, 2022: SBI Life...
Goldman Sachs says bitcoin will compete with gold as “store of value”
Citing bitcoin's $700 billion market capitalization, compared to the around $2.6 trillion worth of gold owned as an investment, Goldman Sachs said that the cryptocurrency currently has a 20% share of the "store of value" market The term "store of value" usually...
In a medical first, US surgeons transplant pig heart into human patient
While it's too soon to know if the operation really will work, it marks a step in the decades-long quest to one day use animal organs for life-saving transplants. Doctors at the University of Maryland Medical Center say the transplant showed that a heart from a...
Study finds employee training pays off with fewer layoffs
"Importantly, these findings provide evidence that the same investments that firms make to support the development of employees' human capital in normal times also offer a buffer to employees' job security in the face of financial precarity," the authors wrote...
Next Covid variant after ‘mild’ Omicron could be more virulent: Expert
While the study showed that the new variant, dominant in the UK and now sweeping parts of India, is infecting the cells found in the lungs less, the virus itself is not intending to become milder. "There is this assumption that viruses become more benign over time but...
Explainer: Do 5G telecoms pose a threat to airline safety?
In the airline industry, radar altimeters, which measure altitude, operate in the 4.2-4.4 GHz range and there are concerns that there is not a big enough buffer from the frequencies to be used by the telecoms companies U.S. telecom companies and airlines have been...