The death of a man held at a federal detention camp in Texas in early January may be investigated as a homicide after the local medical examiner reportedly found the preliminary cause was “asphyxia due to neck and chest compression”.Geraldo Lunas Campos, a 55-year-old Cuban migrant arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in July […]
New Delhi: The central government has introduced a new initiative aimed at reducing the import of medical devices and promoting their manufacture within India. Companies are invited to submit proposals under two investment sub-schemes as part of this plan, which was announced a year ago. Currently, India imports about 70 percent of its medical device […]
Jaipur, 15 December (Udaipur Kiran) — Acting on instructions from the ACB Headquarters, the Anti-Corruption Bureau, Bhilwara-II, on Monday arrested Dr. Pankaj Chhipa, Medical Officer at Keshav Porwal Hospital, Bhilwara, for allegedly accepting a bribe of ₹11 lakh. Director General of ACB, Police Officer Govind Gupta, said the bureau had received a complaint stating that […]
Emraan Hashmi has been diagnosed with Influenza A virus and Swine Flu, as per a medical test report available. The actor, who has been in the news following the success of Awarapan 2, was expected to attend an event in Bengaluru but had to pull out after falling unwell. Emraan Hashmi diagnosed with Influenza A […]
A row erupted involving diversity in medical training after an anti‑vaccine campaigner criticised a Texas hospital residency programme for having only international graduates.Mary Talley Bowden posted on X where she commented on the incoming internal medicine residents at Baptist Hospitals of Southeast Texas in Beaumont. Her post mentioned that all 13 first‑year internal medicine trainees […]
Representative Image of a modern Texas nuclear reactor supporting advanced isotope production for healthcare (AI-generated image) Every day, more than 40,000 Americans undergo a diagnostic scan that depends on technetium-99m, a radioactive isotope used to image the heart, spot cancer and check kidney function. Every milligram of the molybdenum-99 that produces it currently arrives in […]
Mark Zuckerberg wore a $2 million Rolex that tracks the moon while talking about an AI lab trying to change the clock on disease Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg recently detailed his plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to permanently accelerate medical research while wearing a vintage $2 million Rolex designed to track the mechanical cycles […]
pc: University of California San Diego Robotic surgery has become a familiar part of modern healthcare, but the machines used in operating theatres are usually purpose-built systems designed for a narrow set of tasks. humanoid robots, despite rapid advances in recent years, have largely remained outside the surgical environment. That has now begun to change. […]
Scientists Invented a Disease to Test Whether A.I. Knew It Was Fake. Then, Chatbots Started Saying It Was Real A made-up eye disease has exposed a real problem with artificial intelligence.Researchers in Sweden deliberately invented a condition called bixonimania to see whether popular AI chatbots could recognise false medical information. Instead, several large language models […]
In 1847 a Vienna doctor cut childbed-fever deaths on the doctors’ ward from about one mother in ten to roughly one in eighty by making physicians wash their hands in chlorine — and the profession turned on him for it In 1847, a Hungarian obstetrician working at Vienna General Hospital found a way to stop […]
