Author: M Pansare

DMRC and CISF join hands to ease travel for CBSE Board Exam 2026 students Every year, the weeks leading up to board examinations turn Delhi’s roads and public transport into a test of endurance — for students already on edge. This time, the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) has stepped in to take some of that pressure off. With the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) Board Examinations 2026 for Classes X and XII running from February 17 to April 10, 2026, DMRC has rolled out a set of facilitation measures aimed at making commutes smoother for the lakhs of…

  I’m fairly active on Pinterest and, in fact, have curated 25,000 resources there that I haven’t shared on this blog. I thought readers might find it useful if I began sharing a handful of my most recent “pins” each week (I’m not sure if you can see them through an RSS Reader – you might have to click through to the original post). Here they are: Source link #Pins #Week

New Delhi: Union Minister for Health and Family Welfare JP Nadda will launch the Tetanus and Adult Diphtheria (Td) vaccine on Saturday at the Central Research Institute (CRI), Kasauli, Himachal Pradesh.Extensive scientific evidence indicates that widespread childhood immunization with DPT group of vaccines has significantly reduced the incidence of diphtheria and tetanus in many countries, a release said. However, antibody levels may decline over time especially in the case of Diphtheria, necessitating booster doses. In view of this in 2006, the World Health Organization (WHO) recommended that countries transition from Tetanus Toxoid (TT) vaccine to Td vaccine. This recommendation was…

New Delhi: As the network of All India Institutes of Medical Sciences expands across the country, artificial intelligence in diagnostics and faster faculty recruitment must go hand in hand, Union health minister Jagat Prakash Nadda said on Friday.Addressing a leadership conclave of Presidents and Executive Directors of newly established AIIMS, Nadda urged institutes to integrate artificial intelligence into diagnostics and clinical decision-making, and to institutionalise telemedicine as a regular component of patient care.He stressed that expansion in infrastructure must be matched by strengthening human resources. Calling for accelerated faculty recruitment without compromising academic standards or quality of healthcare delivery, the…

New Delhi: Former Deputy Director-General of the World Health Organisation, Soumya Swaminathan, on Friday said artificial intelligence can have a significant positive impact on healthcare, especially in regions where specialist doctors are scarce.She noted that in many parts of India and in regions such as Africa, there is a shortage of radiologists, psychiatrists and pathologists. Swaminathan said one of the simplest and most effective uses of AI is image and pattern recognition, which can help in reading X-rays and pathology slides, provided the algorithms are trained on high-quality datasets. “AI can have a lot of very positive impact in healthcare,…

New Delhi: The concerns of de-skilling due to the use of artificial intelligence can be addressed when critical thinking is combined with expanding knowledge base, instead of solely relying on AI’s response, says Jan Herzhoff, president of global health businesses at the Dutch academic publisher Elsevier.Herzhoff, who was attending the India AI Impact Summit 2026 from February 16-20, reflected on a 2025 study in The Lancet Gastroenterology and Hepatology journal and said that de-skilling happens when clinicians don’t apply critical thinking and rely on “that little answer chunk” before moving to the next patient.The study found that the rate at…

New York: The last remaining group of striking nurses in New York City has reached a tentative agreement with their hospital, the nurses’ labor union said on Friday, potentially ending what the union called the largest work stoppage ‌for nurses ⁠in city ⁠history after six weeks.Approximately 4,200 nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian will ​vote this weekend on a new contract that would increase salaries ​by more than 12% over three years, protect health benefits and provide new safeguards for the use of artificial ​intelligence, according to the New York ⁠State Nurses ‌Association.The strike began on January 12, ​when ​15,000 nurses at three…

New York: To all the women who’ve heard the frustrating “it’s all in your head” in response to medical maladies, a new study out Friday feels your pain.Research published in the journal Science Immunology shows that women actually do experience exacerbated chronic pain compared to men — a gap that can be explained by biological differences in the immune system.”The pain of women has been overlooked in clinical practice,” lead author Geoffroy Laumet told AFP, “with the idea that it’s more in the mind, or that it’s because women are softer and more emotional.””But here, our study shows that the…

New Delhi: Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw on Friday said the convergence of biological intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI) can drive a paradigm shift in medicine, enabling breakthroughs in predictive healthcare, regenerative science and lifespan management.”Biology on its own was limited in generating deeper insights, but AI tools are opening immeasurable opportunities to understand living systems,” Mazumdar-Shaw said while speaking at the AI Impact Summit here. She noted that biological systems function like distributed data centres, processing information with minimal energy compared to gigawatt-powered AI systems. “Biology has a lot to teach AI in terms of how to do it with…

Mumbai: ICICI Prudential Pension Funds Management Company has launched the country’s first Swasthya Pension Scheme under the regulatory sandbox of the Pension Fund Regulatory and Development Authority, seeking to help subscribers build a long-term retirement corpus while creating flexibility to meet medical expenses.Speaking at the launch, PFRDA chairman Sivasubramanian Ramann said that the critical feature of the Swasthya Pension Scheme was to bring about discipline in not spending the long-term savings for health and bringing to them the benefits of aggregation. He said the intention was to supplement health insurance scheme “in future, there could be consideration of verifying whether…