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• How India should embrace Prevention as the New Definition of Healthcare

  A robust public health system with an emphasis on prevention must be a fundamental pillar as India works to achieve universal health coverage. Low-cost prevention investments made today can save exorbitant treatment expenditures in the road. Although medicines will always play a crucial role, India cannot overcome its difficulties with infectious diseases by cures. A multifaceted strategy emphasising both treatments and prevention is required. Heart blockages make people more susceptible to peripheral artery disorders in general.

  

• Study sheds light on treatments to prevent cancer, infectious diseases

  The study, which was co-led by Federation University Australia and the Murdoch Children's Research Institute, has revealed how these specialised white blood cells function and can trigger an immunological response.

  

• Health dept advisory on infectious diseases

  If anyone develops diarrhoea, self-treatment is not recommended, people should seek healthcare at government health facilities, the advisory mentioned. In the event of a cluster of infectious disease cases in the same locality – three or more cases, the nearby health facility should be informed, the state advisory added.

  

• Growing threats of infectious diseases: Dx Industry coping up?

  The second edition of ETHealthworld’s 2023 India Diagnostics Summit hosted a special discussion on "Growing Threats of Infectious Diseases: Is the Diagnostics Industry Coping Up?" The panel, saw the participation of the country’s foremost experts, deliberated on the evolution and transformation of diagnostics and its benefits for the population at large.

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• India Diagnostics Summit 2023: Leaders optimistic about future of diagnostics industry

  The India Diagnostics Summit 2023 hosted domain experts and thought leaders of the industry. The deliberations revolved around the transformation, adaptation of digital technologies and their impact on diagnostic tools as well as solutions. The summit also addressed issues of importance such as preventive health, public-private partnerships boosting growth, standardisation, operational uniformity of path labs, and transforming conventional clinical diagnostics solutions.

  

• India Diagnostics Summit: Convening stakeholders shaping the future of Dx

  To decode India's diagnostic value chain, and how stakeholders are paving India’s diagnostic journey of the future, ETHealthworld is back with the second edition of India Diagnostics Summit 2023 (IDS 2023) themed ‘In Quest of Futuristic Diagnostics’ in association with Empe Diagnostics, supporting partners Transasia, Shimadzu, Biogenix, Skye Air, and Thermo Fisher Scientific, coaching partner Rathee, and association partner Admi.

  

• Telangana govt boosting public health infra to deal with emergencies like COVID: CM KCR

  Recalling his interaction with a group of entomologists a few years ago, he quoted them as having told him that infectious diseases like COVID-19 may surface again in the future.

  

• Make preparations to check monsoon diseases: Dy CM

  It is essential to have robust arrangements in place to prevent the spread of infectious diseases in affected districts, particularly in rural and polluted areas of the state.

  

• KGMU joins hands with foreign universities to profile diseases in Lucknow, other cities

  The big data centre will be set up in collaboration with the University of Manitoba (UoM), Winnipeg, Canada, with the aim of profiling infectious diseases and neurological and physical diseases in the city and surrounding region. It will not only enhance patient care and research capabilities at KGMU, but also serve as an early warning system for the government.

  

• CIIMS study uncovers hidden viruses present in wastewater

  This study not only sheds light on the potential risks these viruses pose but also highlights the emerging field of wastewater epidemiology as a powerful tool for early detection and surveillance of infectious diseases.

  

• Climate change increasing risk of new emerging viruses, infectious diseases in India: Experts

  A study published last year in the journal Nature predicted that climate change will vastly increase the risk of new viruses infecting humans. There are currently at least 10,000 viruses "circulating silently" among wild mammals and climate change may trigger them to cross over into humans, it concluded. As per researchers, the finding holds particularly true for countries such as India, Indonesia, China and the Philippines, and some African regions that have been hotspots for deadly diseases spread from animals to humans over the last several decades, including flu, SARS, HIV, Ebola and COVID-19.