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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Aug 15, 2019

Karnataka Launches E-Step To Empower Student Start-Ups

The Department of IT, BT and S&T in Karnataka, through Karnataka Innovation and Technology Society (KITS), has launched the E-Step, an initiative to empower student start-ups.
E-Step focuses on boot camps, mentoring and training programmes which cover various aspects of entrepreneurship.
E-Step, an initiative from Start-up Cell, is specially crafted for students/start-ups/entrepreneurs to understand the basics of entrepreneurship from experienced trainers.
In the first phase, a day-long boot camp across New Age Incubation Networks (NAIN) will be organised. Boot camps will be held at 30 colleges between August 12 and September 14, 2019 in Mandya, Chikkaballapura,Tumakuru, Hassan, Dakshina Kannada, Mangaluru, Shivamogga, Davanagere, Ballari, Dharwad, Belagavi, Bagalkot, Vijayapura, Kalaburgi and Bidar.

159 Free Tests On India's First Diagnostics List

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has finalized the country's first National Essential Diagnostics List (NEDL) that recommends that at least 159 tests should be made available for patients in even rudimentary government health facilities.
The list is on the lines of the essential drugs list, the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) which was first released in 1996 and last updated in 2015.
The diagnostics list mentions105 general laboratory tests for a broad range of common conditions, 30 disease-specific tests such as for HIV, hepatitis, tuberculosis, and 24 imaging tests including X-rays, CT and MRI scans and ultrasound sonography.

Aug 14, 2019

Breakthrough In Ebola Cure

Scientists are a step closer to finding the first effective treatments for the deadly Ebola haemorrhagic fever after two potential drugs showed encouraging survival results in a clinical trial in DR Congo.
Two experimental drugs Regeneron's REGN-EB3 and a monoclonal antibody called mAb114 - were both developed using antibodies harvested from survivors of Ebola.
They showed "clearly better" results in patients in a trial of four potential treatments being conducted during the world's second largest Ebola outbreak in history, now entering its second year in DR Congo.

Aug 10, 2019

Campaign For Non-Judgemental Gynaecs Gets Support

Two non-government organisations, Haiyya and Sacchi Saheli, have taken it upon themselves to ensure women receive "health care over stigma".
The campaign aims at motivating doctors, especially gynaecologists, to provide information about sex and sexuality without administering sermons.
Under the campaign, the organisations have come up with ten recommendations that can guide doctors in providing unbiased care.
The president of the Delhi Medical Council (DMC), a statutory body responsible for overlooking the practice of modern medicine in the state, has also extended support to the campaign.

Aug 09, 2019

NMC To Be Set Up In Six Months: Govt

India will get the National Medical Commission (NMC), that will replace the graft-tainted Medical Council of India (MCI), in the next six months according to Union health minister Harsh Vardhan.
The National Exit Test (NEXT), which will work as the common final-year exit exam for undergraduate medical students, licentiate exam to practise medicine and criteria for admission to postgraduate (PG) medical courses, will be implemented within three years.
It will also be used to screen foreign medical graduates intending to work or study in India. The MCI was dissolved in 2018 following allegations of corruption, and a board of governors constituted to take over its functioning.
The health ministry will soon notify the National Medical Commission (NMC) Act 2019 that received Presidential assent after Parliament cleared it on August 5, 2019.
The 33-member commission will have 29 doctors as members in different capacities. The states will be represented by 19 members. Of them, 10 members will be the vice-chancellors of various universities across states, and nine will belong to various state medical councils.

Aug 07, 2019

New paper in biomed engineering in GATE 2020

A new paper Biomedical Engineering (BM) in Graduate Aptitude Test in Engineering (GATE) is introduced from the year 2020.
This is expected to unify undergraduate syllabus of biomedical engineering among several universities in India.
The BME Sector in India is in need of a major development mainly due to the lack of adequate integration between research institutions, hospitals, industries, and universities in India.
The challenges of BME graduates in India were discussed in a recent meeting held at IIT Madras, which was organized by BME Group of Applied Mechanics Department, IIT Madras, along with representatives from several other IITs.
The meeting was chaired by Prof. V. Jagadeesh Kumar, Dean (Academic Courses), IIT Madras, and co-chaired by Neelesh Vasa who was the GATE Chairman in 2018.
After analysing the issues, it was decided to propose a new GATE paper for BME.Until now, BME graduates could write two papers in GATE: IN (Instrumentation and Engineering), and EC (Electronics and Communication Engineering).

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