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GENDER/ HEALTH/ EDUCATION - January 2019

Jan 2019

Aug 06, 2019

Oz cancer Patient Ends Life Using Assisted Dying Law

A 61-year-old cancer patient became the first person in over two decades to die under controversial assisted dying laws in Australia. Kerry Robertson died in July, 2019, three months after the mother-of-two ceased treatment for metastatic breast cancer. The state of Victoria passed a law in 2017 to legalise the practice.

Aug 05, 2019

Include all above 60 years in national health insurance scheme

On the occasion of World Bone and Joint Day on July 04, 2019, the Indian Orthopaedic Association (IOA) demanded that elderly persons across economic strata to be included in government's Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB-PMJAY).
The association submitted a joint memorandum to the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union minister of health and family welfare, requesting that the citizens above 60 across all economic strata to be included in the world's largest public health insurance scheme.
The scheme as of now provides any insurance cover of Rs.5 lakh per family to about 104 million eligible families for hospitalisation.

Nitish seeks Central status for university

Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar lamented that his fervent request for grant of central status to Patna University two years ago was dismissed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi denying the institution much-needed help.
He said he is hopeful now that the university will get its due as Vice-President M Venkaiah Naidu is present at the programme held to observe the centenary of the library of the varsity.

Centre identifies 4 districts for cash transfer pilot under Poshan scheme

The Centre has finally selected two districts each in Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan for a pilot scheme to study whether cash transfers will work better instead of take home ration for pregnant women and lactating mothers as well as children between six months and three years of age.

Aug 04, 2019

A step closer to oral administration of kala-azar drug

IIT Hyderabad achieved controlled, sustained drug release for 10 days
By encapsulating an antifungal drug in polymer nanofibres, researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Hyderabad have been able to achieve controlled and sustained release of the drug for up to 10 days.
Most importantly, the antifungal activity against Candida albicans was observed when the encapsulated drug was compressed to form oral tablets. This would mean that oral administration of the drug might become possible if initial results achieved in the lab can be replicated in animal and human clinical trials.

Aug 03, 2019

UGC recommends Institutions for Institutes of Eminence

The University Grants Commission has today announced names of all 20 Institutions of Eminence (IOEs). The list includes IIT-Bombay, IIT-Delhi and IISc, besides the private institutes BITS-Pilani, Manipal Academy of Higher Institutes and Jio Institutes. UGC has recommended that Delhi University, BHU, Hyderabad University, IIT-Madras and IIT-Kharagpur be granted IOE status by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD).
Among the universities that got the UGC recommendations for issuing the letter of intent are Jamia Hamdard University, OP Jindal University and Shiv Nadar University.
Meanwhile, Aligarh Muslim University, Tezpur University and Ashoka University failed to make the cut for the IOE status.
Azim Premji University (Bengaluru), Ashoka University (Sonepat), Krea University (Chennai), Indian Institute of Human Settlements (Bengaluru), and Indian Institute of Public Health (IIPH), Gandhinagar, didn't make the cut.

Aug 01, 2019

Control Learning Workshop

Indian Institute of Technology Mandi in collaboration with Control Society organised a five-day workshop on 'Learning and Control' from. The aim of the workshop was to address the existing need for a sound analytical foundation for Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) with Control Theory. The workshop was jointly sponsored by IIT Mandi, Control Society, and Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) India.
The workshop on 'Learning and Control' is a platform to discuss current advances in the field of Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. The objective is to enhance the knowledge of participants who want to become researchers and expert users of Machine Learning and Control Methodologies, the workshop was designed with a focus on senior B. Tech students, research scholars and junior faculty from engineering institutes and colleges.

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