New York: Can the City That Never Sleeps become the City That Never Dies? A Russian multimillionaire thinks so.
Dmitry Itskov gathered some of humanity's best brains - and a few robots - in New York City on Saturday to discuss how humans can get their minds to outlive their bodies. Itskov, who looks younger than his 32 years, has an aggressive timetable in which he'd like to see milestones toward that goal met:
- By 2020, robots we can control remotely with our brains.
- By 2025, a scenario familiar to watchers of sci-fi cartoon show Futurama: the capability to transplant the brain into a life-support system, which could be a robot body. Essentially, a robot prosthesis that can replace an ailing, perhaps dying body....
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03:36 PM, Jun 18, 2013
New Delhi: Drug firm MSD India on Tuesday said it will invest USD 10 million over next three years in the country as part of its global initiative to help reduce maternal mortality. As part of the initiative - 'MSD for Mothers', the drug firm would partner three non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across three states in India - Rajasthan, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh - to reduce incidents of deaths during child...
03:50 PM, May 14, 2013
New Delhi: More than 4,00,000 babies across South Asia die right after their birth, reveals a new study. The report also indicates that chronic malnourishment which leads to mental or physical impairment is particularly severe in the region. The report's birth day risk index shows that of the one million babies who die each year on the day they are born, almost 40 per cent of these are in India,...
11:36 AM, May 07, 2013
I guess it is never easy to write about dying. More so, when you know it is coming at you, day by day, almost second by second. Christopher Hitchens, one of the greatest writers that Britain has ever produced and not even the tumor in his esophagus could stop him from writing. I have yet to read one of his greatest works, his memoir, called, Hitch-22, but for me, for...
11:35 AM, Jan 04, 2013
Chittorgarh: Rural Development Minister Jairam Ramesh had drawn attention to crumbling health infrastructure in the states, saying even Kenya has a lower infant mortality rate than India. CNN-IBN travelled to Rajasthan's Chittorgarh to find out the situation there. Prem and Madan Dangi were filled with joy upon the birth of their child, but now all they are left with is a feeling of emptiness. They lost their baby hours after...
10:37 AM, Nov 20, 2012
New Delhi: Only six states in the country, including Maharashtra and Kerala, are likely to achieve the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) on reducing child mortality by 2015, a report said on Wednesday. Except Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and West Bengal, other parts of the country are unlikely to achieve MDG 4, which aims to reduce Under-Five Mortality by two-thirds between 1990 and 2015, unless some key issues...
03:01 AM, Nov 15, 2012
Srinagar: The GB Pant hospital in Jammu and Kashmir was in the news for all the wrong reasons till a few months back. It saw the deaths of 500 infants in a matter of four to five months. But all that is history now, thanks to Dr Shafqat Ahmad Tak, for overhauling the hospital system and bringing down the mortality rate. Srinagar resident Shabir Najjar was back at the GB...
08:57 AM, Nov 12, 2012
New Delhi: With almost 19,000 children under five years of age dying every day across the world, India tops the list of countries with the highest number of 15.55 lakh such deaths in 2011, according to a UN agency. The 'Child Mortality Estimates Report 2012' released by Unicef in New York has said that in 2011, around 50 per cent of global under-five deaths occurred in just five countries of...
02:23 AM, Sep 13, 2012
Jaipur: About 1.27 lakh infants in Rajasthan are not able to celebrate their first birthday, while 1.05 lakh children die before attaining the age of five years, a state minister on Thursday said. However, the situation can be tackled to a significant extent by the simple practice of breastfeeding children, Rajasthan Minister of State for Women and Child Development Manju Meghwala told reporters. "Breastfeeding should be done for the first...
02:51 AM, Aug 10, 2012
Puducherry: Expressing concern over the quality of medical education, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Saturday said a "credible regulatory" mechanism should be put in place and a "serious look" given at the curriculum. "There is a perception of deteriorating quality. We cannot allow this situation to continue. We must put in place a credible regulatory and institutional mechanism to help develop standards in our medical education", he said in his...
11:44 AM, Jun 30, 2012
Kolkata: Amid regular reports of crib deaths in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed there has been a fall in the number of infant deaths in the state. "The reported infant deaths in the state in 2010 was 30,793 which came down drastically to just 18,671 in 2011. The infant mortality rate has come down by 1 percent to 31 percent in the year," Mamata said while...
02:23 AM, Apr 21, 2012
Kolkata: Amid regular reports of crib deaths in West Bengal, Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Friday claimed there has been a fall in the number of infant deaths in the state. "The reported infant deaths in the state in 2010 was 30,793 which came down drastically to just 18,671 in 2011. The infant mortality rate has come down by 1 percent to 31 percent in the year," Banerjee said while...
08:32 PM, Apr 20, 2012
Just when in many of the less developed regions, girls' past disadvantage in mortality at ages between one and four appears to be easing, India and China have stepped in to spoil the party. A report has been published by the Population Division of Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations, which shows that the two emerging countries have been the worst performers in addressing this malaise. In India,...
02:54 PM, Feb 01, 2012
Shimla: Infant mortality rate has declined from 45 to 40 per thousand in Himachal as per the report of the Sample Registration Survey (RS) conducted by the Health Ministry, state Health Minister Rajiv Bindal said on Saturday. The Infant Mortality rate (IMR) was stagnating at 45 for some years but the government succeeded in breaking this barrier by adopting new policies and launching new initiatives, he said. The report released...
08:36 AM, Dec 31, 2011
New Delhi: Despite a significant increase in women and child healthcare in India, more than nine lakh children in the country still die every year before becoming one-month-old, says a new global report. The study, conducted by experts at the World Health Organisation, Save the Children and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, is said to be the most comprehensive estimate to date, covering all 193 WHO member...
06:13 PM, Aug 31, 2011
Studies show that an antibiotic meant for an eye infection seems to be reducing the child mortality rates by half in Africa. ...
10:18 AM, Aug 10, 2011
London: The world's population will hit seven billion by the end of October with five babies being born every second, experts have predicted. A little over a decade ago, the world's population stood at six billion. But, with five babies being born every second, 78 million people are added to the global community each year. The population was three billion in 1960 and six billion as recently as 1999. And,...
12:24 PM, Jul 20, 2011
Kolkata: West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee on Saturday made an unscheduled visit to B C Roy Children's Hospital in the metropolis where 18 infants died in a span of 48 hours and said she will take up the issue of high infant mortality rate in the state with the Prime Minister. "40,000 infants die in our state every year. This is shocking. We rank fourth in infant mortality after...
05:24 PM, Jul 02, 2011
Hong Kong: Despite rapid economic growth, India's healthcare system remains blighted by high rates of infant mortality and deaths in childbirth, malaria, tuberculosis and a growing problem with chronic diseases, experts said. In a series of seven papers published in The Lancet said India's healthcare system was unable to cater to the needs of its population and out-of-pocket health bills were pushing 39 million residents into poverty each year. Among...
04:24 PM, Jan 12, 2011
Hong Kong: Despite India's rapid economic growth its healthcare system has remained in the doldrums and is struggling with high rates of child and maternal deaths, malaria, tuberculosis (TB) and a growing problem with chronic diseases. Below are some indicators of India's state of health and comparisons with China and other countries: 1) India had 2 million new cases of TB in 2009, and it killed 280,000 people that year....
04:11 PM, Jan 12, 2011
