Delhi’s air quality continues to be in ‘very poor’ category

IANS | November 21, 2023 7:04 PM

New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) Air quality across Delhi continued to be in the ‘very poor' category on Tuesday evening as the overall AQI of the city reached 384, according to data from the System of Air Quality and Weather Forecasting And Research (SAFAR).

Wearable tech in medical market to exceed $100 bn in 2023: Report

IANS | November 21, 2023 12:42 PM

New Delhi, Nov 21 (IANS) The market size of wearable technology in the medical sector in 2023 is projected to exceed $100 billion and is expected to grow at a compound annual growth rate of 15 per cent up to the year 2030, according to a report on Tuesday.

New, shorter drug-resistant tuberculosis treatment shows promise

IANS | November 20, 2023 6:26 PM

Paris, Nov 20 (IANS) New, shorter drug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) treatment -- BPaL (comprised of bedaquiline, pretomanid, and linezolid) -- showed a 94.5 per cent cure rate in countries with a high burden of drug-resistant TB (DR-TB), reveals interim research results from five Central and Southeast Asian countries.