Author Archives: Mayur Kumar

What does a bionic eye see? The bionic implant sees a blurred image made from flashes of light rather than a steady visual perception. The flashes of light provide visual information in the form of a basic shape. This basic shape can indicate the height and width of an object and its approximate location. Who […]

ASHP (American Society of Health-System Pharmacists) respectfully submits the following statement for the record to the Subcommittee on Health, House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing on Lowering the Cost of Prescription Drugs: Reducing Barriers to Market Competition. ASHP represents pharmacists who serve as patient care providers in acute and ambulatory settings. The organization’s nearly […]

Almost two years into the Covid-19 pandemic, an end might finally be in sight. Experts say that Covid will likely lose its “pandemic” status sometime in 2022, due largely to rising global vaccination rates and developments of antiviral Covid pills that could become more widespread next year. Instead, the virus will likely become “endemic,” eventually […]

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could lead to a surge of COVID-19 cases among civilians trapped in the war zone or fleeing to  neighboring countries as crowded conditions and a shortage of medical care take their toll, health agencies and experts say. “The COVID-19 pandemic is still here. It will not stop because of conflict,” said […]

This history of pandemics shows that the lessons learned can help digital transform, or the status quo can continue to exist. The pandemic has tested the healthcare sector in India like never before — the lack of hospital beds, medical and paramedical talent, broken supply chains of medical consumables and drugs, paucity of ventilators and […]

Retinal degeneration, in which the light-sensitive photoreceptors in the eye deteriorate and lose function, is a major cause of blindness worldwide. But even though the retinal cells have lost sensitivity to light, the neural circuits connected to the brain are often well preserved. This provides an opportunity to restore vision by bypassing the damaged photoreceptors […]

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have led to speculation that AI might one day replace human radiologists. Researchers have developed deep learning neural networks that can identify pathologies in radiological images such as bone fractures and potentially cancerous lesions, in some cases more reliably than an average radiologist. For the most part, though, the best […]

The pharmaceutical industry is set to greatly benefit from the use of artificial intelligence  (AI), due to its wide range of applications. Sydney Tierney discusses how machine learning can enhance marketing, manufacturing and drug trials. Artificial Intelligence  (AI) can be applied to nearly every aspect of the pharmaceutical and healthcare industry, to enhance data processing. […]

Reduced kidney function may increase the risk for sudden cardiac death (SCD) in the general population, independent of other important SCD risk factors, according to a recent report. “Even mildly to moderately reduced kidney function is associated with an increased risk of SCD, providing possibilities for improving screening and prediction models for SCD in the […]