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The study was done at
the Shri Shankaracharaya
College of Engineering
and Technology and
Chhattisgarh Swami
Vivekananda Technical
University, Bhilai in
Chhattisgarh. The
programme has been
tested efficiency of
the program at the
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology–Beth
Israel Hospital database
of normal individuals and
arrhythmia patients.
Diagnostics equipment
at 18% GST undesirable,
says AIMED
“The GST Council
headed by Union Finance
Minister, Mr Arun Jaitley,
needs to be congratulated
for doing a speedy work
on fixing the rate slabs of
various goods and services
for the new GST regime
to be rolled out on the
First Day of July 2017.
The lead time will help
get clarifications on grey
areas and will also give
time to the government
to reconsider and tweak
various tax slabs in the
larger interest of economy
and citizens,” mentioned
the statement from
Mr Rajiv Nath, Forum
Coordinator, Association
of Indian Medical Device
Industry (AIMeD).
The association believes
that since most of the
medical devices have
been put in the 12% slab,
it sees little or no impact
on the prices of devices.
However, it has demanded
the review on the 18% tax
slab over the diagnostics.
Govt to set up state
cancer institutes each
costing Rs 100 crore
Government has recently
approved a scheme for
enhancing the Tertiary
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BioVoiceNews | June 2017
Care Cancer facilities
in the country under
NPCDCS to grant financial
assistance to 20 State
Cancer Institute’s and
50 Tertiary Cancer Care
Centres in different
parts of the country,
Ms Anupriya Patel,
Minister of State for
Health and Family
Welfare said at a
recent ASSOCHAM
event held in New
Delhi.
a patient’s heartbeats
over a period of time. The
result is seen as many
waves that appear at
regular intervals, where a
single heartbeat is made
of 5 wave peaks known
as P, Q, R, S, and T. Any
deviation in the time
interval between these
peaks generally indicates
abnormal heart condition.
Arrhythmia or irregular
beating of the heart is
indicative of cardiac
disease.
In India, million
people suffer from thyroid
diseases. There is a
high burden of thyroid
disorders in India due to
endemic iodine deficiency
and scarcity of proper
therapeutic resources.
Thyroid disorders
are more common in
women than men with
the prevalence of 664
percent and 33.6 percent
respectively, reveals the
ASSOCHAM-Turacoz
joint paper coinciding
with the “World Thyroid
Day” (May 25) noted.