BioVoice News June 2017 Issue 1 Volume 2 | Page 66

news bytes 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 66 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.