Promises of big investments in healthcare in the state, totalling more than Rs 2,000 crore, came on the concluding day of the Bengal Global Business Summit on Thursday. Surgeon Devi Shetty led the pa...

Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) has replaced about 16,000 Covid vaccine doses that were lying with private hospitals and were to expire a week later with ones that can be stored for a few more mon...

A private hospital group in the city has introduced a modern way of cancer treatment wherein tumours are killed by freezing them. “In cryoablation technology, a needle is inserted to the tumour...

With few people above 60 turning up for the Covid booster dose, many private hospitals are planning to take the jabs to people.  But healthcare workers and elderly people coming down with Covid ...

Devising complex financial schemes for evaluating and processing huge chunks of digital data. Knowledge of quantum computing and algorithms to automate financial and trading services. Deploying AI...

The number of new Covid cases every day has been varying between 800 and 1,000 over the past 15 days, a trend that has triggered concern among state government officials and public health experts. Se...

India’s vaccination policy should be flexible enough to prevent a fresh surge in Covid-19 cases and the jabs should be given to all adults now, at least two public health experts have said. One...

Corporate India is now beginning to vaccinate with some of the bigwigs turning up at various centres to receive their first shots. On Tuesday, Uday Kotak, the MD & CEO of Kotak Mahindra Bank, too...

Many private hospitals in Calcutta have reduced the number of beds designated for Covid-19 patients over the past week on the ground that the number of people suffering from the coronavirus disease ha...

Sourav Ganguly can run a marathon or fly a plane and his heart will not be a hindrance to normal life, cardiac surgeon Devi Shetty said on Tuesday after meeting the former India cricket captain at Woo...