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Hans India
12 hours ago
- Health
- Hans India
Apollo hosp to launch oral cancer screening tests from today
Vijayawad: In honor of World Tobacco Day, the Apollo Specialty Hospital in Nellore and all branches has been launching oral cancer screening tests from May 31 said Dr Sriram Satish. Doctors are advised to undergo oral cancer screening tests for those who are over 30 years old and tobacco. Apollo is working with Isha Foundation. At this meeting ENT Dr Satish, Dr Nagendra, Surgical Oncologist Dr GVV Prasad, Senior Oncologist Haritha, Apollo Hospital Unit Head Balaraju participated.
Irish Daily Mirror
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Daily Mirror
'A commentary on the last four years of my life': BABA on debut record, Truth
BABA's debut album, Truth, is a 'commentary on the last four years' of the artist's life. The 12-track, featuring production crafted by Enda Gallery who co-wrote the record, is a compelling autobiographical album that explores core themes of female empowerment, love, loss and hope. 'Basically, the album is really just a commentary, kind of on the last four years of my life,' Siobhán Lynch, aka BABA, told the Irish Mirror. 'We had a lot of miscarriages the last few years. I had the process of IVF. 'So there's two songs. There's one for my little boy that I lost in the second trimester of pregnancy. That's Apollo. 'And then very luckily, I had a little girl, so that's Love Like This. That's about her and then there's two songs in the middle which are Lost in Lisbon and Spicy Summer. 'Because the album was starting to sound a little sad, I really wanted to make sure that I kept elements of me in there. 'Spicy Summer is about my favorite thing, which is kissing and the summer time. So I wanted to make sure I kept that in there. And Lost in Lisbon is kind of a reflection on lost loves and things'. The record is loosely divided into four stages, each reflecting points in Siobhán's journey, with these parts connected by unique interludes. 'Sometimes I think when albums come out, although the songs are personal to the artist, you don't really see all of the background work or the personal touches. So that's why I wanted to put those little bits in. 'Two of them were voice notes. One of them, the one for Apollo, was one that I found on what should have been his second birthday, that I'd recorded. 'And I actually forgot about it, and Enda was like, 'Just go through them', and we nearly didn't put it on, because I just thought, 'Oh, is it too much?' 'It's important. It's very important. For me, talking about pregnancy loss, it's just a really important thing, because when I first started having miscarriages, there was no one to talk to about it. 'So I actually started my own podcast, just to chat through it. So some women had somewhere to go, or people had somewhere to go. Because no one was really talking about it, and it's really lonely.' While some tracks on the album took just 10 minutes to pen, Apollo took Siobhán nine months to write. 'Apollo took me nine months to write. Some of the songs took 10 minutes,' Siobhán shared. 'We actually started the song, writing the melody of the song before I lost him. 'And then I lost him in the January, and we went back through some of the melodies we'd been writing. I was like, 'Oh, this really sounds like something I could work with'. But just to get the words down on paper, it's very difficult.' BABA's debut album, Truth, is out now on all streaming platforms.
Indian Express
19 hours ago
- Health
- Indian Express
All big hospitals in city to come under Ayushman scheme, says Delhi Govt
All the 'big hospitals' of Delhi will now be brought under the Ayushman Bharat insurance umbrella in the next '20-25 days', Health Minister Pankaj Singh told The Indian Express as the Rekha Gupta-led BJP government in the Capital completed 100 days in power Friday. Singh's remarks are significant because major private hospital groups in Delhi, such as Max, Fortis and Apollo, have not yet come on board the Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (PMJAY) — the scheme's dashboard currently includes 82 other private hospitals, apart from 11 government facilities. According to Singh, private hospitals in Delhi were hesitant to sign up because the previous AAP government did not clear pending payments under other schemes. 'They did not make the payment on time from Delhi Arogya Nidhi (the financial assistance scheme run by the Directorate General of Health Services). Now I ensure that in the next 20-25 days, all the big hospitals will be empanelled under Ayushman Bharat. I will talk to them soon,' the Health Minister said. Under Ayushman Bharat PMJAY, patients from poor households get health insurance of up to Rs 5 lakh, and Rs 5 lakh for patients above the age of 70. While Centre offers a cover of Rs 5 lakh, Chief Minister Rekha Gupta had said after her Cabinet's first meeting that the Delhi government would provide an additional top-up of Rs 5 lakh to beneficiaries. Records show that more than 3.16 lakh beneficiaries have been registered so far from poor households, and 30,000 above the age of 70. Beneficiaries for the scheme are selected on the basis of National Food Security Act (NFSA) data, and Socio Economic and Caste Census 2011. So far, 601 beneficiaries have availed services under the scheme, Singh said. Healthcare representatives in Delhi, however, have called for a 'reality check' before the scheme is expanded. Currently, of 62 private hospitals under Ayushman Bharat for which details are publicly available, nine are eyecare facilities while others offer services related to general medicine, general surgery, obstetrics and gynaecology, and cardiology. Representing the Association of Healthcare Providers India (APHI), Dr Vipender Sabherwal, convenor for Ayushman Bharat, said, 'We have been in touch with the Union Health Ministry and government officials on pricing and rates, which do not match the requirements of good hospitals with all facilities. The amount being offered is meagre and not practical. Even our payments were not made on time under Ayushman Bharat.' Sabherwal said doctors' associations would get in touch with the Delhi government for further discussions. AHPI represents about 15,000 private hospitals, including Fortis, Max Healthcare, Manipal, Medanta, Narayana and Apollo. Meanwhile, the Delhi government is expected to launch 33 Jan Arogya Mandirs in place of AAP's mohalla clinics and government dispensaries on Saturday under the Centre's Pradhan Mantri Ayushman Bharat Health Infrastructure Mission scheme (PM-ABHIM). Health Minister Singh had earlier said the government would open 200 such centres. Each Arogya Mandir is expected to provide 12 service packages, including maternal and child healthcare, vaccinations, mental health services, elderly care, and treatment for communicable diseases. Each facility is mandated to maintain an essential drug list of 256 medicines, with in-house tests for blood sugar, haemoglobin, blood group, urine and pregnancy, among others — 90 other tests will be outsourced to Agilus Lab.
Time of India
a day ago
- Business
- Time of India
Silicon Valley is at an inflection point
On his second day in office this year, President Trump underscored his unequivocal support for the tech industry. Standing at a lectern next to tech leaders, he announced the Stargate Project , a plan to pump $500 billion in private investment over four years into artificial intelligence infrastructure. For comparison: The Apollo mission, which sent the first men to the moon, spent around $300 billion in today's dollars over 13 years. Sam Altman , OpenAI's chief executive, played down the investment. "It sounds crazy big now," he said. "I bet it won't sound that big in a few years." In the decade that I have observed Silicon Valley — first as an engineer, then as a journalist — I've watched the industry shift into a new paradigm. Tech companies have long reaped the benefits of a friendly U.S. government, but in its early months the Trump administration has made clear that the state will now grant new firepower to the industry's ambitions. The Stargate announcement was just one signal. Another was the Republican tax bill that the House passed last week, which would ban states from regulating AI for the next 10 years. The leading AI giants are no longer merely multinational corporations; they are growing into modern-day empires. With the full support of the federal government, soon they will be able to reshape most spheres of society as they please, from the political to the economic to the production of science. by Taboola by Taboola Sponsored Links Sponsored Links Promoted Links Promoted Links You May Like Empresas de Lages reduzem custos agora [Saiba mais] Sistema TMS embarcador Saiba Mais Undo When I took my first job in Silicon Valley 10 years ago, the industry's wealth and influence were already expanding. The tech giants had grandiose missions — take Google 's, to "organise the world's information" — which they used to attract young workers and capital investment. But with the promise of developing artificial general intelligence, or AGI, those grandiose missions have turned into civilising ones. Companies claim they will bring humanity into a new, enlightened age — that they alone have the scientific and moral clarity to control a technology that, in their telling, will usher us to hell if China develops it first. "AI companies in the U.S. and other democracies must have better models than those in China if we want to prevail," said Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, an AI start-up. This language is as far-fetched as it sounds, and Silicon Valley has a long history of making promises that never materialize. Yet the narrative that AGI is just around the corner and will usher in "massive prosperity," as Mr. Altman has written, is already leading companies to accrue vast amounts of capital, lay claim to data and electricity, and build enormous data centers that are accelerating the climate crisis. These gains will fortify tech companies' power and erode human rights long after the shine of the industry's promises wears off. Live Events The quest for A.G.I. is giving companies cover to vacuum up more data than ever before, with profound implications for people's privacy and intellectual property rights. Before investing heavily in generative AI, Meta had amassed data from nearly four billion accounts, but it no longer considers that enough. To train its generative AI models, the company has scraped the web with little regard for copyright and even considered buying up Simon & Schuster to meet the new data imperative. Discover the stories of your interest Blockchain 5 Stories Cyber-safety 7 Stories Fintech 9 Stories E-comm 9 Stories ML 8 Stories Edtech 6 Stories These developments are also convincing companies to escalate their consumption of natural resources. Early drafts of the Stargate Project estimated that its AI supercomputer could need about as much power as three million homes. And McKinsey now projects that by 2030, the global grid will need to add around two to six times the energy capacity it took to power California in 2022 to sustain the current rate of Silicon Valley's expansion. "In any scenario, these are staggering investment numbers," McKinsey wrote. One OpenAI employee told me that the company is running out of land and electricity. Meanwhile, there are fewer independent AI experts to hold Silicon Valley to account. In 2004, only 21 percent of people graduating from Ph.D. programs in artificial intelligence joined the private sector. In 2020, nearly 70 percent did, one study found. They've been won over by the promise of compensation packages that can easily rise over $1 million. This means that companies like OpenAI can lock down the researchers who might otherwise be asking tough questions about their products and publishing their findings publicly for all to read. Based on my conversations with professors and scientists, ChatGPT's release has exacerbated that trend — with even more researchers joining companies like OpenAI. This talent monopoly has reoriented the kind of research that's done in this field. Imagine what would happen if most climate science were done by researchers who worked in fossil fuel companies. That's what's happening with artificial intelligence. Already, AI companies could be censoring critical research into the flaws and risks of their tools. Four years ago, the leaders of Google's ethical AI team said they were ousted after they wrote a paper raising questions about the industry's growing focus on large language models, the technology that underpins ChatGPT and other generative AI products. These companies are at an inflection point. With Mr. Trump's election, Silicon Valley's power will reach new heights. The president named David Sacks, a billionaire venture capitalist and AI investor, as his AI czar, and empowered another tech billionaire, Elon Musk , to slash through the government. Mr. Trump brought a cadre of tech executives with him on his recent trip to Saudi Arabia. If Senate Republicans now vote to prohibit states from regulating AI for 10 years, Silicon Valley's impunity will be enshrined in law, cementing these companies' empire status. Their influence now extends well beyond the realm of business. We are now closer than ever to a world in which tech companies can seize land, operate their own currencies, reorder the economy and remake our politics with little consequence. That comes at a cost — when companies rule supreme, people lose their ability to assert their voice in the political process and democracy cannot hold. Technological progress does not require businesses to operate like empires. Some of the most impactful AI advancements came not from tech behemoths racing to recreate human levels of intelligence, but from the development of relatively inexpensive, energy-efficient models to tackle specific tasks such as weather forecasting. DeepMind's AlphaFold built a nongenerative AI model that predicts protein structures from their sequences — a function critical to drug discovery and understanding disease. Its creators were awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. AI tools that help everyone cannot arise from a vision of development that demands the capitulation of the majority to the self-serving agenda of the few. Transitioning to a more equitable and sustainable AI future won't be easy: It'll require everyone — journalists, civil society, researchers, policymakers, citizens — to push back against the tech giants, produce thoughtful government regulation wherever possible and invest more in smaller-scale AI technologies. When people rise, empires fall.
Economic Times
a day ago
- Business
- Economic Times
Apollo Hospitals to invest Rs 6,000 crore for 4,300 new beds across India
Synopsis Apollo Hospitals has unveiled plans for a massive expansion, investing a staggering Rs 6,000 crores. This commitment is expected to yield over 4,300 additional beds across the nation in the next 3-4 years, with a swift introduction of 2,000 beds within the next year. ADVERTISEMENT Apollo Hospitals will invest Rs 6,000 crores over the next 3-4 years to add more than 4,300 beds across the country, Krishnan Akhileswaran, Group Chief Financial Officer, told ET in an interaction after the company announced its fourth quarter results post market hours on Friday. Out of this, close to 2,000 beds will be added over the next 12-15 months, he said. These will be coming up in places such as Gurugram, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Delhi and Sarjapur.'In the next four years we would be adding approximately 4,300 beds. We have a total capital outlay of Rs 8,000 crores for the same, of which Rs 2,000 crore is already incurred over the past couple of years when we bought land and some of these assets and the balance Rs 6,000 crore will be incurred over the next four years,' he said. The expansion will be funded through internal accruals and cash. 'Every year we are generating Rs 1,000 crore of free cash. It should only keep growing, especially given that once we have the new hospitals also next year - most of them being in existing markets where Apollo already has a strong presence - we would be able to see them break even in 12 months,' he added. For the fourth quarter ended March, the company reported 13% year-on-year increase in consolidated revenue to Rs 5,592 crores, while consolidated net profit grew 54% to Rs 390 crores. Its healthcare services revenue was at Rs 2,822 crores, up 10% YoY, and net profit was at Rs 385 crore; up 37%.For FY25, consolidated revenues rose 14% YoY to Rs 21,794 crores, and net profit was at Rs 1,446 crores, up 61%. Healthcare services revenue for FY25 stood at Rs 11,147 crores, up 13% YoY, while healthcare net profit was up 25% at Rs 1,426 crores. ADVERTISEMENT The company announced expansion in the Sarjapur micro-market through the addition of 700 beds in two stages, to establish a significant presence in the south-eastern part of Bengaluru with a wide addressable market. The first stage will include acquisition of an existing 200 bedded hospital and the second stage will be to establish a 500-bed greenfield hospital in close the ongoing brownfield expansions in the city, the total bed strength in Bengaluru will be 1,500 beds, the company said in a press release. ADVERTISEMENT 'About 66% of our beds nationally are in the very small format hospitals and not in the organised integrated healthcare sector. The kind of beds that Apollo operates is for high complexity and high equity care and we see continued demand for those kinds of beds,' said Dr Madhu Sasidhar, President & CEO, Apollo Hospitals, which has 70% of its beds in Metros and 30% in non-metros, had blended average revenue per operating bed (ARPOB) of Rs 63,500 per day for the quarter, one of the highest in the industry, Akhileswaran told ET. ADVERTISEMENT The company also plans brownfield expansion in Hyderabad by 160 beds through expansion at the existing Jubilee Hills and Secunderabad facilities. Along with the upcoming facility in Gachibowli, Apollo Hospitals' bed strength in Hyderabad will be about 1,400 beds. The company announced a final dividend of Rs 10 per share, making for a total dividend of Rs 19 per share, on face value of Rs 5 per share. 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