14-Jun-17 14.4 mn kids in India are obese, the second highest after China with 15.3 mn. Egypt topped the list for adult obesity at about 35 percent. Lowest were Bangladesh and Vietnam at 1 percent. [image: ET Healthworld]

13-Jun-17 A delegation of Ethiopian government officials invited India's CARE chain of hospitals to train Ethiopian doctors in tertiary care including surgery, and opened the door to opening of a CARE hospital in Ethiopia. [image: Ethiogrio]

13-Jun-17  Economic improvements in India are resulting in a "dual-disease burden", a rise in communicable diseases and a spurt in non-communicable diseases, that cost the government USD81 bn in 2013 and are projected to grow at 17% to 2020. [image: ET Healthworld]

13-Jun-17 India's Portea Medical has partnered with Physitrack to develop a solution for its physiotherapy patients to access customised video-based exercise programs, physiotherapists, educational content, clinical questionnaires, as well as consult with physiotherapists via an online portal. [image: ET Healthworld]

07-Jun-17 In 2016 Google announced it had trained image recognition algorithms to detect diabetes-related eye disease roughly as well as human experts. Work has now begun on integrating the technology into a chain of eye hospitals in India. [image: Cole Wilson / Wired]