As the country faces an unprecedented medical emergency including the lack of oxygen supply due to the surging COVID-19 cases, International NGO Khalsa Aid’s India chapter...
According to Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Health, it is imperative that the country starts preparing for the shielding children from the next wave of...
Authorities announced that primary, secondary schools and junior colleges would shift to full home-based learning from Wednesday
According to Dr Suranjit Chatterjee, a senior consultant at Apollo Hospitals, watching patients die every day or family members pleading to save their lives is affecting...
Over the past two decades, India has achieved impressive gains in reducing maternal deaths. India’s maternal mortality rate (maternal deaths/100,000 live births) has decreased from 407...
According to Health Minister Harsh Vardhan, the country's first indigenous anti-COVID drug, 2-deoxy-D-glucose or 2-DG can become a gamechanger in the country's response to the pandemic
According to Deepak Sapra, CEO, Pharmaceutical Services and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API), Dr Reddy's labs, the pilot programme is to check the cold chain supply of...
Herd immunity occurs when there are enough immune people in a population that new infections stop. It means that enough people have achieved immunity to disrupt...
According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, alerts have been raised in some countries on bleeding and clotting cases following the COVID-19 vaccination
The Drugs Controller General of India (DGCI) approved the 2-deoxy-D-glucose (2-DG) drug for emergency use as an adjunct therapy in moderate to severe coronavirus patients earlier...
Anupam Kher Foundation in collaboration with Dr Ashutosh Tewari (Global Cancer Foundation, USA) and Baba Kalyani, (Bharat Forge, India), recently started an initiative called 'Project Heal...
According to Dr Guleria, chances of fungal infection increase in the patients who are diabetic, COVID positive and are taking steroids