The United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) defines endemic as the constant presence and/or usual prevalence of a disease or infectious agent in...
Despite being one of the world's largest producers of food items like milk, pulses, wheat, rice, fruits, vegetables among others and a country with multiple schemes...
It is a great Indian paradox that the world's largest producer of milk, pulses and the second largest producer of wheat, rice, fruits, vegetables, sugarcane and...
Susan Ferguson, UN Women Representative of India talks about Reckitt and UN Women partnership to create employment and entrepreneurship opportunities for women in India. Talking to...
Who will need a booster dose of COVID-19 vaccine as variants; especially the Delta variant manages to breakthrough? People on immunosuppressants and frontline workers might need...
The official data reflects that people are getting COVID-19 infection even after full vaccination. In such a scenario, the one question that pops up is, how...
Intra nasal vaccine which is given through the nose is being developed for COVID-19. Dr Rahul Pandit, Director-Critical Care, Fortis Hospitals, Mumbai and Member of the...
According to the report titled 'COVID-19 Third Wave Preparedness: Children's Vulnerability and Recovery', prepared by a committee of experts constituted under the National Institute of Disaster...
Zydus Cadila's ZyCoV-D, India's first DNA vaccine against COVID-19 has received emergency use authorisation (EUA). The vaccine can be administered to children aged 12-17. Are there...
A breakthrough infection is defined as an individual testing positive for COVID-19 more than two weeks after completing the full recommended doses of an authorised COVID...
Over 87,000 people across the country have been reported COVID-19 positive after the second dose of vaccination. A latest ICMR study in Chennai showed that the...
Dr Rakesh Mishra, Director, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bangalore who has been studying the genetic information of coronavirus said that genome sequencing plays a...
Dr Rakesh Mishra, Director, Tata Institute for Genetics and Society, Bangalore who has been studying the genetic information of coronavirus, catching mutations and warning about variants...
Malnutrition is among the major contributors to disease burden in India, according to experts. It is one of the chronic issues of the Melghat region of...