Health

GENEVA: A panel of experts commissioned by the World Health Organization has criticized China and other countries for not moving to stem the initial outbreak of the coronavirus earlier and questioned whether the U.N. health agency should have labeled it a pandemic sooner. In a report issued Monday, the panel …

Guwahati: For providing food and medicine to the patients, two robots were handed over to Assam medical and college (AMCH) in Dibrugarh. Chief Minister Sarbananda Sonowal handed over two robots to Principal AMCH Dr. Sanjib Kakati as a part of the Covid-19 infrastructure equipment grant sponsored by Rotary Foundation of …

NEW DELHI: People adopting a “wait and watch” approach, lack of communication and glitches in CoWin app are the major reasons why only 53 per cent people got the COVID-19 shots on the first day in Delhi, experts said on Sunday. In Delhi, 4,319 healthcare workers “ 53.3 per cent …

Express News Service All the teachers out there, beware. Conducting online lectures while sitting for long hours can be dangerous for you, as was seen recently in a case at Max Super Speciality Hospital, Vaishali, Ghaziabad.  A 40-year-old school teacher, was brought to the hospital in emergency, with severe breathlessness …

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Thursday, confirmed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be launching India’s mass inoculation drive against the Covid-19 pandemic on January 16. “The massive countrywide Covid-19 vaccination drive will be rolled out by Prime Minister from January 16. This would be the world’s largest immunisation …

January 2021 Print this issue Preventing Infections and Improving Survival Your immune system is on patrol every day. It protects your body from bacteria, viruses, and other germs. But if something goes wrong, it can …

New Delhi: The Education Ministry has asked the states to conduct a door-to-door survey to identify out-of-school children and prepare an action plan for their enrolment as part of efforts to mitigate the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, especially on migrants, according to officials. The ministry has also recommended relaxing …

Philadelphia: An international team of researchers have found that medications to treat high blood pressure do not affect outcomes among patients hospitalized with COVID-19. The study, led by researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, published in The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, is the first randomized controlled …

NEW DELHI: The Covid-19 fatality rate in India has been showing a sustained decline and has further dropped to 1.44 per cent due to focused efforts of the Centre, states and Union Territories on effective clinical management of the hospitalised cases, the Union Health Ministry said on Sunday. With effective …

AHMEDABAD: Adult vaccination drives have always been dismal, not just in Gujarat but across the country. Just as the medical system gears up for the Covid 19 vaccination drive, a team of doctors, months ago, had asked medical professionals about their willingness to get vaccinated, their knowledge of vaccines and …