Health

The US is looking at joint production of Johnson and Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine in India and ways to help manufacturers like the Serum Institute of India (SII) to boost production, Daniel B Smith, the Charge D’Affaires of the US embassy, said on Tuesday. Smith also said that the efficacy of …

<p><strong>Chikkamagaluru (Karnataka):</strong> In a tragic and shocking incident a 72-year-old retired assistant tehsildar reportedly killed himself by shooting himself in the head on Monday after testing positive for Covid, the police said.<br /><br />The police said that the poignant point of his suicide note is that he was deeply troubled …

Public procurement portal GeM has implemented several steps such as rapid onboarding of sellers of oxygen cylinders and concentrators, to enable easy buying of critical health equipment by government agencies in the wake of on-going second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country, a senior official said on Monday. …

The World Health Organization’s chief scientist Soumya Swaminathan has claimed that the current COVID-19 variant spreading in India is more contagious, and clearly a contributing factor to the catastrophe unfolding in the country.  In an interview with AFP, Soumya Swaminathan warned that the B.1.617 variant of Covid-19, which was first …

Amazon Amazon, Google and several Indian firms have jumped in to help the world’s second-biggest population battle coronavirus by pitching in with everything from airlifts of medical equipment and funding pledges to making medical oxygen. The event, offered only to members by Amazon, is typically held in July to boost sales. …

By PTI WASHINGTON: It’s not known, but researchers are starting to study the issue. Vaccines are designed to activate your immune system, and some experts have wondered if that could temporarily disrupt menstrual cycles. So far, reports of irregular bleeding have been anecdotal. And it’s hard to draw any links to …

New Delhi: The Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga, Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa and Homoeopathy, also called Ministry of Ayush, has released a list of immunity boosting measures for self care during COVID-19 pandemic. These measures are divided into four categories namely, general measures, ayurvedic immunity promoting measures, simple ayurvedic procedures and …

May 2021 Print this issue A study found that the drug teplizumab helped people at risk for type 1 diabetes. The drug delayed the average time to the start of the disease. Some who were …

A study by researchers from Indian Institute of Science Education and Research (IISER) Bhopal found that the actual coronavirus infectivity levels may vary significantly based on the presence of other viral proteins like the nucleocapsid (N) protein. The SARS-CoV-2 virus has an RNA genome, surrounded by a sphere-shaped structure. This …

Representative image Seeking to augment human resources deployed in fighting COVID-19, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has approved a number of measures, including postponing the NEET-PG for at least four months to make a large number of qualified doctors available for pandemic duty and pressing into service medical interns. The PMO …