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London: UK Health Secretary Matt Hancock warned that the coronavirus variant first detected in India can “spread like wildfire” among those who haven’t received a vaccine against the disease. The variant is “becoming the dominant strain in some parts of the country” such as Bolton and Blackburn, Xinhua news agency …

Thirteen Covid patients died at Goa’s apex government hospital, the Goa Medical College, in the early hours of Friday owing to oxygen mismanagement, even as the death toll of patients who died between 2 am and 6 am at the premier facility reached 75 in four days. Videos of chaos …

As the Covid wave gradually shifts to rural areas, several states are gearing up to check its spread through self-proclaimed lockdowns by Panchayati Raj institutions, creating a database of migrants and providing free online medical consultation to the sick. The initiatives have been taken by states in consultation with the …

By Dr Kishore Kumar(Founder Chairman & Neonatologist, Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, Bengaluru) India’s health care sector is battling a major crisis —inadequate infrastructure, oxygen supplies and human resources. But this is a reflection of multiple things – inadequate investment in public and preventive health over decades and also panic admissions …

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. …

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 …

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 …

Hyderabad: The Cyberabad police on Friday launched the website COVID.SCSC.IN for verified information on Covid-19 related services available in the city. Officials said that the effort will enable citizens to access verified information that will help them while dealing with patients under critical care, self care and preventive care. Critical …

New Delhi: ‘Fatty Liver’ commonly finds mention in an ultrasound examination report and is often passed off as an incidental finding, it may not be innocuous after all, suggest recent studies in reputed medical journals. Japanese and European scientists were the first to report a strange four-fold increase in heart …