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U.S. companies are scrambling to boost production of coronavirus tests increasingly in short supply as COVID-19 cases soar and schools and employers revive surveillance programs that will require tens of millions of tests, according to industry executives and state health officials. Test manufacturers including Abbott Laboratories, Becton Dickinson and Co, …

Seattle :ID Genomics (IDG), a Seattle-based company, has invented a dipstick-based, rapid test for simultaneous identification of a large number of genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 and has just received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expedite bringing this test to market. The test will ‘fingerprint’ at once all …

The number of samples tested for COVID-19 in the country has crossed the 50 crore-mark and in this month, the average daily testing has been over 17 lakh, the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) said on Thursday. The last 10 crore tests were done in only 55 days, the …

All India Institute of Medical Sciences-Patna (AIIMS-P) Year after year, the bulk of MBBS doctors with disabilities who clear the post graduate entrance exam for seven All India Institutes of Medical Sciences, including the one in Delhi, are denied admission. Barely 0.4% of seats over the last three years have …

Bengaluru: Karnataka Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai on Tuesday issued a warning that strict action will be initiated against those who are selling fake RT-PCR negative test results in Bengaluru. “It has come to our notice that some people are indulging in giving fake negative reports of Covid infections. We are …

ET Now: Is normalcy back? I mean, has the non-Covid portion of business returned to normalcy?Suneeta Reddy: In the first quarter, while our revenues grew by 30% to Rs 3,760 crore, 26% of this was Covid revenue. I believe this trend has now started to shift. We saw signs of …

New Delhi: When it comes to studying MBBS then, various aspirants choose to look at pursuing MBBS in India. Although, they face extraordinary challenges to get admission to government medical colleges of India; a large section of the aspirants are not fully aware of studying MBBS in Abroad. Reliably the …

Raghavendra Prasad, Founder of Project StepOne In an interaction with ETHealthworld, Raghavendra Prasad, Founder of Project StepOne shares his experience and key challenges of driving the telemedicine project during the COVID-19 pandemic. Edited excerpts: Q: In your view, how has the acceptance of telemedicine evolved during the COVID-era? Do you …

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need of creating vigilance and awareness on zoonotic diseases, informed Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya while virtually inaugurating the Whole Genome Sequencing National Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) and BSL 3 Laboratory on 112th Annual Day of National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). …

REUTERS/Emmanuel Herman Dadoma: In one of the last countries in the world to accept vaccines against COVID-19, the President of Tanzania started a vaccination campaign on Wednesday by publicly receiving the vaccine and calling on others to do the same. The East African country’s government under former President John Magufuli …