Haryana starts process to identify patients suffering from rare diseases for monthly pensionThe Haryana health department in Gurgaon is compiling a roster of patients afflicted with rare diseases within the district, following the ...
16 Aug, 2023, 02.42 PM IST
China continues 'severe and complex' fight against COVID-19The country has counted more than 56,000 cases since March 1.
26 Mar, 2022, 12.27 AM IST
Omicron variant may be less lethal in India, epidemiologist saysGiven the widespread exposure of Indians to Covid-19 virus and a reasonably-high vaccination rate, India will likely be less affected by th...
02 Dec, 2021, 05.52 PM IST
Mild to moderate cases in home isolation can infect only one-third contacts: WHO-MAMC study"The secondary attack rate (SAR) estimated was 13.86 per cent and the secondary infection rate was 33.16 percent. The proportion of seconda...
27 Oct, 2021, 10.47 PM IST
Government directs private job portals to share job data of job seekers in the healthcare sectorAfter due deliberation, it has been decided that a dedicated window will be created on the National Career Service (NCS) portal of the mini...
27 Jul, 2021, 12.50 PM IST
Antibiotics for Covid cases worsen India’s superbug crisisDoctors battling to save lives amid a dearth of effective treatments are turning to the medicines they have on hand — often antibiotics tha...
26 May, 2021, 09.30 AM IST
Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw joins Board of Trustees of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterMSK is ranked as one of the top two hospitals for cancer care in the US for more than 30 years and among the nation's top pediatric hospita...
28 Apr, 2021, 02.22 PM IST
New study says masks & ventilation are better measures to stop Covid spread than social distancingThe researchers noted that a good ventilation reduces the infection risk by 40 to 50%.
06 Apr, 2021, 07.00 PM IST
Scientists identify unique patterns in Covid-19 transmission in IndiaThe study, published in the journal Science on Wednesday, assessed the disease transmission patterns in 5,75,071 individuals exposed to 84,...
01 Oct, 2020, 10.53 AM IST
India not out of woods; needs to exponentially ramp up tests: Experts on COVID-19 pandemicGovernment officials involved in strategising India's approach to contain the pandemic said the overall social distancing model adopted by ...
06 Apr, 2020, 05.59 PM IST
John Hopkins varsity disassociates from study on India's possible COVID-19 casesThe US-based John Hopkins University has disassociated itself with a previous study which landed into controversy for claiming that as many...
29 Mar, 2020, 01.49 PM IST
The age, sex and symptoms of China’s Coronavirus victimsThe virus has already spread to other parts of China and elsewhere triggering memories of the SARS pandemic.
25 Jan, 2020, 10.53 AM IST
Antibiotic resistance in food-animals growingIndia, long associated with the spread of superbug New Delhi metallo-beta lactamase-1 and extensively drug-resistance tuberculosis, has now...
20 Sep, 2019, 10.19 AM IST
Superbugs kill more in India than globally, mortality rate is 13%A first-of-its kind study conducted on 4,000 patients admitted to 10 hospitals across India, shows mortality rates owing to drug-resistant ...
18 Nov, 2018, 10.30 AM IST
India's antibiotics usage witnessed maximum rise among LMICs in 15 years: StudyDoctors and experts have warned that with the prolonged use of antibiotics, many patients have become anti-antibiotic that even the primary...
30 Mar, 2018, 07.20 PM IST
Health ministry moves to limit antibiotics in meatThe ministry has specified the maximum permissible limits of various antibiotics in meat products.
20 Nov, 2017, 11.55 PM IST
Overuse of antibiotics in animals to worsen India’s AMR problem: StudyIndia is expected to see an 82% increase in consumption of antibiotics in “food animals” from 2,633 tons of antibiotics in 2013, showed a n...
29 Sep, 2017, 11.26 PM IST