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US life expectancy hits record high in 2024, CDC saysAmerican life expectancy reached a new high of 79 years in 2024, a 0.6-year increase from 2023. While infant mortality remained stable, sui...
Undercounting of Covid deaths: New birth & death records strengthen parents' legal caseNew government data reveals a significant undercounting of deaths during the pandemic in India, offering hope to parents who believe their ...
How many Russians have died in Ukraine? This data tells what Moscow hidesNearly 50,000 Russian men have died in the war in Ukraine, according to the first independent statistical analysis of Russia's war dead.Two...
WHO's controversial Covid death report could be out next weekIn a detailed statement in response to the NYT article titled 'India is stalling WHO's efforts to make global Covid death toll public' date...
Health Ministry questions WHO's method of counting Covid deathsThe response came after The New York Times published an article titled - India Is Stalling the WHO's Efforts to Make Global Covid Death Tol...
India questions WHO's methodology to estimate COVID-19 mortalities"India's basic objection has not been with the result (whatever they might have been), but rather the methodology adopted for the same," Un...
Precaution is better than cure: Study says face masks can reduce Covid infection by 53%Maintaining physical distancing can curbing the Covid cases by 25%.
Life expectancy in India dropped by two years due to Covid-19, says a studyLife expectancy at birth is calculated on the basis of the average number of years a newborn is expected to live if mortality patterns at t...
Russia's new COVID-19 infections, deaths near all-time highsThe Kremlin described Russia's Covid fatality toll as "high" and the country's vaccination rate as "unacceptably" low, even as it rejected ...
Covid death count don't reflect actual scale of pandemic, says World Bank in Asia reportIt gives three reasons for the undercount of deaths. One, because of overwhelmed health systems, many COVID deaths occur at home or are ind...
Black fungus: Indore hospital reports 32 deaths in 20 daysThe Maharaja Yeshwantrao Hospital (MYH) in the Madhya Pradesh's industrial hub Indore has been treating a number of black fungus patients n...
Karnataka districts with high number of COVID cases to get 25 oxygen concentrators: State Health Minister Dr K SudhakarSudhakar said he would soon tour Tumakuru, Chitradurga, Davanagere, Haveri, Hubballi and Gadag medical colleges this week to review the sit...
Ivermectin: Drug that Goa recommends to all above 18 to combat Covid-19While the World Health Organisation (WHO) has warned against the general, unchecked use of Ivermectin, a study published in the American Jo...
COVID-19: All adults in Goa to be given Ivermectin drugGoa on Monday recorded 2,804 new cases of Covid-19, taking its tally to 1,21,650, while 50 more fatalities pushed the toll to 1,729, a heal...
Covid patients suffering from stroke, confusion more likely to succumb to infectionThe findings can identify and focus treatment efforts on individuals most at risk.
The infection fatality rate of Covid-19 is inversely proportional to testing: StudyThe study by MS Seshadri, medical director of Thirumalai Mission Hospital in Ranipet, and R Ranganathan of Coimbatore Institute of Technolo...
Understanding Covid-19 Mortality: Civil deaths data may hold the key“Vital registration systems that record births and deaths are unrivaled health surveillance tools that are particularly valuable in respond...
Tocilizumab fails to improve condition of severe Covid-19 patientsThe result of the COVACTA study dashes the hopes of experts who were looking to use the rheumatoid arthritis drug as treatment option for C...
Remdesivir improves time to recovery in COVID-19 patients: StudyNew York, May 27 () Remdesivir, the antiviral under clinical trials for treatment against novel coronavirus infection, is superior to the s...
Died of Covid, or died with Covid? As countries raise toll, questions arise about the reported deathsEven in non-Covid times, only about 22% of deaths are medically certified in India, while roughly 10 lakh deaths a year don’t even get regi...