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Ebola at the gates: Why India must not let its guard downIndia is enhancing its surveillance protocols following an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda. One of two suspec...- ICMR best judge to decide on medical protocol: HC on plea for homeopathic treatment of COVID-19"It is true that homoeopathic medicines are very effective and large number of people throughout the globe are availing homeopathic treatme...
- ICMR national protocol says no evidence of benefit of injectable steroids in patients not requiring oxygenThe revised guidance updated on January 14 also warns of potential risk of fungal infections such as invasive mucormycosis, if anti-inflamm...
- Merck says no safety concerns observed in molnupiravir phase-3 trial, shared relevant data with DCGIMerck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) on Friday said its COVID antiviral molnupiravir has cut the risk of hospitalization or death in Phase 3 clinical ...
- HCQ, another drug dropped from Covid treatment protocolThe Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has removed usage of popular drugs Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) from the approved ...
- Government asks private TV news channels to display four new Covid helpline numbersIn a letter to all private TV news channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the national helpline numbers should be run ...
- Revised Covid management protocol says infection spreads through airThe changes are broadly in disease epidemiology, incubation period of the virus, inclusion of symptoms of moderate and severe disease in ch...
- Why plasma therapy? Seeking details cut down requests for blood at RIMS“Just the idea that you have to provide written justification for why you have prescribed plasma therapy makes doctors and hospitals carefu...
- Insured, but still paying 40% of Covid treatment costsThat’s because insurers are not aligning payouts to realities of Covid treatment. Fine prints of most health policies exclude coverage of e...
- Will examine data of 2-DG drug for adding it to national COVID treatment protocol: GovtNITI Aayog member (health) Dr V K Paul said Drugs Controller General of India has granted permission for emergency use of the drug after lo...
- Top experts finds no proof baricitinib works against CovidExperts are of the view that the clinicians can use it in their wisdom, but decided against recommending the drug in the national guideline...
- SC seeks Centre's reply on plea alleging no approval for Remdesivir, Favipiravir to treat COVID-19A bench led by CJI S.A. Bobde issued notices to the central government on a petition filed by lawyer Manoharlal Sharma claiming that these ...
- Health ministry decides against including Itolizumab in clinical management protocols for COVID-19The permission to market the drug was granted for the treatment of cytokine release syndrome in 'moderate' to 'severe' Acute Respiratory Di...
- Doctors advised to use Remdesivir on COVID-19 patients strictly under laid-down protocolTo prevent black-marketing and overcharging of the drug, India's drug regulator Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked manufact...
- Health Ministry adds steroid dexamethasone in COVID-19 treatment protocolThe updated protocol includes the advice to use dexamethasone as an alternative choice to methylprednisolone for managing moderate to sever...
- Remdesivir, tocilizumab being considered for 'restricted use' on severely ill COVID-19 patientsThe much-touted anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine will continue to be used while azythromycin may be dropped from the treatment protoco...
- Covid-19 cases surging, will have to build make-shift hospitals: Centre tells SCThe government argued that the corona pandemic was “unprecedented’ and “novel” and there was no universal protocol to deal with it in absen...
- HIV drug may replace hydroxychloroquine in Covid defenceIndia's top health research body is reviewing its treatment guidelines for Covid-19 and may drop hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) from the protocol...
- In search for a cure, government set to start blood plasma trialsMove comes after Kerala used this approach. ICMR may release protocol in a couple of days. The convalescent plasma therapy works on the sci...
- Karnataka launches online training programme for doctors to treat Covid-19The online training programme is a collaboration between Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) and NIMHANS, Bengaluru and cove...
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