Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) on Friday said its COVID antiviral molnupiravir has cut the risk of hospitalization or death in Phase 3 clinical ...

The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) has removed usage of popular drugs Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) from the approved ...

In a letter to all private TV news channels, the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting said the national helpline numbers should be run ...

The changes are broadly in disease epidemiology, incubation period of the virus, inclusion of symptoms of moderate and severe disease in ch...

“Just the idea that you have to provide written justification for why you have prescribed plasma therapy makes doctors and hospitals carefu...

That’s because insurers are not aligning payouts to realities of Covid treatment. Fine prints of most health policies exclude coverage of e...

NITI Aayog member (health) Dr V K Paul said Drugs Controller General of India has granted permission for emergency use of the drug after lo...

Experts are of the view that the clinicians can use it in their wisdom, but decided against recommending the drug in the national guideline...

The genomic surveillance consortium, INSACOG, has been formed under the leadership of the National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), New D...

A bench led by CJI S.A. Bobde issued notices to the central government on a petition filed by lawyer Manoharlal Sharma claiming that these ...

The permission to market the drug was granted for the treatment of cytokine release syndrome in 'moderate' to 'severe' Acute Respiratory Di...

To prevent black-marketing and overcharging of the drug, India's drug regulator Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) has asked manufact...

The updated protocol includes the advice to use dexamethasone as an alternative choice to methylprednisolone for managing moderate to sever...

The government argued that the corona pandemic was “unprecedented’ and “novel” and there was no universal protocol to deal with it in absen...

India's top health research body is reviewing its treatment guidelines for Covid-19 and may drop hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) from the protocol...

Move comes after Kerala used this approach. ICMR may release protocol in a couple of days. The convalescent plasma therapy works on the sci...

The online training programme is a collaboration between Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) and NIMHANS, Bengaluru and cove...