Tracking oxygen levels key when diagnosed with coronavirus, say expertsDoctors in India are urging people with COVID-19 to monitor their oxygen levels, especially those with co-morbid conditions. Hospitalisatio...
13 Apr, 2023, 10.22 AM IST
Kerala govt makes masks must for pregnant women, elderlyKerala on Saturday reported 1,801 COVID-19 cases, the health minister's office said in a statement, adding that the most number of cases we...
09 Apr, 2023, 10.37 AM IST
Elderly patients fill hospitals in Shanghai Covid surgeCoughing, groaning, and gasping for breath, elderly Covid patients crammed hospital corridors in Shanghai on Tuesday as a wave of Covid-19 ...
03 Jan, 2023, 03.52 PM IST
Caring with Covid: Infected doctors battle China virus surgeMany Chinese were jubilant after Beijing announced the end of mandatory quarantines this week, effectively drawing the curtain on years of ...
28 Dec, 2022, 06.21 PM IST
Elderly Covid patients fill hospital wards in China's major citiesThe virus is surging across China in an outbreak authorities say is impossible to track after the end of mandatory mass testing. Attached t...
23 Dec, 2022, 12.22 AM IST
Covid deaths higher in young Indian women with comorbidities: StudyA team of researchers of Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, Delhi conducted the study on 2,586 Covid-19 hospitalised patients who were admitted in the...
26 Jun, 2022, 01.41 PM IST
Covid-19: Hospital cases up, but symptoms are mainly flu-like, say doctorsIn Delhi, which has been seeing an uptick in the number of Covid cases, so far 79 occupied beds, 61 oxygen beds and 24 ICU beds, according ...
22 Apr, 2022, 01.21 AM IST
New home isolation guidelines for mild, asymptomatic Covid-19 cases"Over the past two years, it has been seen globally as well as in India that majority of cases of COVID-19 are either asymptomatic or have ...
05 Jan, 2022, 07.22 PM IST
Post-vaccine COVID infections and deaths rare, UK study findsThe data, published as a preprint on Friday without having been peer-reviewed, showed that among just over 52,000 hospitalised COVID-19 pat...
30 Apr, 2021, 06.16 PM IST
COVID-19 patients above 65 years of age more prone to reinfection, says new studyAccording to the scientists, while prior infection gave those under the age of 65 years around 80 per cent protection against reinfection, ...
19 Mar, 2021, 11.29 AM IST
Norway probes 23 elderly patients' death after Pfizer vaccinationDoctors in Norway have been asked to conduct more thorough evaluations of very frail elderly patients in line to receive the Pfizer-BioNTec...
16 Jan, 2021, 04.10 PM IST
Some who recover from Covid get debilitating spine infectionWhile post-Covid syndrome is a well-known entity in which some patients continue to experience Covid-like symptoms for months, city doctors...
29 Dec, 2020, 10.14 AM IST
- Surat-based doc, who removed his oxygen support to help elderly patient, set to fly back home on Nov 1
Mehta, who had tested positive for the virus, shot to fame when he removed his oxygen support to help another elderly COVID patient despite...
27 Oct, 2020, 08.07 PM IST
BCG vaccine being tried for Covid-19 elderly individuals in hotspots in IndiaThe study sponsored by the ICMR will recruit 1,450 elderly individuals within the ages of 60 and 99 with no preexisting conditions such as ...
17 Jul, 2020, 06.28 PM IST
At 104, Maharashtra's oldest beats Covid with willpowerAs 104-year-old Anandi Jha hobbled, clutching a walking stick along Durga Mata Mandir locality in Kalyan (east) late Friday evening, people...
05 Jul, 2020, 11.56 AM IST
Reluctant patients to active Covid warriors : These survivors want to donate blood for plasma therapyWhat makes it even more significant is that most of these patients from Vadodara's Nagarwada , who were largely asymptomatic, had initially...
24 Apr, 2020, 04.31 PM IST
Kerala elderly couple surviving COVID-19 brings ray of hope: ExpertsThomas and his wife Mariyamma, hailing from Ranni locality in Pathanamthitta municipality in Central Travancore region, tested positive and...
31 Mar, 2020, 07.16 PM IST