Covid virus may stay in human body for over a year: StudyCOVID virus can persist in blood and tissue for over a year, causing long COVID and associated risks. More research needed on viral fragmen...
08 Mar, 2024, 05.04 PM IST
Is COVID-19 making people sicker? Read on to know the factsEvidence suggests COVID-19 is making people sicker. Dr. David Strain, a British geriatrician, who was on his ward round recently, saw a pat...
01 Sep, 2022, 03.27 PM IST
Feeling worse than you did the first time you had Covid? Reinfections could be more severe for someThe pandemic is expected to escalate as people become sicker and sicker.
01 Jul, 2022, 09.25 AM IST
Acute stress may make it hard to fight against COVID-19Acute Stress can diminish your body's immune response against infections, thus causing severe health problems or even death.
31 May, 2022, 09.51 PM IST
Stop & think before you pop that pill. Antibiotics can cause life-threatening fungal infections. Here's howWhen we take antibiotics, we kill off some of our gut bacteria.
16 May, 2022, 08.05 PM IST
Is the delta variant of the coronavirus worse for kids?Delta's ability to spread more easily makes it more of a risk to children and underscores the need for masks in schools and vaccinations fo...
23 Sep, 2021, 10.48 AM IST
Lingering kidney issues could also affect people with not-so-severe Covid-19 infectionStudy found that the sicker patients were, the more likely they were to experience kidney damage.
02 Sep, 2021, 07.23 PM IST
Delta variant is sending more kids to the hospital in the US. Are they sicker, too?What remains unknown is whether children who are infected with delta are actually getting sicker than they would have if they had caught a ...
10 Aug, 2021, 10.52 AM IST
Delta variant is most-contagious coronavirus mutant, but vaccines still offer hopeIt spreads more easily because of mutations that make it better at latching onto cells in our bodies.
04 Aug, 2021, 02.40 PM IST
What you should know about the Delta variant: It's more contagious, likely to defeat vaccine immunityStudies have shown that the available vaccines work against the delta variant.
25 Jun, 2021, 08.17 PM IST
Scientists trying to understand new virus variantWorry has been growing since before Christmas when Britain's prime minister said the coronavirus variant seemed to spread more easily than ...
31 Dec, 2020, 11.30 AM IST
Patients with severe Covid, secondary blood infections more likely to have altered mental statusLower percent oxygen saturation and septic shock were some of the other health outcomes.
28 Dec, 2020, 06.01 PM IST
Urgent action expected in South Africa as hospitals run out of beds, oxygen amid COVID-19 spike"I can confidently say that the meeting (called by Ramaphosa) will be on Tuesday (to) consider further measures to ensure that we curb this...
28 Dec, 2020, 11.46 AM IST
Can you get the coronavirus twice? Scientists says a reinfection may be possibleEven if people can get reinfected, the World Health Organization says it likely wouldn't happen regularly.
03 Sep, 2020, 05.55 PM IST
Indians may live 4 years longer if country achieves WHO air quality standards: StudyNoting that ambient air pollution alone may cost India more than USD 0.5 trillion per year, it said it is causing hundreds of millions of p...
13 Aug, 2018, 06.54 PM IST
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In 2008, the historian Tony Judt was diagnosed with ALS, the disease named after the famous baseball-player Lou Gehrig, which has also conf...
10 Mar, 2012, 04.47 AM IST
- US economy getting 'sicker' : Obama
US President Barack Obama warned that the US economy was getting sicker every day. Ghosts of 1929 | Top banking crises since 1980s | Compet...
06 Feb, 2009, 05.34 AM IST