Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese townsAs China grapples with its first-ever national COVID-19 wave, emergency wards in small cities and towns southwest of Beijing are overwhelme...
26 Dec, 2022, 11.58 PM IST
Packed ICUs, crowded crematoriums: COVID roils Chinese townsChina - Yao Ruyan paced frantically outside the fever clinic of a county hospital in China's industrial Hebei province, 70 kilometers (43 m...
24 Dec, 2022, 01.43 PM IST
Some Delhi hospitals seeing increase in admission of non-Covid patients as cases declineSince April 19, both daily cases and single-day death count had been spiralling up, with over 28,000 cases and 277 deaths recorded on April...
04 Jun, 2021, 06.38 PM IST
National platform to determine impact of COVID-19 vaccines to be established soonThe vaccine tracker will be particularly important to monitor the impact of increasing the dosing schedule of Covishield, he said, as the g...
14 May, 2021, 03.52 PM IST
COVID-19 cases rising very rapidly in Delhi, no signs of slow down: Jain"Yesterday, Delhi recorded 13,468 cases and we conducted about 1.2 lakh tests too. The numbers are rapidly rising and rising every day, and...
14 Apr, 2021, 08.49 PM IST
Vitamin D inexpensive, low-risk and can strengthen immune response to COVID-19: ExpertsStressing that Vitamin D is inexpensive and has negligible risk when compared to the considerable risk of COVID-19, global researchers on t...
31 Dec, 2020, 02.44 PM IST
Record U.S. deaths prompt urgent calls for masking, stay-at-home ordersPresident-elect Joe Biden promised a new national strategy that will impose mask mandates where he will have authority, such as federal bui...
04 Dec, 2020, 09.51 PM IST
24 hours in the ICU: Fighting for an open bed in coronavirusovernment tallies show infections may have reached their second-wave high point, and hospitalizations dropped last weekend for the first ti...
17 Nov, 2020, 01.07 PM IST
Doctors are now probing whether COVID-19 is causing diabetes, even with no historyIt's already been well-documented that people with diabetes face much higher risks of severe illness or death if they contract COVID-19. In...
19 Oct, 2020, 04.50 PM IST
Central teams to handhold state health departments in six major cities with high number of coronavirus casesThese teams will provide technical support and handhold the state health departments and municipal health officials for reviewing public he...
10 Jun, 2020, 09.20 PM IST
Twin challenges that are complicating Mumbai's covid battleA look at the number of beds available in the city may hold some clues to what might have gone haywire.
24 May, 2020, 10.37 AM IST
View: Shutdowns kill too. Let biz get back on trackGlobal experience shows India should be spending massively to save people and enterprises.
03 May, 2020, 09.47 AM IST
Insurers get big claims, say private hospitals overchargingAt present, the billing variation in case of Covid-19 patients ranges from Rs 80,000 to Rs 6.70 lakh on an average length of stay of five d...
09 Apr, 2020, 11.13 AM IST
Now, coronavirus-affected and suspected patients can get virtual healthcareThe mass transmission of coronavirus in India has unfortunately begun with hospitals and healthcare professionals at the centre of it. To p...
08 Apr, 2020, 12.16 PM IST
Getting states to invest more in health is a major challenge: Harsh Vardhan"Health is a subject that requires close coordination with many other sectors, as 80% of determinants of health lie outside of the health d...
20 Jul, 2019, 11.00 PM IST
High-level team deployed at Bihar's Muzaffarpur to set up state-of-the-art research centreThe health minister reviewed the situation at a high-level meeting which was attended by senior officers of the Health Ministry, Indian Cou...
17 Jun, 2019, 10.01 PM IST
Ex-BJP leader Jaswant Singh suffers head injury, admitted to hospitalThe 76-year-old former Defence Minister fell down at his residence around 11 PM last night following which he was rushed to the hospital,
09 Aug, 2014, 06.07 AM IST