The people at high risk of heart attack and their caregivers must know the common symptoms of a heart attack. By Dr. Naveen Chandra, There are increased cases of a heart attack during winter. It is necessary to take preventive measures in winters, especially for people at high risk of developing a heart attack. Here … Read more
The Swaccha Bharat Abhiyan and its success are the most significant achievements of the Narendra Modi government, and the world has taken notice. (Photo source: IE) By Gopal Goswami, The most underappreciated success of the Narendra Modi government has been the revolutionary elemental shift in the thinking of Indian households that basic sanitation is what … Read more
NASA’s Artemis programme is about returning humans to the Moon, and going beyond. (Photo source: NASA) By Dr Ajey Lele, Moon is in the news. Right now, there are two major projects under discussion, which are expected to drive the global Moon agenda for coming decades. One such project is NASA’s Artemis Accords and the … Read more
SII also had the first-mover advantage with CEO Adar Poonawalla getting into multiple deals with potential Covid-19 vaccine candidates and different partners. India’s total number of administered vaccine doses is set to cross the 100-crore milestone in the next few days. The country has already vaccinated 70% of its eligible citizens with the first dose … Read more
The Union health ministry and department of pharmaceuticals have reached out to the five domestic manufacturers to prepone some of the production so that additional supplies could begin in June 2021. With the incidence of ‘black fungus’ cases rising across the country and patients facing a shortage of Amphotericin-B drug used to treat the disease, … Read more
SII has a tie-up with US-based biotech company Novavax Inc to manufacture one billion doses of the vaccine in 2021. Vaccine maker Serum Institute of India (SII) will be launching its second Covid-19 vaccine in June 2021. Adar Poonawalla, CEO and ED, SII, said he hoped to launch the vaccine, to be called Covovax, by … Read more
It intends to work with citizens, especially those who work in the health system apart from the Indian government. In what is arguably a first-of-its-kind exercise, a new initiative that aims to lay out the roadmap to achieving universal health coverage for the people of India was digitally launched on Friday, December 11th. Called the … Read more
However, as numbers have been rising and community spread has taken over, contact tracing is no more the answer. By Dr Sudha Rao COVID-19 control: A global pandemic, COVID-19 has been a blip for most generations that are currently alive. Its unprecedented scale and the challenges that it has posed alongside globalisation, have taken the … Read more
“The UK committee has concluded its investigations and recommended to the MHRA that trials in the UK are safe to resume.” British clinical trials for the AstraZeneca and Oxford University coronavirus vaccine have resumed following confirmation by the Medicines Health Regulatory Authority (MHRA) that it was safe to do so, the company said on Saturday. … Read more
Holiday plans, restaurant visits, electronic purchases, hashtags and trends followed. The lockdown has pressed the reset button in many people’s lives. The stressors and pressures of daily life, including the never-ending rat race, the need to keep up with peers or please everyone, have come to a standstill. Maybe it’s time now to banish the … Read more