New Delhi: When the Narendra Modi-led Union government marked eight years in office in May, its various ministries launched...
Jun 15, 2022
Air Pollution Cuts Indians’ Life Expectancy By 5 Years: Air Quality Life Index
Kochi: Air pollution can cost Indians five years of their lives. In north India, it cuts life expectancy even...
Jun 14, 2022
WHO Panel Studying Origins of SARS-CoV-2 Now Says Lab Leak Theory Can’t be Ruled Out
New Delhi: A World Health Organisation (WHO) advisory group has now suggested the possibility that the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2,...
Jun 10, 2022
No Rest for the Weary: WHO Report Says India Undercounted COVID Deaths by 10x
India’s COVID-19 death toll is 9.8-times its official tally, and the country is estimated to have had the...
Jun 05, 2022
‘No Need to Stockpile Vaccines, Drugs’ Says NIV Head as India Issues Monkeypox Guidelines
New Delhi: Twenty four days after the first case of monkeypox was confirmed during the current outbreak in the...
Jun 01, 2022
Why Does India Ascertain the Causes of Only One-Fourth of its Deaths?
New Delhi: Any country’s health policymaking relies on several factors; an important one being the knowledge of what the leading...
May 27, 2022
As India Sees Two Cases of New Omicron Sub-Variants, How Worried Should We Be?
New Delhi: India’s genomics consortium announced on May 22 that cases of newer sub-variants of omicron – BA.4 and...
May 23, 2022
Interview: ‘The World Should Have Acted During Past Monkeypox Outbreaks in Africa’
New Delhi: As many as 108 monkeypox virus cases have been reported from 15 countries of Europe and North...
May 23, 2022
Seven Countries in Europe and North America Report Monkeypox Cases
New Delhi: A monkeypox outbreak was reported from the UK last week. Now, not only has the number of...
May 20, 2022
Half of People With Disabilities Globally Don’t Have Access to Assistive Products: Report
New Delhi: The World Health Organisation (WHO) released the first ‘Global Report on Assistive Technology‘ on May 16. The...
May 17, 2022