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
No, PM Modi – WHO Vaccine Approval Process Doesn’t Need Reform
Vaccines are developed from scratch and are administered to healthy people, so the WHO’s approval process for COVID-19...
May 14, 2022
Young Doctors Face a Tough Exam and an Uncertain Future After SC Refuses Relief
The Supreme Court has refused to delay the 2022 NEET-PG exam from its scheduled date of May 21,...
May 13, 2022
Govt Report Says PHCs Have Surplus Doctors – But That’s Not the Full Story
According to the Union health ministry’s new Rural Health Statistics report, for 2020-2021, primary health centres have a...
May 12, 2022
COVID Vaccination Can’t Be Mandatory – But You Probably Missed the Catch
New Delhi: On May 2, the Supreme Court of India struck down all vaccine mandates in the country...
May 05, 2022