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Hon'ble Governor of Telangana State, Mrs. Dr. Tamilsai Soundarajan, today inaugurated the world-class Biplane Neuro Cath Lab at Yashoda Hospitals Secunderabad, on the occasion of World Stroke Day. Today Paralysis is a dangerous & dreadful disease that unknowingly cripples a person. It acutely alters a

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A vaccine that protects against bacterial infections that can cause life-threatening meningitis, pneumonia or sepsis will be available free for children across India through the universal immunisation programme. The Union health ministry on Friday launched the nationwide expansion of the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV), four years

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Stroke is likely to become more severe in coronavirus-infected people and their chances of recovery is almost half than those stroke patients not affected by Covid-19, doctors at AIIMS said on Friday. Also, the patients who have stroke associated with Covid-19 have a higher mortality and

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Eleven U.S. states with Republican governors sued the Biden administration on Friday seeking to block a COVID-19 vaccine mandate for federal contractors, arguing it is unconstitutional and violates federal procurement law. Saying they were necessary to fight COVID-19, President Joe Biden issued a pair of executive

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Cheap antidepressant shows promise against COVID-19 Fluvoxamine, an inexpensive antidepressant, might help keep patients with COVID-19 from developing severe disease, according to a new study published in The Lancet Global Health on Wednesday. Researchers in Brazil recruited nearly 1,500 COVID-19 patients at high risk for complications

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Bharat Biotech's Covaxin has been included to the approved list of COVID-19 vaccines for travel to Oman without Quarantine. In a tweet, Bharat Biotech noted: "Covaxin has now been added to the approved list of #COVID 19 vaccines for travel to Oman without quarantine. This will

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A widely available antidepressant holds promise as a treatment for Covid-19, according to a new study. Covid-19 patients who received fluvoxamine were significantly less likely to require hospitalization than those who didn’t, in the largest clinical trial evaluating the antidepressant’s effect on Covid-19 to date. Fluvoxamine

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As the cases of Chikungunya have more than doubled in Maharashtra, Health Minister Rajesh Tope has instructed to intensify home-to-home surveys in districts with the highest patient burden. Tope also instructed officers to increase field surveillance in districts like Nashik, Pune, Beed, Kolhapur among others.

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COVID-19 vaccines have arrived at Australia's Casey research station in Antarctica, authorities said on Friday, allowing expeditioners to be inoculated before they journey back home to a country reopening to the world. Australia is gradually easing pandemic restrictions as it boosts vaccination levels after its

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HealthPlix Technologies, India's most trusted AI-powered EMR software, today, announced a 42% surge in adoption of its platform by doctors in a short span of nine months (Janauary’21 – September’21). The company attributes its success to doctors who have caught on the trend of digitized

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