A top World Health Organisation expert on the coronavirus pandemic said the weekly global count of deaths from COVID-19 is rising again, a “worrying sign” after about six weeks of decline. Maria Van Kerkhove, technical lead on COVID-19 at the U.N. health agency, said on Monday

Genetic disorders constitute an increasing proportion of stillbirths, child mortality, morbidity, disability, and Down Syndrome. For a better outcome of pregnancy, women need to be cautious about some genetic defects and those can be either due to single-gene mutations and chromosomal abnormalities. Expectant women now

Second edition of International (Virtual) Health & Wellness Expo & Conferences 2021 organized by Health & AYUSH Committee, PHDCCI was inaugurated on 18th March 2021. The special guests present during the virtual Inaugural session were Mr. Pradeep Multani, Sr.  Vice President, PHDCCI, H.E. Mr. Ung Sean,

Tata Medical and Diagnostics (TataMD), the new healthcare venture from the house of Tata, announced today that it has entered into a wide-ranging clinical collaboration with Chennai-based Anderson Diagnostics & Labs (ADL), to standardize the indigenously - developed TataMD CHECK in a bid to slow

The threat of coronavirus infection looms large in Delhi Prisons as it readies for the returning inmates who were granted parole last year amid the coronavirus pandemic outbreak. According to jail officials, it will be difficult to maintain social distancing with the surge in the number

The spike protein of the novel coronavirus, which enables it to infect human cells, is more stable in faster spreading versions of the virus, such as the ones first reported in the UK and South Africa, compared to the original form of the pathogen from

A recent order by the National Blood Transfusion Council has said that a person cannot donate blood for the next 28 days after taking the last dose of COVID-19 vaccine. As approved in the 30th meeting of the governing body of the NBTC held on February

Serum Institute of India (SII) has said it will try to supply more doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the United Kingdom later, based on the current situation and requirement for the government immunisation programme in India. The UK’s National Health Service has warned of a

The Delhi High Court Friday refused to further hear a PIL to declare all people associated with the judicial functioning, including judges, court staff and lawyers, as frontline workers to enable them to get COVID-19 vaccination on priority in view of the Supreme Court’s order staying

The need to change the composition of Covaxin has not been felt yet in view of the good efficacy of the vaccine against mutant variants, the government told Lok Sabha Friday. There are four mutations of the COVID-19 virus in India at present — two UK