Without more urgent action, the EEA said most of the 36 climate...
Category:
Health
Latest
18% of India’s population requires assistive care solutions, says former DGHS
R K Srivastava, former director general of health services at the...
Future Generali India Insurance launches women-health insurance plan
Anup Rau, managing director and CEO, Future Generali India...
First nasal vaccine developed by Bharat Biotech gets nod for phase 2 trial
This is the first of its kind COVID-19 jab to undergo human clinical trials in India, it said.
BBV154 is an intranasal replication-deficient chimpanzee adenovirus SARS-CoV-2 vectored vaccine.
Karnataka faces Zika virus scare too from Kerala, Maharashtra
“Considerable number of cases being reported from Kerala and one case reported from Maharashtra indicates that the vector control measures should be intensified in Karnataka, with special focus in the districts bordering Kerala, and Maharashtra, and in Bengaluru city,” the state Commissionerate of Health and Family Welfare Services said in a circular.
India’s chronic disease burden helped fuel Covid-19’s brutal waves
For years India has faced an escalating non-communicable disease crisis as its middle-class expands and leads a more sedentary and affluent lifestyle. That makes them susceptible to ailments such as diabetes and heart disease that account for almost two-thirds of all deaths in the country. Those existing conditions may have allowed the coronavirus to do more damage, boosting cases and fatalities and potentially fueling the near collapse of India’s health system.
National Health Authority teams up with IIT Delhi to strengthen India’s response to COVID-19 crisis
Through this partnership, the National Health Authority (NHA) will be a technical collaborator on the US Agency for International Development (USAID)-supported SAMRIDH Healthcare Blended Financing Facility, a statement by the NHA said.
SAMRIDH Healthcare Blended Financing Facility aims to catalyse market-based health solutions to improve access to affordable and quality healthcare services for low-income and vulnerable communities, particularly for Ayushman Bharat Pradhan Mantri Jan Arogya Yojana (AB PM-JAY) beneficiaries.
IIT Delhi serves as the hosting entity for SAMRIDH. This initiative is implemented by a Technical Support Unit managed by IPE Global.
COVID-19: India reports 40,120 fresh infections, active cases lowest since March 2020
Under Nationwide Vaccination Drive, 52,95,82,956 COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered so far, while 57,31,574 doses were administered in the last 24 hours.
New method for modelling COVID-19 spread incorporates real-time data on people’s movements
“Our work opens the door to a larger integration between epidemiological models and real-world data to, through the use of supercomputers, determine best public policies to mitigate the effects of a pandemic,” Ritabrata Dutta of Warwick University, UK said.
Covid-19: China’s port shutdown raises fears of closures worldwide
The shutdown at Ningbo-Zhoushan is raising fears that ports around the world will soon face the same kind of outbreaks and Covid restrictions that slowed the flows of everything from perishable food to electronics last year as the pandemic took hold. Infections are threatening to spread at docks just as the world’s shipping system is already struggling to handle unprecedented demand with economies reopening and manufacturing picking up.
US FDA okays Covid booster dose for those with weak immune system
The third dose will be administered at least 28 days following the two-dose regimen of the same vaccine to individuals 18 years of age or older (ages 12 or older for Pfizer-BioNTech) who have undergone solid organ transplantation, or who are diagnosed with conditions that are considered to have an equivalent level of immunocompromise, the agency said in a statement on Thursday.
Covid-19 infection linked to problems in thinking, attention: Study
“Our study adds to an increasing body of research that is looking at different aspects of how COVID-19 might be impacting the brain and brain function,” said study first author Adam Hampshire from Imperial College London in the UK.”This research is all converging to indicate that there are some important effects of COVID-19 on the brain that need further investigation,” Hampshire said.
Maharashtra records third death due to Delta Plus Covid variant in Raigad
On Wednesday, the Maharashtra Health Department had pegged the number of Delta Plus variant patients in the state at 65 till date, as per data from the Institute of Genomics Integrative Biology lab.