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Clot in blood vessels occurs in rare cases with certain vaccines: Medical Expert amid reports over AstraZeneca
In the wake of a recent admission by AstraZeneca where the...
Scientists warn of lethal bird flu pandemic, says could be ‘100 times worse’ than COVID
Around 52 per cent of humans who have contracted H5N1 since 2003...
Studies underway on cases of sudden cardiac arrest among youngsters after Covid: Govt
A multi-centric matched case control study on factors associated with sudden deaths among adults aged 18 to 45 in India is ongoing at around 40 hospitals/research centres.Besides, another study for establishing the cause of sudden unexplained deaths in young people...
Govt eases Covid guidelines for i’ntl travellers, drops RT-PCR requirement
The new guidelines shall come into effect from midnight of July 20 New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry has further eased COVID-19 guidelines for international visitors, dropping the earlier requirement for RT-PCR based testing of a random two per cent subset of...
‘Long COVID’ may obstruct return to normal life for 36 million Europeans: WHO
Over the first three years of the global health emergency, 36 million people across the region may have experienced “long COVID”, a complex condition that scientists still know very little about, according to data from WHO’s partner, the Institute for Health Metrics...
Delta variant, a warning the COVID-19 virus is getting ‘fitter and faster’
Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus,Director-General, WHO Almost 4 million cases worldwide were reported last week to WHO and the agency expects the total number of cases to pass 200 million, in the next two weeks. "And we know this is an underestimate", underscored...
London’s Excel Centre wins insurance ruling on COVID-19 losses
Law firm Stewarts, which represented the owners of the ExCel Centre, said the ruling “could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of policyholders.” “Policyholders whose BI losses remain uncompensated should now revisit their policy documents to consider whether...
Covid kills one person every four minutes as vaccination rates fall
A key question is how to handle a virus that’s become less threatening to most but remains wildly dangerous to a slice of the population. That slice is much bigger than many realize: Covid is still a leading killer, the third-biggest in the US last year behind heart...
WHO launches global network to help protect people from infectious disease threats
The International Pathogen Surveillance Network(IPSN), with a Secretariat hosted by the WHO Hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence, brings together experts worldwide at the cutting-edge of genomics and data analytics, from governments, philanthropic foundations,...
Chronic diseases taking ‘immense and increasing toll on lives’, warns WHO
A 46-year-old Cambodian man who lost his leg to diabetes. The annual global death toll from non-communicable diseases such as cancer, diabetes and heart disease, is estimated at 36 million. Photo: IRIN During 2020-2021, COVID-19 resulted in 336.8 million years of life...
Obesity speeds up loss of immunity from COVID vaccines – new research
Obesity – and its association with several other conditions such as type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and chronic kidney disease – leads to an increased risk of severe COVID COVID vaccines are very effective, but for some groups they don’t generate as strong an...
Long COVID linked with self-perceived cognitive deficits: Study
The findings, published recently in the journal JAMA Network Open, show that psychological issues such as anxiety or depressive disorders may play a part in some people who are experiencing long COVID, technically known as post-COVID-19 condition, or PCC Symptomatic...