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K. Shiva Shanker A few precautions are required to be followed while handling an infant

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Mental health professionals also need healing

Sunalini Mathew Peer support is helping mental health professionals grapple with personal loss, even as they work to guide the rest of the country through its grief

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ICMR drops plasma therapy from COVID-19 treatment guidelines

Special Correspondent Trials had found no significant benefit from the use of plasma

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ICMR drops plasma therapy from COVID-19 treatment guidelines

‘Micronutrient bites’ led to striking reduction in anaemic children: study

Watch | WHO Chief Scientist Soumya Swaminathan on virus variants in India, vaccinations and more

Plasma therapy has limited effect in COVID patients, says study

Safe for infected mothers to breastfeed, say doctors

India COVID-19 2nd wave National

COVID-19 response over next 6-18 months critical, says Soumya Swaminathan

Explained | What is mucormycosis, and what causes the infection in COVID-19 patients?

How prevalent is the disease? Can it be prevented?

Explained | How many vaccine doses will India need to fight COVID-19?

What are the States doing to procure them?

Mental health professionals also need healing

Peer support is helping mental health professionals grapple with personal loss, even as they work to guide the rest of the country through its grief

Data | Daily COVID-19 vaccination pace at record low in May even as Centre opens up doses for adults

Only 3.82% of India's adult population have received both the doses of a vaccine

Wellbeing quiz: When the sun beats down...

Test your knowledge of dehydration

COVID-19: Hospitals tie up with luxury hotels to provide beds

With hospitals staggering under rising COVID-19 caseloads, hotels are acting as step-down care centres, providing additional beds, monitoring doctors and nurses on call

Coronavirus | Indian COVID-19 variant found in 44 countries: WHO

Outside of India, it said that Britain had reported the largest number of COVID-19 cases caused by the variant

Conversational AI becomes the unlikely hero during the COVID-19 pandemic

As India hunts for COVID-19 resources such as oxygen cylinders and hospital beds, technologists leverage conversational AI — such as Introbot AI and CovidIndResBot — to create an online space for real-time responses with a touch of personability

Covid-19 | U.S. authorises Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine for children aged 12 to 15

Widely vaccinating 12- to 18-year olds could allow U.S. schools to relax masking and social distancing measures suggested by the CDC.

Seven books to help overhaul your life in times of stress

During the new COVID-19 wave, many aspects of our health get thrown off-axis. We’ve compiled some comforting and educational reads to help guide you through times of stress, confusion and loneliness.

COVID-appropriate behaviour, vaccination main shields against all mutants, future waves: experts

According to the Union Health Ministry data released on May 9 morning, India recorded 4,03,738 fresh COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours

Explained | Why have doctors cautioned against misuse of CT scans and steroids to diagnose and treat COVID-19?

Are multiple CT scans harmful? Why are steroids being prescribed for COVID-19 patients?

Rohini S Rajagopal’s book recounts her battle with infertility

The book, ‘What’s a Lemon Squeezer Doing In My Vagina’, she hopes, will inspire more women to write about pregnancy and bust the myths and taboos around it

The anxiety pandemic

Amrita Tripathi and Kamna Chhibber, co-authors of ‘Age of Anxiety’, discuss mental health in the context of the second wave of the pandemic

Explained | Why patents on COVID vaccines are so contentious

Here's a look at what patents do and why they matter

Covid-19 | Russia authorises use of single dose vaccine Sputnik Light

Analysis of data after 28 days of administration of vaccine showed an efficacy of 79.4%.

Explained | What the easing of IP norms on Covid vaccines means for India

The challenge moves to the next level and needs to navigate fineprint consensus building through bureaucratic layers of WTO and member countries’ national governments.

Oxygen saturation of 92 or 93 should not be considered critical, says Randeep Guleria

This level is only a buffer that enables a patient to reach hospital on time: AIIMS director

Can’t find a vaccine slot? Coders come to the COVID-19 jab rescue

Having trouble finding vaccination centres on CoWIN or Aarogya Setu? These vaccine hacks, started by technologists across the country, are being lapped up by the public — and understandably so

Wellbeing quiz: The heat is on

Take this simple quiz on heat stroke

These COVID-19 patients coped with isolation and anxiety in their own uplifting ways

It’s a long road to recovery for people testing positive in this second wave of COVID-19. Trusty transistors, well-thumbed Harry Potter books, and family on constant video calls is what got them by

Explainer | How does an oxygen concentrator help?

The device can aid those whose oxygen saturation levels are between 88 and 92 by reducing the burden on the lungs.

Pfizer seeks expedited nod for its COVID-19 vaccine in India

Donates drugs worth $70 million for treatment of patients

All you need to know about Oxygen

Dietary nitrates from spinach and other leafy greens, beetroot and berries help the blood vessels relax and lead to better circulation of blood and oxygen in the body, says Dr Anam Golandaz

Natco gets CDSCO nod for emergency use of Baricitinib tablets for COVID-19 treatment

Baricitinib in combination with Remdesivir, is used for treatment of COVID-19 positive patients, the Natco Pharma said

Explained | What is being done to bridge medical oxygen demand and supply?

Was the preparation for the second wave inadequate?

Explained | How far can people delay taking the second shot of COVID-19 vaccine?

If a person contracts COVID-19 after the first dose, when should they get the next shot?

Coronavirus: What are variants of concern?

Variants of concern, widespread relaxation of COVID-19 appropriate behaviour have kicked off new waves of transmission

Vaccine shortage will affect all eligible groups

This comes at a time when daily new cases and deaths are scaling new peaks

‘Everything falls on my shoulders,’ says SII CEO Adar Poonawalla on vaccine pressure

The Serum Institute CEO, who is heading the production of Covishield, is currently in London following phone calls from various parties seeking priority delivery.

RIL ramps up production of liquid medical oxygen, augments tankers for faster supplies

We have supplied over 55,000 MT to various State governments free of cost, it says

Scientists say Centre ignored warnings amid coronavirus surge

The warning about the new variant in early March was issued by the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genetics Consortium, or INSACOG

Dr. Anthony Fauci suggests a few weeks’ lockdown in India to break chain of coronavirus transmission

Dr. Anthony Fauci said looking at the magnitude of the crisis, India should look at putting together a crisis group that would meet and start getting things organised

Pfizer-BioNTech seek vaccine nod for children in Europe

The company had earlier made the request in U.S. too

Your COVID-19 vaccine questions, answered

How does alcohol intake, the food you eat, and the painkillers you take affect the COVID-19 immunisation process? Find the answers here

Study discusses association between BMI and COVID severity

These findings suggest that vaccination policies should prioritise people with obesity, especially now the vaccine is being rolled out to younger age-groups, the researchers said.

Vaccines have to be equitable: Jacob John

You can’t have two companies holding the country to ransom, says the professor at the Department of Community Health, CMC, Vellore

Coronavirus | Health Ministry releases revised guidelines for home isolation of mild COVID-19 cases

“Do not attempt to procure or administer Remdesivir at home," the Home Ministry's revised guidelines for home isolation of mild/asymptomatic COVID-19 cases said

Wellbeing quiz: Matters of the head

Take this simple quiz on headaches

Coronavirus | Reducing movement, activity needed to break chain of transmission, says Lancet Commission India task force head

“It is hard to understand why corrective action was not taken at beginning of second wave,” says Chandrika Bahadur.

One in four people experience mild side effects from Covishield vaccine: Lancet study

Systemic effects included headache, fatigue, chills and shiver, diarrhoea, fever, arthralgia, myalgia, and nausea.

MSN Labs unveils higher strength Favilow tablets for COVID-19 treatment

Drugmaker MSN Laboratories has launched Favilow, its branded generic of antiviral drug Favipiravir, in a higher strength of 800 mg.Used in the

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