Healthcare

Beijing: SinoPharm, a state-owned Chinese pharmaceutical company, has claimed that its coronavirus vaccine will be commercially available by the end of the year at a price of less than Rs...

New Delhi: The government will launch a National Digital Health Mission under which every Indian citizen will have unique health IDs, digitised health records as well as a registry of...

New York: In a study that may help doctors better plan how to treat COVID-19 patients, US researchers have found the likely order in which the symptoms of the disease...

New Delhi: The Union government has urged 13 districts, across eight states and Union Territories, to take measures for reducing mortality due to COVID-19. Odisha’s Ganjam is one of those...

New Delhi: Indian Army chief Gen. MM Naravane seemed to have a new addition in his decorated uniform when he visited Tezpur in Assam on Thursday. But it turned out...

Moscow: If reports in Russian media are to be believed, a potential vaccine for novel coronavirus being developed by Gamaleya Institute in Moscow has completed clinical trials, and the process...

Berhampur: Alleged delay in treatment led to the death of an elderly man at a COVID-19 hospital in Ganjam district’s Berhampur on Friday. Ganjam is Odisha’s worst-hit district in the coronavirus...

Bhubaneswar: Doctors at IMS and SUM Hospital here have successfully treated a woman who had suffered 70 per cent burns after an LPG cylinder exploded while she was cooking. She...

Chandigarh: The ventilators received for COVID-care by the Union Territory under the PM CARES fund have come under scrutiny after doctors from PGIMER found them "faulty". According to reports on...

There has been more evidence that anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) does not really help in treating the COVID-19 virus. A Brazilian study published in The New England Journal of Medicine...