Healthcare

Kolkata: In a recovery of miraculous proportions, Nitaidas Mukherjee beat Covid-19 and returned to his south Kolkata residence after being on a ventilator for 38 days. According to doctors, it’s...

New Delhi: Union Health Minister Dr Harsh Vardhan said on Saturday that testing capacity for novel coronavirus has been increased to around 95,000 tests per day in India. The minister...

New Delhi: The Union Health Ministry on Saturday issued revised guidelines for discharge of coronavirus patients from hospitals. As per the new policy, if patients classified as very mild and...

New Delhi: In a major boost to India’s fight against Covid-19, the Central government and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) on Friday signed a $500 million ‘Covid-19 Emergency Response and...

New Delhi: Four Covid-19 hospitals in India have received clearance to be part of the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) clinical trial process to find an effective treatment for the novel...

Ahmedabad: Cadila Pharmaceuticals, one of the largest pharma companies in the country. has shut down its manufacturing plant in Ahmedabad after 26 employees tested positive for COVID-19. All the 95...

New Delhi: A day after Israel claimed that they have made a significant breakthrough in the treatment of Covid-19 by developing an antibody that attacks the deadly coronavirus, Israel’s ambassador to...

Washington: The corona curve has not yet flattened in the US, yet President Donald Trump was spotted touring a medical mask factory without wearing a face mask. According to reports,...

Pfizer Inc, a US pharmaceutical company on Monday injected one patient in the US with its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. The company has partnered with Germany’s BioNTech SE, and the trials...

Scientists may not be able to develop a coronavirus-specific vaccine, some medical experts have warned. They have cited the examples of HIV and dengue, for which there is no vaccine....