CONTEXT Experience across the world has shown that the third wave of Covid is evident. Evidence has shown that it took nearly eight weeks in the U.K. 17 weeks in Italy, and 23 weeks in the U.S. to go from …
CONTEXT India is in the middle of the second wave of Covid Pandemic. Covid virus is evolving which is resulting in higher transmissibility and immune escape. This demands re-strategizing of our responses to Covid Pandemic. NEED TO RE-STRATEGIZE OUR STRATEGY …
CONTEXT Mental health issues are a major health challenge in the world today. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there is a 10-25-year life expectancy reduction in patients with severe mental disorders. INDIA’S POLICIES TO TACKLE MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES …
CONTEXT Recent article “The origin of COVID: Did people or nature open Pandora’s box at Wuhan?” was published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. The work has made a strong case for a fuller investigation into the Origin of …
CONTEXT Recently there has been an alarming rise in India in the incidence of mucormycosis, in patients who have been diagnosed and treated for COVID-19. As a result, some States, including Tamil Nadu, have declared mucormycosis as a notifiable disease …
NEWS The battle against COVID-19 should also be used as an opportunity to meet India’s ‘One Health’ targets. CONTEXT In 1856, the father of modern pathology, Rudolf Virchow, emphasised that there are essentially no dividing lines between animal and human …
CONTEXT The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the vulnerabilities of health systems to infectious diseases, and caused millions of deaths around the globe since last year. As serious as the current health and economic crisis is, there is a possibility that …
CONTEXT The political and social handling of the COVID-19 pandemic have added to the persisting issues of food insecurity faced by millions. India, even prior to the novel coronavirus pandemic, has consistently been ranked poorly in all international rankings on …
Context: Innovations in managing the COVID-19 pandemic can help India revolutionise care delivery and related outcomes. Dharavi’s success strategy: Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Ahmedabad and Bengaluru are among India’s major metropolitan agglomerations and are also the current foci of the pandemic …