Misuse of steroids is cause of mucormycosis: AIIMS chief

All India Institute of Medical Sciences' director Randeep Guleria on Saturday said misuse of steroids is a major cause behind mucormycosis. Guleria also urged the hospitals to follow protocols of......

Covid: Parl panel stresses swift strategy evolution for next-gen vaccines

A parliamentary committee has stressed the urgent need to evolve strategies for development of next-generation vaccines and recommended that the Union health ministry encourage vaccine development......

Covid pandemic can be controlled by early next year, says panel

The panel also stated that without the lockdown the country would have witnessed a peak of over 140 lakh cases. IMAGE: A man carrying a sack walks past a graffiti of a healthcare worker during a......

Antidote against Nipah reaches Kerala; expert panel to decide further action

In the wake of the Nipah outbreak in Kozhikode district of Kerala, Indian Council of Medical Research has delivered the antibody requested by the state to combat the deadly virus. A mobile......

Govt may now cap prices of antibiotics

The intention of the government is to cap prices of drugs that are essential and which the public widely uses. The government may consider rationalising trade margins of antibiotics after having......

'Money and power, nothing worked'

'There's no point making grand plans all our lives when life itself is so fragile.' IMAGE: Sai Tamhankar and Prateik Babbar in India Lockdown. Madhur Bhandarkar's India Lockdown, which had its......

'COVID infection bubble already broken at Olympic Village'

IMAGE: A silhouette of the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games Athletes' Village in Tokyo on Monday. Photograph: Naoki Ogura/Reuters The so-called bubble to control COVID-19 infections at the Olympic......

Experts warn of high-risk Tokyo Olympics amid COVID-19

IMAGE: International Olympics Committee President Thomas Bach with Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo. Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters With just over a year to go until the Tokyo Olympics,......

Half of Japan thinks Olympics will go ahead, poll shows

'What will these Olympics be for and for whom? The Games have already lost meaning and are being held just for the sake of them.' IMAGE: The Olympics have already been postponed by a year amid......

Beijing Winter Olympics: 55 COVID-19 cases on Feb 2, highest daily tally

IMAGE: An official tests the course ahead of the Freestyle Skiing at the Shougang Big Air ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics in Beijing on February 03, 2022. Photograph: Justin Setterfield/Getty......

Risk of COVID spread is 'zero', IOC chief says, amid rising cases

IMAGE: Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike and Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), bump elbows at the start of their talks. Photograph: Issei Kato/Reuters International......