COVID-19: Why physicians administered steroids in the second wave

Poor dissemination and discrepancies in Union and state governments’ versions have made doctors lose faith in COVID-19 treatment protocol, …

AES in Bihar: A case of rural healthcare in crisis

More than 70 per cent of Bihar's PHCs function without any medical officer or nurse

AES in Bihar: Lack of awareness plays in loop

The brain fever first struck the state in 1995 and has continued taking lives of hordes of children and claimed lives of more than 170 …

AES in Bihar: Poor anganwadi centres failed to deliver

The state also has the second-highest number of cases of malnourished children (43.9 per cent) in India    

कोविड-19 महामारी: वैक्सीन से कमाई कर रही कंपनियां क्यों नहीं बना रही हैं दवा

महामारी को दो साल होने को हैं और इसके इलाज की दवाएं नगण्य…

Centre’s Rs 64,000 cr plan for future pandemics: What does it consist of?

New policy aimed at improving tertiary care, diagnostics and surveillance; it will supplement National Health Mission, says government

COVID-19 reverses decades of progress in TB elimination, India worst-hit: WHO

Detection of cases, diagnostics, treatment go for complete toss; deaths increase for first time  

Malaria vaccine: India needs it too, say experts

Countries in Africa registered 94 per cent of all malaria cases and deaths that took place globally in 2019; India saw the largest drop …

COVID-19: First line of defence or last resort?

Life-saving steroids were used indiscriminately during the pandemic’s second wave, but they can have lethal side effects. A DTE series on&…

COVID-19: How steroids were an unnecessary burden during the second wave

Steroids are essential in fighting infectious diseases. Used recklessly, they can cause life-threatening side effects like mucormycosis, as seen&…

COVID-19: Steroids have always been a double-edged sword

Administering of steroids is a risk-management exercise requiring close monitoring of patients, which doctors ignored during the pandemic to save …

‘High time India, other LMICs developed policy apparatus for COVID-19 drugs manufacturing and supply’

Expensive drug monoclonal antibodies may create inequity similar to vaccine distribution

COVID-19: Govt contradicts ‘media report’ on genome sequencing but fails to clarify total numbers

On June 6, the government said revised strategy would detect new variants; on September 6, it said the first strategy had served the purpose

In-depth: What ails India’s coronavirus genome sequencing system

The country sequenced only 0.2% samples till date, one of the lowest in the world

COVID-19: Child immunisation pushed back by years in India during 2020

As many as 23 million children across the world did not get routine vaccines, according to WHO-Unicef analysis

COVID-19: Did India read mucormycosis right?

Diabetes, use of industrial oxygen, the Delta variant: Reasons attributed to surge in cases of mucormycosis are many. But doctors have warned …

Only 6 states in India have 45 HCWs per 10,000 population, says Niti SDG index

Some 71.3% households don’t have a single person covered under health insurance or a scheme

जानिए भारत के कोविड वैक्सीन खरीदने और कीमतों की नीति से एक्सपर्ट क्यों है नाखुश?

Why experts are not happy with India’s COVID-19 vaccine procurement, pricing policy

India only COVID-19 vaccine producer that has shifted burden onto citizens to pay for vaccines by opening private markets for them, experts say

यह हो सकता है भारत में कोविड-19 के बढ़ते मामलों के लिए जिम्मेदार वेरिएंट

नेशनल सेंटर फॉर डिजीज कंट्रोल के मुताबिक, कोरोना मामलों…

Government experts hint variants responsible for COVID-19 case surge in India

India is not going to sequence 5 per cent samples due to high caseload, says National Centre for Disease Control

Vaccine Scarcity: Government projection of vaccine demand goes haywire

Not expecting second surge, Centre exported more than 60 million doses

Dismal figures: ‘India sequenced less than 1% of total COVID-19 samples in nearly 3 months’

Lack of funds, difficulty in getting samples among reasons for poor numbers

COVID-19: States showing surge of cases not doing enough RT-PCR tests: Health ministry

6.5 per cent COVID-19 vaccines getting wasted in India; country not to pause Covishield inoculation

Caught in second COVID-19 wave? What signs of surge in new entrants mean

COVID-19 cases are being reported in large numbers from districts that had so far been mildly hit by the pandemic