Mpox, AIDS & COVID-19 show challenges of targeting public health messaging to specific groups without causing stigma

Racial, sexual stigma around monkeypox spurred World Health Organization to rename the disease to mpox

COVID-19: Is SARS-CoV-2 evolving differently after omicron

Cases are expected to rise with the advent of winter

Ramdev shouldn’t criticise other systems of medicine: SC

Reply sought from Patanjali, Centre over Indian Medical Association plea; Experts say time to update Ayurveda textbooks

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: WHO recommends Regeneron antibody therapy for high-risk & seronegative patients

Price and production problems should be addressed at the earliest, the health agency says  

Ventilators for COVID-19: Crisis looms in several states even after 50,000 allocated

More than 7,000 of the Centre-allocated ventilators are lying idle 

Ivermectin for COVID-19: Mismatch between global and Indian policies

Union health ministry guidelines say the drug "may be" used for COVID-19 patients even as global agencies don't recommend 

COVID-19 killed your sense of smell? Here’s how experts train people to get theirs back

Smell training and vitamin A drops are perhaps the best options

Keeping up with COVID-19 anxiety — with good sleep

Lifestyle patterns have changed, negativity has become the new world hallmark. It is crucial to maintain a healthy state

COVID-19: Can cotton wear allow better vitamin D synthesis

Vitamin D deficiency makes people more susceptible to COVID-19; countries with high levels of vitamin D deficiency reported higher mortality …

Why COVID-19 will not kill off global business travel

In medium term, life sciences companies will continue to expand and view travel as a vital channel for maintaining new business in markets

Pasteurisation inactivates SARS-CoV-2 virus in breast milk: Study

Cold storage of human milk having the virus did not significantly impact infectious viral load over a 48-hour period, the study found 

100 days without COVID-19: How New Zealand got rid of the virus

New Zealand committed relatively early to a clearly articulated elimination strategy and pursued it aggressively

COVID-19: 99% active cases are with mild symptoms

Spread of COVID-19 fastest in last seven months; the world added first million cases in four months, last million in four days  

Coronavirus update: 25 of 36 states / UTs record daily increase in cases

No decrease in number of deaths due to COVID-19 in any state

COVID-19: What will be a fair policy to distribute vaccine

No country is safe if only its own citizens are inoculated; the question of equitable distribution of a vaccine is as much a global concern as it …

How Chunar, a small town in UP, is combating COVID-19

How awareness drives involving local bodies, distribution of PPEs and other equipment, helped turn the COVID-19 situation around  

Towards sustainable marine fisheries value chain: Reflections amid COVID-19 crisis

A behavioural nudge to promote sustainable fisheries, community mobilisation can go a long way for the sector in post-COVID-19 era and beyond

COVID-19: How distant laws, uneven measures afflict sanitation workers

The pandemic has further aggravated the dichotomy of livelihood and safety of sanitation workers 

Chloroquine does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2 spread in human lung cells: Study

The drug stops the spread of the virus that causes COVID-19 in African green monkey kidney cells, but is ineffective in human lung cells