COVID-19 pandemic & children: Omicron unlikely to increase threat in children

Hasty vaccination of healthy young people will have little benefit 

Vaccination for pregnant women in India

Simply put: Happy Pujas

COVID-19: Testing criteria for private labs opened up

Price cap of Rs 5,000 fixed for pvt labs to conduct virus investigation

28 people tested positive in India for COVID-19: Harsh Vardhan

16 out of them Italian nationals, says Union health minister

Coronavirus: Chinese media reports drop in new cases, WHO dismisses any trend

Wuhan hospital director dies due to COVID-19 infection

Simply Put: Guidelines to counter epidemic

India, 163 nations off track to meet tobacco reduction targets

Smokeless tobacco affecting adolescents more in the South-East Asia region

‘Online nutrition tracker to promptly plug service gaps’

Down To Earth talks to the project lead of Nutrition Surveillance System

WHO has ended the COVID-19 global health emergency — what happens now?

The ‘end of the pandemic’ might have several ramifications

Gender, caste discrimination, mistreatment by superiors: Mental stress takes a toll on ASHA workers, shows study

ASHA workers in Sehore, Madhya Pradesh share the hurdles they face every day at homes of residents and workplaces

A stretchy computer chip with brain-like AI might revolutionise wearable health tech

Chip will be able to sample sweat, analyse health data right on the body

Climate Emergency CoP 25: Climate-linked health impacts not a priority yet, says WHO

Lack of funding is one of the reasons for the low priority

El Salvador becomes first central American country to be declared malaria-free

The country has not recorded any indigenous case of malaria since 2017

Kerala sees sharp fall in sex ratio at birth despite being best in overall category

Bihar and Maharashtra are other major states where sex ratio at birth declined 

Simply Put: Maternal mortality in India

Omicron update: UK caseload shows travel curbs failed

Variant of Concern already identified in 52 countries

Simply Put: COVID-19 vaccinate the hare, vaccinate the tortoise

COVID-19 derailed universal health coverage in Africa, flags report

There have been signs of progress, but they have been slow, the report said

Routine Immunisation should not suffer due to COVID-19: WHO

Many Indian states have also suspended vaccination services

COVID-19: WHO criticises countries for not ensuring dignity of migrants during lockdowns

Indian states suspends routine immunisation, WHO says it is unfair

COVID-19: Has community transmission begun in India?

Govt denies India in Phase 3 but experts not sure about its claim

Coronavirus hits India: One confirmed case in Kerala, says Centre

Patient stable, under observation in isolation

Too early to declare Coronavirus outbreak an int'l emergency: WHO

'Neither severity, source nor extent of virus' transmission completely known yet'

Genome sequencing data to help in predictive and preventive medicine

Minister Harsh Vardhan claims project will help in cost-effective, precision medicine