US drug overdose deaths top 1 million: NPR
New York [US], January 1 ,2022: Deaths due to drug overdose have topped a million over past 20 years, U.S. broadcaster NPR reported on ...
Vaccines still effective against Omicron as T cell immunity holds up better against new variant: WHO Chief Scientist
Geneva [Switzerland], December 30,2021: Emphasising that the Omicron variant is infecting both vaccinated and unvaccinated people ...
Yellow alert in Delhi over rising Covid cases
Dec 28,2021:The Delhi government has decided to enforce the ‘yellow’ alert of the Graded Response Action Plan (GRAP) in ...
Centre approves two indigenously developed COVID vaccines, one anti-viral drug
New Delhi , December 28,2021: Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday announced the approval of two ...
India to give COVID booster shots to health workers, elders: Modi
Dec 26,2021:India will start administering COVID-19 booster shots as a precautionary measure to healthcare and other front-line ...
FDA Authorizes First Oral Antiviral for Treatment of COVID-19
Dec 23,2021:The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization (EUA) for Pfizer’s Paxlovid (nirmatrelvir ...
Pair of Lungs travel 950 km in 3 hrs to save 54-yr-old chronic patient
New Delhi, Dec 22,2021: A 950-kilometre-long green corridor was created to transport lungs from an Ahmedabad hospital Gujarat to Max ...
New Zealand children aged 5 to 11 to be vaccinated from mid-January
Wellington, Dec 21,2021: New Zealand government on Tuesday urged parents and caregivers to consider protecting their children aged 5 ...
New Zealand Says Man’s Death May Be Linked to Pfizer Vaccine
Dec 20,2021:New Zealand health authorities said they believe a man’s death may be linked to the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine.
The ...
New study associates mask laws to reduction of COVID-19 deaths
Washington [US], December 16,2021: A study of the impact of national face mask laws on COVID-19 mortality in 44 countries with a ...