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India’s COVID vaccines: A primer

January 15, 2021

With vaccine rollout beginning January 16, India’s battle against COVID-19 progresses to the next stage. Here’s all you need to know about the country’s...

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COVID-19 from the frontlines of global public health

November 28, 2020

The year 2020 has been an extremely tough year. The enormity of the COVID-19 pandemic has halted life as we knew it and has killed more than 1 million people...

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GIJN launches comprehensive guide on ‘Investigating Health and Medicine’

November 26, 2020

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The PICO (patient, intervention, comparator, and outcome) criteria was a useful tool that the authors presented to help ask the right questions with reference...

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Media Literacy: Bring all stakeholders on the same page to curb the spread of misinformation, say panelists

November 26, 2020

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A thought-provoking session on media literacy at the Misinformation in Medicine Summit stressed on the need to have a holistic approach to combat the...

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The tension between science of disease and people’s science

November 20, 2020

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COVID-19 may have made science accessible to the public, perhaps, as never before. However, people may not have learned to interpret its logic and language or...

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Great expectations: Curtain raiser to the biggest global summit on misinformation in medicine

November 20, 2020

Convened by DataLEADS, the Misinformation in Medicine Summit is hosted by the Google News Initiative as a part of the APAC Trusted Media Summit 2020. The event...

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Melbourne’s ‘aggressive suppression’ beats COVID-19 second wave

November 13, 2020

The government, the scientists and the community came together to drive down the second wave. From its peak of 6767 active cases on August 7 to 4 cases on...

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Science in the age of COVID-19

November 6, 2020

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Almost a year into the pandemic, there are still major gaps in people’s understanding of the novel coronavirus. Are we to live in a constant state of fear and...

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India’s two-front war with COVID-19 and air pollution

October 23, 2020

Studies suggest that areas with higher air pollution levels experience higher rates of coronavirus infection and fatalities. ‘State of Global Air 2020’ report...

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How international patients suffer amid COVID-19 restrictions and travel breakdown

October 16, 2020

The uncertainty of the coronavirus, lockdowns, and border restrictions has proved fatal for millions of international patients who choose Asian countries for...