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US Health Secretary bats for stronger India-US medical research partnership

August 19, 2023

Becerra reaffirmed US government’s commitment to health security and preparedness for future threats “India has come a long way. The G20 presidency in India...

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‘COVID-19 brought realization of scale of NTDs, but also obscured them’

July 12, 2023

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Dr Kishor Wasan is a Co-Director and Co-Founder, Neglected Global Diseases Initiative at the University of British Columbia. He is credited with developing an...

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‘Tuberculosis can affect everybody, as like COVID it’s an airborne disease’

May 29, 2023

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Dr Suvanand Sahu is the Deputy Executive Director of the Stop TB Partnership, a global partnership committed to eliminating Tuberculosis as a public health...

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COVID pandemic is over but millions suffer from Long COVID

May 8, 2023

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The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has logged more than 104 million COVID-19 cases in the US as of late April While the World Health...

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Global initiative to develop vaccines against emerging COVID variants

February 23, 2023

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Scientists fear that new coronaviruses in the future could be highly transmissible as well as lethal, which may imperil the protection provided by current...

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‘Ending Zero-Covid policy was like flipping a pancake’

January 24, 2023

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Qian Sun, a Chinese freelance journalist based in Berlin, describes the ongoing Covid-19 outbreak in her country as severe. In an interview, she tells...

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A case for school wellness checkup for children

December 16, 2022

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The need of the hour is a more holistic screening by a physician along with the services of a dentist, psychologist, and other paramedical staff Preventive...

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First time ever, human development slips for two years in a row

September 9, 2022

For the first time ever, the global Human Development Index (HDI) declined for two consecutive years, falling back to its 2016 levels, the United Nations...

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Claiming daughter killed by Covishield vaccine, father seeks Rs 1000 crore compensation

September 3, 2022

Dilip Lunawat says his daughter, Dr Snehal Lunawat, took the jab after being told COVID vaccines did not pose any risk A father of a deceased medical student...

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California doctors to lose licenses for spreading misinformation about COVID-19

September 3, 2022

The CDC data points out that the spread of false information and disinformation about COVID-19 vaccines has weakened public confidence and placed lives at...