The pandemic has been a watershed moment, giving a fillip to startups providing plug-and-play virtual healthcare solutions across Sri Lanka. But will the trend...
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Despite M’s assurances that every part of the spa is disinfected after use and open for subsequent use only after four hours, I was wary. It was not an...
Amidst a rise in cases and the emergence of new variants of coronavirus, we sit down with Dr Maulik Patel, Physician and Consultant at Mediaid Healthcare LLP...
A year after the pandemic, the conspiracy theory that coronavirus is a hoax and that Bill Gates and Dr Fauci are behind it is again gaining popularity...
A social media post promoting a correlation between the COVID-19 vaccine and heart attacks is getting wide popularity. However, there is no evidence to link...
The COVID-19 pandemic has inflicted a major setback in India’s battle against TB. This World TB day, HealthLEADS looks into the country’s struggles, recovery...
First Check found videos encouraging unscientific cures of COVID-19 on YouTube in Bengali – a language mostly spoken in the West Bengal state of India and...
The Covid-19 pandemic is driving a spike in suicides in Japan and women have been impacted the most. Japan, where suicides are considered a major social issue...
As of March 17, more than 6.5 million people have been fully vaccinated in India, with both doses of the COVID-19 vaccine. And that’s a meagre 0.47 per cent of...
Youtube is awash with how to disinfect surfaces and many people have resorted to trying to make their own disinfectants by watching viral do-it-yourself (DIY)...