Vigyan Prasar conducts health communication workshop for ICMR scientists
The importance of communication in the field of scientific research was felt even more deeply during the days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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How higher education was changed forever since Covid-19: 5 main trends
The pandemic has changed higher education significantly, accelerating many trends related to digitalisation. Moscow City University conducted a study and Kirill Barannikov, vice-rector for the development of MSU, and candidate of pedagogical sciences, named five main trends and higher education will no longer be the same.
Why do people who are most impacted by climate disasters get subtracted from policy making?
The publication launched at AIDS 2022 on the interlinkages and key issues including sexual and reproductive health and rights and bodily autonomy in differential vulnerability to climate change An important publication launched on the opening…
Morning Headlines 14th July 2022
UN chief hails ‘critical step forward’ on resuming Ukraine grain exports The UN chief on Wednesday described progress between Russia and Ukraine on allowing the resumption of grain exports during UN-brokered talks in Türkiye, as…
How did COVID-19 spread during short conversations?
New Delhi, June 17: It is known that when people sneeze or cough, they can potentially transmit droplets carrying viruses like SARS-CoV-2 to others in their vicinity. But what happens when someone is talking to…
A shot in the arm for traditional system of medicine in India
COVID-19 was declared a pandemic by WHO in March 2020 New Delhi, June 05: Since December 2019, the world has been recuperating from a significant unexpected challenge of novel Coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the…
Local leaders unitedly push for the One Health approach. Will G20 leaders tango?
Local leaders like Mayors, Members of Parliament (including Ministers of Health) and other experts call for a One Health approach as a large number of diseases affecting humans have origins in animals, including COVID-19 and…
#Breaking: INDIA’s ASHA honoured with WHO’s Global Health Leaders Awards
WHO DG announces Global Health Leaders Awards GENEVA – 22 May 2022 – The WHO Director-General Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has announced six awards today to recognize outstanding contributions to advancing global health, demonstrated leadership…
WHO’s World Health Statistics 2022 revealed, that health spending has become even more frightening in the last 20 years
Highlights of WHO’s World Health Statistics 2022 New Delhi, 22 May 2022: The World Health Organization has published its latest comprehensive set of World Health Statistics for 2020, the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic…
#Breaking: Some 68% of excess deaths associated with the COVID-19 are concentrated in just 10 countries: WHO
14.9 million excess deaths were associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 and 2021 Geneva, 5 May 2022 – New estimates from the World Health Organization (WHO) show that the full death toll associated directly…
Asthma drug can help fight COVID-19: Study
Called montelukast, the drug, approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), has been around for more than 20 years and is usually prescribed to reduce inflammation caused by conditions like asthma, hay fever, and hives.
Will the Himalayan Indian state eliminate tuberculosis by 2023?
Article based on an interview with the head of district TB programme of Kangra in the Himalayan state of Himachal Pradesh, India. Will Kangra keep the promise to eliminate TB by 2023? Only 21 months…
New vaccine to bolster fight against COVID-19
New Delhi, Feb 25: India’s armoury of vaccines against Covid-19 has got a new weapon, with the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) approving Emergency Use Authorisation (EUA) for Hyderabad-based Biological E Limited’s CORBEVAX. The…
Pandemic is not over yet by a long shot: Deaths rose every week in 2022
Global health thought leader Dr Tim France rightly tweeted, “Here is the WHO stating explicitly what most people I know are saying to one another privately: Is not it really risky to lift all COVID-19…
Will the UN health agency give the green light for using COVID-19 self-tests?
Are self-tests for COVID-19 available? If we get infected with an infectious disease, will we not want to protect our family and others from it? But, unless we know our disease status timely and reliably,…
A new study raises the prospect of Zika virus therapy
Drugs for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection : Zika Virus Disease in India New Delhi, Jan 06: New drugs could soon be in the offing for Zika virus (ZIKV) infection with a team of scientists at…
More than half a billion people pushed or pushed further into extreme poverty due to health care costs
Monitoring universal health coverage – WHO COVID-19 pandemic disrupts health services worldwide DUBAI/GENEVA/WASHINGTON DC — 12 December 2021 — New evidence compiled by the World Health Organization and the World Bank shows that the COVID-19…
India became the first lower-middle-income country to pass best-practice trans fat elimination policies
Countries with regulations protecting people from industrially produced trans fat tripled over the past year WHO report reveals people in high-income countries are protected by policies on trans fat elimination, but low-income countries are being…
Coronavirus genomic surveillance mechanism intensified
Coronavirus genomic surveillance mechanism in India New Delhi, Dec 07: A consortium of national laboratories based in four cities – Bengaluru, Hyderabad, New Delhi, and Pune – is continuously conducting genomic surveillance of coronavirus, which…
#Breaking: Top headlines of India today. The latest breaking news in India | 30 November 2021
No data of farmers who died, hence no question of compensation: Center The central government on Tuesday said there was no data on how many farmers died during the year-long agitation demanding repeal of three…
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