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VASCO: Over the past few days, the sub-district hospital (SDH) at Chicalim in Vasco has been dealing with an increase in the number of viral fever cases. The hospital’s medical superintendent Dr Anil Umraskar said that while the hospital usually attends to around 250...

New Delhi: India's cumulative COVID-19 vaccination coverage exceeded 198.20 crores with 1,98,20,86,763 vaccine doses administered so far under the nationwide vaccination drive. "The Union Government is committed to accelerating the pace and expanding the scope of...

Maryland: A study from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) said the immune response triggered by COVID-19 infection can damage the brain's blood vessels and may lead to short- and long-term neurological symptoms. In a study published in Brain, researchers from the...

Names Boston Children's Hospital #1 Pediatric Hospital for Ninth Straight Year   WATERTOWN, Mass. , July 6, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings, has announced the results of its 2022-2023 Best Children's...

Long COVID has a debilitating effect on several major body organs COVID's mystery continues even after the virus completes its course of action in the human body. Termed as long COVID, this long term effect of the coronavirus was unknown to many until a few months...

COVID reinfectionsGetting infected with COVID-19 can help in building your immune response, however, it is no guarantee that you won’t get infected again. Can you get reinfected even after getting all vaccine doses? The answer is yes. In 2020, Coronavirus reinfections...

Everyone in the U.S. 6 months or older is now eligible to get a COVID-19 vaccine, after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) authorized the shots in June for very young children, from 6 months to 5 years old....

London: UK researchers have created a new Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool that can detect Covid-19. The software analyses chest CT scans and uses deep learning algorithms to accurately diagnose the disease. With an accuracy rate of 97.86 per cent, it's currently the...

COVID reinfections could be more severe for some - but overall evidence doesn't give us cause for concern. As so many of us have had COVID already, it's no surprise that plenty of people are catching the virus for a second or even a third time. In the UK, this has...

Pune: A study from Maharashtra has found clear evidence that mothers with Covid-19 can transmit the virus to their newborns and in some instances, infants can also be born with the infection. Experts from Pune's BJ Medical College and Sassoon General Hospital and...

Pune: Unlike the past three waves of the pandemic, when fever — in most cases — meant Covid, the current period is a mixed bag of seasonal viruses and SARS-CoV-2, experts have said. Scientists from ICMR-NIV said seasonal viruses, including H1N1 (swine flu) and H3N2,...

Despite two-thirds of households reportedly having a smartphone, barely 50% of schoolchildren have access to digital learning, with only one-fourth having access all the time. States with low-learning achievements are also the ones with low smartphone access. Over 95...

Coronavirus multiplies wherever it finds a suitable place to breedSince protection from COVID is a must, we need to re-look our nearest surroundings for any loophole. Infections caused by virulent pathogens often happen due to a minor mistake. It is not that you will...

​COVID-19 reinfectionOver half a billion people worldwide have been infected with coronavirus at least one time. Further, people who have recovered from a coronavirus infection once can develop a reinfection again, and globally, people are acquiring repeat SARS-CoV-2...

PUNE: Three new and highly transmissible "offspring" of Omicron's BA.2 subvariant havebeen detected in India. BA.2.74, BA.2.75 and BA.2.76 are "fitter" and more infectious than Omicron's BA.5, a senior scientist from the Indian SARS-CoV-2 Genomics Consortium (INSACOG)...

Wearing masks limits COVID spread to a great extentMany people consider wearing masks in public places as an imposition instead of a healthy practice. This is the reason why many people are seen without masks once government health agencies relax the COVID appropriate...

Nearly 20 million lives were saved by COVID-19 vaccines during their first year, but even more deaths could have been prevented if international targets for the shots had been reached, researchers reported Thursday. On Dec. 8, 2020, a retired shop clerk in England...

New York: Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday recommended a change in the design of COVID-19 booster shots this fall in order to combat more recently circulating variants of the coronavirus. The FDA's Vaccines and Related Biological Products...

London: Researchers in the UK are probing a potential link between blood clots and long-term symptoms post a Covid infection, and whether a treatment of blood thinners may help reduce long Covid conditions, media reports said. Long Covid is defined as having new or...

New Delhi: Young women with comorbidities like chronic kidney disease (CKD), diabetes, hypertension had a higher risk of death due to Covid than males during the first phase of pandemic in India, according to a retrospective study. A team of researchers of Sir Ganga...