24×7 VACCINATION FACILITY TO BE STARTED IN GURUGRAM

March 13, 2021

Gurugram: Five Hospitals of Gurugram hospitals are about to introduce 24×7 vaccination facility from 15 March and Gurugram will become the first district to do so. People are being vaccinated on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday in government hospitals in Gurugram, while it goes on from Monday to Saturday in...

IS COVID-19 VACCINE SAFE FOR KIDNEY DISEASE PATIENTS?

March 13, 2021

Dr Sunil Prakash, Senior Director & HoD, Nephrology & Renal Transplantation, BLK Super Speciality Hospital spoke about the relation between the Covid-19 vaccine and kidney disease. Q. There is a rising concern in the community of patients with Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD) on getting Covid-19 vaccination as raised levels of...

Good nutrition and regular tests important for women today: Experts

March 13, 2021

Data has shown that only 12% of women in India take decisions regarding their own healthcare. In a country which has a large number of anaemic women, women who die during childbirth and women who fall prey to cervical cancer, how can we ensure better health for half of the...

Hearing loss is treatable if detected timely, say doctors

March 9, 2021

New Delhi: Disabilities related to hearing have become a big concern as the WHO has also said that nearly 2.5 billion people worldwide or one in every 4 individuals will have some degree of hearing loss by 2050. Top experts Dr Alok Thakar, HoD of ENT at AIIMS, Dr Sumit...

GUIDELINES FOR DM IN MEDICAL GENETICS RELEASED BY NMC

March 6, 2021

The National Medical Commission has released guidelines for the new competency-based PG training programme for DM in Medical Genetics. This course provides a new opportunity of super specialisation for all those doctors who have completed their PG degree in Medicine, Paediatrics or Obstetrics and Gynaecology. The guidelines include the specific...

DELHI HC SEEKS AFFIDAVITS FROM BHARAT BIOTECH AND SII ON CAPACITY

March 6, 2021

The Delhi High Court has asked Serum Institute of India and Bharat Biotech to disclose the capacity they have to manufacture Covaxin and Covishield vaccines, respectively. A bench of the Delhi High Court comprising Justice Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli directed the Centre to explain in its affidavit the reasons...

SII WRITES TO PMO ON REFORMS IN DRUG REGULATORY SYSTEM

March 6, 2021

The world’s largest vaccine production company, Serum Institute of India (SII), has written a letter to the PMO on reforms in the existing drug regulatory system, including allowing companies manufacturing and stockpiling of non-Covid vaccines while undergoing clinical trials. In the letter Prakash Kumar Singh, who is the Director of...

THERE’S NO CO-WIN MOBILE APP FOR COVID VACCINE REGISTRATION: R.S. SHARMA

March 6, 2021

R.S. Sharma, chairman of Empowered Panel for Covid-19 Vaccination and chief of Co-WIN, exclusively spoke to The Sunday Guardian and clarified doubts about Covid-19 vaccine registration and complaints of technical glitches on the portal. Q. What are the problems people are facing? They are not aware and still confused about...

Vaccination is important, but more information needed on reactions: Experts

March 6, 2021

In an exclusive interview with The Sunday Guardian, Dr S.K. Sarin, Director, ILBS Hospital, Dr K.K. Agarwal, former president of the Indian Medical Association, Dr Sandeep Mishra, professor and cardiologist, AIIMS, and Dr D.S. Rana, Director, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, talk about Covid vaccines, the process of getting them and...

DELHI DOCTOR PERFORMED ENDOSCOPIC SURGERY ON A 14-YEAR-OLD BOY

March 4, 2021

A team of surgeons at Indraprastha Apollo led by Dr Noor ul din Malik, Senior Consultant, ENT (Surgery), Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, successfully performed an endoscopic surgery on a 14-year-old boy who had developed a rare tumour (Juvenile Angiofibroma-JA) on his nostrils that was protruding on the external side of his...