MBBS STUDENT TESTED COVID POSITIVE AFTER GETTING SECOND DOSE

March 4, 2021

A final-year MBBS student from Sion hospital in Mumbai tested positive for coronavirus after he took a second dose of the vaccine a few days ago. Doctors said that even after taking both doses it takes several days for immunity to build. The 21-year-old received the second dose of Covishield...

EQUITABLE ACCESS TO VACCINES WILL HELP CONTAIN PANDEMIC: UNICEF REPRESENTATIVE

March 4, 2021

Dr Yasmin Ali Haque, the UNICEF representative in India, was at Serum Institute of India (SII), Pune, when the shipment containing 600,000 doses of Covid vaccines left for Ghana. A second shipment of 504,000 doses, sent from Mumbai, landed in Ivory Coast, West Africa, this week. In a candid conversation,...

Is Patanjali’s Coronil really the first drug for Covid-19?

March 4, 2021

Patanjali’s Coronil has faced controversy since Baba Ramdev’s company came out with claims of the drug being the “first evidence-based medicine” to treat Covid-19. Debating the issue, top doctors of modern medicine and Ayurveda—Dr J.A. Jayalal, president of the Indian Medical Association, Dr Girish Tyagi, former president of the Delhi...

NO COVID-19 VACCINATION ON 27-28 FEB; GOVT TO UPDATE CO-WIN

February 27, 2021

New Delhi: The Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare announced that the vaccination drive will be halted for two days, i.e., February 27 and 28, on account of a software change necessary for the second phase of vaccinations. The second phase of the Covid vaccinations will begin from March...

METALLIC PIN REMOVED SUCCESSFULLY FROM CHILD’S LUNG

February 27, 2021

New Delhi: A team of doctors from a Mumbai hospital gave a fresh lease of life to a 10-year-old girl who had accidentally swallowed a large metallic pin with a sharp end two years ago. A team led by ENT doctors Dr Kshitij Shah and Dr Shalaka Dighe, ably supported...

NATIONAL POLICY ON RARE DISEASES: AN URGENT NEED FOR INDIA

February 27, 2021

While certain southern states in the country have initiatives in place for supporting patients with rare diseases, the Centre needs to take a more serious note of the issue, especially regarding a sustainable funding mechanism for Group 3 rare disease patients in India. With the Union Ministry of Health &...

Spread of new Covid-19 mutants is preventable through caution: Experts

February 27, 2021

With the new mutants of the coronavirus entering India and certain states experiencing a spike in new cases, concerns about the infection spreading widely have come up again. However, in an exclusive interview with The Sunday Guardian, Dr Anjan Trikha, Professor of Anesthesiology, Pain and Critical Care at AIIMS, and...

THREE PROFESSORS TERMINATED BY AIIMS PATNA

February 24, 2021

The AIIMS facility of Patna has given consent on the motion to terminate its faculty members for lacking basic qualifications at the time of their recruitment. These members include Ajit Saxena, professor and head of the pathology department, Sushmita Das, associate professor in the microbiology department and Alok Ranjan, an...

IMA OBJECTS TO PATANJALI’S CORONIL CLAIMS

February 24, 2021

The Indian Medical Association has expressed dismay at the “blatant lie” of WHO certifying Patanjali’s Coronil, a medicine that founder Baba Ramdev claims as the first one against Covid-19. Baba Ramdev has claimed that Coronil can be used for the prevention and treatment of Covid as well as in post-Covid...

The myth of Covid-busting multivitamins

February 24, 2021

The increasing sale of multivitamins during the Covid-19 pandemic has given birth to a new controversy. Due to the pandemic, people concerned about their health and immunity have been popping more pills—even giving it to their children—but doctors and medical experts say that nobody should be taking multivitamins without a...