COVID-19 vaccine candidate to enter phase 3 of pre-clinical human trial: Health Ministry MD Bureau19 Aug 2020 12:00 PM ISTWhile the officials did not reveal the names of the vaccine candidates while speaking about their testing phase, it could be gathered that the vaccine...
PM Modi tells 10 states to amp up COVID-19 testing Medical Dialogues Bureau13 Aug 2020 3:15 PM ISTNew Delhi - Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that there is a need to increase coronavirus testing in states where the testing rate...
Health Ministry to release Guidance note for recovered COVID-19 patients Medical Dialogues Bureau13 Aug 2020 10:45 AM ISTNew Delhi - The Directorate General of Health Services (DGHS) at the Union Health Ministry is preparing a guidance note for people who have recovered...
COVID 19 Fatality Rate come down below 2 percent: Health Ministry Medical Dialogues Bureau12 Aug 2020 9:45 AM ISTNew Delhi - Case Fatality Rate of COVID-19 in India has come down below 2% for the first time today and is continuously declining. It stands at 1.99%...
COVID warriors on quarantine will be treated as 'on duty'; MoHFW tells Supreme Court MD Bureau12 Aug 2020 9:00 AM ISTDelhi: The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW) has submitted an affidavit in the supreme court stating that all the state and central...
Focus on reducing COVID-19 mortality: Health Ministry directs States, UTs MD Bureau10 Aug 2020 9:00 AM ISTHealth Secretary Rajesh Bhushan especially engaged with the states reporting a high caseload and higher Case Fatality Rate (CFR) than the national...
Health ministry, ICMR, AIIMS to set up a national clinical registry to study COVID-19 epidemic Medical Dialogues Bureau9 Aug 2020 1:37 PM ISTNew Delhi - As doctors, scientists and researchers across the world grapple with understanding the effects of COVID-19, India, too, is set to study...
PETA asks Health Ministry, ICMR to stop Covid-19 vaccine tests on monkeys Ruchika Sharma8 Aug 2020 1:55 PM ISTNew Delhi: The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have sent letters, co-signed by an expert primatologist, calling on the Ministry of Health...
50,000 indigenous ventilators worth Rs 2000 crore are being funded by PMCARES fund, says Health Ministry Ruchika Sharma5 Aug 2020 4:45 PM IST"The 'Make in India'(indigenous) ventilators have a share of more than 96 per cent by volume and more than 90 per cent by value," he said.
Centre decides to allow export of indigenous ventilators Ruchika Sharma4 Aug 2020 11:00 AM ISTNew Delhi: The high-level Group of Ministers (GOM) on COVID-19 has agreed to the health ministry's proposal to allow the export of indigenously...
Smokers beware of COVID-19, says Health Ministry Medical Dialogues Bureau2 Aug 2020 3:31 PM ISTNew Delhi: Smokers are likely to be more vulnerable to COVID-19 as smoking increases the possibility of transmission of the virus from hand to mouth,...
Dr Harsh Vardhan releases book on Standard Treatment Guidelines for Substance Use Disorders, Behavioral Addictions Medical Dialogues Bureau31 July 2020 5:30 PM ISTNew Delhi - Dr Harsh Vardhan, Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare released the e-book titled "Standard Treatment Guidelines for the Management...
