COVID Outbreak: WHO team to reach China next week to investigate SARS-CoV-2 source MD Bureau4 July 2020 1:48 PM IST"WHO has been saying that knowing the source of the virus is very, very important. It's science, it's public health. We can fight the virus better...
Coronavirus has not suddenly become less pathogenic: WHO Medical Dialogues Bureau30 Jun 2020 9:00 AM IST"It may not be that the virus itself is becoming less potent: it may be that we are, as a community, successfully reducing the number, intensity and...
World May Have Covid-19 Vaccine In A Year, UK Pharma Company Leading In Race: WHO Ruchika Sharma28 Jun 2020 9:00 AM IST"I think AstraZeneca certainly has a more global scope at the moment in terms of where they are doing and planning their vaccine trials," she told the...
COVID 19 vaccine could come within 1 year: WHO MD Bureau26 Jun 2020 3:22 PM ISTBrussels: Scientists predict the world may have a Covid-19 vaccine within one year or even a few months earlier, said the Director-General of the...
Clinical overview and practice recommendations for physicians undertaking COVID-19 critical care: Dr Yash Paul Sharma and Dr Prem Aggarwal Hina Zahid24 Jun 2020 9:34 AM ISTFollowing practice recommendations have been compiled by cardiologists Dr Yashpaul Sharma and Dr Prem Aggarwal These recommendations...
Covid 19 positive mothers should breastfeed: WHO Dr. Kamal Kant Kohli13 Jun 2020 12:00 PM ISTNew mothers infected with COVID-19 should generally continue breastfeeding and should not be separated from their babies, the World Health...
Perspective: Covid-19 tests in India can cost low and will help widen the net to get realistic picture Dr. Ishwar Gilada6 Jun 2020 11:01 AM ISTIndia, despite being number two in population (1380 million), was considered fortunate in Covid-19 as it had advantage of learning from the successes...
WHO recommends wider use of face masks to curb COVID-19 MD Bureau6 Jun 2020 10:00 AM IST"That means, for example, when a doctor is doing a ward round on the cardiology or palliative care units where there are no confirmed COVID-19...
COVID-19: WHO stay on HCQ trial was knee-jerk reaction, says CSIR Chief Shekhar Mande Ruchika Sharma6 Jun 2020 10:00 AM ISTDG CSIR said because there is a global outcry it must have put pressure on both Lancet as well as WHO and both of them now retracted from their...
WHO warns of disturbing rates of antimicrobial resistance during COVID-19 pandemic MD Bureau2 Jun 2020 9:30 AM ISTGeneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that the world is "losing its ability" to use...
Sanofi halts enrolling COVID-19 patients in hydroxychloroquine trials Ruchika Sharma1 Jun 2020 3:08 PM ISTThe moves come after the World Health Organization paused its large trial of hydroxychloroquine, prompting several European governments to ban the use...
WHO puts temporary pause on hydroxychloroquine clinical trial on COVID-19 patients MD Bureau26 May 2020 9:01 AM ISTA recent Lancet study reported that among patients receiving the drug, when used alone or with a macrolide, they estimated a higher mortality rate.
