Health Check - Page 7
'India Must Ensure Elders' Security, Sustenance, Access To Health'
Mumbai: India has the second largest population of elderly citizens in the world, currently estimated to be 137 million...
Why India Still Has A 12-16 Week Gap Between Covishield Doses
Benaulim and Jaipur: Several countries have reduced the gap between doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine (branded...
'Schools Should Be First To Open, Last To Close Due To Covid-19'
Mumbai: After more than 18 months of pandemic-induced school closures, many of India's children are still at home,...
Social Discrimination Key Factor In Stunting Among Children: Study
New Delhi: Vulnerable to social discrimination, children from Scheduled Castes (SCs), Scheduled Tribes (ST) and Muslim...
How A Year of Covid-19 Financially Dented India's Middle Class
New Delhi: When the second wave of Covid-19 was beginning its steep climb in India in April 2021 and most states were...
1st City-Wide Covid Data Analysis Suggests Massive Undercounting Of India's Cases, Deaths
Chennai: The first detailed city-wide analysis of Covid-19 surveillance and sero-survey data from India shows what...
Explained: Why Rising SARS-CoV-2 Reproduction Number Is Raising Concerns
Jaipur: Since June 20, 2021, the Covid-19 virus' effective reproduction number or R, which is the number of people one...
As Pandemic Stretches On, Junior Doctors Demand Better Pay And Work Conditions
Bhopal: With the discovery of the Delta plus variant and the threat of a third Covid-19 wave looming, junior doctors in...
