Health

A new study shows that the Covid-19 infection incidence has been low in people with rheumatic diseases, and most of those infected experience a mild course of illness.

Delivering a lecture on ‘recent advances in weather and climate predictions’, organised by the Indian Academy of Sciences, Rajeevan said India also plans to ramp up its high performance computing (HPC) facility from the existing capacity of 10 petaflops to 40 petaflops, a step that will significantly help in improving weather predictions.

A joint study by the National Neuroscience Institute (NNI) and Singapore General Hospital (SGH) revealed that patients who have been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease might actually have NIID instead.

As thousands of mental health professionals got to work helping people adjust to life in and after lockdown, maintaining a self-care routine became vital too.

A new analysis of more than 3,000 counties in the US suggests that people with long-term exposure to PM 2.5 may be more likely to die from Covid-19, leading to increased concern about the trajectory of the disease and its fatality rate in parts of north India battling alarmingly high levels of air pollution.

Air pollution may lead to a faster spread of COVID-19 infections as it causes coughing and sneezing, government officials told a parliamentary panel on Friday, according to sources.

A new study has found that a commonly prescribed anti-depressant may halt the growth of a type of cancer known as childhood sarcoma, at least in mice and laboratory cell experiments.

Painkiller aspirin will be evaluated as a possible treatment for Covid-19 in one of Britain’s biggest trials, which will assess whether it might reduce the risk of blood clots in people with the disease.

While most people infected with the novel coronavirus actively shed the pathogen for about eight days, scientists have reported an unusual case of a blood cancer patient who carried the virus for about 105 days, “and remained infectious for at least 70,” without experiencing any symptoms the entire time.

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WHO also highlighted how the foundation for a stable world is only possible if every nation pays adequate attention to developing its healthcare services.

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The data from the AIIMS centre showed that the most common symptoms of Covid-19 were fever, fatigue, and loss of smell

Researchers have developed a patch made from rubbery electronics that can be placed directly on the heart to collect information on its activity, temperature, and other indicators.

Senior advocate Raj Panjawani and advocate Shibhani Ghosh, who have been appointed by the tribunal as amicus curiae in a case related to ban on fire crackers, told a bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice A K Goel that particulate air pollution contributed 15 per cent to Covid-19 mortality worldwide.