The Delhi government's plea stressing the urgent need for keeping more ICU beds for Covid patients in view of cases increasing every day failed to move the Supreme Court which on Tuesday declined to lift the Delhi High Court's stay on the order to reserve 80 per cent ICU beds in private hospitals for such patients....
Researchers, including one of Indian-origin, have found that reducing the level of body fat and waist size are linked to a lower risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes. The study, published in the journal Circulation, suggests that all weight loss ...
Drug regulators in the US have given emergency use approval for Eli Lilly and Co's investigational monoclonal antibody therapy for the treatment of mild-to-moderate Covid-19 in adult and pediatric patients. The treatment called, bamlanivimab, is authorised for patients with positive ...
Researchers have found that people with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are likely to die early. "The good news is life expectancy has increased in people with IBD, but there is still a gap between people with and without the disease," said study author ...
Agra District Magistrate P.N. Singh on Monday banned firecrackers in Agra. Licences for the sale of firecrackers given for 12 identified spots in the city were also cancelled and the police have been told to strictly enforce the ban. The National Green Tribunal earlier had banned firecrackers in the whole NCR. ...
The Bangladesh government has made wearing masks at all places of worship across the country mandatory in a bid to stem the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. On Sunday, the Religious Affairs Ministry issued a notice after the number of confirmed coronavirus cases in the country reached 420,238, while the death ...
Roughly 10 per cent of the world's population may have been infected with the Coronavirus, leaving the vast majority vulnerable to the Covid-19 disease, the World Health Organization has said....
With the smoke from the burning of paddy stubble in Punjab and Haryana blowing to the national capital and its surrounding regions, the air quality of the region dipped to the 'very poor' category on Wednesday. This marks the beginning of the highly-polluted season that goes on to last for about three months. ...
In a major study, researchers have found that there's considerable risk that humans transmit SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, to wildlife. ...
Masks made with common household fabrics help prevent the spread of viruses like Covid-19 as researchers have found that they are considerably effective at blocking droplets similar to those that may be released by speaking, coughing and sneezing, even as a single layer. ...
