India, which began a polio immunisation programme in 1995, recorded its last case in 2011. The interim 16 years was marked by misinformation, vaccine hesitancy and scientific hurdles.
In an article for Nature Medicine, public health expert Devi Sridhar highlighted certain aspects about the novel coronavirus that have flummoxed health experts.
The World Malaria Report 2020 said that in 2019, malaria cases globally numbered about 229 million, an annual estimate that has remained virtually unchanged over the last 4 years.
Google parent company Alphabet is working on a mental health experiment & prototype device designed to monitor symptoms of depression more accurately over time.
At a webinar hosted by Harvard University and Project Sanchar, experts noted that India contributes one-sixth of global cervical cancer cases and should put in more efforts to prevent it.
The Union Health Minister, who chaired the 147th session of the WHO Executive Board, stressed on enhancing cooperation and collaboration and working in unison as Member States.
The results, published in NEJM, come weeks after WHO's Solidarity Trial concluded that remdesivir had little to no effect on hospitalised Covid patients.
The WHO and its members have been scrutinized for their responses to the pandemic that has struck about 47 million people, killing more than 1.2 million & stifling economies worldwide.
The recent resignations of its seniormost judges are among the most pointed institutional protests Pakistan has witnessed since the lawyers’ movement of the late 2000s.
Without a Congress revival, there can be no challenge to the BJP pan-nationally. Modi’s party is growing, and almost entirely at the cost of the Congress.
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