Shalini Bhardwaj

Can India manage storage, distribution for Covid vaccine?

October 24, 2020

There are eight Covid vaccine candidates in the third stage of clinical trials, and it is expected that the vaccine will come by the end of this year or in the beginning of next year. But the real challenge for both developing and developed countries will start after the vaccines...

Delhi to be quack-free in 2021: New DMC chief

October 17, 2020

Dr Arun Gupta has been re-elected as president of the Delhi Medical Council (DMC) for a second fiveyear term. Dr Gupta, a practising paediatrician for the last 30 years, worked for digitising medical processes during his previous tenure. Speaking of the DMC’s current goals, he said, “One of the mandates...

National Medical Commission starts its website

October 17, 2020

The National Medical Commission (NMC), constituted by the National Medical Commission Act, 2019, which came into force on 25 September, 2020, has launched its website. Citizens wishing to know about the National Medical Commission and its current medical working rules and regulations can log on to https:// www.nmc.org.in/. The NMC...

India’s syringe makers to increase Covid-19 vaccine stocks

October 17, 2020

India is one of the largest syringe makers in the world when it comes to 0.5 ml auto-disable syringes for intramuscular vaccination. With the current race towards procuring and distributing a Covid-19 vaccine, syringe manufacturers in the country are ramping up their capacities further by over 30% to meet the...

What happens when corona meets toxic air? CSIR to detect soon, says Dr Shekhar Mande

October 17, 2020

With experts saying that rising pollution levels can worsen the effects of Covid-19, the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has started its own research on the matter at the National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), Nagpur. Director General of CSIR, Dr Shekhar C. Mande, speaks on the subject...

331 Covid positive women gave birth at Delhi’s LNJP Hospital

October 10, 2020

Delhi’s Lok Nayak Jai Prakash (LNJP) Hospital has delivered babies for 331 Covid-positive women since March. Out of the total deliveries, 182 were normal deliveries, while 149 involved a caesarean section. “We have designed a different labour room, prepared the neonatal care room, created separate emergency OTs, and posted round-theclock...

DCGI rejects Phase 3 trials of Russian Covid vaccine

October 10, 2020

The Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has declined the proposal of pharma company Dr Reddy’s Laboratories to conduct Phase 3 trials for Sputnik V. Instead of jumping straight to a large-scale trial, Dr Reddy’s has been advised to consider a small trial first. Russia has held Phase 3 trials...

Striking doctors to withdraw services from corona ward

October 10, 2020

The Resident Doctors Association of the Hindu Rao Hospital and healthcare workers have declared to withdraw their services from the Covid-19 ward in 48 hours. The doctors and healthcare workers have been on strike for five days and are demanding the payment of their salaries which has been delayed by...

Air pollution may further aggravate Covid-19: Dr Randeep Guleria

October 10, 2020

With Covid-1 9 cases increasing rapidly in India, people must take proper precautions and keep themselves safe from the infection. If proper precautions are taken during festival season and winter, then coronavirus infection cases will start showing a downward trend till December. These are some of the observations that AIIMS...

No vaccine is 100% safe: Dr Gagandeep Kang

October 3, 2020

Q. What do you think about the safety of a vaccine? A. We won’t know till we see the vaccine being used in many thousands of people, if not hundreds of thousands. Usually, when vaccine manufacturers are asked to manufacture vaccines, there are pre-clinical trials, i.e. animal testing, and then...

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