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Will Future COVID-19 Vaccine be a Global Public Good? World Health Assembly Shies Away
The 73rd World Health Assembly (WHA73), in its two-day virtual session, hosted from Geneva, was fully devoted to discussions on… Read More
WHO’s solidarity trial for COVID-19 rolled out on fast-track
The Indian Council for Medical Research (ICMR) has fast-tracked the roll-out of the global ‘Solidarity’ trial launched by the World… Read More
Public Health Systems are Not Machines to Make Money: Address WHO’s Structural Flaws
The inefficiencies in dealing with COVID-19 crisis are due to governments, which have failed to invest in the national public… Read More
COVID-19 Outbreak: A Global Health and Financial Catastrophe
Consider a hypothetical scenario—a world leader issues a warning about a global health crisis and the repercussions of being under-prepared… Read More
Containing the Deadly COVID-19: Viability of Pooling Technologies
Global pandemic COVID-19 is now in 199 countries with reported confirmed cases above two million and mounting death tolls in… Read More
Nurses are Frontline Fighters Against COVID-19, But Facing Poor Working Conditions
Those were emotional moments when the entire nation felicitated our medical professionals in gratitude, through clapping, beating drums and Thalis,… Read More
COVID-19 Conundrum: Pandemic of Epic Proportions
In less than three months after being discovered in Wuhan, China, the novel Coronavirus or COVID-19 (short for, Coronavirus disease… Read More
Over-Prescription of Antibiotics: A Profitable Business in India
As per a recent undercover report by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism, India’s two biggest drug companies—Sun Pharma and Abbott… Read More
Hypertension: Beat the silent killer with lifestyle changes
Hypertension is a medical name for high blood pressure, which leads to severe complications and increases the risk of heart… Read More
Action needed to tackle the venomous neglect of snakebite in India
Even as the World Health Organization gears itself up to launch a comprehensive strategy for prevention and control of snakebite… Read More