Save lives with Social Distancing: How to protect your family from coronavirus, primed to hit India like a bomb March 16, 2020, 2:00 AM IST Devi Shetty in TOI Edit Page | Edit Page, India | TOI Biogen, a Boston-based biotech company, held a conference in the last week of February. 175 senior managers from […]

Story My 15-year-old son locks himself with his girlfriend inside our bedroom: What THE HELL? Dr. Harish Shetty [An Imaginary Conversation] “The HOME is a Laboratory where habits are shaped. Never fear children, they are waiting for ‘democratic’ conversations but remember you have the veto power. ” Father: What do I do? He again locked […]

 A THERAPIST’S GUIDE TO JEFFREY A. CULLY, PH.D. ANDRA L. TETEN, PH.D. Published by the Department of Veterans Affairs, South Central Mental Illness Research, Education, and Clinical Center (MIRECC), 2008. Suggested citation: Cully, J.A., & Teten, A.L. 2008. A Therapist’s Guide to Brief Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Department of Veterans Affairs South Central MIRECC, Houston. […]

VIDYA KRISHNAN 14 March 2020 India continues to respond to COVID-19 with a focus on “imported” cases. With the current limits on testing for the virus, the Indian government is likely blind to the full scale of local transmission. SANJEEV VERMA / HINDUSTAN TIMES / GETTY IMAGES On Friday, 707 employees of a Noida-based leather […]

Here’s what happened with the fatality announced yesterday. @db_is_db pieced together the story from different news reports. Mohammed Hussain Siddiqui is a 76-year-old Maulana from Kalburgi, Karnataka. He had returned from Mecca on Feb 29th, landed at Bengaluru airport and proceeded to Kalburgi, 500 km away. He had had a history of hypertension and asthma. […]

I am writing to you from Bergamo, Italy, at the heart of the coronavirus crisis. The news media in the US has not captured the severity of what is happening here. I am writing this post because each of you, today, not the government, not the school district, not the mayor, each individual citizen has […]

8 min read . Updated: 13 Mar 2020, 01:11 PM IST Ajai Sreevatsan Over a century ago, Spanish flu all but destroyed the Indian economy. What can we learn from those experiences? 1918 experience matters because it was the last major pandemic that spread rapidly within India, showing what happens when an unprepared country comes […]

Annals of Internal Medicine ORIGINAL RESEARCH2019 (COVID-19) From Publicly Reported Confirmed Cases: Estimation and Application Stephen A. Lauer, MS, PhD*; Kyra H. Grantz, BA*; Qifang Bi, MHS; Forrest K. Jones, MPH; Qulu Zheng, MHS; Hannah R. Meredith, PhD; Andrew S. Azman, PhD; Nicholas G. Reich, PhD; and Justin Lessler, PhD Background: A novel human coronavirus, […]

  March 2020 In January 2020 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of a new coronavirus disease in Hubei Province, China to be a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. WHO stated there is a high risk of the 2019 coronavirus disease (COVID-19) spreading to other countries around the world. WHO and […]

 रजि री स.ं डी.एल.- 33004/99 REGD. NO. D. L.-33004/99 स.ं 141] No. 141] CG-DL-E-11032020-218601 असाधारण EXTRAORDINARY भाग II—ख ड 3—उप-ख ड (i) PART II—Section 3—Sub-section (i) ाजधकार से काजित PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY नई दि ली, सगमिार, माचच 9, 2020/फा गनस 19, 1941 NEW DELHI, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 2020/PHALGUNA 19, 1941 मजिला और बाल जिकास […]

As the dreaded coronavirus appeared to spread in India, top Chinese doctors treating patients in Wuhan, the epicentre of the outbreak, on March 4 advised their Indian counterparts to prepare plans, train medical staff and educate the public about wearing masks and washing of hands to contain the disease. Four top medical specialists, who were […]

Women’s Day and A Frightening Secret ©️Dr. Rajas Deshpande A well respected senior, a social celebrity, walked in with his daughter. Cultured, proud people. Probably highly educated and rich. While he was richly dressed in a traditional Indian attire, she wore a saree. Many phone calls had told me since a day prior that he […]

A Magen David Adom worker wears protective clothing as a preventive measure against the coronavirus, outside the special emergency call center in Kiryat Ono, on Thursday. (Flash90) YERUSHALAYIM – A group of researchers in northern Israel said Thursday they had achieved a “scientific breakthrough” in treating coronavirus. At a press conference, researchers of the Migal […]

Different sources estimate the mortality rate for COVID-19 at roughly 2% to 3%—but that could change as the virus rages on. But, the world has been through other outbreaks that were much, much worse. To that end, let’s look at five other viruses that, in their own ways, are more dangerous than COVID-19.  The novel coronavirus—officially […]

Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when Novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infection is suspected: Interim Guidance Introduction This is the first edition of this document for novel coronavirus, an adaption of WHO Clinical management of severe acute respiratory infection when MERS-CoV infection is suspected publication (2019). This document is intended for clinicians taking care of […]

AIIMS, New Delhi February 5, 2020 When to suspect Any patient with acute respiratory illness with: 1. A history of travel to or residence in China in the 14 days prior to symptom onset, or 2. Close contact with a confirmed/ suspected case of 2019-nCoV in the 14 days prior to symptom onset, or 3. […]

Home care for patients with suspected novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection presenting with mild symptoms, and management of their contacts Interim guidance 04 February 2020  Introduction WHO has developed this rapid advice to meet the need for recommendations on safe home care for patients with suspected novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection who present with mild symptoms1 […]

T he dreams of my youth were simple. Someday I wanted to be like I already was but older. I sought a house to share with a beloved family and a job that I was good at. I wanted to be loved and respected and to feel that way about others in my life. In […]

  02nd March 2020  Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak in China and Public Health Response 1 Situational Status in China  6000 5000 4000 3000 2000 1000 0 New Confirmed cases for the day   New Confirmed cases for the day             […]

People with diabetes or heart disease are known to be more at risk from coronavirus, which is starting to spread rapidly in the UK and internationally. That is a concern for the 7.4 million Britons who have some form of cardiac or circulatory disease, which includes 4.8 million people with diabetes. The common risk factor […]

Guidelines on Clinical management of severe acute respiratory illness (SARI) in suspect/confirmed novel coronavirus (nCoV) cases An infection with a novel coronavirus has been reported from China. As 25th January 2020, a total of 1287 cases and 41 deaths were reported in 29 provinces (districts and cities) of China. In addition, 28 cases have been […]

Here we present the results of the online survey conducted by M3 India, regarding general perceptions attached to working abroad, and draw insights from real-life experiences of Indian doctors who have worked abroad. UK is the most preferred country of work We asked the respondents to rank the most coveted foreign countries for work, in […]

Nitrate Rich Vegetables Help Boost Muscle Mitochondria A substance called nitrate, which is abundantly found in vegetables like beetroot, spinach and lettuce, boosts the cellular power plants of the muscles, known as the mitochondria. Inorganic nitrate has been linked for half a century to negative health effects, but contrary evidence has emerged more recently. Prior […]

We also face a new threat. The next epidemic has a good chance of originating on a computer screen of a terrorist intent on using genetic engineering to create a synthetic version of the smallpox virus or a contagious and highly deadly strain of flu. So, the point is that we ignore the strong link […]

India seems to be coronavirus free even though it is a close neighbor of China. There is a lot of speculation and eyebrows raised as to why this is so. Various reasons are being put out: 1) The Indian gene is Covid-19 resistant. 2) The low level of hygiene has made Indians immune to this […]