Female college students are more likely to depend on alcohol to improve mental well-being, say researchers, adding that the young women appear to be more affected by high alcohol use than men, which may lead to less interest in academics....
India witnessed 8,171 new coronavirus cases in 24 hours. With this, the total case count mounted to 1,98,706 on Tuesday. At least 204 new fatalities were also recorded in 24 hours, taking the toll to 5,598. ...
A senior doctor leading the war against COVID-19 in Jammu and Kashmir tested positive on Tuesday, sending the medical fraternity into a tizzy in Kashmir....
Delhi Lt Governor Anil Baijal and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Monday paid condolences to the two Delhi Police assistant sub-inspectors (ASI) who died of coronavirus infection....
Roche Diagnostics India on Monday said it welcomed Indian Council of Medical Research's communication regarding its COVID-19 antibody test for seroprevalence studies in India....
Karnataka government has adopted a Covid tracking platform developed by Nasscom Task Force to continue its fight against the pandemic using technology, said a minister on Saturday....
Andhra Pradesh's COVID-19 tally on Saturday shot up significantly with 70 positive cases detected from tests conducted in the past 24 hours. ...
Researchers have found a surge in the prescription of anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine during the COVID-19 pandemic in the US. Published in the journal JAMA, the study found prescriptions of the drug chloroquine and its analogue hydroxychloroquine dramatically surged ...
Tata Trusts and the Tata group have tied up with Christian Medical College (CMC) Vellore and Care Institute of Health Sciences (CIHS) Hyderabad to assist health care professionals augment skills in critical care in the management of Covid-19....
The Madhya Pradesh public relations department has made arrangements of music and cultural programmes at the quarantine centres here where people coming from outside the state are being kept to prevent the corona spread. ...