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May 28th will mark Menstrual Hygiene Day, our second year into the pandemic By Payal Saxena As I was scrolling down the messages on a family WhatsApp group, I saw that my cousin, a well-educated woman in her 30s had emphatically shared a post claiming that women should not take the COVID-19 vaccine within five days of their periods, owing to low immunity during this time. I laughed it off, only to see the same message being shared all over Facebook and Instagram, and to my surprise, by educated women! What I had laughed off as just another WhatsApp forward gradually started to make me frustrat...
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Dr. Rohini Karandikar tells you all you need to know about COVID-19 variants and its implications on vaccine efficacy. By Rohini Karandikar When the SARS-CoV2 virus was recognized as a novel coronavirus by the World Health Organization, the world’s hope rested on vaccines. The infectivity of the virus which was several times higher than previous coronaviruses meant that only vaccines could mark the end of the pandemic. Thanks to advances in science and technology which expedited genetic engineering for vaccine development, several vaccines became available for emergency use in less than a year...
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India’s second wave has not spared children. This is the story of how I fought the virus with my 5-month old son who also tested positive. By Rishibha Gupta The first wave of the coronavirus was tough on many, especially the elderly and those with comorbidities. In the global village we live in, the virus has mutated further and returned only harsher! This time, our children were not spared. Across hospitals, children below the age of five tested positive with the new strain of COVID-19. Infants and even newborns have reported symptoms of the virus including fever, diarrhea, vomiting, cough an...
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Misinformation and rumours are three times more likely to be spread on social media as compared to accurate information. We need to adopt evidence-informed measures from a transdisciplinary perspective to win the battle against this parallel pandemic. By Dr. Apurva Kumar Pandya The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an infodemic as an “overabundance of information – some accurate and some not – that occurs during an epidemic makes it hard for people to find trustworthy sources and reliable guidance when they need it.” The overflow of information about the COVID-19 pandemic on a daily basi...
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Regional Cancer Centres are dedicated to providing specialised services in cancer diagnosis, treatment and palliative care. They also have dedicated research facilities and education programs in oncology. Locate them here. By Anuja Venkatachalam Global efforts to prevent and cure cancer have met with little success as cancer kills over 9 million people every year. The latest World Health Statistics Report released by the World Health Organization in December 2020 shows that countries have made considerable progress in reducing deaths from HIV, Tuberculosis, Malaria and other Neglected tropical...
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This is my story of how I navigated through the pandemic all alone, in a hospital while my family was based in Delhi. The good news is, I could defeat the virus. The bad news is, it can scar any of us. By Mahesh Iyer I saw it coming for a while. My New Years’ Eve was spent with a high temperature, well above 100. Oddly, I had both fever and shivering, but I related these symptoms as confirmation that it was not Covid. The physician whom I visited suggested all but a Covid test. A week after antibiotics, the fever wasn’t coming down. My family was worried and so was I. ! Very reluctantly I went...
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For millions of Indians who are blind or suffer from a visual disability, the new normal following the COVID-19 outbreak has posed unique challenges and hardships. But despite facing difficulties, there are a few who are ready to navigate the new world. By Deepika Khurana While COVID-19 has affected everyone in some way, it has been a steep challenge for the visually challenged. For them, the ‘new normal’ is anything but normal. For a community that relies on proximity with people and touching surfaces, the pandemic has thrown their lives completely off gear. 21-year-old Arvind Kumar, blind fr...
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In the race to the finish line against the long battle with COVID-19, health authorities across the world have authorised the emergency use of vaccines that are still under trial. A look at COVID-19 inoculations across the globe. By Anuja Venkatachalam The desperate hunt for a vaccine to build herd immunity against SARS-CoV2, the coronavirus that brought the world to a halt in 2020 culminated in a series of Emergency Use Authorizations towards December 2020, fueling a renewed hope for a return to normal in 2021. After an intensified period of vaccine trials, four COVID-19 vaccines are being ad...
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Leaders in the technology industry from across the globe shared insights on building effective collaborations between tech companies, health authorities, and fact-checking organisations at the Misinformation in Medicine Summit 2020. By Varadarajan Ananthakrishnan The third Medical Misinformation Summit that was held online on November 20 and 21, featured a panel discussion on how digital companies are getting more aggressive to combat misinformation during the current pandemic. The leaders in the technology space that were a part of the discussion included Google, TikTok, and Facebook, apart f...
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Top science communicators and the leading voices of the World Health Organization come together to discuss the role of science and the scientific community in managing abundance of information and how transparent exchange of quality information can be ensured. By Nabeela KhanCOVID-19 is a reminder about the importance of science communication. It brought to the forefront the bigger picture of how and why good science is crucial to manage public health.The session ‘science and its role in responding to the infodemic’ stressed on many pertinent questions, such as how to address the abundance of ...
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