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Moneylife Digital Team 22 May 2020
The Aarogya Setu app, which was being enforced by Indian authorities until recently, is facing tough scrutiny and falling short. First, it was revealed that the exposure notifications system (or contact tracing technology) developed by two giants, Apple and Google, cannot be used by Aarogya...

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Moneylife Digital Team 21 May 2020
Instead of capping price of N95 masks that are most required by healthcare professionals who are frontline fighters in the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) has asked makers, importers and suppliers of these masks to maintain parity in...

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At a time when the credibility of the World Health Organization (WHO) has plummeted to an all time low and internationally there's a groundswell for new leadership, India's Health Minister Harsh Vardhan is all set to be the chairman of the WHO's Executive Board. He has been elected to the...

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Johnson & Johnson (J&J), US-based global healthcare company, has announced it will stop selling baby talcum powder in the US and Canada. According to the media reports, the company faces thousands of consumer lawsuits claiming it caused cancer.   The announcement comes after years of...

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Caroline Chen (ProPublica) 20 May 2020
While most discussions have focused on countries’ use of surveillance technology, contact tracing is actually a fairly manual process. After interviewing contact tracing experts and taking an online course, ProPublica health reporter Caroline Chen presents her takeaways.   I want you...

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Prestigious British medical journal The Lancet on Tuesday refuted claims made by US President Donald Trump in his letter to the World Health Organisation (WHO), saying that the Lancet study cited in the letter about Wuhan outbreak in December 2019 does not exist.   Trump, in his...

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Moneylife Digital Team 19 May 2020
The Bombay High Court (BHC) on Tuesday asked additional solicitor general (ASG) Anil C Singh to take instructions from the Union government on capping prices for N95 masks and respond by Friday on two letters sent by Maharashtra government on the same subject. When the ASG informed the bench...

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SFOORTI MISHRA (IANS) 19 May 2020
Many resident doctors' associations in the national capital have expressed their dissatisfaction with the latest advisory issued by the Union health ministry recently for healthcare workers (HCW) working in COVID and non-COVID areas of hospitals.   According to the advisory issued by...

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Moneylife Digital Team 18 May 2020
The Maharashtra food and drug administration (FDA) has conducted investigations on the black marketing of N95 masks only to find out that there is no fixed price for these life-saving masks. A letter from joint commissioner of FDA points out that the Union government has not formulated any...

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Akshay Naik 18 May 2020
Recently, mainstream media has been flooded with reports speculating on what role, if any, vitamin D may play in reducing the severity of COVID-19 infection. There have been numerous studies for and against the effects of vitamin D levels in bolstering our immune...

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Marshall Allen (ProPublica) 18 May 2020
Conspiratorial videos and websites about COVID-19 are going viral. Here’s how one of the authors of “The Conspiracy Theory Handbook” says you can fight back. One big takeaway: Focus your efforts on people who can hear evidence and think rationally.   Stephan Lewandowsky studies the...

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Dr Neela Patwardhan 14 May 2020
The thought of Sion Hospital brings back nostalgic memories! It has been a home away from home for all of us as medical students. We join at the young age of seventeen or eighteen. It takes five and a half years to acquire the basic undergraduate MBBS degree. Then, we spend three years doing...

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Despite YouTube's efforts to remove pandemic related minsinformation, more than a quarter of the most viewed COVID-19 English-language videos on the platform contains misleading or inaccurate information, reveals a new study.   Misleading or inaccurate information in these videos...

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Facebook has agreed to pay $52 million to third-party content moderators who developed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health issues as they scanned scores of disturbing images of rape, murder and suicide to curb those on the platform.   According to a report in...

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Dr Neela Patwardhan  and   Dr Shanti Pantvaidya 12 May 2020
Sion Hospital, a major tertiary hospital, is strategically located at the junction of two express highways, in the middle of three major railway tracts and adjacent to the biggest slum of Asia, namely, Dharavi.   Hence, every possible casualty is directed to the hospital—whether they...

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Marshall Allen (ProPublica) 12 May 2020
ProPublica health care reporter Marshall Allen describes the questions he asks to assess coronavirus misinformation, starting with a viral video that claims the coronavirus is part of a “hidden agenda.”   The links to the viral video “Plandemic” started showing up in my Facebook feed...

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The coronavirus (COVID-19) has proved that it is a once-in-a-lifetime situation with its multi-faceted impact set to render the world into pre- and post-COVID-19 eras—and there is no better example of the devastation that COVID-19 is unleashing than in the US, where president Donald Trump’s...

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Even as India saw the highest jump of 4,000 plus cases of novel coronavirus in a single day, and with the cases rising unabated in the country, the Health Ministry said that there was a need for a revived discharge policy for the coronavirus patients having mild and moderate symptoms. The...

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Union Home Ministry on Monday instructed all the states and the Union Territories (UTs) to ensure opening of all private clinics, nursing homes and labs with all their medical professionals and staff on duty.   The order issued by Union Home Secretary Ajay Bhalla to all state Chief...

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Moneylife Digital Team 08 May 2020
All healthcare professionals, including doctors, nurses, ward staff and others are putting their lives on the line in the fight against corona virus (COVID19). The pandemic is quite unprecedented and have made everyone jittery for small things. Add to this the panic-mongers on social media,...

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