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Judging from comments I’ve heard and read, many people expect that a vaccine against Covid-19 will soon end the need for masks and social distancing, and enable us to resume our pre-Covid lives....

Long before every amateur photographer started to inundate social media with colourful shots of birds, Sen Gupta used to roam around Santiniketan, Calcutta’s Salt Lake and the sprawling mango or...

Many coronavirus patients seem to get better at first, then rapidly decline and are overtaken by an overwhelming immune response that causes the body to turn on itself. Called a “cytokine storm”, ...

Gadget: Pulse oximeterPrice: Dr Trust (Rs 3,999), Sansui (Rs 2,699), Accusure (Rs 2,699)Best For: Measuring the level of oxygen in bloodUntil recently, most of us had never heard of a pulse oximeter. ...

The biotechnology industry has played a monumental role in bringing together the best science, medicine and public health measures to address the global Covid-19 pandemic. It has facilitated the rapid...

The Covid-19 pandemic seems to have thrown the world into a bottomless pit. Only a handful of countries have been able to see a ray of light — and they have used thoroughly scientific methods to man...

A few days ago, one of my friends sent me a video of a man, around 40, sitting on a hospital bed. He was extolling the virtues of a corporate hospital in Calcutta to which he had been admitted a coupl...

While the novel coronavirus pandemic has taken a severe toll on our daily life, industry and the economy, it has also opened up a world of innovations. That human creativity blooms in the face of adve...

The Telegraph, UK of June 4 reported bald men to be at higher risk of developing severe Covid-19. Two studies from Spain, which at 42.6 per cent has the world’s second highest incide...

The anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine cannot prevent coronavirus infection, US and Canadian researchers said on Wednesday after the first rigorous trial that has cast fresh doubts on India’s dec...