Doctors at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, have released guidelines on Covid-19 treatment and medications to try and curb “arbitrary practices” that are not based o...

Critical-care specialist Srinivas Samavedam is engaged in what he calls a life-or-death “chess battle” with Covid-19, monitoring every move the coronavirus makes to plan timely countermove...

Union home minister Amit Shah has tested positive for Covid-19 and has been admitted to Medanta hospital in Gurgaon. Shah, 55, himself announced the diagnosis. “On getting the initial symptoms ...

The National Task Force on the new coronavirus disease has decided that there is not enough evidence yet to include the drug itolizumab in Covid-19 treatment protocols even though India’s drug r...

An overemphasis on fever as a symptom to test for the new coronavirus infection might delay diagnosis or lead to missed cases, a study at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, has su...

The Union health ministry on Tuesday announced a new online programme to offer doctors across India guidance on managing coronavirus disease patients and seek to minimise case fatality rates that have...

Doctors in state government hospitals in 18 states, including Bengal, will receive online guidance on Covid-19 treatment from specialists at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, the...

India’s death rate among coronavirus disease patients is among the lowest in the world, the health ministry said on Tuesday, attributing it to early detection and clinical management, but health res...

The Supreme Court on Friday asked the Centre to respond to a plea seeking a directive to take immediate and necessary action against people who indulge in violence against medical professionals, inclu...

An Indian neurosurgeon, a teacher and research zealot, whose friends are familiar with his streak of impatience to get things done speedily, made them wait over 20 years for his own story.Prakash Nara...