The outbreak of Covid-19 has ripped open a deep-rooted ethical crisis within human society. Science seems to be clueless about a solution for this crisis. The instant success of science has trapped th...

Refrigerators are not working in many medicine stores for want of electricity and this could impact the supply of critical drugs, store owners have said.Injections like insulin of various categories, ...

Essential medicines have gone out of stock in several shops across the city as more than half of Bagree Market and Mehta Building in Burrabazar, the wholesale medicine hub, are shut.Traders attributed...

The School of Tropical Medicine on Sunday shut its critical care unit (CCU) after a doctor and two others tested positive for Covid-19.Patients from the unit have been shifted to the adjoining Calcutt...

Test centres at 11 medical colleges across Bengal have to reject nearly 10 per cent of the swab samples they receive because of incorrect collection procedure, doctors said.Many laboratory technicians...

The postman has emerged as a lifesaver with people banking on the postal department to send medicines and other necessary items to their near and dear ones in other districts and states during the loc...

The School of Tropical Medicine (STM) will send some of the samples it gets for Covid-19 tests to a private laboratory, the state government has decided in an attempt to reduce the backlog at the Cent...

Right now, there is no cure for the coronavirus. Families staying at home can take steps to prepare in case someone falls ill, to best monitor one’s health and to alleviate symptoms. Many people who...

The first randomised clinical trial of the anti-viral medication remdesivir in patients with the novel coronavirus disease (Covid-19) has failed to find significant clinical benefits, Chinese doctors ...

The School of Tropical Medicine (STM) has sought additional staff from the health department after five healthcare providers of the institution tested positive for the coronavirus and as many as 30 em...