With the recovery rate rising steadily in the country, everyone wants to know if they could get re-infected with COVID 19 and if getting infected once gives them life long immunity. A recent entry in the battlefield – COVID-19 ANTIBODY TEST holds promise to answer some of these questions. Let us know more about this …
With the lockdown extending to 15 more days, I am sure our heads must be going bonkers. So there will be more work from home, more household chores and more lockdown frustration for all the workaholics, travelers and party animals. Amidst all this, let’s all think about the most ignored chunk in this mess, our …
With the virus to stay here for long, we all need to be better informed about the do’s and don’ts related to COVID-19, as misinformation and fake news do greater harm than the virus itself. So let us break some of the common myths attached to COVID-19. You are young and fit, but that does …
So, as we enter the third week of lockdown, I am sure all of us have faced it all. The restlessness of not going to work, frustration of doing all household chores, boredom, exhausted with all the Covid-19 stuff that is running everywhere and annoyed with the voracious diet your stomach is demanding!! And on …
Seen a child repeating something constantly, playing on his own and seeming detached from the sorrounding. Well, these could very well be subtle pointers of a group of neurodevelopmental disorders known as autism spectrum disorders. For anyone who has an autistic child in the family, he/she knows how hard it is to cope up with …
While we are all anxiously occupied in tracking the spread of corona virus across the globe, lets take our mind off it for a minute and talk about the deadliest infectious killer known to mankind. Tuberculosis kills 4000 people globally every day and 1.5 million annually, a figure that could amaze the latest novel virus …
Two words that are being heard repeatedly in the news, media, and public are home quarantine or self isolation. So let us understand what this really means. Till date, we have not been able to crack the treatment of COVID-19. Drugs and vaccines are being made and tested, but nothing has been approved as of …
What is it? Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) /Novel corona virus is a member of the corona virus family. The word “corona” means crown in Latin. The virus particles have typical crown like spikes on their surface, hence the name. The disease caused by this virus has been termed as COVID-19, which stands for …
Breast cancer is a type of cancer that develops in the breast tissue. Some common signs of breast cancer include lump/pain in the breast, change in the size and shape of the breasts, nipple discharge or retraction and thickening or dimpling of skin. Breast cancer occurs when a breast cell starts to grow abnormally resulting …
High Blood Pressure or hypertension (HBP) is a condition in which the blood pressure becomes too high. Blood Pressure is the force of blood pushing against the walls of our blood vessels. Usually Hypertension (High Blood Pressure) is identifiable when the blood pressure reads above 140/90. A severe condition of high blood pressure occurs when …
