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The Human Body’s Immune Response to the Novel Coronavirus

Niranjana Rajalakshmi 03/06/2020

Understanding the body's response to the SARS-CoV-2 virus is...

A security person stands guard at Jammu & Kashmir National Highway, during day-3 of a nationwide lockdown imposed in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, in Jammu. Photo: PTI

COVID-19: Worry in J&K as Busy Bureaucrat Tests Positive, Many Quarantined

Mudasir Ahmad 03/06/2020

A senior official in the health department said the...

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When You Green a Desert, You Invite Locust Swarms

Ninad Avinash Mungi, Neeraj Mahar and Sutirtha Lahiri 02/06/2020

Government policies often consider the green of vegetation more...

Laura Ng is pictured with her hydroxychloroquine prescription during the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak in Seattle

Why the Health Ministry’s Hydroxychloroquine Recommendation Is Not Legal

Tanmay Singh 02/06/2020

If HCQ is to be marketed as a prophylactic...

FILE PHOTO: The drug hydroxychloroquine, pushed by U.S. President Donald Trump and others in recent months as a possible treatment to people infected with the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is displayed by a pharmacist in Provo

Why That Observational Study of Hydroxychloroquine in The Lancet Seems Fishy

Peter Ellis 02/06/2020

The data behind the analysis allegedly represents the treatment...

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COVID-19: How Blood Clots Are Involved – and How They Could Be Deadly

Madhurima Pattanayak 01/06/2020

Researchers have found that patients who don't survive a...

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In Dibang, a Controversial Project to Pave the Path for the Next Pandemic

Brototi Roy and Nick Meynen 31/05/2020

The Etalin project would involve chopping at least 2,80,000...