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Pay Attention to What the Hands Do All Day

Sumi Krishna 17/05/2020

'The legacy of cholera demonstrates how basic science –...

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Will COVID-19 Change AYUSH Research in India for the Better?

The Wire Staff 16/05/2020

After a bungled advisory on 'alternative' remedies for COVID-19,...

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Finding Dorothy Hamre, the First Person to Isolate a Strain of a Coronavirus

P. Balaram 15/05/2020

'Who can legitimately claim to be called the discoverer...

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COVID-19: What India’s Testing and Fatality Data Tells Us, In Two Charts

Giridhara R. Babu, Deepa R. and M.D. Madhusudan 15/05/2020

Using data in the public domain, we assembled a...

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Mumbai Runs Out of Hospital Beds for Suspected COVID-19 Patients, Starts a ‘Waitlist’

The Wire Staff 14/05/2020

While 1,750 hospital beds were added in the first...

Concepcion Yusop, a national immunization program manager, shows an anti-dengue vaccine Dengvaxia inside a vaccine storage room in Sta. Cruz city, Metro Manila

In Poor Nations, a New Disease Stalls Efforts to Fight Old Ones

Lynne Peeples 14/05/2020

COVID-19 has derailed immunisation efforts for measles, polio, and...

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Is Brazil the World’s New Coronavirus Hotspot?

Pedro Fonseca and Lisandra Paraguassu 14/05/2020

Brazil recorded its deadliest day yet, with 881 confirmed...