Healthcare experts laud G20 Delhi declaration for 3 health priorities

The first priority from India for this year's G20 conference was digital health - the future of health, preparing for the health crisis -, antimicrobial resistance, and strengthening cooperation in the pharmaceutical sector with a focus on ensuring availability and access to safe, effective, quality and affordable medical countermeasures like vaccines, therapeutics, and diagnostics.

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Kerala govt working to identify area, source of first Nipah case

The man who has been identified as the index case died on August 30 and it was only much later it was found that he was infected with Nipah. His nine-year-old son and brother-in-law are still undergoing treatment along with two others, one of them a health worker, with whom he came into contact at a hospital.

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Hypertension, lung fibrosis & asthma long-term effects of Covid, reveals study

Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), USA, defines post-COVID-19 conditions as a wide range of new, returning, or ongoing health problems people experience at least four or more weeks after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2. This is used as an umbrella term for a wide range of physical, social and psychological health consequences experienced by patients. The World Health Organisation (WHO) defines it as the continuation or development of new symptoms three months after the initial SARS-CoV-2 infection, lasting at least two months with no other explanation.

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Nipah: Union Health Ministry team holds meeting with Kerala officials

The state government has strengthened measures to prevent the spread of infection after two deaths were confirmed in Kozhikode district due to the Nipah virus. Kerala government on Thursday decided to take body-fluid samples of all of those who are on the 'high-risk' contact list linked to the first Nipah victim, a 47-year-old man who died on August 30 in the latest outbreak of the infection in the state.

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Pig kidney works a record 2 months in donated body

Doctors at NYU Langone Health successfully kept a genetically modified pig's kidney functioning inside a brain-dead man for two months, a record achievement. The research aims to address organ shortages and may pave the way for future living pig-to-human transplants, with valuable insights to be shared with the FDA.

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Antiviral against Nipah has arrived in Kerala: State govt

The brain-damaging virus has killed two people and infected three others in Kozhikode district. On Wednesday, a 24-year old health worker became Kerala's fifth confirmed Nipah case since its recent outbreak.

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Nipah alert in Dakshina Kannada district

The district health officer Dr Sudarshan asked the eight medical colleges in Mangaluru to keep patients under observation who come to them with suspected cases of brain fever. Sudarshan told reporters here on Wednesday that directives have been issued taluk hospitals, primary health centres in the district to promptly conduct fever surveys

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