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Urban Mental Health Is Often Neglected: High Time To Take It Seriously

Pooja YadavMay 23, 20220

Mental Health as a problem is neglected in Urban India. consistent with a survey conducted by ICMR, every 10th Delhiite suffers from psychiatric illnesses like depression, anxiety and schizophrenia. But this is often one area that's afflicted most by a high treatment gap thanks to the social stigma attached to mental illnesses, lack of awareness and resistance to treatment by patients. The survey by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) on urban mental state between 2004 and 2009, show that 10% of Delhities suffer from psychiatric illnesses with depression being the foremost common ailment followed by anxiety and depression. The problem isn't confined to the less affluent pockets of capital, Institute of Human Behavior and Allied Sciences has been running mobile health un...

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India Becomes COVID-19 Free; Chief Epidemiologist Says, ‘Still Mask Is Necessary’

Gunjan ChaudharyApril 6, 20220

Regarding a terrible pandemic like Corona, the biggest organization monitoring it in its country has made a relief announcement. The Chief Epidemiologist of the Indian Council of Medical Research has now declared India free from the corona pandemic. Now Corona has reached the endemic category in India. This virus will be present among you but will be in different changed forms. Which will no longer be able to reach its old pandemic-like situation. Health experts say that life will become more normal in the coming few days. However, now the whole country will have to suffer from all the changed forms of coronavirus for the next several years. ICMR's Chief Epidemiologist Dr Samiran Panda says that the dreaded pandemic like Covid in the country is now over. They say that when there was ...

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Booster Dose Maybe Necessary For All Adults: ICMR

Sonia SolankiApril 2, 20220

Booster Dose for all adults might be a reality soon. As the ICMR's National Institute of Virology (NIV) Director Priya Abraham said, "Eventually all adults in India may get booster dose but a decision may be taken after evaluation of relevant data by the expert groups and factoring in issues like availability of vaccines." This observation comes after the study of the effect of vaccination post first and second dose. As the antibodies count decreases post the second dose in a time span of eight months. So, a booster dose can give that extra immunity cover to a person against variants of coronavirus. The booster dose is very effective against the Omicron variant too. Why Booster Dose Is Necessary? Every covid vaccine has a tendency to produce antibodies against the virus. But the e...

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ICMR To Study Covaxin And Covisheild Efficacy As Omicron Cases Goes Up In India

Sonia SolankiDecember 11, 20210

ICMR (Indian Council of Medical Research) started its research study the on efficacy of Covaxin and Covisheild vaccines against Omicron. The number of cases of Omicron touches 32 in India. The national Institute of Virology [NIV] - ICMR has collected blood samples of patients detected with Omicron variant. This information came in after the press meet of ICMR held in New Delhi headed by Dr. Balram Bhargava, Director General of ICMR. In Several cases the international travellers coming to India are providing false addresses . Due to which community surveillance becomes difficult to conduct stated by Lav Agarwal , Joint Secretary in the Health Ministry. Such travellers are difficult to trace and therefore their contacts also go unreported thus spreading the disease more fast. ICMR c...