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Sanchita Sharma

Sanchita Sharma

Sanchita is the health & science editor of the Hindustan Times. She has been reporting and writing on public health policy, health and nutrition for close to two decades. She is an International Reporting Project fellow from Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and was part of the expert group that drafted the Press Council of India’s media guidelines on health reporting, including reporting on people living with HIV.

Articles by Sanchita Sharma

A decade after defeating polio, India is set to begin its battle against Covid

Home health care workers and their patients start receiving Moderna COVID-19 vaccines at a drive-thru vaccination clinic in Portland, Ore., Sunday, Jan. 10, 2021. The clinic is a partnership between the Service Employees International Union and Oregon Health & Science University, aiming to vaccinate Oregon's 32,000 home health care workers and their patients. (Kristyna Wentz-Graff/Pool Photo via AP)

Updated on Jan 11, 2021 06:24 IST

Experts flag concern over ‘limited data’ for Covaxin

A medic fills a syringe with Covxin before administering it to a health worker during its trials, at the Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society in Ahmedabad, India.

Updated on Jan 3, 2021 21:11 IST

Amplifying reach, fake science biggest challenges to vaccination

A ground staff walks past a container kept at the Cargo Terminal 2 of the Indira Gandhi International Airport, which according to the officials will be used as a Covid-19 vaccine handling and distribution center.

Updated on Jan 3, 2021 03:20 IST

Why masks will stay even after Covid-19 vaccination

It’s still unknown how much protection Covid-19 vaccines provide in real-life conditions and for how long this protection lasts.

Updated on Dec 28, 2020 23:00 IST

Price cap on Covid tests could be affecting diagnosis, skewing data

A roadside barber cuts the hair of a man in front of a wall with graffiti, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease (Covid-19), in Mumbai, India.

Updated on Dec 23, 2020 23:30 IST

Eight promising Covid-19 vaccines end year in hope

All hopes are now pinned on vaccines, which the government will use to 250 million people at most risk by the summer of 2021. Five experimental vaccines are in advanced stages of clinical trials in India.

Updated on Dec 20, 2020 23:17 IST

Covid-19 can have impact on heart too, say experts

Medics from NMMC Hospital take swab sample for RT-PCR and Rapid Antigen for Covid-19 test of commuters at Vashi Railway Station in Navi Mumbai on Monday.

Updated on Dec 14, 2020 21:00 IST

Few Covid-19 deaths in India’s old-age homes, survey finds

Data from states in India shows that a little over half (53%) of Covid-19 deaths are in people who are 60 years, compared to around 75% of deaths in those aged 65 years and above around the world, according to data reported to World Health Organization (WHO) till October.

Updated on Dec 13, 2020 23:18 IST

Central schemes help country fare better on wellness index: Survey

Swachh Bharat and many other Centre’s schemes has helped elevate health and quality of life of the country’s population.

Updated on Dec 13, 2020 24:17 IST

Covid-19 may set back progress made in eradicating malaria

In 2019, total funding reached $3 billion against a global target of $5.6 billion, but the Covid-19 pandemic burden on health systems and global economy is expected to be a further set back.

Updated on Dec 6, 2020 21:21 IST

Scientists reset biological clock to restore vision in old mice

Representational Image.

Updated on Dec 3, 2020 11:06 IST

Covid has left students with uncertain future

Economic setbacks for families led to one in 10 children saying they would not return to school or do not know whether they would return to school once the institutions reopen.

Updated on Nov 29, 2020 23:27 IST

India to manufacture 100mn doses a year of Sputnik: Moscow institute

Sputnik V is a human adenovirus-based vaccine candidate and the only late-stage adenovirus-based Covid-19 vaccine candidate to use two different vectors for different injections, human adenovirus types Ad5 and Ad26.

Updated on Nov 28, 2020 01:54 IST

Covid-19: Beginning 2021, India to produce 100 million doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine

A nurse prepares Sputnik-V vaccine for inoculation at a clinic in Tver, Russia, on October 12.

Updated on Nov 27, 2020 07:24 IST

Russia says vaccine 95% effective, roll-out in Jan

In statement on Tuesday, the vaccine’s developers said preliminary data after trials involving thousands of volunteers showed “an efficacy of the vaccine above 95%” after a second dose.

Updated on Nov 25, 2020 13:12 IST

Over half of 20-year-olds in urban India likely to develop diabetes in their lifetime: Study

Representational photo.

Updated on Nov 24, 2020 11:00 IST

As vaccine trials end, where do Covid-19 treatments stand?

Most Covid-19 treatments fall under three broad categories, antivirals that prevent the virus from multiplying, immune-modulators that regulate the immune response, and combinations that use multiple mechanisms of action.

Updated on Nov 24, 2020 24:05 IST

Air pollution as severe in villages as in urban India, reveals study

An anti-smog gun sprays water to control air pollution, at ITO in New Delhi on November 3.

Updated on Nov 4, 2020 03:02 IST

Vaccinationalism will prolong pandemic: Andrea D. Taylor of Global Health Innovation Center

Andrea D. Taylor, the assistant director of programs at Global Health Innovation Center, Duke University.

Updated on Nov 2, 2020 02:53 IST

Covid-19: Public participation a must to contain infection spread

A man is tested for Covid-19 at Ram Manohar Lohia hospital in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India on Sunday, November 01, 2020.

Updated on Nov 1, 2020 23:33 IST

Global study sees India having edge in Covid-19 vaccines

A woman holds a small bottle labeled with a "Coronavirus COVID-19 Vaccine" sticker.

Updated on Nov 2, 2020 03:56 IST

Recovered from Covid? Get flu shot to keep pollution impact at bay: Experts

Fatigue is the most common symptom, with more than half of the patents with “long Covid” in the Rome study reporting chronic fatigue, according to JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Updated on Oct 25, 2020 21:51 IST

Melinda Gates: ‘Life will change forever… we will build back in a better way’

Melinda Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Updated on Oct 21, 2020 11:37 IST

Learnings from polio on how to vaccinate 50 million

A major learning from polio is to be prepared to rapidly dispel misinformation and rumours that may lead to people refusing to get vaccinated.

Updated on Oct 18, 2020 20:28 IST

Covid detection with CRISPR, phones in offing

American biochemist Jennifer Doudna of the University of California at Berkeley, who won the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, poses with a CRISPR-Cas9 model taken in Berkeley, California.

Updated on Oct 11, 2020 24:05 IST

Hepatitis C discovery earns trio Nobel Prize for Medicine

Thomas Perlmann, secretary of the Nobel Assembly at Karolinska Institutet and of the Nobel Committee for Physiology or Medicine, announces Harvey J Alter, Michael Houghton and Charles M Rice as the winners of the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine during a news conference at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden.

Updated on Oct 6, 2020 01:01 IST

Healthwise: Study casts more doubt on HCQ’s effectiveness on Covid-19

The drug hydroxychloroquine, pushed by US President Donald Trump and others in recent months as a possible treatment to people infected with the coronavirus disease, is displayed at a pharmacy in Provo, Utah.

Updated on Oct 3, 2020 22:35 IST

Stopping a Covid-19 generation of stunted children essential

A child takes a pencil during a class conducted by a former diplomat Virendra Gupta and his singer wife Veena Gupta on a sidewalk in New Delhi on Sept. 3, 2020.

Updated on Sep 26, 2020 22:06 IST

Genetic defects may affect ability to fight Covid-19

A health worker in PPE coveralls prepares to collect swab samples for coronavirus testing at Rajendra Nagar in New Delhi on Wednesday.

Updated on Sep 25, 2020 20:02 IST

Herd immunity unviable, Covid-19 vaccine the only solution

Vaccines put the spotlight back on herd or population immunity in the 1960s and 1970s as public health specialists worked to achieve sufficient levels of vaccine coverage to stop disease transmission, and in the case of smallpox and polio, eradicate diseases.

Updated on Sep 19, 2020 23:25 IST

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