The Suno India Show

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Jul 23, 2020

Why are most of the medicines being approved for COVID-19 so expensive?

There is an urgent need to find a cure for COVID-19. Old drugs that have been developed and approved for one disease are now being evaluated to see if they can be used to reduce the severity and to bring down m...

30 mins

Jul 22, 2020

Are controlled human infection studies for a COVID 19 vaccine ethical? A bioethicist explains why not.

It’s been over four months since the WHO declared COVID-19 to be a pandemic; millions of people worldwide have been infected, and more than half a million have died of this disease. While today the best respons...

40 mins

Jul 21, 2020

What goes into the fast tracking development of a vaccine- A virologist explains

With confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide surpassing 13 million with no sign of it slowing down, scientists are pushing forward with efforts to find and develop vaccines and treatments to slow down the pandemic a...

43 mins

Jul 20, 2020

The need for evidence-based medicine in treating COVID-19

A number of old drugs approved for other diseases are being “repurposed” and tested for their safety and efficacy in COVID-19, in systematic clinical trials. They have emergency approval for use in COVID-19, bu...

49 mins

Jul 18, 2020

How scientists and public health experts are tackling misinformation amidst a pandemic

Since the COVID pandemic began in Wuhan, China, one common feature over the last seven months has been the incessant misinformation or fake news as we call it that has spread across the world. For fact-checking...

36 mins

Jul 16, 2020

COVID19: Impact on pregnant women and children

With the increasing spread of COVID19, there have been disruptions in access to maternal healthcare and childcare facilities. Developing countries like India, are struggling with a rush of patients at hospitals...

26 mins

Jul 10, 2020

Why Parliament should convene & debate in times of COVID-19?

This year, the Parliament is likely to meet in September due to COVID and not in July as they always do. The constitutional requirement makes it obligatory for legislatures to meet at least every six months. Mo...

28 mins

Jul 08, 2020

COVID 19 - Was Inadequate data one of the reasons for migrant workers crisis

Along with the COVID-19 pandemic, in India, a huge number of migrant labourers came out to the public places, wanting to get back to their homes. To deal with the situation, the central and the state government...

19 mins

Jul 06, 2020

Aggressive testing, improved medical health facilities part of COVID management strategy in AP - Addl CS to Andhra Pradesh Dr PV Ramesh

With the number of cases of Coronavirus on the rise, every state is adopting different strategies from triple lockdowns to improving health surveillance to increasing health care spending. The south Indian stat...

65 mins

Jun 18, 2020

Delhi overwhelmed with rising COVID cases; non COVID patients left in a lurch

Delhi, the national capital, is the third worst affected state in the country after Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. Last week, Lieutenant Governor Anil Baijal overruled Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal's decisi...

13 mins