COVID-19 Care in India: Evolving Paradigms from Public Health to Critical Care.

Covid-19 pandemic in India has rapidly grown though we have a low case fatality rate, high recovery rate and large population is asymptomatic or presymptomatic. Public health measures to close the tap across the country need hypervigilance and follow simple dictum of aggressive testing, tracing and isolation. The covid cases need an early diagnosis with treat and care model.

Unmasking Hypoxia in COVID 19 - Six Minute Walk Test.

Across the world healthcare systems are dealing with COVID 19. One of the main manifestations of this infection is varied degree of involvement of lung causing a spectrum of illness from mild lower respiratory tract infection to severe Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). One of the important clinical parameters is to identify hypoxia early to initiate higher level of care at the earliest.

Coconut Oil and Immunity: What do we really know about it so far?

Coconut oil as health oil was recognized in Ayurvedic medicine almost 4000 years ago. The same health effects were also attributed to the mother's milk in ancient literature. Modern research has now found a common link between these two natural health products - their lipid content.