Smriti Mallapaty :One of the most crucial questions about an emerging infectious disease such as the new coronavirus is how...
Health Desk :Scientists at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found the beginnings of a path...
Novartis to provide ‘no profit’ Covid-19 drugs to developing countries Swiss drugmaker Novartis will provide 15 generic drugs for treating the symptoms of coronavirus to developing countries on a not:for:profit basis.The drugs range from antibiotics to steroids and pills for diarrhoea, and will be provided to 79 low: and lower:middle:income countries.“We shouldn’t underestimate the stress that COVID puts particularly on fragile health systems,” Chief Operating Officer Lutz Hegermann told Reuters news agency in an interview. India to allow Hindu pilgrims...
Sally Robertson, B.Sc. :Researchers at King’s College London and Zoe Global Ltd have conducted a study suggesting that skin rashes...
Naimur Rahman Afid :Almonds are the most popular nuts in the whole world. Though almonds are commonly referred to as...
Matthew Dacso, Kara McArthur, and Clifford DacsoThe COVID-19 pandemic has probed and exposed gaping fissures in the global healthcare landscape....
Sara Ryding, B.Sc. :Viral load refers to the amount of virus in an infected person’s blood. This is expressed as the number of viral particles in each milliliter of blood. Higher viral load can have different implications for different viruses but typically means the infection is progressing.Viral load tests measure the quantity of genetic material, commonly RNA, of a virus present in the blood. Several tests are typically done over an extended period, with initial measurements serving as the baseline...
Dr. Liji Thomas, MD :The current COVID-19 pandemic, which ‘officially’ began in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019, has spread...
India IT hub, other towns reimpose lockdown Nearly a dozen Indian states have imposed a partial lockdown in high-risk areas after spikes in coronavirus cases, with the country’s infections topping 900,000 just three days after crossing the 800,000 mark.India joins a number of countries and cities across the globe in reimposing localised lockdowns and other restrictions in the face of new outbreaks of the disease that has infected more than 13 million worldwide.In all, India has more than 936,000 cases...
Health Desk : Cooped up too long, yearning for a day at the beach or a night on the town...
Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D :Overlapping genes (OLGs) or dual-coding genes utilize two different reading frames or initiation codons for...
Health Desk :Politicians and public health leaders have publicly committed to equitably sharing any coronavirus vaccine that works, but the top global initiative to make that happen may allow rich countries to reinforce their own stockpiles while making fewer doses available for poor ones. While no country can afford to buy doses of every potential vaccine candidate, many poor ones can’t afford to place such speculative bets at all.Activists warn that without stronger attempts to hold political, pharmaceutical and health...
