Scientists hope increasing human lifespan
Health Desk :Scientists at USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences may have found the beginnings of a path toward increasing human lifespan.The research,...
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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...
Skin rash may be a symptom of Covid-19
Sally Robertson, B.Sc. :Researchers at King’s College London and Zoe Global Ltd have conducted a study suggesting that skin rashes could be valuable predictors of...
Almond A Healthier Snack
Naimur Rahman Afid :Almonds are the most popular nuts in the whole world. Though almonds are commonly referred to as a nut, they are actually...
Viral load in coronavirus
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...
Antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 disappear within 3 months
Dr. Liji Thomas, MD :The current COVID-19 pandemic, which ‘officially’ began in Wuhan, China, in late December 2019, has spread rapidly across the world, causing...
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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,...
Dangers of heath disparities
Matthew Dacso, Kara McArthur, and Clifford DacsoThe COVID-19 pandemic has probed and exposed gaping fissures in the global healthcare landscape. There have been dramatic failures...
Visit friends and relatives but be careful
Health Desk : Cooped up too long, yearning for a day at the beach or a night on the town – and enticed by the...
Overlapping Gene
Dr. Sanchari Sinha Dutta, Ph.D :Overlapping genes (OLGs) or dual-coding genes utilize two different reading frames or initiation codons for encoding more than one protein....
Global vaccine plan may allow rich countries to buy more
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...
Philippines to use police in house-to-house searches for COVID-19 cases
Health Desk :Philippine authorities and police will carry out house-to-house searches for COVID-19 patients to prevent wider transmission, a minister has said, amid soaring death...