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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 developing countries on a not:for:profit basis.The drugs range from...
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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 coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).In a large community-based study, 8.8%...
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 teardrop-shaped edible seeds that are the fruit of the...
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 in each milliliter of blood. Higher viral load can...
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 hundreds of thousands of deaths among over 13 million...
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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, with the country’s infections topping 900,000 just three days...
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 in the capacity to care for the affected, in...
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 easing of restrictions just as the warm weather arrived...
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. Since both coding (sense strand) and non-coding (antisense strand)...
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 that happen may allow rich countries to reinforce their...
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 and infection numbers and some areas returning to a...
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France to require masks at indoor public spaces French President Emmanuel Macron has said that he favours making face masks mandatory in public indoor spaces to curtail the coronavirus pandemic, possibly starting on August...