A Shift on the Front Line
Silvia Castelletti, M.D. :I have just finished the night shift on the Covid-19 ward. I look at myself in the mirror: I have a C...
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Spain, Portugal reopen their shared border Spain and Portugal reopened their shared border, which has been closed since March 16 as Lisbon sought to protect...
Vitamin E, another possible immune fighter in COVID-19
Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :Vitamin E (vit E) (other names: alpha-tocopherol, alpha-tocopherol, tocotrienol, 5,7,8 trimethyl-tocotrienol), a group of eight fat soluble compounds, including four tocopherols...
Proning: A life-saving therapy for severe COVID-19 patients
Md Billal Hossen :Everybody is looking for the vaccine of COVID-19 but any effective vaccine is not invented yet. Most of the people in the...
Make science portable and widely accessible
Michael Levin :COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic we face in the coming years. This is an opportunity to learn how to decentralize scientific...
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Spain to open border with Morocco only in case of reciprocity Spain will only open its borders with Morocco if there is a reciprocal agreement...
Elementary education in quarantine
Suborna Rahman Sony :Primary education is a certain prerequisite for the sustainable development of a country. Elementary education in Bangladesh is run under the Primary...
Green Tea: A Healthier Beverage
Naimur Rahman Afid :Green tea is a popular name to the health concern people. It is a type of tea that is made from Camellia...
Vitamin A, hopeful fighter in Covid pandemic
Dr. Muhammad Torequl Islam :Vitamin A, a group of unsaturated nutritional organic compounds that includes retinol, retinal, retinoic acid and several provitamin A carotenoids (e.g.,...
Rapid loss of COVID-19 antibodies
Amanda Heidt :A pair of studies published this week is shedding light on the duration of immunity following COVID-19, showing patients lose their IgG antibodies-the...
Cholera vaccine campaigns for Covid-19 guidance
Joshua Havumaki :As public health agencies strategize about how to distribute COVID-19 vaccines after they are developed, I believe that research on cholera vaccination strategies...
Controversy over treatment of cardiac Covid-19 patients
Muhammad Torequl Islam :Troponin I (TnI), the member of the troponin protein complex, binds to actin in thin myofilaments to hold the actin-tropomyosin complex in...