Healthcare professionals experience mental wellness issues during and after pandemics Kumar Jeetendra | October 16, 2020 Mental health problems such as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, anxiety and depression are common among healthcare staff during and immediately after pandemics — according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers investigated how treating patients in previous pandemics like SARS and MERS affected the mental health of front-line staff. They found that nearly …
Inappropriate sterilization at China’s Qingdao clinic explanation behind new COVID-19 group: Official Kumar Jeetendra | October 16, 2020 Improper disinfection at a hospital in China’s Qingdao has generated new COVID-19 cluster ailments, prompting the city to try over 10 million people, a senior local health official said on Friday. No new positive cases were reported from over 10 million tests in the city. “Inappropriate disinfection at the CT room at the Qingdao Chest …
Britain draws nearer to COVID-19 immunization preliminaries that contaminate volunteers Kumar Jeetendra | October 16, 2020 “Human challenge” trials of possible COVID-19 vaccines, where volunteers are deliberately infected with the disease, could become a reality after a British biotech firm signed a contract with the government to create and provide strains of this virus. Preliminary work for the trials, which aim to accelerate the process of determining the efficacy of a …
Chinese COVID-19 immunization competitor shows guarantee in human preliminary: Study Kumar Jeetendra | October 16, 2020 One of China’s leading COVID-19 vaccine candidates, called BBIBP-CorV, was proven to be safe and elicited immune response in a small early-phase human trial, researchers said on Friday. A previous clinical trial reported similar results for a different vaccine that’s also based on inactivated whole SARS-CoV-2 virus, but in that study the vaccine was only …
Indica Labs announces launch of enterprise-wide, cloud-based digital pathology deployment at NCI Kumar Jeetendra | October 15, 2020 Albuquerque, NM – October 8, 2020 – Life Science Newswire – Indica Labs, a leading provider of computational pathology software and services, are pleased to announce the formal launch of an enterprise-wide, cloud-based deployment of Indica Labs’ software within the National Cancer Institute (NCI), including HALO®, HALO AI, HALO Link and HALO AP. Accessible to …
Oxford researchers create five-minute COVID-19 antigen test Kumar Jeetendra | October 15, 2020 Researchers from Britain’s University of Oxford have developed a quick COVID-19 test able to spot the coronavirus in less than five minutes, researchers said on Thursday, adding it could be utilised in mass testing in airports and businesses. The university said it expected to begin product development of the testing apparatus in early 2021 and …
Handwashing a compelling device to forestall COVID-19, different ailments: WHO Kumar Jeetendra | October 15, 2020 Ten weeks into the pandemic, handwashing with soap and other public health measures like maintaining physical distance, practising cough etiquette and wearing a mask stay the best defence against coronavirus, the World Health Organisation said Global Handwashing Day is observed on October 15 each year to increase awareness and emphasize the importance of handwashing as …
Ordinary cannabis introduction during pregnancy may cause intellectual lacks and nervousness in posterity Kumar Jeetendra | October 14, 2020 Regular cannabis exposure in rats during pregnancy can cause their offspring to have long-term cognitive deficiencies, asocial behavior, and anxiety later in adulthood. That is according to a new study by neuroscientists at Washington State University’s Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience unit that provides a rare look at the effects of using cannabis during pregnancy. “The …
Female mosquitoes can distinguish a mix of four unique substances in blood Kumar Jeetendra | October 13, 2020 Mosquitoes spread diseases like malaria, dengue, and yellow fever that kill at least a half a million people each year. Researchers are learning what people taste like to mosquitoesdown to the individual neurons that sense blood’s distinctive, flavorful taste. Female mosquitoes have a sense of taste that is especially tuned to detect a combination of …
Age may not add to COVID-19 contamination risk: Study Kumar Jeetendra | October 13, 2020 The age of a person may not decide how likely they are infected by SARS-CoV-2, which induces COVID-19, according to a study which found that growth of symptoms, severity of the disease, and mortality are age-dependent. It’s been shown that elderly individuals disproportionately develop acute symptoms of COVID-19 and show higher mortality. Scientists, including those …
Avenue Therapeutics gets letter from USFDA for intravenous tramadol Kumar Jeetendra | October 12, 2020 Therapeutics Inc has received a complete response letter (CRL) in the US health regulator for its new drug application for intravenous tramadol. The CRL in the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) has said that the regulator has decided it cannot approve the application for IV tramadol in its current form, Avenue Therapeutics said in …
Chemists propose another domino response to deliver organic compound against cancers Kumar Jeetendra | October 12, 2020 A group of chemists in RUDN University suggested a new response to produce organic compounds in 1 vessel. The end products proven to be effective against the cells of carcinomas, including drug-resistant ones. The new reaction was explained from the Bioorganic Chemistry journal. For many organic substances synthesis is a multistage process of step-by-step molecule …
