India decays proposition to test Russia’s COVID-19 immunization Sputnik-V in huge examination Kumar Jeetendra | October 8, 2020 India’s drug regulator has knocked back a proposal from Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd to conduct a large study in the nation to evaluate Russia’s Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine and has asked it to test the vaccine in a smaller trial. The recommendations by an expert panel of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO) noted that …
Designers develop plant-based splash that could be utilized in N95 mask filters Kumar Jeetendra | October 7, 2020 Engineers have invented a way to spray extremely thin wires made of a plant-based material that might be used in N95 mask filters, devices that harvest energy for electricity, and potentially the production of human organs. The procedure involves spraying methylcellulose, a renewable plastic material derived from plant cellulose, on 3D-printed and other objects ranging …
Amniotic liquid undifferentiated cells may prompt better treatment for ischemic stroke Kumar Jeetendra | October 7, 2020 A study published today in STEM CELLS Translational Medicine points the way to a potential new avenue of treatment for ischemic stroke. The study, led by Annamaria Cimini, Ph.D., of the University of L’Aquila, and Liborio Stuppia, M.D., of D’Annunzio University, Italy, shows how the secretome of amniotic fluid stem cells can restore neuronal plasticity …
Study shows tofacitinib medication can fix porousness absconds in the digestive tract Kumar Jeetendra | October 6, 2020 A team of researchers led by biomedical scientist Declan F. McCole in the University of California, Riverside, has found that the medication tofacitinib, also called Xeljanz and approved by the FDA to treat rheumatoid arthritis and ulcerative colitis, can fix permeability defects in the intestine. Study results appear in the Journal of Crohn’s and Colitis. …
Seeing how the malaria can withstand fever’s warmth Kumar Jeetendra | October 6, 2020 Even when a man suffering from malaria is burning up with fever and too ill to operate, the little blood-eating parasites lurking inside them continue to flourish, relentlessly growing and multiplying as they gobble up the host’s red blood cells. The single-celled Plasmodium parasites that cause 200 million cases of malaria annually can withstand feverish …
Covid immunization: Bharat Biotech to utilize ViroVax’s adjuvant for Covaxin Kumar Jeetendra | October 5, 2020 Trials, will use adjuvant Alhydroxiquim-II to boost immune response and longer lasting immunity. The technology has been used under this licensing arrangement with US-based ViroVax. Adjuvant is used to boost the vaccine efficacy. Covaxin is an inactivated vaccine derived from a strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus, isolated in the National Institute of Virology (NIV), Pune under …
Parkinson’s disease is a free danger factor for biting the dust from COVID-19, study recommends Kumar Jeetendra | October 3, 2020 A fresh study of about 80,000 patients shows that people with Parkinson’s disease (PD) have a 30% greater risk of dying from COVID-19 than individuals without the neurodegenerative condition. The new analysis conducted by researchers at University of Iowa Health Care based on patient information in the TriNetX COVID-19 research network suggests that Parkinson’s disease …
Coronavirus immunization turn out expected in under 3 months in UK: The Times Kumar Jeetendra | October 3, 2020 A mass roll-out of a COVID-19 vaccine in Britain could be completed in as little as three months, the Times reported, citing government scientists. Scientists working on the Oxford vaccine hope regulators approve it before the beginning of 2021, the paper said. A complete COVID-19 immunization programme, which would exclude children, could be faster than …
Role of Aerogen Nebulization in High Flow Oxygen Therapy Kumar Jeetendra | October 2, 2020 High flow oxygen therapy is a form of respiratory support used in the hospital where oxygen, often in conjunction with compressed air and humidification, is delivered to a patient at rates of flow higher than that delivered traditionally in oxygen therapy. High flow oxygen therapy is intended to Eliminate most of the anatomic dead space …
AstraZeneca resumes COVID-19 immunization preliminary in Japan, US still stopped Kumar Jeetendra | October 2, 2020 AstraZeneca Plc said on Friday clinical trials of its experimental COVID-19 vaccine declared in Japan, while adding that it was in talks with regulators on data necessary to restart studies in the United States, where they remain halted. Several global trials of the vaccine, AZD1222, were put on hold last month after an unexplained illness …
Russia to start Phase III preliminaries of second COVID-19 antibody in November-December: Report Kumar Jeetendra | October 2, 2020 Russia begins Phase III trials of a second possible vaccine against COVID-19, developed by Siberia’s Vector Institute, in November-December, the TASS news agency cited Russian consumer security watchdog Rospotrebnadzor as saying on October 2. Early-stage clinical trials for the vaccine have been completed on Wednesday.
Researchers distinguish interesting examples in COVID-19 transmission in India Kumar Jeetendra | October 1, 2020 Researchers, including those from the Government of Tamil Nadu, and Andhra Pradesh, have conducted one of the largest analysis of COVID-19 epidemiology to date, and have discovered that both cases and deaths due to the disease are more heavily concentrated in the 40-69 year age group in India than is seen in high-income nations, among …
