Scientists See Hope in New Therapy for COVID Brain Fog Patients

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Feb. 10, 2022 — People with long-COVID “brain fog” may be able to recover mental abilities that were dulled or stolen from them by the virus through an approach that has improved the effects of stroke, traumatic brain injury, and other post-viral disorders, doctors and scientists say. For a lucky portion of the population, COVID-19 … Read more

Covid-19: Delhi logs 1,104 new cases, 12 deaths; slight decline in positivity rate

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With this, the national capital’s coronavirus case count increased to 18,48,619 and the death toll climbed to 26,035, the latest bulletin stated Delhi recorded 1,104 fresh COVID-19 cases with a positivity rate of 2.09 per cent on Thursday, while 12 more people succumbed to the infection, according to data shared by the city health department. … Read more

Household inflation expectations sequentially down, but still high: RBI survey

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Households’ median inflation perceptions for the current period moderated sequentially by 70 basis points to 9.7 per cent in January in its latest round of survey conducted by the Reserve bank of India. But the current period perception is still higher than the perceptions in the same period a year ago. Also, the perceptions continue … Read more

How Best to Fight Hair Loss in Men

THURSDAY, Feb. 10, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Nearly all men see their hairline recede or a bald spot emerge at some point in their life. For those looking to slow the march of time, a new study helps sort out which hair-loss medications work best. The analysis, of 23 previous studies, ranks the available hair-loss … Read more

Decision on third dose of COVID-19 vaccine for all adults will be based on scientific need: Govt

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NITI Aayog Member (Health) Dr V K Paul said all decisions on precaution doses are taken first and foremost based on the need. “The scientific need is the first part that drives it, then other considerations — programmatic and epidemiological. Just because anyone else is doing it, they have their own context, we have our … Read more

Samsung Galaxy S22 Gets Google Duo With Apple’s SharePlay-Like Live Sharing

Google and Samsung are on a move to take on Apple’s SharePlay feature by introducing live sharing to the video-calling app Google Duo. The feature will debut on the newly launched Samsung Galaxy S22 and Galaxy Tab S8 series where users will be able to watch videos and view an online whiteboard together. The development … Read more

In current times, monetary and fiscal policies cannot be a ‘question of either or’: Shaktikanta Das

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Defending the long pause in interest rate hike and the continuing accommodative stance, Reserve Bank of India Governor Shaktikanta Das on Thursday said in current times, “monetary and fiscal policies cannot be a question of either or, but must go in tandem with each other”. For the 10th time in a row, RBI‘s Monetary Policy … Read more

Big breakthrough! Multi-institutional team, led by IIT Jodhpur, identifies variations in RNA of Covid-19 using genomic sequencing

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Many of these intra-host variations are caused by enzymes present in the host cell as an immune response. In a positive development in the fight against the Coronavirus pandemic, a multi-institutional team, led by the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Jodhpur, has identified variations in the RNA of the Covid-19 virus by using genomic sequencing … Read more