Mask-Wearing Will Continue in Some Situations: Polls

Mask-Wearing Will Continue in Some Situations: Polls

April 6, 2022 – The future will include face masks. Not for everyone, but they will still be around. Even as the COVID-19 threat seems to be easing, more than half of doctors and nurses expect to continue wearing face masks while shopping in grocery and retail stores and at indoor events such as weddings … Read more

Does Cutting Back on Salt Help Improve Heart Failure?

Does Cutting Back on Salt Help Improve Heart Failure?

By Steven Reinberg HealthDay Reporter TUESDAY, April 5, 2022 (HealthDay News) — If you have heart failure, there’s good news and bad news on how much it would help you to cut back on salt. New research finds that while it doesn’t prevent death or hospitalization among patients, it does appear to improve their quality … Read more

India’s trade with Russia, Ukraine grew since FY21: Government to Parliament

India’s trade with Russia, Ukraine grew since FY21: Government to Parliament

India’s imports from Russia rose to $8.69 billion in the first 11 months of 2021-22, which is 58% higher than the total imports of $5.48 billion recorded in the full financial year 2020-21, the government told Parliament on Wednesday. India’s exports to Russia rose to $3.18 billion in April–February period of 2021-22 from $2.65 billion … Read more

Scientists Celebrate Human Genome Milestone with New Intel

Scientists Celebrate Human Genome Milestone with New Intel

April 6, 2022 – For the first time, the human genome has finally been mapped end-to-end, and the historic milestone has scientists celebrating. “It’s genuinely a really big and exciting deal both in the genomic community as well in the broader scientific and medical community,” says Benjamin Solomon, MD, clinical director of the National Human … Read more

Scientific evidence so far does not indicate woman in Mumbai infected with XE variant: Sources

Scientific evidence so far does not indicate woman in Mumbai infected with XE variant: Sources

INSACOG experts are conducting genomic analysis of a coronavirus case reported as that of the highly transmissible XE variant by Mumbai civic officials, though scientific evidence so far does not indicate it to be so, official sources said on Wednesday. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday said that a woman who had arrived there … Read more