Nitric oxide has long been used to treat medical conditions such as the Blue Baby Syndrome and for heart and lung transplant patients. Therapeutic use of Nitric oxide can be a rapid, successful, and affordable gamechanger in the fight against Covid-19, a new study has claimed. A study by doctors from Kochi’s Amrita Hospital and … Read more
Plant biologist Shyam Kumar Masakapalli of School of Basic Science at IIT Mandi has been studying rare as well as endangered plants found in the Himalayas along with his team since 2019. Coronavirus study: Potential treatment for COVID-19? Biologists at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi have said that they have found a Himalayan flowering tree … Read more
New Covid study to establish effectiveness of vaccine Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is effective in reducing hospitalisation for Covid-19 cases across all variants, says a new study by Kaiser Permanente and Pfizer. The study published in The Lancet has found that the vaccine is effective up to 90 per cent across all variants for six months for … Read more
New test for severity of Covid-19 symptoms Researchers have come up with a blood test that can tell which people are likely to be symptomatic if they get Covid-19 infection, which would help health care workers prioritise patients for hospitalisation and intensive care. The study is currently there in the American Chemical Society’s journal Analytics … Read more
New Covid study finds SARS-Cov-2 on hospital surfaces New study on Coronavirus: The researchers discovered that the virus or at least its genetic signature was found in the floor or surface samples. The SARS-CoV-2 was detected 39 percent on the floors next to the beds of patients undergoing Covid-19 treatment at the hospital, 20 percent … Read more
The study now published in the PLOS Computational Biology finds that people under the age of 20 years are 43 per cent less susceptible to Covid infections (PTI Image) Younger people, under the age of 20, are half as likely of getting the Covid-19 infection compared to adults who are more likely to spread infections … Read more
It looks like the findings may provide a new therapeutic option that can be used for Coronavirus treatment. Among many drugs that have been tested for Coronavirus treatment, a new research has surfaced that has proposed another antiviral strategy for treatment. The study done by Hong Kong researchers noted that a class of existing drugs … Read more