Beijing: A Chinese healthcare platform has started selling Pfizer‘s oral COVID treatment pill Paxlovid in what appears to be the first retail sale of the drug in the country, as China braces for a surge in COVID patients. The medication sold out just over half an hour after the listing was reported in the media, … Read more
According to a recent study, a common anti-inflammatory drug has been found that is an effective antiviral agent in treating mild and moderate Covid-19 patients. The drug is known as indomethacin is used in treating various types of inflammation-related conditions. The study has been published in Nature Scientific Reports, by IIT Madras. Indomethacin is an anti-inflammatory non-steroidal … Read more
Heparin, which is normally administered via injection, is a blood thinner used to treat and prevent blood clots across the world and is widely available. A widely available and affordable blood thinning drug, heparin, limits lung damage when inhaled by COVID-19 patients, and may also prevent infection from the SARS-CoV-2 virus, according to early results … Read more
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
NEW DELHI: New and emerging technologies are being developed at 25 innovation hubs, which have been set up across the country under the National Mission on Interdisciplinary Cyber-Physical Systems (NM-ICPS), to provide solutions to people-centric problems. Several such technologies and technology platforms have turned fruitful in several sectors, including the crucial health sector that attracted … 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
The situation is reminiscent of the early part of the pandemic, when personal protective equipment and ventilators were scarce. “It makes me nauseous going home at night because it makes me feel like I’m deciding, with this limited resource, who should get it,” Dr. Christian Ramers, an infectious disease specialist at Family Health … Read more
To understand where we stand in our fight against coronavirus and Omicron two years on, Financial Express Online spoke to several doctors. Two years of COVID-19: It has been two years since the coronavirus emerged, and since then, the way the world functions has been changed. Masks, sanitisers and gloves have become a part of … Read more
According to the clinical guidance issued by the Union health ministry for management of the infection in adult patients, Remdesivir has been asked to be “used in patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 and those with no renal or hepatic dysfunction within 10 days of onset of any symptom”. The Centre on Friday said Remdesivir … Read more
Dec. 23, 2021 — The antiviral remdesivir, an intravenous drug given mostly to seriously ill COVID-19 patients in hospitals, could keep unvaccinated people who become infected out of the hospital if given on an outpatient basis, a new study says. Researchers studied 562 unvaccinated people from September 2020 to April 2021, according to the study … Read more