WEDNESDAY, July 13, 2022 (HealthDay News) — Had COVID? You might want to clean your freezer out. A new study suggests that cousins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus can survive on frozen meat and fish for up to 30 days. The research — prompted by COVID outbreaks in Asia in which packaged meat … Read more
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, becomes almost immediately nonviable if deposited on a cash banknote, according to a study. The research, published in the journal PLOS ONE, suggests that the use of credit and debit cards over cash as a COVID-19 prevention measure is not advisable. The researchers found that the virus shows greater … Read more
The coating, described in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, may be used in future to develop an antiviral spray for fabrics. Scientists in the US have developed an inexpensive, non-toxic coating for almost any fabric that decreases the infectivity of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, by up to 90 per cent. The … Read more
The “Variant of Concern” has undergone not less than 30 mutations. (Representative Image) The Omicron variant of SARS-CoV-2 that has taken the world by storm calling for authorities to tighten travel measures. The variant has picked up at least one of its mutations from a snippet of genetic material present in the common cold virus … Read more
Special attention needed in case of underlying diseases such as asthma, COPD and other lung problems By Dr. Jaideep Gogtay, The lung is a delicate organ and despite that knowledge we are inclined to be indifferent towards it. As gateways for breathing life into us, the lung is exposed to numerous external factors such as … Read more
Australian authorities on Wednesday extended the Covid-19 lockdown in Melbourne for another three weeks, as they shift their focus to rapid vaccination drives and move away from a suppression strategy to bring cases down to zero. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews flagged a staggered easing of the tough restrictions once 70% of the state’s adult residents … Read more
The study was led by researchers from the NYU Grossman School of Medicine and has been published in Nature Microbiology. (Photo credit: Reuters) Coronavirus build-up in the lungs might have led to the steep mortality rates during the pandemic, according to a new study. The results, however, contrast with earlier suspicions that simultaneous infections, including bacterial … Read more
DNA sequencing has given good insights about understanding virus and its mutants. “We are living in an explosive era of medical discoveries where sequencing of virus has been done in the form of breakthrough technology called as mRNA vaccine development which was done within weeks of the Covid virus outbreak to develop the required immune … Read more
Patients affected by cardiac diseases, have to spend a lot of their financial resources on their diagnosis, treatment and subsequent recovery. (Photo source: IE) By Dr. Bharat Shivdasani World Heart Day: The heart which is approximately the size of your wrist and weighs about 600 gms is the most exquisite and well-designed machine or organ … Read more
A total of 22,864,873 people have contracted coronavirus globally so far, according to the Johns Hopkins University’s COVID resource centre. (Representational image: REuters) A US pharma company has successfully tested a Food and Drug Administration-approved over the counter ointment as the first line of defence against the deadly coronavirus that has so far killed over … Read more