Common air pollutants, such as small particulate matter and ground-level ozone, are associated with more severe outcomes after COVID-19 infection, including admission to the intensive care unit (ICU), according to a study. The research, published on Tuesday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, analysed data on 151,105 people aged 20 years and older with confirmed … Read more
Researchers from Optum Labs and Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health in the US noted that conditions involved a range of major organs and systems, including the heart, kidneys, lungs and liver as well as mental health complications. Nearly a third of older adults infected with COVID-19 in 2020 developed at least one … Read more
Stressing on the need to protect both lives and livelihoods, he said public health action in India and across the world must be continually guided by evidence from four key questions — how transmissible is the variant, severity of the disease it causes, how well vaccines and prior SARS-CoV-2 infection protect and how common people … Read more
The statement said that the team conducted a genome-wide screen of a line of green monkey cells. COVID-19-enabling genes: Scientists identify genes allowing SARS-CoV-2 to replicate! A team of researchers from the Yale University and the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have identified dozens of genes that allow the novel coronavirus and the MERS … Read more
RT-PCR method has been traditionally carried out as a single-step or a two-step procedure (Representational image: PTI) By Rajesh Patel As of August 06, 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused over 18 million confirmed cases, with 706,000+ deaths globally. With the pandemic gripping firmly, availability of accurate and rapid diagnostic procedures becomes imminent to develop understanding … Read more
The prevalence of tuberculosis among COVID-19 patients has been found to be 0.37 to 4.47 per cent in different studies, the ministry said. (Representational image) Tuberculosis is associated with a 2.1-fold increased risk of a severe COVID-19 disease, the health ministry said on Wednesday, recommending that all newly-diagnosed tuberculosis patients or those currently on treatment … Read more