New York: A team of US researchers has found that smartphones are capable of detecting blood oxygen saturation levels down to 70 per cent the lowest value a pulse oximeters should be able to measure. The proof of principle research by University of Washington (UW) and University of California San Diego researchers involved participants placing … Read more
Seattle :ID Genomics (IDG), a Seattle-based company, has invented a dipstick-based, rapid test for simultaneous identification of a large number of genetic variants of SARS-CoV-2 and has just received a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to expedite bringing this test to market. The test will ‘fingerprint’ at once all currently known COVID-19 variants of … Read more
The COVID-19 death toll in the US has topped 500,000, all but matching the number of Americans killed in World War II, Korea and Vietnam combined. The lives lost, as recorded by Johns Hopkins University on Monday, are about equal to the population of Kansas City, Missouri, and greater than that of Miami; Raleigh, North … Read more
Washington: The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus eclipsed 4,00,000 on Tuesday in the waning hours in office for President Donald Trump, whose handling of the crisis has been judged by public health experts a singular failure. The running total of lives lost, as compiled by Johns Hopkins University, is nearly equal to the number … Read more