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[ad_1] When there is no cure, metrics such as the prevalence of infection and immunity in a population become important. That’s why the results of the New York study of 3,000 people chosen at random for an antibody test that were announced Thursday are being studied worldwide. With the caveat …

[ad_1] After reports that French researchers were planning clinical trials to see if nicotine patches could help prevent the incidence of COVID-19, after research showing that fewer smokers get the disease compared to nonsmokers, the government French has banned online sales of nicotine products for fear of an increase in …

[ad_1] Hyderabad The prevalence of positive coronavirus cases is now almost confined to three districts and the boundaries of the Greater Hyderabad Municipal Corporation in Telangana, which has given high hope that the spread of Covid-19 may be halted and the situation controlled, the Health Minister E Rajender said here …

[ad_1] Enlarge / / A COVID-19 blood test is administered outside Delmont Medical Care on April 22, 2020 in Franklin Square, New York. The test identifies antibodies against the coronavirus. Frustrated statisticians and epidemiologists flocked to social media this week to report substantial flaws in two widely publicized studies trying …

[ad_1] An experimental COVID-19 vaccine protected the monkeys from contracting the viral infection, according to an unrevised report. The new vaccine has now entered clinical trials in china to test the drug in humans. Although the animal study, published April 19 in the prepress database bioRxiv, not formally reviewed, scientists …

[ad_1] It appears the world was unprepared for a novel coronavirus, despite historical precedents. Dave Elder provides some insight on the disease and what the pharmaceutical community is doing to tackle the pandemic. GLOBALISATION inevitably leads to more rapid spread of disease, which will in turn facilitate global pandemics.one Infectious …

[ad_1] Coronavirus patients who were treated with the drugs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin experienced cardiac abnormalities, adding further evidence to the suggestion that the drugs have unknown risks. Eighty-four COVID-19 patients were treated at a New York facility, according to a peer-reviewed correspondence published in Natural medicine. Most of the patients …

[ad_1] A four-month-old baby girl, who was being treated for Coronavirus and had been suffering from congenital heart disease at birth, died in Kerala’s Kozhikode Medical College, at around 6 am on Friday, after suffering a cardiac arrest. She was also suffering from pneumonia. This is the fourth COVID-19 death …

[ad_1] PARIS : Researchers in France will evaluate whether nicotine could be used to treat Covid-19. “It is an interesting possibility,” Health Minister Olivier Veran said on France Inter radio. “We will know more soon.” Doctors at the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris observed that few patients hospitalized with Covid-19 were …

[ad_1] Queen Elizabeth II turned 94 on April 21. The queen has exceeded the average life expectancy of women in the UK in a decade. Not only is she the oldest reigning monarch in the UK, she is also the world’s oldest head of state. Queen Elizabeth is known to …