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Support for Australia’s Ovarian Cancer Patients by Psychological Telehealth
The Australian government is dedicating a further 2 million Australian dollars to an independent non-profit organization, Ovarian Cancer Australia, for supporting the provision of psychosocial telehealth services to patients suffering from ovarian cancer.
Around 1,700 women in Australia...
EU has backed Merck’s COVID-19 pill for emergency use
The two pills play a huge role in fighting the coronavirus. These pills have been manufactured by US pharma giants and they reduce the risk of hospitalization. They also decrease the chances of death in high-risk patients.
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Johnson & Johnson plans to break up into two companies
US pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson has announced its plans to break up into two companies. This would lead to separating the consumer health arm Tylenol from its pharmaceutical division.
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- Johnson & Johnson announced that t...
A new species of fungus detected in Covid-19 recovered patients
After black fungus a patient in Pune has detected another fungal infection. This has been detected in four Covid-19 recovered patients in the last three months.
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- Four patients detected with this fungal infection
- The cultured specie...
FUJIFILM signs agreement with Mawi DNA technologies to develop bio sampling technology in Japan
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- Mawi signs an agreement with FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation
- FUJIFILM to distribute Mawi products in Japan
FUJIFILM Wako Pure Chemical Corporation, has signed an agreement with Mawi DNA Technologies for devel...
Blood plasma therapy does not reduce the risk of death in Covid-19 patients
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- Blood plasma therapy not useful for seriously ill patients
- The study was carried out in 72 hospitals
Convalescent plasma does not reduce the risk of death in patients suffering from COVID-19, according to a study. P...
DNA TEST TO DIAGNOSE FASTER PNEUMONIA IN PATIENTS WITH SEVERITY OF COVID-19
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- Analysts have built up a DNA test to rapidly distinguish auxiliary contaminations in COVID-19 patients, who have twofold the danger of creating pneumonia while on ventilation than non-COVID-19 patients
For patients with the most extr...
SOUTH KOREA FACING ACUTE ICU BED SCARCITY FOR CRITICAL COVID-19 PATIENTS
- Korea is facing an acute shortage of intensive care unit beds (ICU) as the country has seen a sharp rise in the number of daily new COVID-19 infections.
- Central and local governments are using painstaking efforts to come up with fast countermeasures. This includes Seoul City th...
HONG KONG CASES AGAIN TAKING AN UPWARD GRAPH CAUSES FEAR AMONG HEALTH AUTHORITIES
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- Hong Kong affirmed 90 new Covid infections as wellbeing authorities cautioned that the roots of about 33% of the cases were untraceable, the most elevated number in 3½ months
Fears of Covid-19 spreading in a public emergency c...
JAPAN’S NATIONAL CANCER CENTER REPORTS 10-YEAR SURVIVAL RATE AT 58.3% FOR PATIENTS
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- Japan’s National Cancer Center reports a 10-year survival rate at 58.3% for patients.
- The Center is said to have collected data since 2000.
- The survival rate of cancer patients in Japan improved by 1.1% upwards from...
MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS CHAINED ACROSS WORLD, SAYS A RESEARCH STUDY
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- As suggested in a comprehensive and damning report, approximately 60 countries are chaining people undergoing mental illness.
Human Rights Watch says that men, ladies, and kids are consistently shackled or kept in solitary for a long...
Moderna’s potential vaccine generates a good immune response in elderly patients
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- The company tested its vaccine on 10 adults and 10 elderly adults
- The vaccine did not report any serious adverse events
Moderna announced on Wednesday that in an early-stage clinical trial, its potential corona virus vacci...
SCIENTISTS SKEPTICAL OVER CONVALESCENT PLASMA TREATMENT
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- The FDA has issued an emergency use authorization for it
- President Trump considers it a breakthrough
The Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the convalescent ...
DR. SCOTT GOTTLIEB: CONVALESCENT PLASMA TREATMENT MAY BE HELPFUL BUT NOT ENTIRELY EFFECTIVE
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- In the early stages of the outbreak, convalescent plasma was used to treat corona virus patients
- It was used on a case-by-case basis
To treat coronavirus patients, the Food and Drug Administrat...
GILEAD COULD GET FDA APPROVAL FOR USE OF REMDESIVIR DESPITE MIXED TRIAL RESULTS
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- Gilead could get FDA approval for use of Remdesivir despite mixed trail results.
- The FDA had approved in May for sale of the drug to be used on an emergency basis for patients with severe COVID-19.
- The company had publis...
MAN ESCAPES FROM A HOTEL IN THE WESTERN JAPAN CITY FOR COVID-19 PATIENTS
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- Man escapes from a hotel in the western Japan city for COVID-19 patients.
- The hotel has been reserved for people with mild or no symptoms.
- The escapee mentioned to have left the hotel due to sanitary issues. ...
SOUTH KOREA: VIRUS-TAINTED FOREIGNERS TO BEAR TREATMENT COSTS
- South Korea is moving to augment laws that require foreign coronavirus patients to cover the costs of their treatment amid a spurt in the number of new infections among foreigners arriving from abroad.
- The decision was arrived on Sunday during a pan-governmental COVID-19 meetin...
100 COVID-19 PATIENTS ESCAPE THE QUARANTINE CENTRE IN ASSAM
According to the reports, nearly 100 COVID-19 patients managed to escape from the quarantine centre located in Changsari, Kamrup district of Assam despite raging floods. These 100 patients after escaping from the quarantine centre, staged a protest at National Highway 31 and blocked traffic. The ...
GERMANY LAUNCHES CORONAVIRUS WARNING APP
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- Use of the app is voluntary
- To ensure its effectiveness, virologists say 60% of Germans must download it
Germany launched a coronavirus warning app. The German government has appealed to its citizens to download the newly ...
PROF MAURO GIACCA: CORONAVIRUS CAN LEAVE THE LUNGS OF PEOPLE COMPLETELY UNRECOGNIZABLE
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- The said condition is completely different from normal pneumonia, influenza or the SARS virus
- It explains the unique pathology of Covid-19
Prof Mauro Giacca of King’s College London said that Covid-19 can leave the ...