The 73rd World Health Assembly has resumed, where participants will address some of the most pressing global health issues and emergencies, including the raging Covid-19 pandemic that had claimed over 1.25 million lives and infected more than 50 million people globally.
Early Monday, Pfizer and German partner BioNTech released efficacy results from a late stage study of its Covid-19 vaccine candidate ‘BNT162b2’.
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Therefore, a team of researchers from Queen’s University in Canada carried out a review and analysis of relevant studies into the subject published between January 2000 and April 2020.
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According to researchers from University College London and King’s College London, the new device can be used at home without clinical supervision, facilitating medical check-ups while maintaining social distancing due to Covid-19.
The findings of the review, published in the journal Abdominal Radiology, suggest abdominal radiologists need to remain vigilant during the pandemic while imaging patients.
To dig deeper, researchers led by King’s College London analysed the organs of 41 patients who died of Covid-19 at the University Hospital of Trieste, Italy.
Medium-sized droplets could evaporate into smaller droplets, which are lighter and more easily borne by the wind, and these travelled further.
However, strong surveillance systems for influenza are already in place and are still working even during the pandemic.
It is believed that a child starts learning about the world outside even when it is in the mother’s womb.
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That mutation, called D614G, is located in the spike protein that pries open our cells for viral entry, according to the paper published in the peer-reviewed journal mBIO.
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The BCG vaccination is known to induce innate immune memory, which confers protection against several infections, the study uploaded as preprint at medRxiv, reported.
The result, published in the journal Psychological Science, adds to a growing body of research on positive affect’s role in healthy aging.
Researchers have reported that some patients recovered from Covid-19 could still carry the virus, suggesting that recovered patients should be more cautious and avoid close contact with others.
Sanofi and GSK intend to make available 200 million doses of their adjuvanted recombinant protein-based COVID-19 vaccine, if approved by regulatory authorities and subject to contract, to the COVAX Facility.
According to WHO, there are about 1.38 million new cases and 4,58,000 deaths from breast cancer each year (IARC Globocan, 2008).
While sunlight and fortified foods are two possible sources of vitamin D, due to the change in lifestyle and food habits, many people take dietary supplements to get adequate levels of this vitamin.
Since March 2020, the pandemic has disrupted life-saving immunisation endeavours around the world, putting millions of children at risk of diseases like polio, diphtheria, and measles.
Research has also shown that even before the pandemic, women were more stressed than men by family and job responsibilities.
The results, published in the European Journal of Immunology, also show that age is not a confounding factor in levels of antibodies produced, but disease severity is.
The study, published in the journal Anesthesia and Analgesia, provides “cautious optimism,” for an inexpensive, accessible medication with a well-known safety profile that could help prevent severe complications.