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"Food Safety on Wheel" mobile lab, equipped with rapid testing kits capable of detecting 50 pesticide residues across various food matrices pressed into service
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has launched an extensive awareness and sensitization...
Health secretary Preeti Sudan and DG ICMR write to states to step up COVID19 testing of all symptomatic patients
With the aim to remove all impediments in testing, Preeti Sudan, Health Secretary and Dr Balram Bhargava, DG (ICMR) today urged...
Mayo clinic researchers found convalescent plasma therapy safe for a diverse group of patients with COVID-19
Mayo Clinic researchers and collaborators have found convalescent plasma to be safe following transfusion in a diverse group of 20,000 patients with COVID-19.
The study...
Infants under 90 days of age who tested positive for COVID-19 tend to be well, with little or no respiratory involvement
Infants under 90 days of age who tested positive for COVID-19 tend to be well, with little or no...
Critically ill COVID-19 patients are 10 times more likely to develop cardiac arrhythmias
Patients with COVID-19 who were admitted to an intensive care unit were 10 times more likely than other hospitalized COVID-19 patients to suffer cardiac arrest or heart...
Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could prevent severe symptoms of COVID-19
Administering the MMR (measles, mumps, rubella) vaccine could serve as a preventive measure to dampen lung inflammation and sepsis associated with COVID-19 infection, said a team of...
Mumbai's Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia has managed to being down COVID19 infection rates drastically by some proactive measures
From being the problem child to being a model to be showcased - Dharavi in Mumbai has travelled the distance.
On...
Highly sensitive biomarkers for brain injury were found elevated in patients with severe COVID-19
Certain blood-based biomarkers which indicate injury to the brain were found raised in moderate to severe COVID-19 patients, according to a new study. Findings were published...
In a presentation the health ministry has said that India brought down COVOD19 growth rate by a huge margin by the lockdown
India on Thursday got its first mobile I-Lab (Infectious disease diagnostic lab) for COVID-19 testing for last mile...
Home monitoring program for patients presumed positive for COVID-19 could reduce need of large healthcare workforce
Alarming reports of an increasing number of COVID-19 patients finding it difficult to get a hospital bed has put many countries around the world...
