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Fight against TB has slowed down due to COVID-19 pandemic: KJ Alphons
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 19 (ANI): Rajya Sabha MP and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader KJ Alphons on Saturday raised the issue of Tuberculosis cases in the country and said that the fight against this infectious disease has slowed down due to coronavirus pandemic.
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COVID-19 likely to become a seasonal disease, say scientists
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 19 (ANI): COVID-19, the illness caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, will likely become seasonal in countries with temperate climates, but only when herd immunity is attained, suggests a new review published in Frontiers in Public Health.
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ADB vows to be developing Asia's partner for recovery from Covid-19
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Manila [The Philippines], Sep 18 (ANI): The Asian Development Bank (ADB) is committed to partnering with developing economies in Asia and the Pacific to achieve their recovery goals from the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic, President Masatsugu Asakawa said in an address to ADB's boar
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'What can be expected from govt that says cow urine can cure disease': TMC
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], September 18 (ANI): While taking part in the discussion over the Homeopathy Central Council (Amendment) Bill in the Rajya Sabha, All India Trinamool Congress (TMC) MP Shantanu Sen accused the Central Government of promoting private institutions and said "What can be expect
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Bacterial outbreak in China infects thousands of people after factory leak
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Beijing [China], September 18 (ANI): Several thousand people in north-east China have tested positive for a bacterial disease in an outbreak caused by a leak at a biopharmaceutical company last year, authorities said on Tuesday.
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Russia's Vector says COVID-19 vaccine provides immunity lasting at least 6
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], September 17 (ANI/Sputnik): The vaccine against COVID-19 developed by Russia's research center Vector does not provide life-long immunity, but guarantees immunity that will last at least six months, the head of the center's zoonotic diseases and flu department said on Thursd
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Children who take steroids at increased risk for diabetes, high blood pres
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): Children who take oral steroids to treat asthma or autoimmune diseases have an increased risk of diabetes, high blood pressure and blood clots, according to Rutgers researchers.
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Mask not more effective than vaccine, says Trump
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 17 (ANI): Despite Robert Redfield, the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that wearing a mask would be more effective than a vaccine against the coronavirus, President Donald Trump said that the mask is "not more effective" than t
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Study connects hormones to lifetime risk for immunological diseases
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 16 (ANI): Differences in biological sex can dictate lifelong disease patterns, says a new study by Michigan State University researchers that links connections between specific hormones present before and after birth with immune response and lifelong immunological
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Bill Gates Sr, father of Microsoft's co-founder, dies at 94
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 16 (ANI): Bill Gates Sr, a lawyer and father of Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, died on Monday at his beach home on Hood Canal, in the Seattle area. He was 94.
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Blacks, Hispanics account for most deaths of COVID-19 victims under 21 in
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], September 16 (ANI/Sputnik): Hispanics, Blacks and native Americans suffered nearly 80 per cent of the COVID-19-related deaths among victims who were under 21-years-old, which totalled 121 from February 12-July 31, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said in
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Study reveals biologic therapy for psoriasis may reduce heart disease
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Dallas [USA], September 15 (ANI): Patients with psoriasis treated with biologic therapy, which are protein-based infusions to suppress inflammation, had a significant reduction in high-risk plaque in heart arteries, over one-year, according to new research.
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