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Seoul to conduct COVID-19 tests on all employees in high-risk facilities
Updated : 5 years, 2 months ago IST
Seoul [South Korea], December 16 (ANI/Xinhua): The city government of Seoul, South Korea's capital, announced its plan Wednesday to conduct COVID-19 tests on all employees in high-risk facilities including restaurants and religious facilities.
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Punjab gears up with cold chain points for COVID-19 vaccine
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Chandigarh [India], December 11 (ANI): As Punjab gears up for the mega exercise with a total of 729 cold chain points, Chief Minister Amarinder Singh on Friday directed the Health Department to incorporate the results of the second sero survey in the strategy for Covid-19 vaccine roll-out so
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Evolution may be to blame for high risk of advanced cancers in humans
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], December 9 (ANI): Compared to chimpanzees, humans are particularly prone to developing advanced carcinomas -- the type of tumors that include prostate, breast, lung and colorectal cancers -- even in the absence of known risk factors, such as genetic predisposition or tobacco
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Canadian study reveals high risk of death among those with alcohol-related
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Ottawa [Canada], November 23 (ANI): The risk of death is high for people who visit the emergency department (ED) for alcohol use, and the risk increases with frequency, according to a new study in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).
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India should aim at zero transmission of COVID-19 to healthcare workers wh
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 22 (ANI): With increasing COVID-19 cases and massive testing across the country, healthcare workers are at high risk of getting infected and consequently putting their family members at greater risk too.
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Sadhguru urges high-risk population gets priority in COVID-19 vaccination
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], November 21 (ANI): High-risk population groups, including the frontline workers managing the COVID-19 pandemic should be given top priority during vaccination, said spiritual leader Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev on Saturday.
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Novel monoclonal antibody therapy cuts LDL cholesterol by half in high-ris
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 16 (ANI): The investigational drug evinacumab reduced low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol--the so-called "bad" cholesterol--by 50 per cent in patients with severe hypercholesterolemia whose condition is resistant to standard treatments, a phase 2 study from th
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COVID-19: Sri Lanka to impose lockdown in Colombo, Gampaha
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Colombo [Sri Lanka], November 15 (ANI): Sri Lanka on Sunday decided to impose a lockdown, from 5 am tomorrow, in 25 police areas, Colombo and Gampaha districts as those areas remain high risk for COVID-19.
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AI Model predicts COVID-19 patients face high risk of developing acute kid
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): A new artificial-intelligence-based algorithm may help clinicians predict which patients with COVID-19 face a high risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI) requiring dialysis.
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New model predicts which patients with kidney disease may develop heartbea
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 25 (ANI): A new model that uses machine learning, which is a type of artificial intelligence, may help predict which patients with kidney disease are at especially high risk of developing heartbeat irregularities.
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New algorithm predicts likelihood of acute kidney injury
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 24 (ANI): A new artificial-intelligence-based tool can help clinicians predict which hospitalised patients face a high risk of developing acute kidney injury (AKI).
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COVID-19 rate among dentists is less than one pc, finds report
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Chicago [US], October 15 (ANI) Although assumed to be at high risk for COVID-19, fewer than one percent of dentists nationwide were found to be COVID-19 positive, according to a first-of-its-kind report in the U.S. based on data collected in June 2020.
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