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Study finds Hepatitis C-positive livers safe for transplantation, patients
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Ohio [USA], June 23 (ANI): Patients who received a transplanted liver infected with hepatitis C and were later treated for the infection performed as well in recovery as transplant patients who received an organ free of infection, says a new study.
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After Dharavi and Worli, Mumbai's K East ward emerges as new COVID-19 hots
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 22 (ANI): Mumbai's K East ward has emerged as a new coronavirus hotspot in the metropolitan city, while the rate of infections in Dharavi and Worli have slowed down to some extent.
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Glenmark, Cipla stocks surge after nod to launch drugs for mild-to-moderat
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 22 (ANI): Glenmark Pharmaceuticals' share price surged 30 per cent on Monday to Rs 531.80 per unit after it became the first pharmaceutical company in India to receive regulatory approval to make and sell oral antiviral drug favipiravir for treating mild-to
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What we now know about how you can catch COVID-19: Crowded events, ill- ve
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington DC [US], June 22 (ANI): Crowded events, poorly ventilated areas and places where people are talking loudly- or singing, in one famous case - maximize the risk of contracting Covid-19 disease, according to growing consensus about the central question: How does one get infected.
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One more Maharashtra cop succumbs to COVID-19, tally at 46
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 20 (ANI): The COVID-19 infection has claimed yet another life of a policeman in Mumbai, taking the total number of police personnel dying due to the infection across the state to 46, informed Mumbai police PRO Pranay Ashok on Saturday.
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Amit Shah wishes speedy recovery to Satyendar Jain who is battling with CO
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Friday said that he is "praying for the speedy recovery" of Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain who is battling with COVID-19 infection and has been shifted to Saket's Max Hospital, where he will be administered Plasma th
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Treating COVID patients with blood plasma from those recovered is safe, sa
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): Treating patients suffering from coronavirus infection with transfusion of blood plasma from those who already recovered from the disease have been found to be safe and beneficial, a study suggested.
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US left with 63 million doses of anti-malarial drug after FDA revoked its
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 19 (ANI): The US federal government is now left with 63 million doses of hydroxychloroquine sulfate (HCQ) in its stockpile after the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) earlier this week, revoked the permission for use of anti-malarial drug in treating COVID-19
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Health Ministry issues fresh advisory for healthcare workers managing covi
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 19 (ANI): The quarantine period for healthcare workers (HCWs) with high-risk exposure to confirmed COVID-19 cases has been reduced from 14 days to one week initially, as per the latest advisory by the Union Health Ministry on Thursday.
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Bengaluru deploys surveillance team to keep eye on travellers coming from
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Bengaluru (Karnataka) [India], June 18 (ANI): Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) has deployed a COVID-19 infection control "surveillance team" to look after travellers coming from other states.
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Study details catastrophic disease events in marine mammals
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], June 18 (ANI): Coronavirus crisis, has indeed, become an alarm to people across the globe to understand the ways in which certain infectious diseases can devastate a life. However, a recent study has expanded its research to identify the factors disturbing marine mamma
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COVID-19 claimed lives of 45 police personnel in Maharashtra so far: Anil
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], June 18 (ANI): Forty-Five police personnel have lost their lives due to COVID-19 in Maharashtra till Thursday out of the 3,820 who tested positive for the infection so far.
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