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China announces first COVID death since May as cases spike in Beijing
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
COVID-19 measures were tightened in Beijing over the weekend as the local cases of COVID-19 rose to several hundred a day, which included infections with and without symptoms, as per the CNBC report.
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Indian Doctor messages make history by achieving a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], November 19 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Every child that doctors have encountered is a divine appointment but some children due to genetic & other non-genetic factors like preterm births, poor nutrition, infections in early childhood, etc unfortunately suffer
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Antimicrobial Resistance will reduce global annual GDP by 3.8 pc by 2050:
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New global estimates show that in 2019, nearly 5 million human deaths worldwide were associated with bacterial AMR, of which 1.3 million human deaths were directly attributable to bacterial AMR. In a high-impact scenario, AMR will reduce global annual GDP by 3.8 per cent by 2050.
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Maintaining "sweet spot" indoor humidity levels may reduce COVID-19 transm
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Maintaining an indoor relative humidity between 40 and 60 percent is associated with relatively lower rates of Covid-19 infections and deaths, while indoor conditions outside this range are associated with worse Covid-19 outcomes.
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Dettol enters a new category with Dettol Multi-Use Antiseptic Cream
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], November 17 (ANI/BusinessWire India): Dettol, India's most trusted germ protection brand, entered a new category with the launch of its multi-use Dettol Antiseptic Cream prevents infection in a variety of minor wounds, cuts, and scratches. Dettol Antiseptic Cream is the on
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Researchers discover new biomarker for severe Covid 19
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Patients with acute COVID-19 infection have higher amounts of the cytokine IL-26 in their blood, according to researchers at Sweden's Karolinska Institutet. Furthermore, high IL-26 levels are associated with an increased inflammatory response, which indicates severe cases of the disease. The
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Research: Children with severe form of epilepsy should receive flu vaccine
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Children with a severe form of epilepsy should be vaccinated against the flu due to the high risk of seizures being triggered by an influenza infection, according to a new study.
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Researchers find how HIV evades immunity, drugs
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Researchers at Duke Health have reported that an immune response that likely evolved to help fight infections appears to be the mechanism that drives human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) into a latent state, lurking in cells only to erupt anew.
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Study hints at why older people are more susceptible to the flu
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Though the COVID-19 pandemic provided a brief respite, influenza virus is back in circulation and, as usual, poses a special danger to people over the age of 65. But why are older people more susceptible to the flu? New research from the U-M Medical School, published in Nature Communications
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COVID-19 causes long-term physical, mental health problems in people of al
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study published in the journal PLOS Medicine by Martin Roessler of Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany, and colleagues, there is a significant new-onset major complication in children, adolescents, and adults across 13 distinct diagnosis and symptom complexes following
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Common bacterium may spread from intestine: Research
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a new study by Weill Cornell Medicine investigators, a typical gut bacterium that can spread through the body and cause a serious infection resists natural immune defences and antibiotics by enhancing its protective outer layer, known as the cell envelope.
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Deaths from bacterial infections in heart on rise among people who inject
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
According to a recent investigation that was published in the Journal of Internal Medicine, among young US citizens between the ages of 15 and 44, the chance of dying from infectious endocarditis has increased by a factor of two over the past two decades.
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