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Dexamethasone drug emerges as a fresh hope in fight against COVID-19
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 17 (ANI): United Kingdom's RECOVERY trial has emerged as a new hope in the fight against COVID-19 pandemic with researchers claiming that dexamethasone, the inexpensive and widely available steroid is the first drug that has proven to reduce deaths in COVID-19 patient
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Brazil has more than 850,000 COVID-19 cases, death toll at over 42,000 - H
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Brasilia [Brazil], June 14 (Sputnik/ANI): Brazil now has over 850,000 confirmed coronavirus cases with the country's total COVID-19 death toll standing at over 42,000, according to Health Ministry data, which puts the country's coronavirus mortality rate at five per cent.
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Remdesivir helps to decrease hospital stay, doesn't show benefit in mortal
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 12 (ANI): Remdesivir helps to decrease hospital stay but the benefits don't reflect as far as death or mortality benefit is concerned, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi Director Dr Randeep Guleria said on Friday.
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Centre sets up taskforce to examine age of motherhood, imperatives of lowe
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], June 6 (ANI): The Central government has set up a task force to examine matters related to the age of motherhood, imperatives of lowering the maternal mortality rate (MMR) and improvement of nutritional levels and related issues.
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PM Modi took timely decisions to limit impact of COVID-19: Uttarakhand CM
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Dehradun (Uttarakhand) [India], June 3 (ANI): Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Singh Rawat on Wednesday said that the impact of coronavirus in India was blunted due to the timely decision taken by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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Adherence to oral diabetes drugs may improve survival in diabetics with co
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
California [USA], June 1 (ANI): Among patients with both colorectal cancer and diabetes in Korea, those who had high adherence to their oral diabetes medication had a significantly reduced risk of overall mortality compared with those with lower adherence, suggests a study.
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Study reveals COVID-19 patients who undergo surgery are at increased risk
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Birmingham [England], May 31 (ANI): A global study reveals that the patients undergoing surgery after contracting coronavirus are at a greater risk of postoperative death.
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Heart failure patients that lack health literacy may have higher risk of d
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 30 (ANI): Patients with heart failure, who experience low health literacy, are at an increased risk of hospitalization and mortality, suggests finding of a recent study.
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Epilepsy related deaths remain common in young adults: Study
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Vienna [Austria], May 30 (ANI): The mortality rates for epilepsy-related deaths in young adults remain large, according to a recent study. Those aged between 16 and 24 have a six-fold increased risk of epilepsy-related death.
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Study suggests heart failure patients with limited health literacy may hav
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], May 29 (ANI): Patients with heart failure who experience low health literacy are at an increased risk of hospitalisation and mortality, suggests finding of a recent study.
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India's coronavirus cases cross one lakh, recovery rate improves to 38.73%
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): The COVID-19 cases in the country crossed one lakh mark on Tuesday with a single-day jump of 4,970 cases even as the recovery rate improved to 38.73 per cent and India's mortality rate per lakh of population was 0.2 compared to 4.1 for the world.
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COVID-19: India's case mortality per lakh population is 0.2 compared to 4.
Updated : 5 years, 10 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], May 19 (ANI): The Health Ministry said on Tuesday that India has relatively low death figures of COVID-19 cases due to timely case identification and clinical management and the mortality rate is about 0.2 per lakh population compared to 4.1 per lakh population for the wor
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