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Treating COVID with Metformin reduces Long COVID rates
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Minneapolis [US], June 10: A new study published in The LancetInfectious Diseases supported by the Parsemus Foundation found a 41 per cent reduction in Long COVID rates among people who used metformin at the time of COVID infection. The trial also saw a 42 per cent reduction in emergency roo
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WHO chief asks China for rapid reliable data on COVID deaths
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
This comes as WHO held a high-level meeting with counterparts in China last week to discuss the surge in cases and hospitalisations. Subsequently, WHO's Technical Advisory Group on SARS-CoV-2 Virus Evolution and the COVID-19 clinical management expert network groups both met with Chinese
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Nasal swab can provide early warning of emerging viruses: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
As the Covid-19 pandemic showed, potentially dangerous new viruses can begin to spread in the population well before the global public health surveillance system can detect them.
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Research shows how a viral toxin may exacerbate severe COVID-19
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
A new study in the journal Nature Communications reveals how a viral toxin produced by the SARS-CoV-2 virus may contribute to severe COVID-19 infections. The study shows how a portion of the SARS-CoV-2 "spike" protein can damage cell barriers that line the inside of blood vessels within orga
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Researchers reveal how SARS-CoV-2 virus protein damages heart tissue
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
Study revealed that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19 has protein that damages heart tissue.
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Biden tests negative for COVID-19, ends strict isolation
Updated : 3 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 27 (ANI): US President Joe Biden has tested negative for COVID-19 and will discontinue his strict isolation measures, White House Physician Kevin O'Connor said on Wednesday.
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Scientists develop new mechanism to inactivate COVID-19 virus, block entry
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], July 13 (ANI): Scientists of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in collaboration with researchers from the CSIR-Institute of Microbial Technology developed a novel mechanism to inactivate COVID (SARS-CoV-2) virus by blocking their entry to cells and reducing infection
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Study shows development of rapid COVID-19 test by UTSW researchers that ca
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): Last year, pathologist Jeffrey SoRelle, M.D., and colleagues developed CoVarScan, a rapid COVID-19 test that detects eight hotspot signatures in the SARS-CoV-2 virus. Now that CoVarScan has been tested on more than 4,000 patient samples collected at UT Southwes
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China's Wuhan played role in amplifying COVID-19 pandemic, further investi
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], June 11 (ANI): An early investigation into the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus by a World Health Organization (WHO) advisory group suggested that the Huanan seafood market in Wuhan, China played an important role in the amplification of the pandemic; however, further in
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INSACOG starts sewage water surveillance across 19 sites in 15 states to d
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], April 8 (ANI): With a continuous decline in COVID-19 cases in the country, the Indian Sars-CoV-2 Genomic Consortium (INSACOG) has started surveillance of sewage water at 19 different sites in 15 States to detect the presence of the Sars-CoV-2 virus.
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COVID-19 can have long-term impacts on the brain, shows study
Updated : 3 years, 11 months ago IST
New Orleans (Los Angeles) [United States], April 5 (ANI): Researchers have found that subjects infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus displayed signs of severe brain inflammation and injury consistent with a reduction in blood or oxygen flow into the brain, neuron damage and small areas of blee
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SARS-CoV2 variants emerge rapidly as virus can momentarily accelerate its
Updated : 4 years ago IST
Melbourne [Australia], February 25 (ANI): Momentary acceleration of evolution is a trait recently discovered by the Doherty Institute in the SARS-CoV-2 virus, during a recent study. This results in the variants of this virus emerging more rapidly than their counterparts.
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