COVID patients transferred after videos complaining about hospital facilities go viral Medical Dialogues Bureau7 July 2020 9:30 AM ISTIn a video, a COVID-19 patient can be heard saying that he is having intense cough and breathing difficulties, but he is not being given any treatment...
Novel class of analgesics without risk of hepatotoxicity discovered Hina Zahid7 July 2020 8:30 AM ISTAlthough acetaminophen (ApAP) is one of the most commonly used medicines worldwide, hepatotoxicity is a risk with overdose or in patients with...
Hyderabad: Doctor accuses private hospital of overcharging her of Rs 1.15 lakh for 1 day Medical Dialogues Bureau6 July 2020 1:32 PM ISTIn a selfie-video which has gone viral in the social media, the civil assistant surgeon of a state-run Fever Hospital is purportedly seen accusing the...
Asthma not linked to increased risk or severity of COVID-19 Hina Zahid6 July 2020 12:44 PM ISTA team of Rutgers researchers has found that asthma does not appear to increase the risk for a person contracting COVID-19 or influence its...
COVID-19 Drug: Zydus Cadila gets Mexican nod to test Desidustat Ruchika Sharma6 July 2020 12:21 PM ISTDesidustat (a hypoxia inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor, currently undergoing Phase 3 trials) mimics the physiologic effect of altitude on...
Sanofi, GSK close to USD 624 million Vaccine supply Deal: Bloomberg Ruchika Sharma6 July 2020 12:00 PM ISTUK: GlaxoSmithKline and Sanofi are close to reaching a 500 million-pound ($624 million) deal to supply the U.K. government with 60 million doses of a...
Delhi: Court seeks police report on plea seeking FIR against Patanjali over false COVID cure claim Medical Dialogues Bureau6 July 2020 9:45 AM IST"The accused have shown their malafide intentions which are likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life by misrepresenting and alluring...
Pfizer, BioNTech early trial of COVID-19 vaccine shows promise Ruchika Sharma6 July 2020 9:30 AM ISTNew York: Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have announced preliminary data from the most advanced of four investigational vaccine candidates from their...
COVID-19: Govt revises remdesivir dosage, now to be taken for five days Ruchika Sharma5 July 2020 10:45 AM ISTIn the latest protocol, the ministry has informed the dosage of remdesivir should be-- 200 mg IV on day 1 followed by 100 mg IV daily for 4 days (5...
Telangana: Private medical colleges to treat COVID-19 patients Medical Dialogues Bureau5 July 2020 9:30 AM ISTHyderabad - The Telangana government has decided to utilize the services of private medical colleges to treat COVID-19 patients, a senior...
Moderna phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial could still begin in July Ruchika Sharma5 July 2020 9:15 AM ISTSan Francisco: US-based pharmaceutical major Moderna has said that it still expects to begin a phase-3 clinical trial of its Covid-19 vaccine...
Johnson and Johnson works to ramp up production of affordable COVID vaccine: top scientist Ruchika Sharma5 July 2020 9:15 AM IST"We are also scaling up capacities in other countries to further our goal to supply more than one billion doses of the vaccine globally through the...
