by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health, Non-Life, Pandemic
Scientists have identified a novel target for a drug that can treat the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes COVID-19, and also help tackle a future coronavirus pandemic. The researchers at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in the US noted that scientists...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Pfizer is about to seek US authorisation for a third dose of its COVID-19 vaccine, saying Thursday that another shot within 12 months could dramatically boost immunity and maybe help ward off the latest worrisome coronavirus mutant. Research from multiple countries...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, International News, Non-Life, Pandemic
Cairo: Anti-poverty organisation Oxfam said that 11 people die of hunger each minute and that the number facing famine-like conditions around the globe has increased six times over the last year. In a report titled The Hunger Virus Multiplies," Oxfam...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Non-Life, Policy, Regulation
Kochi: There has to be some government control over the money being collected via crowdfunding for the treatment of rare diseases and every ''Tom, Dick and Harry'' cannot be permitted to raise funds like this, the Kerala High Court said on Friday. The...
by AIP Online Bureau | Jul 9, 2021 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News, Policy
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan on Friday urged the Centre to waive GST and customs duty on a life-saving drug to be imported from the US for the treatment of a child suffering from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA), a rare disease, in the...
