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Coimbatore’s First Successful Bone Tumour Surgery Without Amputation: A Nine-Year-Old Girl Beats Cancer

Ewings’ sarcoma is a rare form of bone tumour that usually grows in the cartilage or near the nerves in the pelvic region followed by the femur bone. Though the cause of this type of sarcoma is not evident, it mainly affects people below 20 years of age. Diagnosis can be in the form of CT scans and X-rays that help determine its growth. Fewer than 5000 cases are recorded every year in India.

Intranasal vaccine blocks Covid, stops transmission in animal trials

The researchers found the animals showed complete protection from lung infection, inflammation and lesions following exposure to the SARS-CoV-2 virus.

The two doses of the vaccine were found to significantly reduce the virus “shedding” from the nose and lungs of the hamsters — suggesting the preventive has the potential to control infection at the site of inoculation, they said.

Kids sick with Covid are filling up hospitals in US

At least 81 children in the US died of Covid between March and July, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and many doctors warn that the situation is likely to get worse.Further, Covid infections in kids is coupled with a rise in cases of a respiratory virus known as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, a highly contagious, flu-like illness, that is typically more likely to affect children and older adults. That has shrunk the bed space further in children’s hospitals and expanded on the unrelenting demand on doctors and nurses, the report said.

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