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Patients’ health data is not shared with insurance, pharma firms without consent: Govt
Responding to a question on whether patients' health data is shared...
Health Minister Mandaviya to review Covid situation Wednesday amid spurt in cases in US, China
Health Ministry on Tuesday urged all states and Union territories...
Novartis pays $729 mn to settle US charges that it paid doctors kickbacks
Acting U.S. Attorney Audrey Strauss in Manhattan called the incentives for doctors “nothing more than bribes” and said federal healthcare programs paid hundreds of millions of dollars in reimbursements for prescriptions tainted by kickbacks.
“Giving these cash payments and other lavish goodies interferes with the duty of doctors to choose the best treatment for their patients and increases drug costs for everyone,” Strauss said in a statement.
Coronil: Patanjali can sell its drug, but not as a cure for Covid-19
Baba Ramdev said the Union ministry had asked him to use the term Covid management in place of Covid treatment and he is following the instruction.
Ramdev said the Union ministry had asked him to use the term Covid management in place of Covid treatment and he is following the instruction.
Another COVID-19 wave in 2nd half of 2020 could result in loss of 340 mln full-time jobs: ILO
Regionally, working time losses for the second quarter were: Americas (18.3 per cent), Europe and Central Asia (13.9 per cent), Asia and the Pacific (13.5 per cent), Arab States (13.2 per cent), and Africa (12.1 per cent).
AIIMS partners IIT-Delhi to launch app for patients needing plasma therapy
“This app will act as a bridge between patients seeking plasma therapy and are moderately and severely symptomatic and donors who have recovered from COVID-19 and have completed 28 days post recovery,” Dr Verma explained.
Musk says Tesla is building ‘RNA microfactories’ for CureVac
CureVac, an unlisted German company, has said it is developing transportable, automated mRNA production units that it calls printers. They will be designed to be shipped to remote locations, where they can churn out its vaccine candidate and other mRNA-based therapies depending on the recipe fed into the machine.
Goa opens to domestic tourists from July 2:state tourism minister
Moreover, tourists will either have to carry Covid-19 negative certificates to enter the state, or will have to get tested at the border and undergo quarantine at a state-run facility till their results arrive, he said.
India’s COVID-19 tally zooms past six lakh cases,5 days after crossing 5-lakh mark
New Delhi: India''s COVID-19 tally zoomed past six lakh cases on Thursday with a single-day increase of 19,148 cases, just five days after it crossed the five-lakh mark, while the death toll rose to 17,834, according to the Union...
China study warns of possible new ‘pandemic virus’ from pigs
The study highlights the risks of viruses crossing the species barrier into humans, especially in densely populated regions in China, where millions live close to farms, breeding facilities, slaughterhouses and wet markets.
No return to pre-pandemic job levels in 2020 – ILO
The figures cover people who are working shorter hours, who are furloughed, have lost their jobs, or withdrawn from the labour force.
They reflect “worsening conditions”, especially in developing countries, the report said.
Some 93 per cent of workers still live in countries with some sort of workplace closures, it said.
From Parkinson’s to peanut allergy, pandemic puts brakes on new drugs
Neurocrine Chief Executive Kevin Gorman said in an interview that many neurologists had been redirected to fighting the pandemic, leading to delaying Ongentys until later in 2020. The delay to Palforzia, Aimmune’s sole approved drug, means the company will not generate any revenue until later this year, prompting it to halt new hires in a bid to preserve its $370 million of cash.