NEW DELHI (Reuters) – India will supply millions of additional COVID-19 vaccine doses to its states to try to inoculate all school teachers by early next month, the health minister said on Wednesday, as the country gradually resumes physical classes.FILE PHOTO: A healthcare worker holding a rose is vaccinated against COVID-19 at a medical centre […]
Venous thromboembolism (VTE) is a condition in which dangerous blood clots form in the veins and has been described as the number one preventable cause of death in hospitalised patients. New research published in Anaesthesia (a journal of the Association of Anaesthetists) shows that VTEs, a known complication of surgery, are 50% more likely to […]
New information from a study reported on in STEM CELLS might result in more effective treatments for osteoarthritis and other cartilage diseases, as well as hereditary disorders affecting cartilage development. Their findings might also point to a new way to accelerate stem cell differentiation for bioengineering cartilage, the researchers say. The team, from Cytex Therapeutics […]
Therapies to counteract the damage caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) have been few and far between, despite efforts to discover new drugs and repurpose already approved drugs that may target the viral proteins. Without effective therapeutics, clinicians have extended their search into areas of plant-derived compounds. Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), […]
Chronic viral infections in the liver can lead to organ dysfunction and ultimately to liver tumors in a progression invariably characterized by viruses that proliferate free of immune system restraints. Although it has been known for decades that chronic viral infection of the liver can lead to cancer, medical investigators have only now begun to […]
Editor’s note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape’s Coronavirus Resource Center. Johnson County High School teacher Michael Caneege teaches anatomy to his students online in Wrightsville, Ga. ATLANTA (AP) — A few weeks into the new school year, growing numbers of U.S. districts have halted in-person learning or switched to hybrid models […]
New daily coronavirus infections in Israel are approaching record levels, despite the country’s largely successful vaccination campaign and the recent rollout of the world’s first widespread booster shot. The spread of the virus has been driven by a surge in the delta variant—even among the vaccinated—and sparked talk of crackdowns on gatherings ahead of the […]
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved Medtronic’s Evolut FX system for transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR) in patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis at all risk levels. The Evolut FX system features a self-expanding, supra-annular valve and is designed to “enhance ease-of-use and provide greater precision and control throughout the procedure,” the company said in […]
Fox News Flash top headlines for August 24 Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com. The Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine, now marketed as Comirnaty, was granted full FDA approval on Monday, but when could vaccines developed by Johnson & Johnson and Moderna win full approval? A J&J spokesperson told Fox […]
Actress Rebel Wilson, 41, has continued to stick with the health journey she started in 2020 that she declared her “Year of Health,” and she has never looked better. Over the weekend, she showed off her hard work in a new Instagram Story mirror selfie. In the pic, she rocked a black sports bra and […]
