Month: October 2020

Gates Foundation has committed over $650 million towards tackling COVID-19. With 11 COVID-19 vaccines having entered Phase-3 trials and six vaccines already approved for limited use, the next challenge is to support manufacturing and ensure that the vaccines are accessible, affordable and available to all people. Gates Foundation has committed over $650 million towards tackling COVID-19. The foundation has signed an agreement with Serum Institute to facilitate vaccine production, in which the foundation will provide at-risk funding of $300 million to manufacture up to 200 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for India and low- and middle-income countries. The funding is being provided through GAVI. Trevor Mundel, President of the Global Health Division, Bill & Melinda Gates Founda...

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If you want to quit smoking, read on. Researchers have found that living near green spaces or neighborhoods was linked to lower rates of smoking and higher chances of quitting. The study, published in the journal ‘Social Science and Medicine’, demonstrated that access to neighborhood green space is linked to lower rates of smoking. Follow NewsGram on Twitter to stay updated about the World news. “This study is the first to investigate the association between neighborhood green space and smoking behaviors in England,” said study author Leanne Martin from the University of Plymouth in the UK. “Its findings support the need to protect and invest in natural resources — in both urban and more rural communities — in order to maximize the public health benefits they may afford,” Martin a...

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Scientists working on a lab-grown mini-lung are now using their living model to better understand the current pandemic and potential new treatments. The most recent version of this unique organoid is based entirely on human stem cells, known to repair the deepest parts of our lungs. When the researchers exposed it to SARS-CoV-2, the results were illuminating.   Dropping just one of these self-renewing units into a dish containing a tailored growth solution can produce millions of cells in a clump that resembles the tiny air sacs in human lungs. Known as alveoli, these balloon-like sacs have shown diffuse damage in fatal cases of COVID-19, and while this havoc is often attributed to a storm of immune cells called cytokines, we're still figuring out how lung injury actually comes about...

Experts suggest taking natural antioxidants like Gamma-oryzanol, a natural antioxidant found in rice bran which is also gaining popularity in India New Delhi: In view of the winter season and Covid-19 pandemic, health experts on Saturday said that taking natural antioxidants may help keep the heart healthy along with other health benefits. “We are a little worried about our health because those people get more affected by Covid who have heart related problems. During this situation at an individual level, you can work harder to protect ourselves by improving immunity and heart health,” the experts said. Experts suggest taking natural antioxidants like Gamma-oryzanol, a natural antioxidant found in rice bran which is also gaining popularity in India. Most research shows that taking ga...

When a patient is tested for the Covid-19 virus immediately after being exposed to the threat is when the false negative is likely to occur, i.e., before the onset of known symptoms. Essentially, the false negative is similar to a wrong test result. This is because it indicates the person is not infected when they actually are, or that they don’t have antibodies when they actually do. Similarly, a false positive is an incorrect test result, as it indicates the person is infected when they are not or that they have antibodies when they don’t. Typically, patients who are at a high-risk to virus exposure should be treated as if they have been infected, especially if the symptoms are consistent with Covid-19; this means communicating with patients about the tests’ shortcomings. If a swab miss...

Middle-aged and older women who lacked social ties were much more likely than men to suffer from hypertension and stroke, warn researchers. In a study, published in the Journal of Hypertension, the research team discovered that social isolation affects the health of men and women in different ways — including placing women at higher risk of high blood pressure. Follow NewsGram on Twitter to stay updated about the World news. “Among older adults, social isolation is the largest known risk factor for mortality, equal only to smoking,” said study author Annalijn Conklin from the University of British Columbia in Canada. “Our research indicates that women, in particular, are more likely to be hypertensive when they experience isolation in middle and older age,” Conklin added. Follow...

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