FILE PHOTO: Employees line up for nucleic acid testing at a stadium of TCL China Star Optoelectronics Technology (CSOT), following new cases of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China August 5, 2021. China Daily via REUTERS BEIJING (Reuters) – China on Saturday reported 107 new confirmed coronavirus cases in the mainland for […]
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Tackling Isolation When You Can’t Go Outside
The world is fighting the deadly Coronavirus pandemic. Therefore the news and social media are focused on COVID-19, its effects, and preventive measures. We’ve heard new terms like quarantine, isolation, social distancing, etc., frequently. It can get a little overwhelming, especially since we can’t meet anyone outside of the home to discuss how we’re feeling. […]
Recent COVID outbreak in China's Nanjing linked to flight from Russia – official
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – China’s eastern city of Nanjing reported 13 new domestically transmitted COVID-19 patients for July 29, bringing the total to 184 since July 20, as the country’s latest major outbreak caused by the more contagious Delta variant persists.A medical staff in protective suit collects swabs from people who have recently travelled to Beijing […]
China reports 76 new COVID-19 cases, Nanjing starts second mass testing
A girl wearing a face mask walks on a street decorated for Lunar New Year celebrations, following an outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Wuhan, Hubei province, China February 8, 2021. REUTERS/Aly Song/FilesBEIJING (Reuters) – China reported 76 new COVID-19 cases on July 25, up from 32 cases a day earlier, as Nanjing city […]
Is there any diet pill that can help you lose weight safely?
Is there any diet pill that can help you lose weight safely? We ask experts to examine the benefits (and risks) of weight-loss remedies A drug that can safely aid rapid weight loss and keep it off sounds too good to be true. Yet apparently it exists. Saxenda (generic name, liraglutide) was originally developed as […]
The Role of Nanoparticles for Drug Delivery
insights from industryMark BumillerTechnology Manager Entegris In this interview, Mark Bumiller, Technology Manager at Entegris talks to News Medical Life Sciences about the role nanoparticles can play in drug delivery. Could you give our readers some background on Entegris? With over 50 years of experience, Entegris is a global leader in Advanced Materials Science and […]
Intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate shows sterilizing immunity in preclinical tests
University of Alabama at Birmingham researchers report additional preclinical evidence of the potency of a single-dose, intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate—AdCOVID—that was created by Altimmune Inc., a Maryland-based clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The UAB researchers, led by Fran Lund, Ph.D., in collaboration with Altimmune, have found that a single intranasal dose provided sterilizing immunity in the lungs […]
Conservative management up for low-risk prostate CA in veterans
(HealthDay)—Among U.S. veterans with low-risk prostate cancer, use of conservative management increased from 2005 to 2015, according to a research letter published online June 5 in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Stacy Loeb, M.D., from Manhattan Veterans Affairs Medical Center in New York City, and colleagues examined treatment patterns for veterans diagnosed with […]