HealthifyMe aims to cross $20mn revenue run rate by Jan 2021
Sept. 29, 2020, 4:11 p.m.The company said it has nearly doubled its active paid subscriber base since April to 1 lakh customers while its downloads have crossed 16 million on back of its AI-powered smart p...Read More
Serum Institute to manufacture 200mn doses of Covid-19 vaccine
Sept. 29, 2020, 2:22 p.m.The funding will help accelerate the manufacturing by SII for candidate vaccines licensed from AstraZeneca and Novavax, which will be available for procurement....Read More
Covid-19 may deteriorate men's testosterone levels: Study
Sept. 29, 2020, 2:18 p.m.The research team looked at a total of 438 patients. This included 232 males, each with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2. All data were prospectively collected....Read More
Heart disease in teenagers linked to diabetes exposure in womb
Sept. 28, 2020, 4:03 p.m.For the study, published in the journal CMAJ, the research team looked at data on more than 290,000 children born to almost 190,000 mothers in Manitoba between 1979 and 2005....Read More
Even low alcohol use during pregnancy bad for child's brain: Study
Sept. 28, 2020, 2:29 p.m.In the study, 25 per cent of children had been exposed to alcohol in utero (in the womb), 60 per cent of these children had been exposed to low-level alcohol use, and 40 per cent h...Read More
Covid-19 may cause global tsunami of mental health problems
Sept. 28, 2020, 2:18 p.m.Mental health problems were already a leading cause of suffering and the most neglected health issue globally before the pandemic," said study author Vikram Patel from Harvard Univ...Read More
Johnson & Johnson Covid vaccine produces strong immune response in early trials
Sept. 26, 2020, 6:44 p.m.Initial findings from the trials suggest that the vaccine does provoke an immune response and is safe enough to move into large-scale trials....Read More
This new technique can help disinfect N95 masks: Study
Sept. 26, 2020, 4:24 p.m.The problem is that many of these methods degrade the N95 masks' filtering abilities so that at most they could be reused a few times....Read More
Vitamin D cuts complications, risk of death in Covid patients
Sept. 26, 2020, 2:35 p.m.For the findings, a blood sample to measure vitamin D status (measured serum level of 25-hydroxyvitamin D) was taken from 235 patients were admitted to the hospital with Covid-19....Read More
Having pets linked to better mental health during lockdown
Sept. 26, 2020, 2:27 p.m.The strength of the human-animal bond did not differ significantly between species with the most common pets being cats and dogs followed by small mammals and fish....Read More
