by Team Spectrum Books | Feb 15, 2022 | Health and Medicine
In 2019, the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus began as a pneumonia outbreak in Wuhan, China. Now, it has assumed global proportions. It has claimed about 5.6 million lives and affected over 260 million people around the world. As we have entered the third year of the pandemic,...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 20, 2021 | Health and Medicine
For thousands of years, mosquito-borne diseases have been a burden on mankind. The University of Oxford, the Serum Institute of India, and other researchers have conducted clinical trials of an effective malarial vaccine in Burkina Faso in West Africa. The former...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 20, 2021 | Health and Medicine
In November, 2021 the US-based multinational pharmaceutical company, Pfizer announced their interim analysis of a phase-2/3 trial to analyse the efficacy of their newly developed oral antiviral drug, paxlovid which is approved by the UK drug regulator, Medicines and...
by Team Spectrum Books | Dec 15, 2021 | Health and Medicine
A 30-year-old study, tracking more than 700 families in Pune, Maharashtra, has shown that there is a tendency towards high glucose in early childhood in many individuals. This research was carried out by the Diabetes Unit of KEM Hospital, Pune. The study, titled Poor...
by Spectrum | Sep 20, 2021 | Health and Medicine
World’s first vaccine for children, ZyCoV-D, developed by the Ahmedabad-based Zydus Cadilla group, in partnership with the Department of Biotechnology under the ‘Mission COVID Suraksha’, was approved by the Drug Controller General of India for emergency...
by Team Spectrum Books | Sep 3, 2021 | Health and Medicine
Tracking and identifying the rapidly emerging variants of SARS-CoV-2 is one of the key strategies to check the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. For this, the virus samples are obtained from infected people and a proactive genome sequencing is done in laboratories....
