Ananya Ghosal, MAKAUT(WB) COVID-19 vaccine is still a dream for children under 12. Although children are not at risk of COVID-19 like adults, their reports are still positive. The delta variant and reopening of schools combined and resulted in a keen rise in pediatric COVID-19 cases that is related to the records in the pandemic. […]
Komal Bavaskar, Mumbai university Diabetes affects around 422 million people globally, with the majority residing in low- and middle-income countries, and diabetes is directly responsible for 1.6 million mortality per year. Diabetes has already been diagnosed in over 30 million people in India. What is diabetes? It is a metabolic disorder that results in elevated […]
Ananya Ghosal, MAKAUT(WB) Guidelines of ASCCP The American cancer society (ASC) released the screening guideline for cervical cancer. The guideline initiates a shift in practice to Human papilloma Virus (HPV) screening at the age of 25-65 years in people with the cervix. The American Society for colposcopy and cervical pathology (ASCCP) acknowledges the risk and […]
Nimrit Palan, Mumbai university One of the most prevalent types of cancer in dogs is lymphoma. It is made up of immune system cells called lymphocytes that circulate through the bloodstream. As a result, lymphoma is often seen as a systemic disease that requires systemic treatment. Dogs with lymphoma have a life expectancy of 1-2 […]
Saptaparna Dasgupta, Bennett University The COVID-19 vaccine has been created as an emergency vaccine, based on several strategies, such as mRNA vaccine, inactivated virus vaccine, etc. The other vaccines having cleared the clinical trials have passed on to the mass population vaccination drives, without any reported risk factors, yet. However, Johnson and Johnson’s COVID 19 […]
Camelia Bhattacharyya, Amity University Kolkata Amongst all the most awaited news, the updates on vaccination are the ones most wanted these days. People have finally become aware of the need for vaccination, and the number of anti-vaxxers has reduced. This has helped the medical community level up their reviews on saving lives, and information regarding […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata African trypanosomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness is a disease fatal to both humans and animals. It is transmitted to humans and animals by the tsetse fly. A vaccine for protection from this disease hasn’t been discovered making its transmission control rely on eliminating the tsetse fly population. Neurotoxic insecticides and […]
Prama Ghosh, Amity University Kolkata The Food and Drug Administration announced granted emergency use authorization to Moderna’s mRNA–1273, it’s COVID-19 vaccine for use in individuals 18 and older Friday night, the second vaccination against the coronavirus in the United States one week after the agency authorized a similar vaccine from Pfizer and BioNTech. Moderna’s vaccine […]
Devyani Goswami, Amity University Kolkata More than 60% of cosmetics products are made up of talc to enhance the quality of the product. A two years (2018-2020) study concluded that every talc-based cosmetics products have a little amount of asbestos in them which can cause cancer, as many complaints were made stating women suffering from […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Oncolytic viruses are genetically engineered for the destruction of cancer or tumour-causing cells specifically. They’re delivered for treatment inside the body via intravenous injection. In 2015, one such oncolytic virus was approved by the FDA for treating skin cancer, melanoma. A major obstacle in the application of oncolytic adenoviruses is that […]
