A group of researchers from the Indian Institute of Technology of Bombay or IIT-B has developed a digital stethoscope that is designed to record heart beats even from a distance thereby reducing the chances of the medical professionals from contracting the coronavirus from the patients. The device has the ability to record the auscultated sound and store in the patients health record, which can be later used by the doctors at the time of follow ups. This novel device transfers the sound or dat
Professor Yaakov Nahmias from Hebrew University found the cholesterol drug, fenofibrate, to lower the threat level of COVID-19 just like a common cold. The researcher tested the drug in labs on human lung tissue that was infected with SARS-CoV-2 which the source of COVID-19. The study has shown the virus to cause lipids to deposit in the lungs. With the help of Mount Sinai Medical Center researcher Dr. Benjamin tenOeverNahmias was able to get a clear idea about the virus, SARS-CoV-2, mechanism
Aprinnova, Inc. is a business enterprise of Amyris Inc. that has been topping the charts in the clean beauty ingredients market in the past few years. This California-based company is adamant to start commercializing the newly produced silica that is manufactured from sugarcane ashes. Sodium Dioxide (Silica) is generally cast into personal care cosmetics products. The novel plant-derived silica could help substitute the usual silica that is used in personal care cosmetics industries. The tra
The latest research volume on the cancer health equity displays the new developments that will help the researchers to address all the patients with quality care and deal with the health disparities with proper care.
Marvella Ford, Ph.D., commented that this volume will be very helpful as it makes use of health equity method, which highlights the factors concerned with cancer disparities and categorizes the solutions for it. The population sciences and the basic sciences are brought together
Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry has published a new study in which Candice Alfano, a psychology professor, has showcased the outcomes of the experimental and novel study which proves that inappropriate sleep at night or less sleep time at night leaves an effect on the childrens emotional well being.
There are less experimental studies about children regarding the connection between poor sleep and emotional health. Alfano and her team members observed 53 children of the age group 7
Cancer is one of the diseases that have spread widely around. Accurate factors that lead to cancer is still not clear. Scientists around the world are continuously researching hard in order to find vaccines and treatments to cure cancer among patients.
Recently, the scientists have developed a new cancer vaccine which has successfully cleared the preclinical trials. Now, the scientists are making advancements to test their vaccine on the human beings.
The vaccine was developed by the Mater
Medical technology has improved a lot down the years particularly in terms of implantable devices. The electronic implants can be considered as a very good example. For the functioning of these medical devices a regular source of energy is required. Thus causing to some restraints such as limited life of the batteries that helps in functioning of the device becomes a serious issue. Once the life of the battery ends an invasive surgery has to be conducted for battery replacement. This might com
There are a lot new researches being conducted around COVID-19 owing to the fact that everything is new about coronavirus and researches want to know it all. The new research conducted by the researchers suggest that people suffering from HIV and who were admitted to the hospital due to COVID-19 did not show up worse results than the COVID-19 patients having no HIV.
The author of the study Dr. Keith Sigel, Mount Sinai COVID Informatics Centers member, commented that all way through the pande
A group of researchers from several institutions, such as Centro Nacional de Diagnstico y Referencia, Nicaragua, University of Pennsylvania, and others, have made claims that young people who had infections from strains of influenza virus may be vulnerable to other different kinds of influenza strains in later stage of life. The detailed study about this is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences where the group has given information regarding their study on the influe
In the clinical course of COVID-19, researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Medicine and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have studied the risk factors that are associated by studying a large number of patients having Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) with the help of an international registry. This forthcoming study is to be published in the journal Gastroenterology.
The time COVID-19 cases were rapidly increasing in the US the researchers came together to form int
