Dec
01
2020
Elective care surgeries since Covid-19 have been cancelled globally. The 45-week backlog for elective procedures that arose in May 2020 lingers. A recent study by CovidSurg Collaborative researchers collected data from 359 hospitals across 71 countries.
The study showed...
Nov
10
2020
Wearable technology might well be the answer for false negatives or inconclusive diagnostics tests. As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, there is a growing demand for non-invasive accurate diagnostics. This is needed in hospitals as well as in homes. A...
Nov
03
2020
Track and trace tools have long been effective in managing outbreaks. So why the hesitation with the Covid-19 pandemic? Turkey's Ministry of Health has a long standing history of tracing diseases since the Republic was formed in 1922. As a...
Oct
29
2020
Svante Paabo and Hugo Zeberg (German researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) released a study in Nature on 30 Sept. 2020 indicating that individuals with genes inherited from Neanderthals are involved in some of the most...
Oct
27
2020
Scientists in the US have carried out liquid biopsy (as opposed to tissue biopsy) research throughout the summer of 2020 in order to learn how to diagnose cancer through the use of blood tests. The tests are referred to...
Oct
21
2020
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the US announced in August that it had awarded $248.7m to 7 companies out of 650 applicants in order to accelerate the development of Covid-19 diagnostic tests. The NIH fund allocation was a...
Oct
14
2020
The Lindsley F. Kimball Research Institute of the New York Blood Centre and Rockefeller University in June concluded that herd immunity is not as simple as it sounds but that antibody testing retains a key role in localised lockdowns....
Oct
07
2020
The Financial Times reported recently that Covid-19 has severely impacted the agriculture sector, with farms all over the world faced with fields of fruits and vegetables left unharvested as workers are unable to work due to travel restrictions or...
Sep
25
2020
TIME magazine published an article on the effectiveness of homemade masks on 24 August 2020 and spoke to the controversy and confusion around them. In March, top US public health officials told the general public that masks were not needed...