Washington Post, Buzzfeed News and CNN accessed over 3,000 pages of emails, between January and June 2020. Documents show how the top US expert handled the pandemic.
Doctors say consuming medicines not meant to be taken outside hospital settings can affect natural course of Covid treatment & lead to patients reporting additional side-effects.
The study by PGIMER, Chandigarh, found an 8.8% reduction in the risk of contracting Covid-19 in patients exposed to the virus, with the use of hydroxychloroquine.
The Subject Expert Committee has asked Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation to find more about HCQ's 'side-effects', particularly related to taste disorder and urine incontinence.
The study says ‘there was no clinical benefit’ of HCQ as ‘pre-exposure prophylaxis’. India continues to use it among healthcare and frontline workers as a prophylactic drug.
Three major types of Covid offerings have emerged on darknet markets since late February: protective gear, medications and services that help people commit fraud.
MoSPI proposes to remove closed factories from IIP sample, aiming for truer picture of India’s industrial health in upcoming 2022–23 base series. Plan open to public feedback until 25 November.
Bihar is blessed with a land more fertile for revolutions than any in India. Why has it fallen so far behind then? Constant obsession with politics is at the root of its destruction.
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