USFDA Tuesday issued an emergency use authorisation to Lucira Health Inc.’s rapid-result Covid test, the first that can be used at home. Here's all you'd like to know about it.
While some Covid tests allow people to to mail in samples collected at home, this is the first that can be fully self-administered & provides results at home in 30 minutes or less.
At a time when the FDA needs the public’s trust more than ever, the US agency has been dragged into the political fray in a series of compounding incidents.
FDA's decision set off a media firestorm, with politicians, public-health officials & medical professionals insisting that the Trump administration was playing politics with science.
FDA had earlier said smokers may have worse outcomes from Covid-19, but hadn’t been explicit about whether that included chances of infection in the first place.
The 'ghuspaithiya' narrative is being whipped up precisely when illegal immigration has actually diminished. Like most BJP-RSS ideas, it’s just an unimaginative Right-wing trope.
With non-leather products driving global footwear demand between 2020 and 2024, India’s global market share stood at 1.85% in 2024, says a NITI Aayog report.
ISKP, a sub-continental branch of the Islamic State, is said to have vowed to extend operations in Kashmir, on encouragement from Pakistan’s security establishment.
Pakistan’s army has been a rentier force available to a reasonable bidder. It has never come to the aid of any Muslims including Palestinians or the Gazans, except making noises here and there.
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