Nov 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
Vitamin D, also referred to as the sunshine vitamin, is increasingly more difficult to obtain from sun exposure. The increase in the number of people working in offices today has drastically reduced access to direct sunlight. The strict confinement measures worldwide...
Nov 23, 2020 | medical News, medical News, medical News, medical News, medical News, medical News
Some Americans could “hopefully” receive the vaccine for COVID-19 as soon as December 11 or 12, Moncef Slaoui, the chief science advisor of the White House’s vaccine effort, “Operation Warp Speed,” said Sunday. Slaoui, who was tapped to...
Nov 23, 2020 | Uncategorized
Based pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca and England’s University of Oxford announced that late-stage trials show their COVID-19 vaccine was up to 90% effective in preventing the disease. The results are based on interim analysis of phase 3 trials in...
Nov 22, 2020 | Uncategorized
The FDA on Saturday authorized the emergency use of an experimental antibody treatment from Regeneron for mild and moderate cases of the coronavirus that was given to President Donald Trump in October. The drug is a cocktail of two monoclonal antibodies that mimic the...
Nov 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
A vaccine trial is a clinical trial that aims at establishing the safety and efficacy of a vaccine prior to it being licensed. The general stages of the development cycle of a vaccine are: Exploratory stagePre-clinical...
Nov 18, 2020 | Uncategorized
As coronavirus cases surge in the United States and elsewhere, with little relief in sight, the world got good news on Monday. Pfizer and its partner, the German company, BioNTech, announced preliminary results that suggested their vaccine was more than 90 percent...
