Health

BHARAT BIOTECH and BIOFABRI announced today their partnership to develop, manufacture and distribute a novel TB vaccine, MTBVAC. This partnership will guarantee the supply of TB vaccines in more than 70 countries especially in Southeast Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa with a high TB incidence. Highlights of the Bharat Biotech- BIOFABRI MTBVAC is a global public-private project that will be a milestone in the field of...

David Bennet has become the first human to live with pig heart. In an historic heart transplant medical effort, US surgeons have successfully implanted a heart from a genetically modified pig in a 57-year-old man, a pioneering medical effort that could one day help solve the chronic shortage of organ donations. The "historic" intervention took place Friday, the University of Maryland Medical School said in...

In the near future, Emergency Medicine Delivery System will be highly technology enabled and will be replaced with intelligent ones. These New Life saving Intelligence systems developed by Vera Smart Healthcare will be able to sense a patient’s health, communicate with care providers and dispense medication at the right time. These new systems are set to revolutionize medical care in a number of ways. With...

Prominent South African scientists have raised a new omicron caution, saying that it is too soon to say whether the omicron form will only cause moderate disease. In comparison to western countries, South Africa has a low immunisation rate. The true impact of the coronavirus strain is currently difficult to determine because it has mostly affected young people, who are better able to fight off...

World Diabetes Day 2021 today is a global event for diabetes awareness created by the International Diabetes Federation in 1991. The event has been celebrated annually since then. Today is World Diabetes Day it is a day for people to get together and talk about diabetes, share resources and take steps to make a difference in their lives and the lives of others living with...

The WHO said that there is an urgent need for a New Vaccine to fight against bacterial infection is having a devastating effect on millions of infants, and is found to be responsible for 150,000 still births and infant deaths each year. The World Health Organization ( WHO ) on Wednesday called for the urgent need of a new vaccine against this bacterial infection...

The United Nations has warned that Countries need to pursue emission cuts aggressively, if the world has to meet the ambitious climate change goal. According to the UN ,countries' latest climate plans will deliver just a tiny percentage of the emissions cuts needed to limit global heating to 1.5C, the United Nations said on Tuesday in a damning assessment ahead of the COP26 climate...

Texas has become the worst hit by a new wave of Mexican Onions Salmonella infection, that is coming from Mexican Onions. At least 652 people in 37 states have caught salmonella from onions imported from Mexico, CDC said Thursday. The actual number of people infected could be higher because some people may not have been tested for the bacteria, the CDC said. Texas is the...

Vera Clinics, the Hyderabad-based Vera Smart Healthcare arm has signed a definitive agreement with various medical institutes in the state of Telangana to set up 300 Primary Smart Clinics at these medical institutes across the Telangana region, that include smart clinics, mobile units, door to door, smart health transport and multi & super specialty hospitals access, based on the health profiling in and around...

Malaria Vaccine could be a reality soon. The World Health Organization Wednesday announcement that it has recommended widespread use of the world's first and only malaria vaccine among children in sub-Saharan Africa and other regions where there are moderate to high levels of malaria transmission is significant science discovery. At a press meet that went live on social media, WHO DG Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said:...