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The ventilator is not therapeutic. Its a supportive measure while waiting for the patients body to recover. In this March 24, 2020, file photo, medical staff members check a ventilator in protective suits at the care unit for the new COVID-19 infected patients inside the Koranyi National Institute of Pulmonology in Budapest. (Photo | AP)

Some doctors now try other methods for coronavirus patients before...

A high number of deaths among covid patients on the breathing-assist devices and longer ventilation periods has doctors...

10 April 2020 1:11 PM IST

Representative Image (PTI)

COVID-19 virus can last on face masks for a week, banknotes for days:...

The study found that the COVID-19 virus can stick to stainless steel and plastic surfaces for up to four days

6 April 2020 1:11 PM IST

When infection strikes, the body starts making proteins called antibodies specially designed to target that germ. Those antibodies float in survivors blood - specifically plasma, the yellowish liquid part of blood - for months, even years

Blood transfusions, a treatment used for 1918 Spanish Flu, may help...

Patients are infused with blood plasma teeming with immune molecules that helped coronavirus survivors though there's no...

3 April 2020 6:15 PM IST

Hydroxychloroquine and the antibiotic azithromycin, which are being considered by some for treating COVID-19, may increase the risk for dangerous abnormal heart rhythms. (Representative Image)

Demand for controversial drug Hydroxychloroquine surges despite lack...

Hydroxychloroquine entered the layperson's lexicon with Donald Trump's tweet on March 21.

3 April 2020 5:27 PM IST

British Sunday newspapers on March 29, 2020, carry stories reporting on Britains Prime Ministers comments that Things will get worse before they get better, amid the nationwide lockdown to combat the novel coronavirus pandemic. (Photo | AFP)

UK relied too much on 'herd immunity' model, did not test enough, says...

Devi Sridhar warned that the UK could be in for an endless cycle of lockdown and release, even as the virus has claimed...

1 April 2020 5:27 PM IST

Old guidelines assume droplets to be one of two categories, small or large, taking short-range semi-ballistic trajectories when a person exhales, coughs, or sneezes. However based on more recent discoveries, the MIT scientist said, sneezes and coughs are made of a puff cloud that carries ambient air, transporting within it clusters of droplets of a wide range of sizes. (Photo | Wikimedia Common - mcfarlandmo)

An infected person's sneeze could spread coronavirus up to 8 metres:...

Current guidelines may limit the effectiveness of the proposed interventions against the deadly pandemic, the...

1 April 2020 3:24 PM IST

Avigan will be administered for a maximum of 14 days to coronavirus patients between the age of 20 and 74 who have mild pneumonia, Fujifilm said. (Representative Image | Pixabay - Angelo Esslinger)

Japan gives the go-ahead to test Fujifilm's anti-flu drug Avigan in...

Trials in China have suggested Avigan could play a role in shortening the recovery time for patients infected with...

1 April 2020 2:37 PM IST

In this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, women wearing protective masks chat with each other outside a Lego store at a reopened commercial street in Wuhan in central Chinas Hubei province on Monday, March 30, 2020. Shopkeepers in the city at the center of Chinas virus outbreak were reopening Monday but customers were scarce after authorities lifted more of the anti-virus controls that kept tens of millions of people at home for two months. (Photo | AP)

We may have had 700,000 more coronavirus cases if Wuhan were not...

A travel ban had been imposed on January 23, ahead of the lunar new year, China's biggest festival

1 April 2020 1:57 PM IST

Representative image of a vaccine being administered to a person. (Photo | US Air Force - Briana Jones)

Human trials of Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine to begin in...

US pharmaceutical Moderna has already moved into human trials for its vaccine candidate, as has China's CanSinoBIO.

31 March 2020 6:02 PM IST

This scanning electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2 (round blue objects) emerging from the surface of cells cultured in the lab. SARS-CoV-2, also known as 2019-nCoV, is the virus that causes COVID-19. The virus shown was isolated from a patient in the U.S. (Image | NIAID-RML)

An experimental drug designed by MIT may block coronavirus' entry into...

The potential drug is a short protein fragment, or peptide, that mimics a protein found on the surface of human cells,...

31 March 2020 5:16 PM IST

A 3D medical illustration of 2019 Novel Coronavirus, derived from a CDC released image. The cross-section shows the inner components of the virus. (Photo | Creative Commons - Scientificanimations.com)

Australia looking through particle accelerator at coronavirus protein...

Using the technology, within five minutes one can understand why a drug does or does not attach to a COVID-19 protein,...

31 March 2020 4:16 PM IST

SARS-CoV-2, can be isolated from the faeces and urine of infected people, in which the pathogen can survive for up to several days after exiting the human body. (Representative Image)

UK university develops paper-based test kit to detect coronavirus in...

It may predict the potential spread of the virus by picking up signatures of it in faeces from disease carriers that...

31 March 2020 12:51 PM IST