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Johnson & Johnson single-shot COVID-19 vaccine receives FDA approval
A key advisory group of the Food and Drug Administration experts, known as the Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee, has ...
A single dose of vaccine is enough to give robust immune response in people with prior infection
We present five studies published till now, which show that a single dose of vaccine may be enough to elicit a robust immune response in people previously ...
Saliva testing for SARS-CoV-2 takes off
LEIPZIG, Germany: Researchers in India have found that scientific literature supports salivary diagnostics for SARS-CoV-2 infection as an alternative to ...
Pandemic-proof? Align Technology sold a record number of clear aligners in 2020
TEMPE, Ariz., U.S.: Align Technology sold a record 1.6 million cases of clear aligners in 2020—the same year in which most governments and businesses ...
Two proteins can explain why East Asian countries suffered significantly less compared to EU & US
While several European and western countries are still struggling with Covid-19 cases, enforcing restrictions on social gatherings, life seems to have ...
Israeli hospital claims new drug 'cured' 29 of 30 moderate to severe Covid patients in days
A medicine that was being developed for cancer has shown potential in modulating the immune response to prevent the deadly cytokine storm. Researchers call ...
Interview: Fears and worries of dental students during COVID-19 pandemic
Dr Elham Kateeb’s professional career has been devoted to dentistry: She is an associate professor of dental public health and the dean of scientific ...
Researchers scramble to understand new SARS-CoV-2 strains
LEIPZIG, Germany: New variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that emerged in the UK and South Africa in 2020 show higher transmissibility. And whereas they are ...
COVID-19 vaccination: Where does the dental profession stand?
LEIPZIG, Germany: After months of hoping and waiting, the news finally broke at the end of 2020 that a number of vaccines for SARS-CoV-2 had been developed ...
Dentists join queue for SARS-CoV-2 vaccines
LEIPZIG, Germany: UK health authorities have administered the first doses of the SARS-CoV-2 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech, and public health ...
WHO and dentistry: moving on from misinformation
GENEVA, Switzerland: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) handling of the global pandemic has brought it more criticism than praise, and dentists are ...
What will dental events look like in 2021?
LEIPZIG, Germany: It is hard to overstate the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on dental trade fairs in 2020. From March onwards, essentially all ...
Impact of COVID-19 on dental practice in India: A cross sectional study
A cross-sectional study conducted among the dental professionals across India has shown that COVID-19 has disrupted the source of income for the majority of...
UK dental world reacts to COVID-19 vaccine approval
LONDON, UK: The UK has become the first country in the world to approve a clinically tested COVID-19 vaccine after the Medicines and Healthcare products ...
WHO rejects remdesivir for COVID-19
The World Health Organization (WHO) panel, in its latest statement, has recommended against the use of the remdesivir, an antiviral drug, in hospitalized ...
Mitigation methods currently in place are effective, study shows
LONDON, UK: The latest results of a promising feasibility study which demonstrated the effectiveness of mitigation methods used in dental practices during ...
“Let’s Reset - Pandemic Proofing Your Dental Practice” - a book by Dr Diksha Batra for dentists
Dr Diksha Batra spent the majority of the Covid times of 2020 doing research and establishing safety protocols in the form of videos for dentists under the ...
ICMR replies to dentist's letter on the use of Rapid Antigen Tests for Covid-19 in dental clinics
Rapid Antigen Tests are an easy and economical option for dentists to use in their clinics to identify the potential Covid-19 spreaders visiting their ...
ADA supports point-of-care COVID-19 testing by dentists
CHICAGO, Ill., USA: According to a new policy from the American Dental Association, point-of-care testing to screen patients for chronic diseases and other ...
Nitric Oxide- the Nobel prize winning molecule, can play a critical role in the Covid-19 cure
The world is still grappling with the Covid19 pandemic and researchers are trying hard to find a cure via repurposed drugs. One such molecule, which has ...
Leading dental schools unite
LONDON, UK: Four of the world’s top dental colleges have entered into an alliance that aims to advance dental education and pursue new research ...
COVID-19: Beyond a respiratory illness. A Multi-system Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS)- Amisha Parekh
COVID-19, although previously considered to be an exclusively respiratory illness, in the course of the disease has presented itself with a variety of ...
COVID-19: Beyond a respiratory illness. A multi-system inflammatory syndrome (MIS)- Amisha Parekh
COVID19 although previously considered to be an exclusively respiratory illness, in the course of the disease has presented itself with a variety of ...
Let dentists keep working—lessons from the second Israeli lockdown
TEL AVIV, Israel: Dental clinics in Israel are operating as usual this week, despite a government-imposed lockdown that has been implemented to curb the ...
Low genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 is its weakness. A single vaccine may cover all its variants
In this article, we analyze four recent articles published in Aug-Sept 2020 on the genetic diversity of SARS-CoV-2 and the potential therapeutic targets ...
CDC updates (Sept 18 & 21, 2020) on Covid-19 spread & SARS-CoV-2 testing: Relevant to dentists
Two updates (Sept 18 & 21, 2020) by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) on Covid-19 guidelines, which are relevant to dental practice.
"Feluda"- CRISPR based high accuracy, low cost Covid-19 test gets DCGI approval for commercial use
CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) test - FELUDA, received regulatory approvals on 19 September 2020 from the Drug ...
14 lines of evidence to support the critical role of Vitamin D in COVID 19 - Subhasree Ray
Do you know that there are 14 already established pieces of scientific evidence to show a direct association between VitaminD deficiency & COVID19 ...
COVID-19 herd immunity: Current status
Herd immunity is a key concept for epidemic control, which states that only a proportion of a population needs to be immune to an infectious agent for it to...
First clinical trial: Vitamin D prevents Covid-19 complications in hospitalized patients
A lot has been written on the role of vitamin D in the prevention & management of SARS-CoV-2 infection & COVID-19 disease. Interest in Vitamin D therapy has...