The levels of air pollution has always remained high in certain cities of South Asia. But in few months that went by, many cities witnessed unusually clear skies and fresh air due to various countries announcing complete lockdown to contain the coronavirus. The complete shutdown of industrial activity, coupled with no traffic and negligible human…
The prevailing COVID-19 pandemic has impacted each of our lives in multiple ways, it has significantly affected global trade and disrupted supply chains & cash flows thus halting economies and leading to countries losing business, investments and trade. The crises had not only engraved deep dent in the economy, but it had also brought us…
The much talked about-Convalescent Plasma Therapy, or more commonly called the Plasma Therapy, is an under experiment treatment procedure that a number of healthcare practitioners are using for patients with severe COVID-19 infection. Till date, no drug has been proven to be effective for treating COVID-19. However, it has been observed that people who have…
Depression is a mood disorder that leads to feeling of sadness and loss of interest. While sadness is a normal human feeling and we all do feel sad, moody or low often, in depression, some people feel these feelings intensely, for longer duration of time may be for weeks, months or even longer and sometimes…
Coronaviruses are a family of viruses that consists of strains that cause potentially deadly diseases in mammals and birds. In humans, coronaviruses spread through airborne droplets of liquid produced by infected people. Few of the most uncommon but notable strains of coronavirus like SARS-CoV-2, the causative of COVID‑19, SARS-CoV the ones responsible for severe acute…
The COVID-19 infection is a major health challenge for diabetics all around the world. Diabetes has been identified as a risk factor for severe COVID-19 infections. Leading international health associations like the WHO and the CDC have warned about the COVID complexity arising due high blood sugar levels. As a matter of fact, when patients…
Contagious diseases spread by either bacteria or viruses and are like, always present in society. Generally, infected cases are present below an expected threshold, but from time to time there might be an outbreak, a new strain or a new sickness that has a huge impact at either a local or global level. The speed…
Inborn Errors of Metabolism (IEM) are a large group of genetic diseases which is caused by inherited deficiency or lack (or abnormality) of proteins that have structural, receptor, enzymatic or carrier roles. IEMs include disorders arising due to failure of metabolic pathways involved in storage and/or breakdown of various food end products like carbohydrates, fatty…
A pandemic is an outbreak of global proportions, caused by a variety of agents – the most recent and ongoing one being the coronavirus pandemic the world is coping with. A virus transmission can take place not only among patients and workers or staff in healthcare settings, but also among co-workers and members of the…
In December 2019, a bunch of patients with a novel coronavirus was identified in Wuhan, China. Initially, named 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV), the virus has now been named SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee of Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV). This virus is the causative of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) which has brought economies to halt,…
