Plasma Therapy

India needs national registry on 'Black Fungus' to streamline response, says health expert Anant Bhan

A national registry will enable policymakers to assess the real burden of the problem and very quickly try to address it, said the Bhopal-based researcher

Multiple studies, letter from experts force AIIMS-ICMR to drop plasma therapy as COVID-19 treatment

At the start of the pandemic, CPT was thought to be effective, but research and data showed this is not true.

ICMR drops plasma therapy from clinical management guidelines on COVID-19

The move comes in the backdrop of some clinicians writing to Principal Scientific Advisor K VijayRaghavan cautioning against the "irrational, non-scientific use" of convalescent plasma

COVID-19: Plasma therapy not found effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines

The present guidelines allows 'off label' use of plasma therapy at the stage of early moderate disease, that is, within seven days of the onset of symptoms

Google trends 2020: From queries on COVID-19 and Binod to nepotism, top questions Indians looked up this year

Unlike other years in living memory, 2020 was a question in its own right and the queries that were asked of the search engine reflected more than just cultural fascination, Google said

Maharashtra caps prices of masks, Calcutta HC modifies Durga Puja order; COVID-19 tally at 76.50 lakh

The ministry said that 78 percent of the 54,044 new cases of COVID-19 registered in a span of 24 hours are concentrated in ten states and Union Territories

Plasma therapy may be scrapped from COVID-19 national treatment protocol soon: ICMR Chief

Some states, including Delhi and Maharashtra, have already set up plasma banks to match potential donors with recipients.

Mumbai local trains to allow women travellers from today; Centre mulls removing plasma therapy as treatment

Currently only those engaged in frontline duties and falling in the essential staff category of the Maharashtra government are allowed to travel in the local trains run by Central Railway and Western Railway

Male, elderly patients with severe COVID-19 may have higher levels of antibodies in their plasma, reveals study

Scientists said that a possible explanation for this could be that due to severe disease, the inflammatory response in the body gets accelerated, recruiting more B-cells to fight the infection. This consequently results in more antibody production

New case study suggests COVID-19 can lead to sudden permanent loss of hearing

Experts suggest that it may be a combination of the infection as well as the inflammation caused due to the virus in the ear that may be responsible for sensorineural hearing loss in COVID-19 patients