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Doctors at Apollo Speciality Hospital in Madurai said the man with high blood pressure was diagnosed with a single blockage and blood clot in his left anterior descending artery. Dr Vivek Bose, senior interventional cardiologist at the hospital, and his team planned to use an Indian-made naturally bioresorbable stent for the angioplasty instead of a conventional metal stent which will permanently be left in the body.

In a historic achievement, the cumulative COVID-19 vaccine doses administered in the country has surpassed the 100-crore milestone. In a tweet, Prime Minister Mr. Narendra Modi congratulated the countrymen and expressed gratitude to the country’s scientific community and health professionals for working towards achieving this stupendous feat.

Gujarat added 2,256 MW capacity, the highest capacity during the said period, followed by Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh which added 1,438 MW and 822 MW, respectively.

The rules create space for women whose cases may be considered where there is change of marital status during the ongoing pregnancy like widowhood and divorce. The eligibility categorisation also includes cases of women with pregnancy in disaster or emergency situations as may be declared by the government.

Bharat Biotech’s Covaxin has emerged as the first COVID-19 vaccine worldwide to be used for inoculating children as young as 2 years old with the subject expert committee (SEC) that counsels the Drugs Controller General of India (DCGI) endorsing emergency use authorisation (EUA) for the vaccine for kids in the 2-18 years age group.

Everest Organics Limited today announced the successful development of an anti-viral API ‘MOLNUPIRAVIR’ an additional COVID-19 treatment drug that is being developed at Lab Scale for the first-line treatment of COVID-19 in adults patients with mild to moderate symptoms.

The kit – which detects levels of serum CC16 in blood — is the result of a collaboration between the Mumbai team of the National Institute of Virology (NIV) and the National Institute for Occupational Health. “India has a high burden of silicosis with an estimate of 1.25 crore patients at the moment,” said Dr Shyam Sundar Nandi from the Mumbai laboratory, who is one of the scientists who developed the test.

Sikkim is declared to be the first fully vaccinated state of India, where 100 per cent of the population have received the first dose of vaccine and 74 per cent of the population has received the second dose as well.

Availability of injectable insulin formulation has been a major breakthrough in diabetes management. However, insulin needs to be kept in a refrigerator, which, otherwise after some hours becomes unfit for use due to fibrillation (some kind of ‘solidification’). Its prolonged storage even in normal refrigerator is also not good. Therefore, its thermal instability and fibrillation at non-refrigerated temperatures demands storage and maintenance of cold chain, making it expensive. Further, for diabetes patients who are staying at remote locations with no refrigerator facility or those who are travelling for long hours, the problem is more acute.

India’s Bharat Biotech will be producing part of the world’s only malaria vaccine that has been developed by Pharma major GSK, and was recently approved by WHO (World Health Organisation).