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Roche’s Phesgo (pertuzumab/trastuzumab) is one of the half dozen medicines that the European Medicines Agency’s human medicines committee (CHMP) has recommended for approval at its November 2020 meeting. Phesgo has been endorsed as a treatment for early and metastatic breast cancer. Administered as a subcutaneous, fixed-dose combination of pertuzumab and …

The ongoing World Health Organization (WHO) Solidarity Trial of hydroxychloroquine, remdesivir, lopinavir, or interferon-beta-1a for the treatment of COVID-19 were found not to prevent in-hospital death, reduce need for ventilation, or shorten duration of hospitalization. The results have been published in the New England Journal of Medicine. The open-label study …

Researchers at the Institute for Biomedical Sciences, Georgia State University, have discovered that a new antiviral drug, Molnupiravir (MK-4482/EIDD-2801), completely suppresses SARS-CoV-2 transmission within 24 hours. The drug was originally found to be potent against influenza viruses. According to research team leader Dr. Richard Plemper, it is the first orally …

A recent study has demonstrated that an experimental drug named ISRIB (integrated stress response inhibitor) rapidly restored youthful cognitive abilities in aged mice. The researchers said that ISRIB’s extremely rapid effects showed that an important component of age-related cognitive loss could be caused by reversible physiological “blockage”, rather than more …

  In what is a major leap forward in the advancement of regenerative therapy, scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, California, have created a drug that can lure stem cells to damaged tissue and improve treatment efficacy. The ability to instruct a stem cell to go to a …

Turkish Airlines Nepal has signed an agreement with Nepal Sports Journalist Forum (NSJF) as the airline partner for Pulsar Sports Award 2076. This is the second consecutive year that the agreement has been signed with Turkish Airlines for the sports award. General Secretary of the Forum, Mr. Prajwal Oli, and …

The pandemic outbreak of coronavirus COVID-19 that started in China in late December 2019 is a severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS- CoV-2) and has now walloped the world. COVID-19 has led to unprecedented challenges with devastating health and socio-economic impacts. Scientists and researchers are striving to contain the coronavirus with …

Scientists at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience (NIN) have recently developed high-resolution brain implants to stimulate shape perception in monkeys, demonstrating the possibility of restoring functional, life-enhancing vision in the blind, a new study reports. This is, however, not the first time visual prosthesis was used to generate artificial vision. …

There was an era when a physician named Thomas Willis in 1675 ascribed urine of diabetic patients as sweet—“as if imbued with a honey or sugar”. Apparently, back then, by tasting urine, one of the distinctive features of diabetes was substantiated. Later, Mathew Dobson (1735-1784) identified that the sweet substance …

Osteoporosis is a progressive skeletal disease, where the bone becomes weak and porous, and fracture may occur even with minor injury. It is characterized by low bone mineral density (BMD), which is defined as the volumetric density of calcium hydroxyapatite (CaHA) in a biological tissue in terms of g/cm 3. …