Tag: Coronavirus

October 11, 2022

Healthcare workers have dealt with widespread burnout challenges throughout the coronavirus pandemic, but for those in certain roles, feelings of stress and emotional exhaustion continue to rise even as COVID-19 cases have waned this year. Burnout among physicians has risen […]

September 30, 2022

Pfizer and Moderna now both have new bivalent COVID booster shots that not only target the original strain of coronavirus, but also the highly contagious omicron subvariants that are dominant throughout the country. These booster shots are readily available at […]

July 14, 2022

Just over two years since the coronavirus pandemic began, society presses forward, seeking normalcy. Restrictions have lifted, severe cases and deaths from COVID-19 have plummeted thanks to rapidly developed vaccines and therapeutics. The United States government has played an important […]

April 18, 2022

Tech-focused insurance upstarts vying for a slice of the trillion-dollar, highly concentrated insurance market like Bright, Oscar Health and Clover Health struggled during the coronavirus with medical costs, more vulnerable to COVID-19 headwinds than their larger, more diversified peers. Following […]

March 10, 2022

The World Health Organization says it has issued guidance advising people on how to test themselves for the coronavirus, months after critics said the lack of recommendations was compromising efforts to stop the pandemic in poor countries. At a press […]

January 25, 2022

Amid an ongoing surge of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, the Biden administration launched a new testing initiative last week, sending every residence four free rapid tests and requiring private health insurers to cover up to eight at-home tests […]

January 4, 2022

Milford Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory’s Sanger Sequencing is claimed to detect all known SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and interest, including Omicron and Delta. Director Sin Hang Lee said that the high complexity CLIA-certified laboratory offers the diagnostic test to patients as […]

January 3, 2022

A CLIA certified laboratory in the US, World Wide Clinical Labz, and Baebies have collaborated to provide ultra-rapid real-time reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) testing for Covid-19. As against traditional RT-PCR test results that are reported after a minimum of […]

December 30, 2021

Merck’s Life Science business sector has secured a contract award worth €121m from the US Department of Defense (DoD) to construct a lateral flow membrane production facility at the company’s site in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. The new facility will produce the […]

December 28, 2021

Sorrento Therapeutics Mexico has signed a contract with a large distributor to market and supply up to ten million COVISTIX COVID-19 Virus Rapid Antigen Detection Tests in the Mexican market. Earlier, the company entered a contract with a distributor to […]

December 22, 2021

Thermo Fisher Scientific has revised its Applied Biosystems TaqMan SARS-CoV-2 Mutation Panel to facilitate direct identification of the Omicron variant of the virus. Made with an adaptable menu of real-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) genotyping assays, the panel can precisely detect […]

December 20, 2021

Roche has obtained a CE mark for its cobas SARS-CoV-2 Qualitative test to identify the virus using saliva samples on the cobas 6800/8800 Systems. The test is indicated for use in asymptomatic people and those who are suspected of Covid-19. […]

December 16, 2021

The global pandemic has brought about many changes in the UK. When COVID-19 first erupted and quickly spread across the globe, panic flooded the UK. Toilet paper became a commodity, and face-to-face interactions became a dream for millions around the […]

December 15, 2021

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted clearance to the Investigational New Drug (IND) application of Tonix Pharmaceuticals to commence the first-in-human clinical trial of its Covid-19 skin test, TNX-2100. A combination of SARS-CoV-2 epitope peptides intended for […]

December 7, 2021

BioGX has reported that its portfolio of Covid-19 tests that work on the nucleocapsid (N-gene) and envelope (E-gene) can identify the Omicron variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus. The company’s Covid-19 surveillance programme comprises complete in-silico assessment and investigational testing by […]

November 29, 2021

Facing a coronavirus variant that experts fear could more easily evade vaccine protection, drugmakers raced last week to set in place plans to respond to omicron, the latest threat in the nearly two-year-old COVID-19 pandemic. BioNTech, which partnered with Pfizer […]

November 24, 2021

A Houston Methodist study showed a rapid return of seasonal respiratory viruses after COVID-19 restrictions were relaxed in Texas, demonstrating the effectiveness of masking, distancing and other precautionary measures at stopping the spread of many respiratory illnesses, not just COVID-19. […]

November 23, 2021

New research published in The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology suggests that severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection can directly target and cause cellular damage to the adrenal glands. The resulting adrenal dysfunction may explain adrenal insufficiency in several […]

November 15, 2021

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has spread to almost every country in the world, causing over five million deaths and forcing many governments to enact costly and restrictive lockdown measures. These have included mandatory mask-wearing, the closing of public spaces, and […]

November 8, 2021

The first antiviral drugs effective against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) were recently approved in the UK and USA. Several more are still being investigated. In Environmental Microbiology, a researcher from the Laboratory of Gene Technology has been exploring what we […]