COVID-19
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How does coronavirus affect patients with heart diseases?
Among chronic diseases, cardiovascular diseases are included in risk group regarding coronavirus. So, how does Covid-19 affect these patients and what are the symptoms? All details are in this interview made with Professor Sinan Dağdelen, M.D, Cardiovascular Specialist in Acıbadem Healthcare Group Turkey. Coronavirus caused Covid-19 disease leading to an outbreak which started from China and spread around the globe.…
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How does Coronavirus affect cancer patients?
Cancer patients should be particularly careful against Covid-19! First coronavirus infection secondary to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19), which is a variation Coronavirus family, was seen in China in December 2019 and has spread around the entire globe leading to a pandemic (an infection which spreads to a wide area in more than one country or continent). Covid-19 rapidly became widespread around the…
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Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in conjunction with Baylor College of Medicine, participate in remdesivir clinical trial
Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center in conjunction with Baylor College of Medicine, its research and educational partner, are participating in a clinical trial sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This clinical trial seeks to find an effective treatment for the COVID-19 infection caused by the novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2).…
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Abbott Announces CE Mark and Immediate Availability of its COVID-19 Laboratory-Based Antibody Test in UAE
New antibody blood test will run on Abbott’s ARCHITECT® i1000SR and i2000SR laboratory instruments and will expand to its Alinity™ i system Abbott will ship to UAE today and intends to distribute 300,000 tests by the end of May Abbott is already providing its COVID-19 molecular test for its m2000™ instrument Test demonstrated specificity and sensitivity of greater than 99…
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Omnicell introduces New Rapid Pandemic Response Scheme to support partners in the Middle East in fight against COVID19
Omnicell, Inc. (NASDAQ:OMCL) – a leading provider of medication management solutions and adherence tools for healthcare systems and pharmacies – announced that the company is working alongside its distributor partners in the Middle East to fast-track its health care automation solutions to the front line, to help meet the increasing demand for services during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Omnicell technology…
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Scientific Committee’s Evaluation Process is on
The Members of the Scientific Committee of Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences have attended their monthly meeting virtually, and discussed various aspects of the evaluation process of each category of Awards; International, Arab World and, UAE. The Committee decided to extend the deadline to receive the nominations for the International & Arab World category to…
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Coming out of COVID-19: the impact on healthcare tech
The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a light on the heroism, fortitude and cruciality of frontline healthcare workers. It has also highlighted the importance of having the right technology and resources in place to reduce the strain on those frontline workers and support them in their day-to-day work, with or without a pandemic unfolding. As hospitals and healthcare workers are placed…
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Mayo Clinic provides urgent guidance, approach to identify patients at risk of drug-induced sudden cardiac death from use of off-label COVID-19 treatments
SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, continues to spread, leading to more than 20,000 deaths worldwide in less than four months. Efforts are progressing to develop a COVID-19 vaccine, but it’s still likely 12 to 18 months away. In the meantime, the pandemic, with over 400,000 confirmed cases worldwide already, is driving researchers to find safe and effective therapies for…
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Coronavirus (COVID-19): What People with Cancer Should Know
COVID-19 is a new virus that first arose in animals and was then transmitted to humans, first in China. These new viruses emerge occasionally and because the world is so connected by travel, they can spread rapidly from one place to another. Now that COVID-19 is here, what should you and your health care workers be doing? Are Cancer Patients…
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WCM-Q students learning lessons of Covid-19 outbreak with MOPH
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) has devised a new elective course in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) so students can learn about the management of public health emergencies like the coronavirus outbreak. Seven third-year medical students are already enrolled on the course, which was developed as quickly as possible to enable them to gain experience of working with…
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