Clinical Trial of Ayurvedic Remedy for Covid-19 Shows Groundbreaking Results
4 years, 3 months ago

Clinical Trial of Ayurvedic Remedy for Covid-19 Shows Groundbreaking Results

News 18  

A groundbreaking interim report on a clinical trial being conducted in three hospitals has shown that Covid-19 patients on natural treatment are resolving most symptoms earlier than those on conventional medicines. The interim report on combination treatment of an Ayurvedic remedy called ‘Immunofree’ by Corival Life Sciences, and Nutraceutical called ‘Reginmune’ by Biogetica have shown exceptional results as against the present government SOP of conventional medicines for coronavirus treatment. Furthermore, numerous tests such as C reactive protein, Procalcitonin, D Dimer and RT-PCR for novel coronavirus are also showing 20 to 60 per cent better improvement for the natural treatment, when compared to conventional treatment. Madagascar, Central African Republic, Ghana and other countries which adopted COVID Organics have seen tremendous results compared to other African countries that did not adopt the natural treatment.

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Health authorities provide list of Chinese medicines for COVID-19
2 years ago

Health authorities provide list of Chinese medicines for COVID-19

China Daily  

A pharmacist weighs ingredients to produce traditional Chinese medicine decoctions at the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in North China's Tianjin, Jan 12, 2022. Health authorities have recommended a list of traditional Chinese medicines for COVID-19 patients recovering at home as part of a broader effort to ease the strain on supply of fever and …

Health authorities provide list of Chinese medicines for COVID-19
2 years ago

Health authorities provide list of Chinese medicines for COVID-19

China Daily  

A pharmacist weighs ingredients to produce traditional Chinese medicine decoctions at the First Teaching Hospital of Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine in North China's Tianjin, Jan 12, 2022. Health authorities have recommended a list of traditional Chinese medicines for COVID-19 patients recovering at home as part of a broader effort to ease the strain on supply of fever and …

Oral pill for COVID-19 approved by regulator
2 years, 5 months ago

Oral pill for COVID-19 approved by regulator

China Daily  

China Daily| Updated :2022-07-29 China's top drug regulator said on Monday that it has granted conditional approval for a homegrown oral pill to be used to treat COVID-19 disease, adding to the growing medical arsenal against the novel coronavirus. Azvudine, developed by the Genuine Biotech Co based in Henan province, was first conditionally approved to treat HIV-1 infected adult patients …

Why Ayurveda is the Eternal Panacea - News18
2 years, 11 months ago

Why Ayurveda is the Eternal Panacea - News18

News 18  

The perpetual ignorance under the garb of science and modernity has been the bane of modern society. There is a raging debate in Bharat as well as the world over on the effectiveness of Ayurveda over the modern medicine industry. According to research, Ayurveda with all the modern medicine protocols has been found to be effective against treatment of Rheumatoid …

India Cuts Use of Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, Multivitamins, Steroids in Covid-19 Treatment
2 years, 11 months ago

India Cuts Use of Remdesivir, Tocilizumab, Multivitamins, Steroids in Covid-19 Treatment

News 18  

India has cut down on the use of the experimental drug Remdesivir and immunosuppressive drug Tocilizumab for the treatment of Covid-19. While it states that doctors can “consider Remdesivir for five days to treat hospitalised patients with Covid-19”, it also mentions that “no evidence of benefit for treatment more than five days”. Discouraging the overuse of steroids, the protocol for …

WHO adds new drugs to COVID treatments amid Omicron surge
2 years, 11 months ago

WHO adds new drugs to COVID treatments amid Omicron surge

Al Jazeera  

Latest recommendations prompt new calls for patent waivers to allow more people access to treatments. The drug baricitinib, which is also used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, is “strongly recommended” for patients with severe or critical COVID-19, in combination with corticosteroids, the UN agency’s panel of international experts said in the guidelines which were published by the British Medical Journal on …

Have Covid-19 And In Home Isolation? Govt Advises On Medicines To Be Taken
2 years, 11 months ago

Have Covid-19 And In Home Isolation? Govt Advises On Medicines To Be Taken

ABP News  

New Delhi: The government expressed concern over "misuse and overuse" of Covid-19 drugs as cases continue to spike in India driven by the highly transmissible Omicron variant. Addressing a press conference, NITI Aayog Member Dr VK Paul said Covid-19 patients in home isolation should take paracetamol for fever and for cough, Ayush syrup could be used. Dr VK Paul said …

A shot in the arm: The Hindu Editorial on new modes of COVID-19 treatment
3 years ago

A shot in the arm: The Hindu Editorial on new modes of COVID-19 treatment

The Hindu  

If full vaccination using any COVID-19 vaccine greatly reduces a person’s risk of progressing to severe disease and death, then the move by the U.S. FDA to grant emergency-use authorisation to two oral antiviral drugs for certain categories of people who are likely to become severely ill provides a much-needed fillip to fight the disease. Unlike in the case of …

New antiviral drugs are coming for COVID. Here's what you need to know
3 years, 1 month ago

New antiviral drugs are coming for COVID. Here's what you need to know

NPR  

New antiviral drugs are coming for COVID. Given the higher efficacy of the antibody treatments, "I think we will continue to use those, particularly for high risk people," says Dr. Rajesh Gandhi, an infectious diseases physician at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School who serves on COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panels for the NIH and the Infectious Diseases Society of …

Making Ayurveda a real science
3 years, 1 month ago

Making Ayurveda a real science

The Hindu  

Ayurveda has gained popularity in recent years, but a lot is still to be done to ensure that it stands the scrutiny of science. Many lab reports suggesting clinical improvements with Ayurveda interventions were shared on different social media platforms. Thousands of COVID-19 cases treated by Ayurveda physicians could have provided good data that could have been further analysed. Many …

Why HCQ and Ivermectin were removed from India's Covid-19 treatment protocol
3 years, 3 months ago

Why HCQ and Ivermectin were removed from India's Covid-19 treatment protocol

India Today  

The Indian Council of Medical Research and the National Task Force on Covid-19 have dropped the use of Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine drugs from their revised guidelines for the treatment of the infection. “HCQ may be considered for removal from guideline, with recommendation to use with caution only in clinical trial setting,” said the document titled ‘considerations for exclusion of Ivermectin …

WHO Tests 3 Drugs for Treating Coronavirus Infection
3 years, 4 months ago

WHO Tests 3 Drugs for Treating Coronavirus Infection

News 18  

The World Health Organization says it will soon test three drugs used for other diseases to see if they might help patients sickened by the coronavirus. In a statement on Wednesday, the U.N. health agency says the three drugs would be adopted into the next phase of its ongoing global research into identifying potential treatments for COVID-19. The drugs were …

Explained | Why has the Centre revised the protocol for mild COVID-19 cases, and which drugs are not recommended anymore?
3 years, 6 months ago

Explained | Why has the Centre revised the protocol for mild COVID-19 cases, and which drugs are not recommended anymore?

The Hindu  

The story so far: The Union Health Ministry has revised its guidelines for the treatment of COVID-19 patients, particularly for the use of steroids, with doctors reporting a worrying rise in medical complications, such as mucormycosis, due to the abuse of drugs and therapies during treatment. The revised guidelines, issued on May 27, recommend the use of antipyretics for fever …

Herbal cure for Covid? First phase of study completed in Andhra Pradesh
3 years, 7 months ago

Herbal cure for Covid? First phase of study completed in Andhra Pradesh

India TV News  

The first phase of studies into the Covid cure devised by a Krishnapatnam-based herbal medicine practitioner was completed on Wednesday. The researchers spoke to 570 persons who had taken the Covid medicine prepared by Anandaiah, a herbal medicine practitioner belonging to Krishnapatnam in Nellore district. The Andhra Pradesh government had decided to rope in Central agencies to evaluate the ayurvedic …

Doctors question plan to hand out Patanjali’s Coronil to Covid-19 patients
3 years, 7 months ago

Doctors question plan to hand out Patanjali’s Coronil to Covid-19 patients

Live Mint  

Mumbai: Indian doctors on Wednesday decried the free distribution of an unproven remedy to COVID-19 patients by the state of Haryana as the maker of the herbal medicine faced a backlash over comments in which he said modern medicine had caused deaths. The northern state, which is ruled by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janta Party, said this week it …

Andhra Man’s Herbal Covid-19 Treatment Draws Crowds, Row; ICMR to Test Samples
3 years, 7 months ago

Andhra Man’s Herbal Covid-19 Treatment Draws Crowds, Row; ICMR to Test Samples

News 18  

For about a month, thousands of people, several of them Covid-19 patients, had been thronging Krishnapatnam town in Andhra Pradesh’s Nellore district for free “herbal medicines” against Covid-19, triggering concerns over the spread of the deadly infection. While a section of district officials said his “medicines” promised to boost immunity against the coronavirus, there were others who claimed the treatment …

WHO warns against use of Ivermectin for Covid-19 treatment
3 years, 7 months ago

WHO warns against use of Ivermectin for Covid-19 treatment

Hindustan Times  

The World Health Organisation has recommended against using Ivermectin to treat patients with coronavirus disease but the anti-parasitic medicine is widely prescribed by doctors in India for the same. @WHO recommends against the use of ivermectin for #COVID19 except within clinical trials,” said Dr Soumya Swaminathan, chief scientist, World Health Organisation in a tweet. She also quoted a statement from …

Indigenous herbal medicines helpful in treating mild to moderate Covid
3 years, 8 months ago

Indigenous herbal medicines helpful in treating mild to moderate Covid

India TV News  

Two indigenous herbal medicines have been found useful in the treatment of mild to moderate Covid-19 infection, the Ministry of AYUSH has said. Ranjit Kumar, Joint Secretary at the Ministry of AYUSH, said that two herbal medicines, Kaphasura Kudineer and Ayush-64, have emerged as a ray of hope Covid patients. Indian scientists have found Kaphasura Kudineer, a siddha poly-herbal preparation …

AYUSH 64: Know About the Ayurvedic Drug The Govt is Recommending for Mild Covid-19
3 years, 8 months ago

AYUSH 64: Know About the Ayurvedic Drug The Govt is Recommending for Mild Covid-19

News 18  

In an attempt to fight against prevailing Covid-19 situation, the Ayush Ministry on Monday announced that it has taken steps to streamline the distribution of AYUSH 64, the polyherbal Ayurvedic medicine, across the country to treat mild to moderate cases of coronavirus infections. CCRAS recently concluded extensive robust clinical trials of the drug focusing on the management of asymptomatic, mild …

COVID treatment has improved, but many wish for an easy pill
3 years, 8 months ago

COVID treatment has improved, but many wish for an easy pill

Associated Press  

If Priscila Medina had gotten COVID-19 a year ago, she would have had no treatments proven safe and effective to try. serious disease requiring hospitalization, and occasionally even tragic deaths,” the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, Dr. Anthony Fauci, recently told the National Press Club. Remdesivir also is the only antiviral COVID-19 medicine — it interferes with virus reproduction …

Do not use 'miracle cure' ivermectin on COVID-19 patients says WHO
3 years, 9 months ago

Do not use 'miracle cure' ivermectin on COVID-19 patients says WHO

Firstpost  

The World Health Organization said Wednesday that ivermectin — touted by some on social media as a Covid-19 “miracle cure” — should not be used to treat coronavirus patients. The WHO said: “We recommend not to use ivermectin in patients with Covid-19 except in the context of a clinical trial.” Facebook posts and articles endorsing ivermectin have proliferated in Brazil, …

NPC deputy: Traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in the pandemic
3 years, 10 months ago

NPC deputy: Traditional Chinese medicine plays an important role in the pandemic

China Daily  

Li Yanpin, deputy to the National People's Congress and vice-president of the Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital. TCM's important role in the epidemic In the face of the sudden epidemic, the Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital where Li Yanping works led the emergency response project entitled "research and application of traditional Chinese medicine in the clinical treatment of COVID-19". During …

Scientific disinterest: The Hindu Editorial on Union Health Minister’s presence at Coronil promotion event
3 years, 10 months ago

Scientific disinterest: The Hindu Editorial on Union Health Minister’s presence at Coronil promotion event

The Hindu  

The presence of Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan at a press conference to promote Coronil, an Ayurvedic pill promoted by Baba Ramdev’s Patanjali Ayurved, is objectionable on more than one count. Dr Vardhan, alongside Cabinet colleague Nitin Gadkari, was at a press conference with Baba Ramdev and other promoters of Patanjali to announce a scientific publication describing the efficacy of …

'Not Reviewed Any Traditional Medicine to Prevent Covid-19': WHO After Coronil Certification
3 years, 10 months ago

'Not Reviewed Any Traditional Medicine to Prevent Covid-19': WHO After Coronil Certification

News 18  

The World Health Organisation gave a clarification on the treatment of coronavirus with traditional medicines. “@WHO has not reviewed or certified the effectiveness of any traditional medicine for the treatment #COVID19.” This comes after Ramdev-promoted Patanjali Ayurved claimed that immunity booster- Coronil has received the Certificate of Pharmaceutical Product from the Ayush section of Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation as …

Homeopathy Can Be Used In Preventing & Mitigating COVD-19 As Per AYUSH Ministry Guidelines: SC Modifies Kerala HC Judgment
4 years ago

Homeopathy Can Be Used In Preventing & Mitigating COVD-19 As Per AYUSH Ministry Guidelines: SC Modifies Kerala HC Judgment

Live Law  

Homeopathy medicine is contemplated to be used in preventing and mitigating COVID-19 as is reflected by the advisory and guidelines issued by the Ministry of AYUSH, the Supreme Court observed while modifying some observations made by the Kerala High Court.The bench comprising Justices Ashok Bhushan, R. Subhash Reddy and MR Shah observed that the High Court is right in its …

Homeopathic Medical Practitioners May Prescribe Notified Drugs As Add-On Drug To Conventional Treatment For Covid-19: Centre Tells SC
4 years, 1 month ago

Homeopathic Medical Practitioners May Prescribe Notified Drugs As Add-On Drug To Conventional Treatment For Covid-19: Centre Tells SC

Live Law  

The Central Government has informed the Supreme Court that specified Homoeopathic medicines can be prescribed as "add-on treatment" for Covid-19 and thus, it is incorrect to say that homeopathic medical practitioners cannot prescribe any treatment to Covid 19 positive patients. AYUSH Doctors Shall Not Prescribe Any Medicine As Cure For Covid-19: Kerala HC Directs Medical/Police Departments To Monitor In its …

Ayurveda, Yoga to Help Deal with Post-Covid-19 Problems: Union MoS for AYUSH Shripad Naik
4 years, 1 month ago

Ayurveda, Yoga to Help Deal with Post-Covid-19 Problems: Union MoS for AYUSH Shripad Naik

News 18  

Panaji: Union Minister of State for AYUSH Shripad Naik has said Ayurveda, Yoga and other systems will be greatly helpful for the entire world in dealing with the post-COVID-19 difficulties. “I am sure that Ayurveda, Yoga and other systems will be greatly helpful for the entire world in dealing with the Post Covid difficulties,” tweeted Naik, who himself recovered from …

Ayurveda drugs could be effective in mild, moderate cases of COVID-19: AIIA report
4 years, 2 months ago

Ayurveda drugs could be effective in mild, moderate cases of COVID-19: AIIA report

Firstpost  

Citing the case of a 30-year-old male health worker with COVID-19, the report highlights his successful treatment with Ayurveda. A team of doctors from the Delhi-based All India Institute of Ayurveda under the Ayush Ministry has found that Ayurveda interventions like Ayush kwatha and Fifatrol tablets can be effective in mild to moderate cases of COVID-19 infection in a “very …

Turmeric Milk to Immunity Supplements, 'Home Remedies' Gain Popularity During Covid-19 Pandemic
4 years, 2 months ago

Turmeric Milk to Immunity Supplements, 'Home Remedies' Gain Popularity During Covid-19 Pandemic

News 18  

New Delhi housewife Sashi scoops Covid-19 “immunity-boosting” powder into a jug of water every morning for her family, joining a growing number of Indians who believe traditional supplements will help ward off the pandemic. As India passes eight million cases — second in the world behind the United States — and the death toll exceeds 120,000, people are increasingly turning …

Treatment for 6 months needed post Covid-19
4 years, 2 months ago

Treatment for 6 months needed post Covid-19

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Fifteen to 20 per cent of Covid-19 recovered patients are coming back to hospitals with complaints of lung fibrosis, clotting in blood vessels, low functioning of kidney and heart and paralytic attack. Gandhi Hospital which has been the main centre in Telangana state for Covid-19 treatment is seeing many patients return with complaints. With so many people getting infected …

Coronavirus | In rush for ‘immunity’, Ayurveda supplements have an untested run
4 years, 2 months ago

Coronavirus | In rush for ‘immunity’, Ayurveda supplements have an untested run

The Hindu  

For a chemist shop that’s usually lined with pharmaceutical drugs, Noida-based proprietor Mahesh Agrawal prominently displays his containers of Dabur Chyawanprash. Coronavirus | Indian Medical Association voices concern over Harsh Vardhan’s pitch for Ayush treatment for COVID-19 Amul markets turmeric-flavoured milk called Amul “Haldi Doodh,” that purports to having the “goodness of milk with the centuries old immunity boosting and …

Ayurveda Age-old Science, Not Placebo: AYUSH Doctors' Body Counters IMA's Poser on New Covid Protocol
4 years, 2 months ago

Ayurveda Age-old Science, Not Placebo: AYUSH Doctors' Body Counters IMA's Poser on New Covid Protocol

News 18  

An AYUSH doctors' body on Saturday welcomed the government's COVID-19 treatment protocol based on ayurveda and yoga as it asserted that ayurveda is an age-old, well-established science and "not a placebo", days after the Indian Medical Association criticised the Centre's move. The Integrated Medical Association said the government's new protocol will help evolve better management strategies for treatment of coronavirus …

How to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 with Ayurveda, As Per the AYUSH Ministry
4 years, 3 months ago

How to Prevent and Treat COVID-19 with Ayurveda, As Per the AYUSH Ministry

News 18  

The COVID-19 pandemic has proved that fighting off a virus like SARS-CoV-2 is not easy, especially since there is still no vaccine easily available yet. Take 500mg extract or 1-3g powder, mix it with warm water and consume twice daily for 15 days to a month. Guduchi or Tinospora cordifolia is another effective Ayurvedic herb and the same amount of …

Consumption of ayurvedic medicines/products up during pandemic: Ayush Ministry
4 years, 3 months ago

Consumption of ayurvedic medicines/products up during pandemic: Ayush Ministry

The Hindu  

Consumption of ayurvedic medicines/products has increased during COVID-19 pandemic with the Indian Medicines Pharmaceuticals Corporation Limited, a government enterprise and manufacturer of ayurveda and unani medicines, registering sales of ₹69.60 crore up to August 2020 as compared to last year’s ₹26.73 crore out of which the IMPCL has sold COVID-19 medicines approximately ₹30 crore to the various Central/State institutions/Autonomous as …

154 Misleading Ads for Covid-19 Treatment by AYUSH Medicines Received, Says Harsh Vardhan
4 years, 3 months ago

154 Misleading Ads for Covid-19 Treatment by AYUSH Medicines Received, Says Harsh Vardhan

News 18  

The Ministry of AYUSH received 154 misleading The states/UTs have also been directed to send details of the clinical trials of AYUSH medicines claimed for the prevention or treatment of coronavirus for verification, he said. The minister was responding to a question on whether people have been adversely affected due to consumption of immunity drugs or medicinal formulas in the …

How Can A Writ Court Decide If Allopathy Or Ayurveda Will Work For COVID-19 Treatment? Karnataka HC Asks
4 years, 3 months ago

How Can A Writ Court Decide If Allopathy Or Ayurveda Will Work For COVID-19 Treatment? Karnataka HC Asks

Live Law  

"How can a writ court decide whether allopathy treatment will work or whether ayurvedic treatment will work while treating a patient infected with COVID-19," the Karnataka High Court observed on Thursday while hearing a public interest litigation filed by two qualified practitioners of Ayurveda. Clinical Management Protocol: Covid-19" issued by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, Government of India …

Institute of Integrative Medicine Conducting Clinical Trials of 3-4 Covid-19 Drug Formulations: Director
4 years, 4 months ago

Institute of Integrative Medicine Conducting Clinical Trials of 3-4 Covid-19 Drug Formulations: Director

News 18  

The Jammu-based Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine is undertaking clinical trials of 3-4 formulations for developing a COVID-19 drug, a senior official had said. Three to four clinical trials are going in different plant species with regard to COVID-19 drugs on 3 to 4 formulations, Director CSIR-Indian Institute of Integrative Medicine, Dr D Srinivasa Reddy, told PTI. Dr Reddy, who …

Where are we in finding a treatment for COVID-19?
4 years, 5 months ago

Where are we in finding a treatment for COVID-19?

Al Jazeera  

Some drugs and treatments have shown promise in clinical trials, while others are drawing controversy. More information on the efficacy of remdesivir in patients with COVID-19 is expected from large clinical trials such as the WHO-coordinated Solidarity Trial and the Recovery Trial in the United Kingdom. “It’s really important that these drugs be evaluated in robust clinical trials before being …

Coronavirus | India’s actual case load of COVID-19 stands at 4,26,167 active patients: Health Ministry
4 years, 5 months ago

Coronavirus | India’s actual case load of COVID-19 stands at 4,26,167 active patients: Health Ministry

The Hindu  

India’s actual case load of COVID-19 stands at 4,26,167 active patients with a fatality rate of 2.41% and recovery rate at 63.18 %, according to figures released by the Union Health Ministry here on Thursday. Higher number of patients getting cured and discharged has contributed to the increasing gap between recovered and the active cases. Keep a safe distance from …

Medical experts oppose COVID-19 Ayurveda trials
4 years, 5 months ago

Medical experts oppose COVID-19 Ayurveda trials

The Hindu  

Medical experts and public health activists have objected to the ongoing clinical trials and claims made by a section of AYUSH practitioners on developing a medicine for COVID-19, pointing out that they violate government norms. Kalantri of Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, Sevagram, Maharashtra and Mumbai-based surgeon Sanjay Nagral have written to the Medical Council of India against the …

WHO Hasn’t Approved Cure for COVID Involving Pepper, Honey, Ginger
4 years, 5 months ago

WHO Hasn’t Approved Cure for COVID Involving Pepper, Honey, Ginger

The Quint  

Further, Dr Suranjit Chatterjee, Senior Consultant, Internal Medicine at Indraprastha Apollo Hospital said that there was no medical basis or evidence to state that either of these elements could cure COVID-19. They have no definite proven role in the treatment of coronavirus,” Dr Chatterjee said. Dr Sumit Ray, a critical care specialist in Delhi NCR also told The Quint that …

Ayurveda for treating Covid-19 patients? India, US to initiate joint clinical trials
4 years, 6 months ago

Ayurveda for treating Covid-19 patients? India, US to initiate joint clinical trials

Live Mint  

Washington: Ayurvedic practitioners and researchers in India and the US are planning to initiate joint clinical trials for Ayurveda formulations against the novel coronavirus, the Indian envoy here has said. In a virtual interaction with a group of eminent Indian-American scientists, academicians, and doctors on Wednesday, Indian Ambassador to the US Taranjit Singh Sandhu said the vast network of institutional …

COVID-19 treatments: Which drugs, therapies are proven to work, and which ones don’t?
4 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 treatments: Which drugs, therapies are proven to work, and which ones don’t?

Firstpost  

We have made amazing progress in the treatment of COVID-19. Ritonavir increases the level of Lopinavir in the blood so the lopinavir/ritonavir combination was tested in a randomized controlled clinical trial for COVID-19. Steroids – yes for almost all COVID-19 patients When a synthetic steroid hormone, called dexamethasone, was given to patients with COVID-19 the drug decreased 28-day mortality by …

COVID-19 RECOVERY trial: HIV medicine found ineffective in treating hospitalised COVID-19 patients
4 years, 6 months ago

COVID-19 RECOVERY trial: HIV medicine found ineffective in treating hospitalised COVID-19 patients

Firstpost  

The HIV combination treatment lopinavir-ritonavir is also being studied in a trial by the World Health Organization. A combination of antiviral drugs used to treat HIV had no beneficial effect in patients hospitalised with COVID-19 in a large-scale randomised trial, British scientists said on Monday. Scientists running the RECOVERY trial at the University of Oxford said that the results “convincingly …

Coronavirus | FIR against Baba Ramdev, others on COVID-19 cure claim
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronavirus | FIR against Baba Ramdev, others on COVID-19 cure claim

The Hindu  

Police have registered a First Information Report against yoga guru Ramdev and four others for allegedly conspiring to sell a fake Ayurveda medicine with the misleading claim to cure COVID-19 following clinical trials on some patients. The others named in the FIR were Acharya Balkrishna CEO of Ramdev-promoted Patanajali Ayurveda Limited, Patanjali employee Anurag Varshney, and Balvir Singh Tomar and …

Treat COVID-19 patients at home with care, doctors say
4 years, 6 months ago

Treat COVID-19 patients at home with care, doctors say

Deccan Chronicle  

Hyderabad: Home treatment of coronavirus positive patients is possible and effective, doctors say, but the risk of transmission is mitigated only if there they have a separate room and bathroom. More doctors are counselling home isolation for patients with mild symptoms of cough, fever, cold, diarrhoea and headache. If oxygen levels are below 90 then it requires attention and hospital …

Coronil for treating COVID-19? Decision on Patanjali’s coronavirus medicine soon, says govt
4 years, 6 months ago

Coronil for treating COVID-19? Decision on Patanjali’s coronavirus medicine soon, says govt

Live Mint  

Baba Ramdev-led Patanjali Ayurved should not not advertise the newly-launched Coronil until Ayush ministry approves it, said Union Ayush minister Shripad Naik. Naik added, the Ayush ministry will soon clear its stance on Patanjali's Coronil — an ayurvedic drug which claims to cure coronavirus infection in just seven days. "Patanjali Ayurved Ltd were asked to provide the details of the …

The scientific process that Baba Ramdev’s potential Covid-19 medicine has to follow
4 years, 6 months ago

The scientific process that Baba Ramdev’s potential Covid-19 medicine has to follow

Hindustan Times  

Yoga guru Baba Ramdev created a sensation when he announced on Tuesday that his company Patanjali Ayurved has found a medicine for coronavirus disease Covid-19. Yoga guru Baba Ramdev and Patanjali Ayurved CEO Acharya Balkrishna launch an Ayurvedic medicine kit that they claimed can treat coronavirus patients within seven days, in Haridwar on Tuesday. The ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & …

Patanjali launches Covid-19 drugs; Centre seeks details: Here’s what the company said
4 years, 6 months ago

Patanjali launches Covid-19 drugs; Centre seeks details: Here’s what the company said

Hindustan Times  

Patanjali Ayurved Ltd, the company promoted by yoga guru Ramdev, has been asked by the government to provide details of the medicines launched by it as an alleged treatment for the patients of coronavirus disease patients. “Facts of the claim and details of the stated scientific study are not known to the Ministry… Patanjali Ayurved Ltd has been asked to …

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