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World Blood Donor Day 2022: Importance of Blood Donation During COVID-19 Pandemic
2 years, 6 months ago

World Blood Donor Day 2022: Importance of Blood Donation During COVID-19 Pandemic

News 18  

World Blood Donor Day is observed on June 14 to raise awareness about the importance of blood donation as the range of applications is far greater than most people realise. For this year, the World Blood Donor Day slogan is “Donating blood is an act of solidarity. Much like with newly emerging infectious diseases of the past, people have been …

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Curing with Blood: the Rise and Fall of Covid Convalescent Plasma Therapy
3 years, 2 months ago

Curing with Blood: the Rise and Fall of Covid Convalescent Plasma Therapy

News 18  

Early in the pandemic, scientists thought convalescent plasma might be a way to treat COVID-19. But growing evidence, including an international study published this week, shows convalescent plasma does not save lives of people critically ill with COVID-19. year more than 100 clinical trials had been conducted with convalescent plasma in people with COVID-19; about one-third of these studies had …

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Does India's trial and error approach to fighting mutating coronavirus need course correction?
3 years, 7 months ago

Does India's trial and error approach to fighting mutating coronavirus need course correction?

India Today  

The second wave continues to wreak havoc in India with over 4,500 deaths recorded in a day on Wednesday. The Indian Council of Medical Research decision came within days of a study published in The Lancet that suggested plasma therapy did not improve survival or other pre-specified clinical outcomes in patients. Interestingly, similar data from ICMR's own trials was released …

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Top medical experts welcome move to remove plasma therapy from COVID-19 treatment
3 years, 7 months ago

Top medical experts welcome move to remove plasma therapy from COVID-19 treatment

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Several top medical experts have welcomed the Indian Council of Medical Research 's updated advisory released on Monday dropping the use of convalescent plasma from recommended treatment protocols for COVID-19. Sir Ganga Ram Hospital chairman Dr DS Rana said plasma therapy has failed to change the "course of mortality" and asserted that some scientists are also of the …

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Not enough evidence to prove plasma therapy works: Top ICMR scientist on why India changed treatment protocol
3 years, 7 months ago

Not enough evidence to prove plasma therapy works: Top ICMR scientist on why India changed treatment protocol

India Today  

The Centre on Monday revised the clinical guidance for Covid-19 treatment, dropping the off-label use of convalescent plasma from the treatment protocol for adult patients. Dr Samiran Panda, Indian Council of Medical Research scientist who was also a part of the panel that dropped plasma therapy from Covid-19 management guidelines, told India Today that the decision was taken since anecdotal …

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'Minuscule' bleeding, clotting events post COVID-19 vaccination, says Centre; AP, Manipur, Chandigarh extend curfew
3 years, 7 months ago

'Minuscule' bleeding, clotting events post COVID-19 vaccination, says Centre; AP, Manipur, Chandigarh extend curfew

Firstpost  

India’s COVID-19 tally mounted to 2,49,65,463 with 2,81,386 new cases, the lowest in 27 days, while the toll climbed to 2,74,390 as 4,106 more people succumbed to the disease on Monday India has reported 26 potential cases of bleeding and clotting after administration of the Covishield vaccine, which is “minuscule” and “in line with the expected number of diagnoses”, a …

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Found Ineffective, Plasma Therapy No Longer Recommended For Covid-19 Treatment
3 years, 7 months ago

Found Ineffective, Plasma Therapy No Longer Recommended For Covid-19 Treatment

News 18  

Days after various studies and expert panels suggested that plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients was found ineffective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death, the treatment protocol has been dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources said. In the letter, which was also marked to ICMR chief Balram Bhargava and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, public health professionals alleged …

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Govt removes plasma therapy as treatment for Covid-19 among adults
3 years, 7 months ago

Govt removes plasma therapy as treatment for Covid-19 among adults

India Today  

A government-appointed task force on Covid-19 on Monday removed plasma therapy from the treatment protocol for adult Covid-19 patients. In the revised clinical guidelines for management of adult Covid-19 patients, use of convalescent plasma therapy has been removed even as an 'off label treatment. Until now, India's Covid-19 treatment protocol allowed 'off label' use of convalescent plasma therapy but only …

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COVID-19: Plasma therapy not found effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines
3 years, 7 months ago

COVID-19: Plasma therapy not found effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines

Firstpost  

The present guidelines allows ‘off label’ use of plasma therapy at the stage of early moderate disease, that is, within seven days of the onset of symptoms New Delhi: Plasma therapy on COVID-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources …

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Plasma therapy not effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines on Covid-19
3 years, 7 months ago

Plasma therapy not effective, likely to be dropped from clinical management guidelines on Covid-19

India Today  

Plasma therapy on Covid-19 patients has not been found effective in reducing the progression to severe disease or death and is likely to be dropped from the clinical management guidelines, sources said. In the letter, which was also marked to ICMR chief Balram Bhargava and AIIMS Director Randeep Guleria, public health professionals alleged that the current guidelines on plasma therapy …

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Stop irrational use of plasma, may develop more virulent strains of Covid, warn experts
3 years, 7 months ago

Stop irrational use of plasma, may develop more virulent strains of Covid, warn experts

India Today  

A group of doctors, public health officials and experts have written to the Centre’s principal scientific advisor along with the AIIMS chief and ICMR chief, raising concerns over the “irrational and non-scientific use of convalescent plasma for Covid-19”. The letter addressed to Principal Scientific Advisor Dr Vijay Raghavan says, “We are writing to you as concerned clinicians, public health professionals …

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Misinformed and misleading
3 years, 7 months ago

Misinformed and misleading

The Hindu  

The Health Ministry released its first COVID-19 management guidelines about a year ago. Policymakers should have waited for the final publication, worked with industry to scale-up production of budesonide, and bolstered supply chains till the final results came in, rather than hastily making recommendations that may trigger panic buying and a crisis for patients who actually need it. Lastly, absence …

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Coronavirus | Covishield protects against double mutant: study
3 years, 8 months ago

Coronavirus | Covishield protects against double mutant: study

The Hindu  

Preliminary studies show that people who have been vaccinated with Covishield have protection against the double mutant variant first found in India. Studies by researchers at the Hyderabad-based Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, a Council of Scientific and Industrial Research lab, found that protection against the double mutant variant was “Both Covishield vaccinated sera and convalescent sera were found …

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Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment
3 years, 9 months ago

Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment

NPR  

Convalescent Plasma Strikes Out As COVID-19 Treatment Enlarge this image toggle caption Karen Ducey/Getty Images Karen Ducey/Getty Images More than half a million Americans have received an experimental treatment for COVID-19 called convalescent plasma. Sponsor Message She recalls thinking, "we have this new disease that didn't have any known therapies, and convalescent plasma has been used in new epidemic and …

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Study shows Covid-19 evolved during treatment, convalescent plasma therapy patients had UK mutant
3 years, 10 months ago

Study shows Covid-19 evolved during treatment, convalescent plasma therapy patients had UK mutant

India Today  

A recent study has revealed that the dominant variant of the novel coronavirus or Covid-19 that emerged in patients after the convalescent plasma therapy possessed a mutation that is also present in the one first discovered in the UK. ".data reveal strong selection on SARS-CoV-2 during convalescent plasma therapy associated with the emergence of viral variants with evidence of reduced …

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Worrying new coronavirus variants could be home grown as well as imported
3 years, 10 months ago

Worrying new coronavirus variants could be home grown as well as imported

CNN  

CNN — The 45-year-old patient had been sick with coronavirus for months. “This patient’s mutations include hallmarks of the new variants, like N501Y and 484K,” Li said. Then, as we saw these new variants emerging from the UK, from South Africa, from Brazil, we saw the same mutations.” The case, which Li and colleagues detailed late last year in a …

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Monoclonal antibodies: A Covid-19 treatment people might not know about
4 years ago

Monoclonal antibodies: A Covid-19 treatment people might not know about

CNN  

CNN — There are very few drugs that prevent people with early Covid-19 from progress to severe disease, but monoclonal antibodies may be among them. “The monoclonal antibodies we’ve authorized seem to work best for preventing hospitalization in outpatients early in their disease – typically within 10 days of the onset of symptoms, if you are a high-risk individual. The …

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Coronavirus | ICMR warns against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy
4 years, 1 month ago

Coronavirus | ICMR warns against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy

The Hindu  

The Indian Council of Medical Research has warned against indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy for treating COVID-19. On Wednesday, it released report of an open-label phase II multicentre randomised controlled trial conducted across 39 public and private hospitals on the use of CPT in management of cases with moderate infection. The report concluded that the therapy “did not lead …

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Indiscriminate Use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Covid Patients Not Advisable, Warns ICMR
4 years, 1 month ago

Indiscriminate Use of Convalescent Plasma Therapy in Covid Patients Not Advisable, Warns ICMR

News 18  

The country's apex health research body, ICMR, has issued an advisory statingthat indiscriminate use of convalescent plasma therapy in coronavirus infected patients is not advisable. In an "Evidence Based Advisory to address Inappropriate Use of Convalescent Plasma in COVID-19 Patients", the Indian Council of Medical Research said that a potential donor for convalescent plasma should have sufficient concentration of antibody …

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Assam: Caution to the wind
4 years, 1 month ago

Assam: Caution to the wind

The Hindu  

Assam witnessed a sharp rise in COVID-19 fatalities in September and the first two weeks of October, while the total number of positive cases was close the 2 lakh mark. Health Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma told mediapersons on October 13 that if the cases of recovered COVID-positive persons who succumbed to comorbidities were considered, the total number of COVID-related fatalities …

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The plasma dead end?
4 years, 1 month ago

The plasma dead end?

India Today  

Since ILBS Hospital, in New Delhi, inaugurated its plasma bank in early July, requests have poured in ceaselessly. Many examples of adverse reactions and the inability of plasma treatment to reduce Covid mortality have been recorded in the ICMR’s PLACID trial too. As a result, the ICMR has announced the possibility of removing convalescent plasma therapy as one of the …

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With Covid-19 soaring nationwide, is coronavirus treatment getting better in the US?
4 years, 2 months ago

With Covid-19 soaring nationwide, is coronavirus treatment getting better in the US?

CNN  

CNN — Dr. Joseph Varon hasn’t taken a day off in 214 days. But this month, the World Health Organization said remdesivir has “little or no effect on mortality” for patients hospitalized with Covid-19 and it doesn’t seem to help patients recover any faster, either. “We’re saving lives with this,” Dr. Mangala Narasimhan, regional director for critical care at Northwell …

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Let’s Get Real About the President’s Antibody Treatment
54 years, 11 months ago

Let’s Get Real About the President’s Antibody Treatment

Wired  

The President claimed on Wednesday that he’d had a rapid “cure” from Covid-19, thanks to an experimental drug from Regeneron that’s “like, unbelievable!” Trump also said he has “emergency use authorization all set” for the treatment, and Regeneron quickly followed by requesting that approval from the US Food and Drug Administration. What’s more, the Eli Lilly trial is not designed …

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Covid-19: Plasma therapy to start in eight north Bengal districts
4 years, 3 months ago

Covid-19: Plasma therapy to start in eight north Bengal districts

Hindustan Times  

The West Bengal government will start plasma therapy for coronavirus disease patients in eight districts in north Bengal next week. Indian Council of Medical Research has allowed convalescent plasma to be used for moderately ill Covid-19 patients. Convalescent plasma therapy involves extraction of plasma from the blood of Covid-19 patients four weeks after they have been cured of their viral …

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