Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday expressed concern over the plight of people in Uttarakhand's Joshimath, where cracks have appeared in hundreds of houses, and asked the State government to take care of the affected populace and ensure their safety in this cold weather. "Going against nature by continuous digging and unplanned construction on the mountains has led to the …
The Covid-19 vaccines are ready and have been shipped to several states across the country. However, reports indicate that though a majority are keen to get vaccinated, concern about the safety and efficacy of the vaccine is common among citizens. SAFETY CONCERN REIGNS SUPREME Even among the ones willing to take the coronavirus vaccine, safety concern reigns supreme and two …
India's central drug authority, Drugs Controller General of India, on Sunday announced the formal approval for the coronavirus vaccines of Oxford-AstraZeneca, manufactured by the Serum Institute, and Bharat Biotech, saying they will be administered in two dosages each. VG Somani of DCGI said both firms submitted data on their trial runs of the coronavirus vaccines and both have been granted …
US pharmaceutical firm Eli Lilly on Tuesday paused a late-stage trial of its experimental lab-produced antibody treatment against Covid-19 over an unspecified safety concern, the company said. It is Monoclonal antibody treatments have been making headlines recently after US President Donald Trump credited one therapy, developed by biotech firm Regeneron, with curing him of Covid-19. It was not immediately clear …
Is chlorine-washed chicken safe to eat? A 2017 report published by free-market think tank, the Adam Smith Institute, entitled “Chlorinated Chicken: Why you shouldn’t give a cluck”, said that fears over treated poultry were overblown. It cited European Commission figures indicating that a person would have to eat 5 per cent of their own body weight of chlorine-washed chicken in …
