COVID-19 Raised Mental Health Issues Within Families by Angela Mohan on April 13, 2021 at 5:26 PM
Lock down due to COVID-19 has been liked to a variety of large, detrimental effects on individuals and families well-being and functioning.
Parents reported that they themselves were experiencing much higher levels of depression and lower levels of coparenting quality with their partners.
Mark Feinberg, research professor of health and human development at Penn State, said the results recently published in the journal
Family Process give insight into just how devastating periods of family and social stress can be for parents and children, and how important a good coparenting relationship can be for family well-being.
40 Doctors Test Positive for COVID-19 After Vaccination by Angela Mohan on April 8, 2021 at 11:33 AM
Forty doctors including vice chancellor of Lucknow s King George s Medical University (KGMU), have tested positive COVID-19 despite taking both doses of COVID vaccine.
Vice Chancellor has been infected by the virus was administered with the second dose of vaccine on March 25.
Sandeep Tewari of KGMU saidL During the last four days, around 40 doctors, including medical superintendent Himanshu, have tested positive.
20 doctors are from the general surgery department, nine from the urology department and three from the department of medicine.
Several other faculty members complained of flu-like symptoms on Tuesday. So, screening of entire staff will also be done.
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New Therapy for Parasitic Disease may Help Fight Coronavirus by Angela Mohan on April 5, 2021 at 8:26 PM
SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, can t dock on and infect human cells unless a human enzyme called cathepsin L cleaves the virus spike protein.
Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that produce an enzyme called cruzain, helps them to replicate in humans. McKerrow s research team started looking for inhibitors of cruzain. One particularly effective cruzain inhibitor is called K777.
They later found that cathepsin L looks and acts like cruzain.
In a study published by
ACS Chemical Biology, McKerrow and the team show that low concentrations of K777 inhibit cathepsin L can reduce SARS-CoV-2 s ability to infect four host cell lines, without harming the cells.
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