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Amgen reported better results for first quarter and said that they are investigating their psoriasis drug, Otezla as a potential treatment for COVID-19.

Shiv Nadar University, India’s leading multidisciplinary and research-based university, today announced a potential breakthrough solution in the global battle against COVID-19. A team of researchers led by Dr Subhabrata Sen from the Department of Chemistry, Shiv Nadar University, India along with his collaborator Professor Ralf Jockers, Institut Cochin (INSERM, CNRS, Université de Paris, France), has discovered a set of New Chemical Entities (NCEs) with the ability to cure Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) or Acute Lung Injury (ALI) induced by COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) or other Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), which are also caused by coronaviruses.

PGIMER Chandigarh started clinical trial  of Sepsivac on asymptomatic Coronavirus patients after the Drug Controller General of India (DCGI) has approved for human trials.

African Americans with severe sleep apnea and other adverse sleep patterns are much more likely to have high blood glucose levels — a risk factor for diabetes — than those without these patterns, according to a new study funded in part by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), part of the National Institutes of Health.

Using machine learning, a team of computer scientists and biologists from Western University identified an underlying genomic signature for 29 different COVID-19 virus DNA sequences.

Amid the rapidly evolving global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic that has already had profound effects on public health and medical infrastructure across the globe, many questions remain about its impact on child health. New research published in the Journal of Clinical Virology indicates that the vulnerability of neonates and children and their role in the spread of the virus (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 [SARS-CoV-2]) should be included in preparedness and response plans.

People with certain heart diseases may be more susceptible to worse outcomes with COVID-19, but the reason why has remained unknown. New research from Mayo Clinic indicates that in patients with one specific type of heart disease obstructive hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) the heart increases production of the ACE2 RNA transcript and the translated ACE2 protein.

A study conducted in US Veteran hospital in United States found no evidence that use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ), either with or without azithromycin, reduced the risk of mechanical ventilation or death in patients hospitalized with COVID-19.

As the demand for sanitizers has increased amid coronavirus outbreak, various laboratories have started the production of sanitizers. In one such endeavour, researchers of the National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI) have developed alcohol-based herbal sanitizer. The product is developed under Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)-Aroma Mission as per the World Health Organisation (WHO) guidelines.