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Police database, credentialing efforts included in modest Trump order on policing
The order would encourage police departments to employ the latest standards for use of force; improve information sharing so that officers with shoddy records are not hired without their backgrounds being known and add social workers to law enforcement responses to non-violent cases involving drug addiction and homelessness, officials said . [Full Article...]
Jump Rope Challenge Lets You Skip for Free on the Switch
It seems that they want to share their creation to the world as many are working remotely and could do with some new take on physical activity. The input from the motion of the Joy-Cons is repeated by the little rabbit character on-screen, which also keeps a count of your skips. [Full Article...]
Imperial College London begins human trials of new Covid-19 vaccine
China's vaccine maker Sinovac Biotech ( Sinovac ) released over the weekend positive preliminary clinical trial results for its potential vaccine candidate, which is expected to be tested in a Phase 3 trial in Brazil. Still, numerous countries, including Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United States, have already placed advance orders for millions of vaccines that could be av... [Full Article...]
Oxford Researchers Identify First Drug Proven to Reduce COVID Fatalities
The results suggested that dexamethasone reduced deaths by 35% in ventilated patients (rate ratio 0.65 [95% confidence interval: 0.48-0.88]; P=0.0003) and by 20% in other patients receiving oxygen only (0.80 [0.67-0.96]; P=0.0021). For these patients, doctors have believed, they would need to dampen patients' immune response even as they fought the virus. Early results from United Kingdom clinic... [Full Article...]
Scientists hail dexamethasone as "major breakthrough" in treating COVID-19
The researchers running the study, called RECOVERY, made a decision to stop enrolling patients on dexamethasone on June 8 because they believed they had enough data to get a clear result. It's been used for decades to treat conditions such as arthritis and asthma. The Recovery trial also studied the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine, but discontinued its use "due to lack of efficacy". [Full Article...]
When Sushant Singh Rajput spoke about nepotism in Bollywood
Sushant Singh Rajput died due to suicide at his Bandra residence on Sunday morning. According to some media reports, Sushant was suffering from depression over the past six months. Prakash Raj along with his tweet shared an old video of Sushant Singh Rajput. You can't do anything about it. "But at the same time, if you deliberately don't allow the right talents to come up, then there is a pr... [Full Article...]
US FDA Revokes Emergency Use Authorisation for Hydroxychloroquine
The United States yesterday withdrew emergency use authorisations for two antimalarial drugs favoured by President Donald Trump to treat the new coronavirus , effectively shutting the door on the politically charged treatments. Mr Trump, who said he had been taking the drug as a precaution in May , said other countries had found the malaria drug effective in treating the coronavirus, compl... [Full Article...]
Low-cost dexamethasone first life-saving COVID-19 drug
Among patients with COVID-19 who did not require respiratory support, there was no benefit from treatment with dexamethasone. "It shows the importance of doing high quality clinical trials and basing decisions on the results of those trials". [Full Article...]