Stay updated with breaking news from பார்லெட் ஸ்டீல். Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
email article Oklahoma will get a refund for its unused stockpile of hydroxychloroquine, the state s attorney general announced. The state reached an agreement with supplier FFF Enterprises of California to get back the full purchase price paid for the drug in April 2020. When it was determined the drug wasn t effective in combatting the virus, they did the right thing by refunding our money, said State Attorney General Mike Hunter (R), in a statement. According to the official agreement, FFF Enterprises procured a supply of 100-count bottles of 200-mg hydroxychloroquine tablets from importer Rising Pharma on April 7, 2020, at the request of the Oklahoma Department of Health. ....
email article Ash Tewari, MD, got an urgent call from the children of one of his good childhood friends from his hometown of Kanpur, India. It was 3 a.m. there, so he knew the news wouldn t be good. Their father was in a bad way: he could barely move, and his oxygen saturation was dipping into the 60s. Tewari told them to try to get their father to a hospital. He stayed with them on video chat as they drove to the first hospital. After a 20-minute wait, the hospital turned them away because it had no more beds. After another long drive, the second hospital said it was out of ventilators, but it could offer IV fluids. Seeing his friend s condition, and knowing this would likely be the story at any other hospital they tried, Tewari recommended they take the offer. ....
email article The case of a Missouri patient who was awake during surgery is making headlines, as it appears that his sevoflurane was never turned on, leaving him aware for at least 13 minutes of his procedure. Last summer, Matthew Caswell went into Progress West Hospital in O Fallon, Missouri, for hernia repair and removal of a lipoma on the back of his neck. But he realized early in the procedure that something was wrong. I knew I was in trouble when I felt the cold iodine hit my belly and they were scrubbing me off. At any second I was waiting to go out, but all of a sudden I just got stabbed in my stomach, Caswell told local TV station ....
email article The Zero COVID debate is one of the hottest controversies at the moment, with supporters on the defense, trying to explain exactly what they mean by the term. Most epidemiologists and infectious disease experts strongly believe wiping SARS-CoV-2 from the face of the earth is unlikely but that s not what is meant by the concept, argued Deepti Gurdasani, PhD, of Queen Mary University of London, one of its most vocal proponents. Elimination is not eradication, Gurdasani recently tweeted. No one is talking about eradication here. During a recent BMJ symposium on Zero COVID, Art Reingold, MD, professor of epidemiology at University of California Berkeley, opened the program by pointing out that the goals and terminology of the movement are unclear. ....