Acute zika infection may damage sensory nerves supriya kashyap kashyap29 Aug 2016 2:54 PM ISTNew York : Zika virus infection has been associated with several neurological complications and researchers have now reported that it may also lead to...
India fertile ground for Zika epidemic, says Lancet supriya kashyap kashyap3 Sept 2016 9:55 AM ISTToronto : With 13 Indians already confirmed to have been infected with the Zika virus in Singapore, experts have more bad news to share. A new study...
Opthalmologists Beware: Zika virus can persist in eyes, spread through tears supriya kashyap kashyap12 Sept 2016 9:27 AM ISTWashington : Eyes may be a reservoir for Zika virus, say scientists, including one of Indian origin, who found evidence of the virus in eyes and tears...
Cancer, not Zika or HIV, scares Americans most supriya kashyap kashyap15 Sept 2016 3:03 PM ISTNew York : While Zika remains a hot topic in the news, a new survey has revealed that of all the health conditions it is cancer particularly brain...
Mark Zuckerberg, wife pledge 3 bn dollars to fund medical research supriya kashyap kashyap23 Sept 2016 2:50 PM ISTSan Francisco : In a bid to help coming generations live disease free, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan have pledged $3...
Zika no threat to plasma derived drugs, says EU regulator supriya kashyap kashyap25 Sept 2016 11:03 AM ISTLondon : Patients who take medicines derived from blood plasma or urine are not at increased risk of catching Zika, even if the body fluids come from...
Six healthy babies born in Nicaragua to Zika infected mothers supriya kashyap kashyap28 Sept 2016 9:20 AM ISTManagua : Six healthy babies were born to mothers that had been exposed to the Zika virus during their pregnancies in Nicaragua, the Central American...
Take decisive action against Zika: WHO to Southeast Asian nations supriya kashyap kashyap1 Oct 2016 2:06 PM ISTThe World Health Organisation (WHO) urged countries across the Southeast Asia region to continue taking decisive action against Zika virus as two new...
As babies stricken by Zika turn 1, health problems mount supriya kashyap kashyap12 Oct 2016 1:53 PM ISTBrazil : Two weeks shy of his first birthday, doctors began feeding Jose Wesley Campos through a nose tube because swallowing problems had left him...
US begins testing of inactivated Zika vaccine in humans supriya kashyap kashyap8 Nov 2016 2:42 PM ISTWashington : A US military lab began the first of five early stage clinical trials to test the safety and ability of an investigational Zika purified...
Women at greater risk for Zika infection due to suppressed vaginal immune response supriya kashyap kashyap19 Nov 2016 12:33 PM ISTScientists at the Gladstone Institutes discovered that the vaginal immune system is suppressed in response to RNA viruses, such as Zika. The delayed...
FDA research to help speed development of Zika virus vaccines supriya kashyap kashyap23 Nov 2016 11:55 AM ISTA new mouse model developed by scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may help in exploring the potential activity of Zika virus vaccines...
