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New York : Treatment of Covid with Pfizer's antiviral drug Paxlovid, which has shown to cause a rebound of infection, can also be contagious, even without any symptoms, according to a study that has not been peer-reviewed yet. US…

New York : Early exposure to antibiotics kills healthy bacteria in the digestive tract and can cause asthma and allergies, claims a new study conducted on mice. The study, published in 'Mucosal Immunology', has provided the strongest…

New York : An international team of researchers has found that varicella zoster virus (VZV), which commonly causes chickenpox and shingles, may activate herpes simplex (HSV), another common virus, to set in motion the early stages of…

San Francisco : Microblogging site Twitter has confirmed that it is raising the price of its premium subscription service, Twitter Blue, from $2.99 to $4.99 monthly a 66 per cent increase. In an email sent to Twitter Blue subscribers,…

San Francisco : Micro-blogging site Twitter has confirmed that it is testing a new status feature that lets users tag posts with pre-defined labels, much like the statuses that the previous LiveJournal and MySpace systems permitted. Some…

New York : Taking supplements of Vitamin D, popularly known as the sunshine vitamin, may not reduce risk of fractures in adults, claims a study.Although Vitamin D supplements are widely prescribed and used to benefit bone health, definitive…

New York : People who reported smoking or vaping prior to their hospitalisation for Covid-19 were more likely than their counterparts, who did not smoke or vape, to experience severe complications, including death, from the SARS-CoV-2…

San Francisco : During the company's earnings call, Alphabet and Google CEO Sundar Pichai said that more than three billion monthly active devices are now running on the Android operating system globally.Pichai mentioned that consumers had…

New York : Researchers have identified specific proteins within our lungs that can protect us from SARS-CoV-2 infections, potentially opening the door to new antiviral therapies.In the study, published in the journal Nature Genetics,…

London : Long Covid sufferers experience a wider set of symptoms than previously thought. Covid-19 survivors are also likely to suffer from hair loss and sexual dysfunction, new research has found. Researchers from the University of…