Covid Vaccine- How close are we?
Covid Vaccine: Why did the need arise? In December 2019, reports flocked out of central city in Wuhan, China that a new coronavirus is causing a cluster of pneumonia cases in the city. On March 11, 2020, WHO declared the coronavirus as a pandemic and since then things have changed drastically. The deadly virus has […]
Impact of COVID-19 on Clinical Trials
The world is in the grip of Covid-19, a WHO declared pandemic, with ever rising number of patients and no cure in near sight. In terms of casualties, both lives lost and those in need of critical care, and potential impacts on socioeconomics, the global health crisis is the biggest challenge faced after World War […]
How soon we will have an answer to COVID-19?
Coronavirus (COVID-19) has affected more than ~2.0Mn people worldwide and killed at least 134,733. (As of 16th April 2020). As the number of COVID-19 confirmed cases continue to surge, healthcare workers have started coming up with medical treatments which could counter the worldwide spread of the disease. Currently, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has […]
Go Smart to avoid a bleak future of oncology sales force after Coronavirus in US?
Being a Sales representative is not an easy task; right from identifying potential prospects to lead generation, the role is demanding, physically tiring and full of uncertainty, failures and rejections not knowing if the goals would be met at the end of quarter. And now Coronavirus lockdown may create a turmoil for the frontline sales […]
Impact of COVID-19 outbreak on mental health of HCPs
Healthcare Professionals (HCPs) are at the forefront of the COVID-19 battle. As the rest of us take measures to maintain social distancing or even go into a lockdown, numerous HCPs across the globe are doing the opposite. Everyday they head out to treat and care for COVID-19 patients. Slowly but steadily, hospitals are filling up […]
Convalescent plasma: A promising old therapeutic approach
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), an acute respiratory disease whose outbreak has been declared a pandemic, infected more than 1.2 million people worldwide, killed 69,498 and 2,65,883 were recovered (as of Apr 6, 2020).1 Any approved vaccines or therapies for COVID-19? As of now, there are no Food and Drug Administration (FDA) -approved vaccines or therapies […]
Technology Trends in Today’s Pharma World
Technology Trends in the Pharma Industry With today’s growing arena of technologies like AI, Big Data and AWS, there has been a great shift in the way the technologies are evolving. The trends have changed. The way we look at some of the niche technical areas have changed. I would in this article be highlighting […]