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 […]
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 […]
CRISPR: A Transformation in Human Therapeutics
What is CRISPR? CRISPR-Cas9 (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) is a revolutionary gene editing tool whose efficacy and ease of use has already accelerated innovation across multiple diverse industries. Biologically speaking, it is defence mechanism utilized by the bacteria for invading pathogens, but recently researchers have repurposed this entire gene editing technology giving it a newer […]