Recall of iron supplement by Maharashtra FDA remains only on paper On November 17, the FDA issued an order asking Emcure to recall its product Orofer's (batch no. ELF8BB2001) following the death of a 55-year-old man at Saifee Hospital due to a suspected adverse drug reaction. Eight days after the state Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recalled a batch of the iron supplement infection Orofer FCM over safety concerns, not a single vial has returned to the manufacturer or the distributors. https://ift.tt/iUzX5As
Researchers test mRNA technology for universal flu vaccine The idea here is to have a vaccine that will give people a baseline level of immune memory to diverse flu strains so that there will be far less disease and death when the next flu pandemic occurs said study leader, Scott Hensley, Perelman School of Medicine. https://ift.tt/Acd5W6C
COVID-19: India registers 347 new cases, active cases down to 5,516 The active cases constitute 0.01 per cent of the total infections, while the national COVID-19 recovery rate has increased to 98.80 per cent, according to the ministry website. https://ift.tt/Acd5W6C
Foreign Hand In AIIMS Server Crash? Delhi Police on Thursday filed an FIR for cyber terrorism and extortion to begin probing the hacking of AIIMS servers by foreign-based players. Multiple probe agencies have been roped in to recover the systems. This is the most significant ransomware cyber attack on a reputed medical institution in recent times. https://ift.tt/Acd5W6C