India’s top health research body, Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), has approved a rapid antigen test (RAT) kit for Indians to conduct the COVID-19 test at home, officials said on Thursday. The research body has granted the approval for the self-testing COVISelf kit, also known as COVISelfTM (PathoCatch) COVID-19 OTC Antigen LF device, manufactured […]
The Director-General of the Nigeria Institute of Medical Research (NIMR), Prof. Babatunde Salako, has urged Nigerians to take advantage of the ongoing free drive-through COVID-19 testing centre. Salako, who made this known on the institute’s verified Twitter handle, said that the institute prior to the drive-through testing, started commercial COVID-19 testing on February 20. He […]
Women who breastfeed their children are at lesser risk of developing cancer of the uterus, researchers at the QIMR Berghofer medical research institute in Australia have said. Susan Jordan, head of the cancer causes and care research group at QIMR Berghofer, said that women who breastfeed at least one child have a lower risk of […]