Future Medicine India - October 2021

In this issue

COVER STORY
Endgame vs Endemic-- The waning hope of Covid-19 endgame.

INTERVIEW
Digital Health The Way Forward-- An exciting discussion with digital health pioneer and social entrepreneur Dr Syed Sabahat Azim, IAS.

SPECIAL REPORT
CIDRAP R&D Roadmap To Improve Influenza Vaccines

Insightful Columns and Regular Features

CIDRAP RELEASES INFLUENZA VACCINES R&D ROADMAP TO IMPROVE FLU VACCINES

The Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy (CIDRAP) at the University of Minnesota, has released an Influenza Vaccines Research and Development Roadmap (IVR) to accelerate the development of improved seasonal influenza vaccines and the generation of broadly protective or universal influenza vaccines that could mitigate the impact of future influenza pandemics.

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How Long Before Covid-19 Can At Least Be Curbed To The Endemic Stage?

Even as the prospect of COVID-19 turning endemic seems the likely long-term scenario for many countries, experts feel that even that will remain a distant dream for India

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Beating The Pandemic: The Best And The Worst

Globally, countries followed effective measures and appropriate social behaviour along with the vaccine intervention have almost won the fight while many are their level best to adhere to the protocols are on the way to win. However several top nations, irrespective of their developed and developing economy and healthcare status, are still in the woods as the pandemic cautions seemed compromised at many levels. (Country, total cases and current daily average)

8 mins

COVID-19 UPDATES

CDC PANEL BACKS PFIZER VACCINE BOOSTER SHOT FOR ADULTS

9 mins

“CONNECTING THE PATIENT ON VIDEO WITH A DOCTOR IS NOT DIGITAL HEALTH, THERE IS MUCH MORE TO IT”

Digital health is the way forward for the world at a time when it is going through one of its most uncertain phases during which mobility has been affected, the economy is in peril and human health is in danger. In June, New York Stock Exchange saw the listing of a company that can truly impact the future of world healthcare in this context. UpHealth Holdings, Inc., which was born through a reverse merger of four companies, combines the four essential components of digital healthcare — a low cost, but accountable system of care, an integrated care management platform, a tech-enabled behavioral health service unit and a full-service e-pharmacy capability. The new entity, which began trading on the NYSE at $9.29 a share on June 10th, was formed by the merger of Glocal Healthcare, a social venture and one of India’s pioneer digital health companies, and three US-based entities Thrasys, BHS & Transformations, and MedQuest. The company focuses on the three As of future healthcare — access anywhere, affordability for everyone and accountability of health outcomes. The founder of Glocal Healthcare and the chief architect of this new global healthcare fusion, DR SYED SABAHAT AZIM — a physician and former Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official, envisioned this a long time ago when he founded Glocal in 2010. Glocal was conceived as a social enterprise bringing quality healthcare to rural India through a combination of low cost primary and secondary care hospitals and digital dispensaries powered by technology. However, says he, the majority of the world, including people engaged in the service of healthcare, is yet to fully understand ‘digital health’ and ‘telemedicine’. Dr Sabahat says the term digital health is often misinterpreted even by healthcare providers, in an exclusive interview with Editor CH UNNIKRISHNAN.

8 mins

Researchers find drug-resistant Malaria in Uganda

Researchers in Uganda analysed malaria patients and found a form of drug-resistant malaria disease, strengthening worries about the utilization of current drugs against the parasitic disease.

8 mins

Learnings From The 2nd Wave Of Covid

PSA plants could be the answer to battle Supply and Purity challenges in Medical Oxygen

3 mins

Liposomal Nanotechnology and its role in vaccine delivery systems

In the recent past, there have been many projects to develop sub-unit vaccines that are more effective and defined

3 mins

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