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A temporary waiver of the Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights

An article written by Parsa Erfani, Agnes Binagwaho, Mohamed Juldeh Jalloh, Muhammad Yunus, Paul Farmer, and Vanessa Kerry has been published in the British Medical Journal, on 3rd August 2021 titled " Intellectual property waiver for covid-19 vaccines will advance global health equity" which focuses on the importance of a temporary IP waiver to reach global needs. The article states the current vaccination figures show that the percentage of people in high-income countries who have been vaccinated is 46% while 20% in middle-income countries and 0.9% in low-income countries. This is largely due to the acquisition of doses by high-income countries in large quantities as well as production is restricted to a small number of manufacturers. The article states that a clear scarcity of supply...

Praava Health on COVID-19 Testing Awareness

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Praava Health is working to be as careful as we can in our work to ensure and maintain the highest international standard possible, especially as our country braves a public health crisis. Praava was founded on the belief that Bangladeshis deserve world class quality healthcare services, grounded in dignity and care, and empathy. There is a lot of discussion regarding the accuracy of COVID-19 testing, and due to lack of trust in healthcare as a whole in Bangladesh, it can be easy to assume the worst. Like any diagnostic test, even at the best labs in the world, there is a chance that someone will have the virus but will test negative (false negative), or does not have the virus and will test positive (false positive). Global data regarding the accuracy of COVID-19 PCR tests...

Eating milk chocolate at this time of day can help body burn fat

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Eating milk chocolate every day may sound like a recipe for weight gain, but a study of postmenopausal women has found that eating a concentrated amount of chocolate during a narrow window of time in the morning may help the body burn fat and decrease blood sugar levels. The study was published in The FASEB Journal. To find out about the effects of eating milk chocolate at different times of day, researchers from Brigham collaborated with investigators at the University of Murcia in Spain. Together, they conducted a randomized, controlled, cross-over trial of 19 postmenopausal women who consumed either 100g of chocolate in the morning (within one hour after waking time) or at night (within one hour before bedtime). They compared weight gain and many other measures to no ...