Articles by Rima
Correlation between Smoking and COVID-19
New research results show that cigarette smoking increases the expression of Angiotensin converting enzyme-2 (ACE-2) in rodent and human lungs. ACE-2 is protein which is […]
Tetracyclines
Tetracyclines are broad spectrum antibiotics, discovered in the 1940s. Chlortetracycline is the first tetracycline to be identified. It was isolated from Streptomyces aureofaciens. Tetracyclines are […]
Chloramphenicol
Chloramphenicol Chloramphenicol is broad spectrum antibiotic derived from Streptomyces venezuelae. It was introduced into clinical practice in 1949. Chloramphenicol was the first antibiotic to be […]
Penicillin Allergy
Antibiotics are the most commonly prescribed medicines across all over the world. Penicillin is among the most important antibiotics, which belong to group beta-lactam antibiotics. […]
Cannabis in Fight Against Anti-Bacterial Resistance
What is antimicrobial resistance? Antibiotics are becoming less effective in fight against microbial infections. Many decades after the discovery of first antibiotic in 1920s, bacterial […]
Anti-thyroid Drugs
Anti-thyroid Drugs Anti-thyroid drugs (ATD) that have major clinical utility are thioureylenes which belong to the family of thioamides. They are used to treat hyperthyroidism […]
The Latest Research on Mental Health of Health Workers during COVID-19
The pandemic COVID-19 has both direct and indirect effect on health workers and non-medical workers working in hospitals. During SARS outbreak in 2003, health staffs […]
Can Vitamin-D help us prevent COVID-19 cases and mortality?
A new research has found an association between low/average vitamin D and high number of COVID-19 cases and mortality across 20 European countries. The research […]
Reduction and Functional Exhaustion of T-cells in Patients with COVID-19.
This study was conducted in 522 COVID-19 patients (age between 5 days -97 years) admitted in Hanyang hospital in Wuhan, China and 40 healthy people […]