{"id":64065,"date":"2020-04-14T18:00:53","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/?p=64065"},"modified":"2020-04-14T18:25:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:25:48","slug":"dow-university-medical-experts-make-headway-covid-19-plasma-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/dow-university-medical-experts-make-headway-covid-19-plasma-treatment.html","title":{"rendered":"Dow University medical experts make headway in COVID-19 plasma treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karachi: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Monday announced that its medical experts had made significant headway in the treatment of COVID-19 using blood plasma from recovered patients, a news source reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-considers-extending-lockdown-for-another-week.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab considers extending lockdown for another week (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab considers extending lockdown for another week<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per the publication, the experts claimed that Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) could treat coronavirus patients. Professor Muhammad Saeed Qureshi stated that IVIG was an amazing development in the fight against COVID-19. He further revealed that the globulin was recovered from the blood of infected patients and purified \u2014 after which the experts remove unnecessary materials through ultra-purification techniques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-announces-two-month-ban-tenant-eviction.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab govt announces two-month ban on tenant evictions (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab govt announces two-month ban on tenant evictions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The experts claimed that the method employed to manufacture the globulin was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Through their experiments, the university\u2019s researchers now believe that the aforementioned treatment could be quite effective. The DUHS experts also argued that the strain of COVID-19 in Pakistan had undergone a few mutations and that the IVIG extracted from recovered patients in the country would provide immunity against the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>Read:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/punjab-govt-extends-qeemat-app-service-rawalpindi-other-cities.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Punjab govt extends Qeemat App service to Rawalpindi, other cities (opens in a new tab)\">Punjab govt extends Qeemat App service to Rawalpindi, other cities<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Previously, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/drap-approves-passive-immunisation-treatment.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP)  (opens in a new tab)\">Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) <\/a>on April 9 had permitted clinical trials for treating coronavirus patients through plasma therapy. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karachi: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Monday announced that its medical experts had made significant headway in the treatment of COVID-19 using blood plasma from recovered patients, a news source reported. Read: Punjab considers extending lockdown for another week As per the publication, the experts claimed that Intravenous Immunoglobulin (IVIG) could treat coronavirus patients. Professor Muhammad Saeed Qureshi stated that IVIG was an amazing development in the fight against COVID-19. He further revealed that the globulin was recovered from the blood of infected patients and purified \u2014 after which the experts remove unnecessary materials through ultra-purification techniques. Read: Punjab govt announces two-month ban on tenant evictions The experts claimed that the method employed to manufacture the globulin was approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Through their experiments, the university\u2019s researchers now believe that the aforementioned treatment could be quite effective. The DUHS experts also argued that the strain of COVID-19 in Pakistan had undergone a few mutations and that the IVIG extracted from recovered patients in the country would provide immunity against the virus. Read: Punjab govt extends Qeemat App service to Rawalpindi, other cities Previously, the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan (DRAP) on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":64066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[26210,26212,26211],"persona":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-64065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"tag-dow-university-of-health-sciences-duhs","8":"tag-intravenous-immunoglobulin-ivig","9":"tag-treatment-of-covid-19"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dow University medical in COVID-19 plasma treatment - Zameen News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Karachi: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Monday announced that its medical experts had made significant headway in the treatment\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/dow-university-medical-experts-make-headway-covid-19-plasma-treatment.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dow University medical in COVID-19 plasma treatment - Zameen News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Karachi: Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Monday announced that its medical experts had made significant headway in the treatment\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.zameen.com\/news\/dow-university-medical-experts-make-headway-covid-19-plasma-treatment.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Pakistan Real Estate News &amp; 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