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COVID-19 News - Gemfibrozil & Lovastatin, Reduces SARS-CoV-2 Neuroinfection Feb 13, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by South Korean researchers from Chonnam National University, Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology along with scientist from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-USA has found that SARS-CoV-2 neuroinvasiveness and neuroinfection is governed by cholesterol homeostasis and translational machinery-associated genes! The study team found that brain corticoge...
Supplement News - Fake Supplements Sold Online Feb 13, 2023 2 years ago
Supplement News: Thai and foreign consumers should beware about ordering supplements or nutraceutical products online from various platforms as almost 95 percent of them are fakes!
While many are bearing American brands with exact replica of packaging and details, the contents are basically fake and are actually originating from China or Vietnam!
Most of the online platforms includ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 - Nsp16- IFIT1- IFIT3 Feb 13, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, Texas-USA, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland-USA and University of California, San Diego, California-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus uses its nonstructural protein 16 (Nsp16) to evade immunity restrictions by the antiviral proteins: Interferon-induced proteins with tetratricopeptide re...
COVID-19 News - OAS Genes - MIS-C Feb 12, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new international study led by researchers from the St. Giles Laboratory of Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Rockefeller Branch, The Rockefeller University, New York-USA HAS found Inborn errors of OAS–RNase L gene to be the cause behind SARS-CoV-2–related multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children.
This is not the first time that human OAS gene varian...
COVID-19 Research - Nsp15 Inhibits Type 1 Interferon Production. Feb 12, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new research by scientists from Jiangsu University-China has found that the Nsp15 protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus suppresses Type I Interferon production by inhibiting IRF3 phosphorylation and nuclear translocation.
Structure Of the SARS-CoV-2 Virus
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is a single positive-stranded RNA virus in the family Coronaviridae, genus Betacoronavirus. Th...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Modulates Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) Transcriptome Feb 12, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by Italian researchers from the Laboratory of Molecular Virology, Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Cagliari,Italy and the Istituto di Ricerca Genetica e Biomedica, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Italy has found that that SARS-CoV-2 modulates Human Endogenous Retrovirus (HERV) transcriptome during infection and even allows allows discrimin...
Outbreak News: International Experts, epidemiologists and scientist need to keep a close watch on the current developments taking place in Peru as reports show that there is a major health crisis brewing in the country with a population of 33.7 million people but with a very primitive public health infrastructure.
Monkeypox Crisis
Reports have already emerged that monkeypox or Mpox infect...
Zinc Supplements - Copper Deficiency -MDS -COVID-19 Feb 11, 2023 2 years ago
Zinc Supplements: Researchers from Sidney Kimmel Medical College, Philadelphia-USA and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia-USA are warning that many are manifesting health conditions resembling myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) and at times are even misdiagnosed by physicians when it reality it is actually copper deficiency caused by zinc supplementation, especially in this COVID-19 e...
COVID-19 News - Sarcopenia Feb 11, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the Department of Rehabilitation and Functional Recovery and also the Department of Neurosurgery and Gamma Knife Radiosurgery at IRCCS San Raffaele Scientific Institute-Milan-Italy, have in a new study found that Sarcopenia is a common manifestation in SARS-CoV-2 infections, especially in those who were hospitalized when infected or are older.
Sarcopenia is a condi...
COVID-19 News: Zoonotic Infections In Minks Feb 10, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Department of Microbiology and Immunology, The Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne-Australia has surprisingly found that the evolutionary rate of the SARS-CoV-2 virus increases during zoonotic infection of farmed mink, spawning many worrisome mutations.
In order to investigate genetic signatures of adaptation to...
U.S. Medical News - VEXAS Syndrome Feb 10, 2023 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: Unknown to many, a mysterious disease has been growing in prevalence and affecting a number of older Americans, either killing them in the short term or shortening their lifespans. The disease known as VEXAS syndrome is a disease that causes inflammatory and hematologic (blood) manifestations.
A previous U.S. NIH and NYU study identified that mutations in the UBA1 ...
COVID-19 News: LRRC15 And SARS-CoV-2 Feb 10, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: No sure who is paying the Guardian or whether some of their coverages are being paid by those controlling the COVID-19 narratives to deflect the concerns about the current COVID-19 situation and the potential threats that are brewing or to provide false hopes to the ignorant masses, but their article today that was written to make it look like some new major discovery in SARS-CoV-2 ...
Health News: In the last 18 years while managing many other medical and health websites including one that is tied to only releasing medical or scientific based press releases, I have come to realize that in may cases, the public and masses are only informed of certain important health, medical or pandemic issues much later and in many cases, critical data is often known first to a small group of ...
COVID-19 News - BA.5 Sub-lineages Feb 09, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Many variant hunters and virologist are claiming that in a matter of weeks, the various BA.5 sub-lineages such as the BEs, BFs, BQs, BWs, DFs, DJs and BA.51.s and BA.5.2s will be obsolete and that the BA.2 sub-lineages such as CH.1.1, BRs and BNs along with their newer emerging sub-lineages and also the various recombinant variants such as the XBBs, XBFs, XBJs etc along with some of...
Long COVID News: A new American study review led by researchers from the Patient-Led Research Collaborative, New York-USA and Scripps Research Translational Institute, California-USA has found that suggests long COVID may last indefinitely for some individuals and mimic other ailments!
The American review contradicts earlier Israeli claims covered in various Long COVID-19 News coverages t...
H5N1 Avian Flu News: In the last two months, mainstream media has been abuzz about the H5N1 Avian flu virus that is wreaking havoc in poultry farms across the world, causing a shortage of not only poultry products but also eggs. Reports have also emerged that the H5N1 Avian flu virus is also infecting various mammals extensively and that it is only a mater of time before the virus effectively evol...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Induced Fascicular Tachycardia In Children Feb 08, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Italian researchers from the Pediatric Cardiology Unit at Padua University and the Department of Cardiac Thoracic Vascular Sciences and Public Health at Padua Hospital University-Italy are warning after documenting two clinical cases studies, that unique and usual forms of SARS-CoV-2-related arrhythmias known as Fascicular Tachycardia were materializing in children!
Fascicu...
COVID-19 News -China-Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Drugs - Xiannuoxin - VV116 Feb 08, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The Chinese Academy of Sciences at Beijing has announced that China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) has conditionally approved tow new drugs to treat COVID-19 after an urgent review and approval under the Special Examination and Approval of Drugs Policy.
These two new novel antivirals are reported to be effective anti-SARS-CoV-2 drugs are Xiannuoxin (s...
Medical News - HCirV-1 - Human Circovirus 1 - Hepatitis Feb 08, 2023 2 years ago
Medical News: Governments, health authorities, WHO and also the mainstream media has been trying to conceal the debut of a new worrisome virus that is causing the unexplained hepatitis found many including in children the last few months.
Thailand Medical News had covered about the mysterious hepatitis occurrences in many children in 2022 in our previous news coverages. Those occurrences ...
Medical News - Fungal Meningitis - Mexico Feb 08, 2023 2 years ago
Medical News: Various news outlets were abuzz in the last 48 hours about a mysterious meningitis outbreak in the Northern Mexico City of Durango that has to date killed 35 people and infected more than 79 other individuals.
https://www.reuters.com/business/healthcare-pharmaceuticals/death-toll-mysterious-meningitis-outbreak-mexico-35-2023-02-06/
However, the mystery has been solved and a ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Found In Cockroaches Feb 08, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: While governments and health authorities around the world are trying to conceal the true impact of the COVID-19 disease on human health especially the long term debilitating effects it can bring about and its role in decreasing the life spans of billions who have survived SARS-CoV-2 infections and reinfections, many are unaware that we are at the most critical phase of the pandemic ...
Long COVID News - Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome (POTS) Feb 07, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID News: A new clinical update by researchers from Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm-Sweden and Lund University, Malmö-Sweden reports that autonomic dysfunction and postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) are common occurrences in Long COVID.
Typically, autonomic dysfunction develops when the nerves of the ANS (autonomic nervous system) are damaged. This...
SARS-CoV-2 Variants - XBB.1.9.1 Feb 07, 2023 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants Updates: A newly emerged sub-lineage of the XBB recombinant variant has emerged and is spreading exponentially in Indonesia and elsewhere in South East Asia and now even in the United Kingdom and parts of Europe.
The XBB.1.9.1 sub-lineage spots the spike F486P mutation, similarly to its twin XBB.1.9.2.
https://cov-spectrum.org/explore/World/AllSamples/Past6M/variants?n...
COVID-19 News - Breast Cancer Feb 07, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: While the death rates from breast cancer has been declining over the last few years due to better and early screening along with early medical intervention, the incidence of breast cancer is growing exponentially over the world in the last two years and is raising alarms! Even worse, the number of younger adults below the age of 50 developing breast cancer is also increasing along w...
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins Feb 06, 2023 2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, U.S. National Institutes of Health, United States using cellular cryo-electron tomography has clearly shown that the spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus causes deformation of platelets and also causes irreversible stochastic activation leading to coagulopathies.
The study also involved researchers ...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 Causes Macular Degeneration Feb 06, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: More depressing news emerging about the effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection as a new study conducted by Chinese researchers have found the spike protein of the SARS-CoV-2 virus promotes retinal pigment epithelium (RPE) cell senescence via the ROS/P53/P21 pathway which can lead to eye macular degeneration! Macular degeneration leads to the losing of one’s central vision.
T...
COVID-19 News - Australia - XBF - BR.2 Feb 05, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: While the world is more engrossed about the XBB.1.5 recombinant variant just because it was given some stupid nickname “Kraken” after mythological Nordic sea monster by some Canadian ‘expert’ on twitter who most probably had some deep serious childhood psychological issues and also some social depravity issues but is now relishing his new found status on twit...
COVID-19 News - Monocytes - Dendritic Cells Alterations Feb 04, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by Swedish researchers from Linköping University - Sweden and Ryhov County Hospital, Jönköping – Sweden has that SARS-CoV-2 infections especially in those that were hospitalized, caused major alterations to key components of the immune system such as the monocytes and dendritic cells for up to six months after recovery!
According to the stud...
COVID-19 News - Compartmentalized SARS-CoV-2 Infection In The Human Body Feb 03, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Harvard University has revealed compartmentalized SARS-CoV-2 infection in the human body according to cell and tissue types and with the virus itself evolving and mutating to sustain its existence in these sub-micro environments! The study findings besides showing the existence of viral reservoirs and also validating viral persistence, also has ...
COVID-19 News - Eye And Visions Issues - Nikhil P & Kittisak M Feb 03, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Over the last few days, lot of new cases reports have appeared in various peer reviewed medical journals showing the SARS-CoV-2 infections are causing a variety of eye and vision issues especially in the Post COVID phases!
In this COVID-19 News coverage, we highlight the most recent ones and the issues that seem to be manifesting more in the infected and also in those after so ca...
Medical Innovations - Vortex Ultrasound Enabled Endovascular Thrombolysis Feb 02, 2023 2 years ago
Medical Innovations: With the incidence of COVID-19, Post COVID and also Post vaccine associated cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) skyrocketing globally, a new medical innovation by medical scientists from the North Carolina State University-USA could not have arrived at a more opportune time.
The research team have developed an ultrasound transducer that can disrupt blood clot...
COVID-19 News - Head And Neck Cancers - By Nikhil P & Kittisak M Feb 02, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: There is growing consensus among oncologists and researchers that the continuous onslaught of SARS-CoV-2 infections especially by newer more immune evasive variants and sub-lineages will eventually drive the incidence rate of head and neck cancers globally.
We are not talking about the overwhelmed public healthcare infrastructures caused by COVID-19 that is delaying proper ...
Drug News: Health Canada has reported that is reviewing the safety of the drug Domperidone, a pharmaceutical compound that blocks dopamine to the brain and is often prescribed to aid with speeding up digestion.
Domperidone (Motilium) is basically a medicine that increases the movements or contractions of the stomach and bowel. Domperidone is also used to treat nausea and vomiting caused by o...
HIV News - Two Separate Latent HIV Resevoirs Feb 01, 2023 2 years ago
HIV News: Researchers from the University Of North Carolina-United States have discovered that beside the CD4+ cells in blood and lymph tissues that serve as a reservoir for latent HIV, the T Cells in the CNS (Central Nervous System) are also another reservoir for latent HIV virus! This further adds to complications for researchers trying to find a cure for HIV.
Typically, when individual...
COVID-19 News - Pulmonary Tuberculosis in Post COVID Feb 01, 2023 2 years ago
Medical Thailand: Researchers from the Department of Epidemiology, Faculty of Medicine, Prince of Songkhla University-Thailand have in a new study validated that there is an increased incidence of detecting pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 pneumonia compared with that in the general population.
The study findings shockingly showed that the cumulative inc...
COVID-19 News- Ciclesonide - Nsp3 - Nsp4 Mutations Feb 01, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the Research Center for Influenza and Respiratory Viruses, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Murayama Branch, Tokyo-Japan have in a new study discovered that the usage of the inhaled asthma drug ciclesonide is causing frequent occurrences of SARS-CoV-2 NSp3 And Nsp4 Mutations!
Thailand Medical News had in our previous COVID-19 News coverages s...
COVID-19 News - Class Switch To IgG4 Antibodies Jan 31, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study conducted by German researchers have shown that repeated doses of the mRNA shot can cause a class switch towards noninflammatory, spike-specific IgG4 antibodies which can damage both the innate and adaptive immunity and create a condition of dysfunctional immunity! This can also pave the way for enhanced viral persistence!
The study team comprised of scientists ...
Long COVID News - Dysregulated Metabolism And Inflammation In Long COVID Jan 30, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID-19 News: A new study by German researchers have found that that dysregulated metabolism and Inflammation contributes to many ongoing symptoms found in individuals with Long COVID.
The study team comprised scientists from University of Tübingen--Germany and the University Hospital Tübingen-Germany.
Numerous past studies and Long COVID-19 News coverages indicate ...
COVID-19 News - DY.1 - BA.5 Sublineage Jan 30, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Various New BA.5 sub-lineages are continuing to emerge globally as the SARS-CoV-2 continues to evade all forms of immunity, be it by previous infections or even by vaccine or booster induced immunity, not to forget that it is also mutating to evade all the current antivirals being used and even repurposed drugs or supplements being used unofficially to curtail its presence or viral ...
U.S. Medical News - Under-reporting COVID-19 Deaths Jan 29, 2023 2 years ago
U.S Medical News: A new detailed study by American researchers has found extensive under-reporting of COVID-19 deaths in various counties across the United States.
The study team comprised of researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Boston University School of Public Health, University of Washington School of Public Health, RTI International-North Carolina and Robert...
COVID-19 News - Bivalent - XBB.1.5 Jan 29, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: An independent study conducted by researchers from Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston-USA and also the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico-USA has found that the XBB.1.5 variant escapes neutralizing antibody responses after bivalent mRNA boosting, raising questions about the efficacy of the bivalent shots!
While a number of studies being promoted by twitter...
COVID-19 Drugs - Fluvoxamine Causes Heart Valve Disease Jan 28, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from Columbia University’s Department of Surgery in collaboration with the Pediatric Heart Valve Center at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP), the University of Pennsylvania, and the Valley Hospital Heart Institute have discovered that serotonin can impact the mitral valve of the heart and potentially accelerate a cardiac condition known as degenerat...
COVID-19 News - Post COVID - Autoimmune Diseases Jan 28, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A news German study has found that people who have been exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 virus have a 42.6 percent higher likelihood of acquiring autoimmunity and various autoimmune diseases!
While different respiratory, cardiovascular, neurological and mental diseases as well as various symptoms in the context of long/post-COVID have been studied with routine health care data, th...
Norovirus News: The UK Health Safety Agency (UKHSA) has issued the latest report about norovirus infections in the country with a warning that there is a sudden unusual surge of norovirus infections in the country with cases soaring 37% higher than pre-pandemic average!
https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/national-norovirus-and-rotavirus-surveillance-reports-2022-to-2023-season/national-norov...
COVID-19-News -SARS-CoV-2 - HTLV-1 Activation Jan 27, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Many are unaware of a sexually transmitted virus called HTLV-1, or as human T-cell leukemia virus type 1 that can cause a type of cancer called adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATL).
It also causes a progressive nervous system condition known as HTLV-1-associated myelopathy or tropical spastic paraparesis (HAM/TSP).
Other diseases connected to HTLV-1 infection i...
EGCG Supplements -Green Tea - Epigallocatechin Gallate Jan 27, 2023 2 years ago
While there has been many articles and studies extolling the health benefits of green tea and its phytochemical catechin: Epigallocatechin Gallate (EGCG), many are unaware of drinking green tea often or even taking green tea or EGCG supplements cause liver damage in some!
In fact, in the current COVID-19 pandemic, as a result of many studies showing that green tea and the phytochemical Ep...
COVID-19 Research - ORF3a Is Not A Viroporin Jan 27, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study that was funded by the U.S. NIH has found that despite earlier claims by many, the SARS-CoV-2 accessory protein ORF3A is not an ion channel but does interact with trafficking proteins.
Typically, the SARS-CoV-2 and SARS-CoV-1 accessory protein Orf3a colocalizes with markers of the plasma membrane, endocytic pathway, and Golgi apparatus.
However certai...
COVID-19 News - Pediatric Kidney Disease - acute tubulointerstitial nephritis (aTIN) Jan 27, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Medical researchers and pediatric specialists from over 28 hospitals medical colleges and research institutions in France are warning that Post COVID children and teenagers are at a high risk of developing kidney disease after a recent study that was conducted by the team revealed disturbing data.
The study team led by medical scientists from the Department of Pediatric Nep...
U.S. Medical News - COVID-19 - Opportunistic Pneumonia - Trichosporon Asahii Jan 26, 2023 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: Medical researchers from Loma Linda University Murrieta Campus, Murrieta, California-USA have reported the first documented case report of a COVID-19 patient with opportunistic pneumonia caused by the rare fungus: Trichosporon Asahii.
A) CT Chest with contrast on admission. B) CT chest without contrast on hospital day 20.
Trichosporon asahii (formerly Trichosporon beigelii) i...
COVID-19 News - BF.7.14.1 Jan 26, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: One of China’s predominant circulating SARS-CoV-2 variants ie BA.7.14 has spawned a new sublineage BA.7.14.1 with spike mutation V83F and also open reading frame mutations ORF1ab:I1203V, ORF1ab:K2901T and ORF3a:A98V.
https://github.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/issues/1580
The new BF.7.14.1 sublineage is a short long branch with four AA mutation: S:V83F in ...
COVID-19 News - Cardiovascular Autonomic Dysfunction Jan 26, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by European researchers have found that SARS-CoV-2 infections can lead to cardiovascular autonomic dysfunction in many.
Unlike direct virus effects on the heart which is also another occurrence of SARS-CoV-2 infections, cardiovascular autonomic neuropathy (CAN) encompasses virus damage to the autonomic nerve fibers that innervate the heart and blood vessels...
COVID-19 News - Excess Deaths Jan 25, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: The latest European mortality monitoring project report for the second week of January 2023 has shown that excess deaths are increasing by more than 35% for most of Europe and considering that the data is based on compiled reported data from various countries in Europe, we can easily assume that the actual figures could be much higher as many governments are trying to conceal actual...
COVID-19 News - ORF8 Inhibits Complement System Jan 25, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the Neurobiology and Drug Discovery (NDD) Laboratory, Department of Molecular Medicine (DMM), Jamia Hamdard University, New Delhi-India and the School of Biosciences and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh- India have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 encoded ORF8 protein exhibits complement inhibitory properties and as a result disru...
Medical News - Reversing T-Cell Dysfunctionality Jan 25, 2023 2 years ago
Medical News: Researchers from the Department of Microbial Infection and Immunity, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus – USA has discovered a method to reverse T Cell Dysfunctionality that typically occurs during viral infections and cancer by rebalancing the TGFβ1/BMP signals.
This discovery might also prove useful in the current context of SARS-CoV-2 indu...
COVID-19 Updates:
Current RT-PCR And ATK Tests May Not Be Sensitive To XBB Sub-Lineages And Also Newer Emerging Subvariants.
There are concerns after reports by numerous physicians and also researchers that the current ATK test kits and even Rt-PCR testing platforms might not be sensitive to the various XBB sub-lineages and also newer emerging subvariants.
The U.S. FDA will...