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Source: Ebola/SARS-CoV-2 Reassortant Strain Feb 15, 2021 4 years ago
The health minister in Guinea has just declared an Ebola outbreak a few hours ago and said that the country is entering an 'epidemic situation' as seven Ebola cases have been confirmed including three deaths while the country is still in the midst of a COVID-19 crisis. Certain experts are predicting the high possibility of a reassortant strain emerging from the region. Such a recombin...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants-Q677H And Q677P Feb 15, 2021 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Variants : A team of researchers from University of Bern-Switzerland, University of New Mexico-USA, Microbial Genome Sequencing Center-Pittsburg, Louisiana State University, Icahn Mt Sinai School of Medicine, Louisiana Department of Health, New Mexico Department of Health, Wyoming Public Health Laboratory and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered new variants emerging in the Unit...
COVID Brain Fog: According to a new study by researchers from John Hopkins University, the typical ‘COVID brain fog; symptom experienced by many infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could be due to the occlusion of brain capillaries by large megakaryocyte cells.
According to the study abstract, “Evidence suggests brain involvement in the COVID-19 disease. Manifestations in a...
Source: COVID-19 Third And Fourth Waves Feb 14, 2021 4 years ago
For those still living in “Lalaland’ and thinking that with the advent of the COVID-19 vaccines, things would go back to normal soon, air travel would would resume, the tourism industry will start to return back to normal and that border closures and lock downs will cease to exists, there is a huge rude shock awaiting them: the COVID-19 pandemic is going to last for a few years, at lea...
Long COVID: German researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin in a new study have found that almost 50% of ‘recovered’ COVID-19 patients exhibit moderate to severe chronic fatigue syndrome six months or more.
The study done at the Charité Fatigue Center with clinical immunologists and rheumatologist, neurologists and cardiologists at the Charit&ea...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variant N679S Feb 12, 2021 4 years ago
A new SARS-CoV-2 Variant N679S has been found in a new born child exhibiting seizures in the United States and according to physicians and medical researchers from the Children’s National Hospital-Center for Genetic Medicine Research, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences, Children’s Hospital of Los Angeles and the University of Southern California, alarmi...
Source: COVID-19 Research Feb 12, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A news research led by scientist from University of California-San Diego along with researchers from Rady Children’s Hospital-San Diego, Rutgers State University-New Jersey and University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect the brain pericytes and could also serve as reservoirs of the virus that contributes to viral persistence...
COVID-19 News: Contrary to past claims by so called ‘experts’, and also ‘findings’ from ‘half-baked’studies, a new study by researchers from Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania has found that past exposure to seasonal coronaviruses (CoVs), which cause the common cold, does not result in the production of antibodies that ...
COVID Drugs: A new randomized clinical trial conducted by researchers from Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Oxford-UK and also involving medical scientists from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Oxford Biomedical Research Centre (BRC)-UK, Eynsham Medical Group-UK, White Horse Medical Practice-UK, Imperial College-UK, University of Nottingham-UK and STAT...
COVID-19 News: A new research by scientists from the Thai Red Cross Emerging Infectious Diseases Health Science Centre, Chulalongkorn University-Thailand, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital-Thailand, Duke-NUS Medical School-Singapore, Yangzhou University-China, Kasetsart University-Thailand, CSIRO Australian Animal Health Laboratory and the Biological Threat Reduction Program, Defens...
Neurocovid: A new study by researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has found that the common symptoms of “brain fog” and confusion as a result of COVID-19 infection and even in those ‘recovered’ irrespective if they were asymptomatic, mild, moderate or hospitalized severe cases, are caused by inflammatory molecules in the cerebral spinal fluid.
The study te...
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine have in a new study confirmed that the new U.K. SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 is more deadly contradicting earlier claims that it was only more infectious but may not cause more severe illness.
The B.1.1 7 variant also known as VOC 202012/01 was first detected in the United Kingdom in September 2020 and has ...
Coronavirus News: Researchers from the School of Medicine at Washington University have in a new study identified SARS-CoV-2 mutations that escape monoclonal antibodies and polyclonal immune sera.
The neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein are a goal of COVID-19 vaccines and have received emergency use authorization as therapeutics.
However, viral escape m...
Source: COVID-19 Research Feb 08, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: More emerging study data is indicating that disruptions in the healthy functioning of the gut microbiome could also be a contributing factor to disease severity in COVID-19 patients.
Typically the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract contains over 1,000 symbiotic and pathogenic microorganisms, which are known to play a key role in health via host metabolism, physiology, nu...
Source: U.S. Medical News Feb 08, 2021 4 years ago
U.S. Medical News: Good news for Americans in that COVID-19 infection rates, death rates and also hospitalization rates have gone down over the last 7 days. However disturbing news is emerging that more than 501 deaths have been officially reported in America as a result of the COVID-19 vaccines and this is only the tip of the iceberg. Many such deaths are deliberately not being registered by hosp...
COVID-19 News: A new variant called B.1.258 that is fast spreading across certain parts or Europe has been discovered in Czech Republic and Slovakia carrying the ∆H69/∆V70 deletion, the N439K and numerous other mutations. https://virological.org/t/b-1-258-a-sars-cov-2-variant-with-h69-v70-in-the-spike-protein-circulating-in-the-czech-republic-and-slovakia/613
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Source: COVID-19 Research Feb 08, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by Swedish researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Uppsala University, Sahlgrenska University, Karolinska Institutet, Lund University, and Halland Hospital-Sweden shows that sudden cardiac arrest is more often fatal in people with COVID-19.
The medical scientists initiated the research to study the characteristics and outcome among cardiac arrest case...
COVID-19 Latest: Last Friday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued new revisions to its emergency use authorization (EUA) for COVID-19 convalescent plasma on the basis of the latest clinical trial study findings. https://www.fda.gov/media/141477/download?source=email
The new revision stipulates that only high-titer COVID-19 convalescent plasma can be used and only in hospita...
COVID-19 News: Despite claims that the initial Mink Cluster 5 Variants that were found in Denmark and also in the Netherlands had only infected a few people and that authorities including WHO had things in control since November, it has been emerging over the weeks that this is far from the truth. From the initial 11 humans who were infected with the variants in Denmark, it is becoming more appare...
Coronavirus News: Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-California and the University of California, Los Angeles have in a new study confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to infect and damage the pancreas directly, challenging the initial hypothesis that organ damages including the pancreas were only due to effects of cytokine storms alone and not direct viral invasion.
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Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from University of Bielefeld-Germany, the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf-Germany and also Harvard Medical School-USA has confirmed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can invade and damage the liver.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Clinical Gastroenterology and Hepatology.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...
India COVID-19: Researchers from Duke University-North Carolina and the University of Chicago and the Center for Monitoring Indian Economy-Mumbai in a new study found that COVID-19 cases in the southern state of Karnataka, India, are nearly 95 times greater than reported.
The study findings along with many other previous studies involving seroprevalence indicate the rate of COVID-19 ...
COVID-19 News: A new study by the U.S. Naval Medical Research Center and Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City warns that young COVID-19 survivors despite having antibodies can still easily get reinfected.
The study findings found that seropositive young adults had about one-fifth the risk of subsequent infection compared with seronegative individuals.
The resear...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Evolution Feb 04, 2021 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Evolution: Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in a new study found that in a recurring pattern of evolution, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus evades immune responses by selectively deleting small bits of its genetic sequence.
According to the study abstract, “Zoonotic pandemics, like that caused by SARS-CoV-2, can follow the spillover of animal vir...
Source: COVID-19 Antivirals Feb 04, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Antivirals: Japanese researchers from National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo and the Tokyo University of Science have in a new study found that oxidized cholesterol derivatives or oxysterol exhibits potent antiviral activity against the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus.
Developments of effective antiviral drugs targeting SARS-CoV-2 are urgently needed to combat the COVID-19 disea...
Source: COVID-19 Mutations Feb 03, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Mutations: Authorities from Public Health England have reported alarming discovery this week: The B.1.1.7 variant that has brought that country to its knees appears to be further mutating to gain a mutation that could help it elude vaccines. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/957504/Variant_of_
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Source: COVID-19 Treatments Feb 03, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: A new study by researchers from National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine has found that zinc supplementation enhances the efficacy of certain repurposed drugs such as triclabendazole and emetine.
The SARS-CoV-2 has caused vast number of infections and fatalities worldwide with almost 104 million infections and more than 2.25 milli...
Cannabis News: A new research led by scientist from the University of Queensland has found that synthetic cannabidiol, better known as CBD is able to kill bacteria that cause gonorrhea, meningitis and legionnaires disease.
The study findings could lead to the first new class of antibiotics for resistant bacteria in 60 years.
At present antimicrobial resistance threatens the viabili...
COVID-19 News: Globally a new phenomenon is being witnessed in which those that never had a history of diabetes before but upon being infected with the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus are experiencing a sudden elevation of blood sugar levels and in some cases are ending up with full blown diabetes weeks after so called ‘COVID-19 recovery.’ https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-covi...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Feb 02, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: A new study by researchers from the Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor-USA has discovered that a sub-group of COVID-19 patients exhibit high bleeding risk contradicting an initial advocated protocol of administering high dose anticoagulants throughout the duration of their disease course.
From the study abstract, “Typically pat...
COVID-19 Herbs: Scientists from King Fahd Medical Research Center at King Abdulaziz University in a new study have demonstrated the antiviral effects of two medicinal herbs: Hypericum perforatum also called St. John's Wort and Echinacea or Purple Cone Flower against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the pathogen that causes COVID-19.the study showed that each herb as well as the two combined, e...
Cancer News: A new study by researchers from John Hopkins’ Kimmel Cancer Center shows that frequency of oral sex along with number of sex partners one has are all contributing factors to increasing one’s risk of developing propharyngeal cancer.
The study showed that a wide breadth of behaviors surrounding oral sex may affect the risk of oral HPV infection and of a virus-associated hea...
Vaccine News: We at Thailand medical News are typically skeptical about all the various COVID-19 vaccines being promoted currently due to the fact that many were developed in such a rush, bypassing standard testing and procedures, lack of transparency coupled with the fact that the past track record of coronavirus vaccines have not been very successful, often causing more problems for the te...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from University of Montreal-Canada,New York University-USA, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid-Spain, Universidade de São Paulo-Brazil, Mayo Clinic-USA, San Francisco General Hospital-USA, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute-USA And Université Laval-Canada has found that the existing anti-inflammatory oral drug drug-Colchicine could be rep...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from Emerging Pathogens Institute at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and University of California-San Francisco’s Quantitative Bioscience Institute (QBI) have in a new study found a exsiting cancer drug called Aplidin effective against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus including the newly emergent B.1.1.7 variant.
The cancer drug Aplidin is mad...
Source: COVID-19 Antivirals Jan 31, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Antivirals: A new international research involving scientist from Universidad Católica de Valencia-Spain, Kyoto University-Japan, University of Vienna-Austria, Pingla Thana Mahavidyalaya-India, Indian Statistical Institute-India, University of South Florida-USA, University of Otago-New Zealand, University of Padova-Italy, Yarmouk University-Jordan, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical...
Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from the University of Belize and National Sun Yat-Sen University-Taiwan have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to resists extreme variations in temperature and compared to initial studies done in the beginning of the pandemic, the new findings show that temperature changes between the winter and summer months have a negligible effect o...
Source: Vitamins, Steroids and Retinoids For COVID-19 Jan 30, 2021 4 years ago
Vitamins, steroids and retinoids can be used as adjuvants to treat COVID-19 according to a new study by scientists from the University of Bristol.
According to the study abstract, “The study team investigated the binding of linoleate and other potential ligands to the recently discovered fatty acid binding site in the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein by using docking and molecular dynamics ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Jan 29, 2021 4 years ago
A new study led by scientists from Columbia University shows warning signs that recently emerged SARS-CoV-2 variants such as the B.1.1.7, B.1.351, and B.1.1.28 variants have become worryingly resistant to monoclonal antibody therapies, plasma from convalescent patients and sera from vaccinated individuals.
This new study findings contradict earlier studies the last few days published by cer...
COVID-19 Drugs. While America and the United Kingdom along their so called ‘experts’ and corrupted politicians are constantly denouncing generic drugs that can be repurposed to treat COVID-19, supplements and herbs that can be used as adjuvants to also treat SARS-CoV-2 infections, more countries overseas are now beginning to accept ivermectin for use as both a prophylaxis and also as a...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Contest Jan 28, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Contest: In a spirit of getting more involvement from our readers, we are organizing a simple contest for all our readers around the world, simply read the recently published preprint study by researchers from Moderna and the US NIH and tell us the flaws and hidden facts from the study claiming that its vaccines work on the new SARS-CoV-2 variants.
The preprint study can be found...
Research News: A new international study led by scientists from Francis Crick Institute involving numerous other research institutions has revealed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus interacts with two heme metabolites, bilirubin and biliverdin, to escape the antibody-mediated host immune responses.
According to the study abstract, “The coronaviral spike is the dominant viral ant...
Source: COVID-19 Innovations Jan 27, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Innovations: A new U.S.NIH-funded study led by researchers from Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology (Caltech) shows the potential of a remarkably adaptable, nanoparticle-based approach to coronavirus vaccine development.
A new coronavirus vaccine approach works by attaching many spike protein receptor-binding domains
(RBDs) to an engineered...
Vaccine News: Media outlets are abuzz in the last 24 hours about a warning letter sent to the US FDA and Pfizer by a leading immunologist cum scientist in Pennslyvania, Dr Hooman Noorchashm.
The letter warns about the immunological danger of COVID-19 Vaccination in recently convalescent and asymptomatic carriers most especially to those who are elderly, frail or have significant car...
Source: COVID-19 Research Jan 27, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from Erasmus Medical Center-Netherlands and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign-USA have found that the SARS-CoV-2 rapidly adapts to Vero E6 cell culture propagation that is often used in in vitro studies, hence not proper representing the actual viral life cycle as would be in a typical human host setting and can sometimes also lead to misleading laborator...
Source: Prostate Cancer News Jan 26, 2021 4 years ago
Prostate Cancer News: Researchers from the the Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) and the University of Ulsan College of Medicine,-Seoul have developed a new urine based diagnostic platform that far more faster and accurate to detect prostate cancer.
Currently screening for prostate cancer relies on the serum prostate-specific antigen test, which provides a high rate of fals...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments Jan 26, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: A new meta study by researchers from University of Bari "Aldo Moro", Policlinico University Hospital of Bari-Italy, A. Xhuvani University of Elbasan-Albania and Riuniti University Hospital of Foggia-Italy have shown that probiotics play a vital role in the immune system and helps COVID-19 patients to recover faster leading to its possible role as adjuvants in C...
Vaccine News: A new study by researchers from University of East Anglia, Norwich-UK led by Professor Dr Alastair Grant and Professor Dr Paul R Hunter indicates that the current COVID-19 vaccines will not be able to attain herd immunity against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim thousands of lives each day and cause severe disruptions to ordinary lif...
Source: U.S. Medical News Jan 25, 2021 4 years ago
U.S. Medical News: The United States, the country with the most so called ‘experts’ who spend half of their time on twitter (No one really know if they truly work or really have jobs or are just some unknown individual in real life that do not really matter in the course of things!), ‘fact checkers’ (mostly garbage with no medical trainings) and tech giants that are control...
Source: COVID-19 Questions Jan 25, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Questions: Am interesting query that is currently on the minds of many with brains and intelligence (Less than 5 per cent of the global population and less than 0.01 of Thailand’s population) is whether or not individuals receiving an mRNA-based vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 will experience changes in their DNA in cells “infected” by the encapsulated mRNA.
Already ...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from the University of Bari Aldo Moro-Italy and the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome have in a new study found that the diuretic drug Ethacrynic Acid could be repurposed to treat COVID-19.
The research findings are published in the peer reviewed journal: Viruses https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/1/106/htm
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the causative ...
Source: COVID-19 Research Jan 24, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Brigham and Women’s Hospital has found that blood groups are associated with cardiovascular events in COVID-19 patients. In particular blood groups A and AB were associated with higher risks of Major Adverse Cardiovascular Events (MACE).
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Source: COVID-19 Immunology Jan 24, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: Another study, this time by scientists from the University of Texas have found that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, blocks the processes of innate immune activation that normally direct the production and/or signaling of type I interferon (IFN-I) by the infected cell and tissues.
IFN-I is a key component of host innate immunity that is responsible for elim...
COVID-19 News: Things are going to change to a certain degree with President Biden now in power. It is no surprise that even the American infection figures, death rates and vaccine efficacy might falsely start to appear as getting better after all Biden was heavily backed by the various pharmaceutical giants’ money during the recent elections. https://www.drugdiscoverytrends.com/guess-who-th...
Coronavirus News: Researchers from University College London-UK, University of Amsterdam-Netherlands, King's College London-UK, the Francis Crick Institute-UK and University of Cambridge-UK in a new study have demonstrated that the neutralizing activity of monoclonal antibodies can be dramatically reduced by mutations of the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoproteins unlike polyclonal antibodies generated...