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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Jul 17, 2021 3 years ago
Finally a study that goes along the lines of what Thailand Medical News has been saying for a long time: every SARS-CoV-2 variant exhibits a unique pathogenesis pattern and also affects the human immune system differently! COVID-19 is not a homogenous diseases caused by a common pathogen! Every variant is unique and hence ultimately the only way to better treat COVID-19 is through a personalized m...
Source: COVID-19 And The Human Skin Jul 16, 2021 3 years ago
Our understanding and data about the SARS-CoV-2 and the COVID-19 disease is evolving day by day but we are still lagging behind the novel coronavirus as the virus itself is evolving and coming up with new variants that behave differently and also exhibit different pathogenesis and affects different human cellular pathways and also reacts differently with those pathways.
To make matters worse, th...
Source: COVID-19 Research- Mutations Jul 16, 2021 3 years ago
A new study by scientists from the Technische Universitat Berlin-Germany and University of Oxford-UK claims that SARS-CoV-2 mutations like N501Y could be indirectly be caused by host commensal microbiota.
From the study abstract, the researchers say, “Since the emergence of SARS-CoV-2, little attention has been paid to the interplay between the interaction of virus and commensal microbiota....
Source: Pediatric COVID-19 Jul 16, 2021 3 years ago
Pediatric COVID-19: A new study by researchers from various British institutions and hospitals including the University of Liverpool, Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children, Evelina Children's Hospital, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, University of Newcastle, Oxford Children's Hospital, Nottingham Children's Hospital, University of Glasgow, University of Newcastle and many other...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs-Statins Jul 16, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by researchers from the University of California-San Diego School Of medicine-USA has confirmed that patients taking statin medications had a 41 percent lower risk of in-hospital death from COVID-19.
According to the study team, statins have anti-inflammatory and immunomodulatory effects that may reduce the severity of the COVID-19 disease, in which organ dysfunction i...
With official figures stating that more than 188 million individuals globally have been infected with the COVID-19 disease and majority deemed ‘recovered’ but the US CDC and WHO saying the figures could be far much more ie tenfold, one cannot but feel worried about the impact of long term medical conditions from Long COVID and how it is going to bring about the eventual collapse health...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Jul 15, 2021 3 years ago
Thailand Medical News is warning scientists, medical researches, genomic experts and virologist to pay careful attention to the second, third and fourth generation variants emerging from the Delta, Gamma and Lambda lineages.
Currently the world is too engrossed simply on the VOCs or variants of concern and also vaccines but very little is focused on the emerging second, third and fourth generatio...
Source: COVID-19 Therapeutics Jul 15, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Therapeutics: A new study by researchers from University of Fukui-Japan shows that Short Chain Fatty Acids (SCFAs) could be used as potential therapeutics to treat COVID-19 and also to act as a prophylaxis. The researchers showed that SCFAs could downregulate ACE2 in epithelial cells.
According to the study team inflammatory endotype affects ACE2 expression in the nasal mucosa and influe...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care-Heparin Jul 14, 2021 3 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: A new study undertaken by medical researchers from the St. Michael's Hospital, a treatment site of Unity Health Toronto and the University of Vermont Larner College of Medicine indicates that administering a full dose of a standard blood thinner early to moderately ill hospitalized patients with COVID-19 could halt the thrombo-inflammation process and reduce the risk of...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs-Aspirin Jul 14, 2021 3 years ago
Aspirin-COVID-19: A detailed systematic review and meta-analysis study by researchers from the Michigan State University, USA has found that aspirin usage is associated with a significant reduction in overall and in-hospital mortality rates.
The current COVID-19 pandemic has so far caused more than 4.05 million deaths and far more are expected to die in coming surges.
The benefits of aspir...
Source: Nanodiamonds And Coronavirus Vaccines Jul 13, 2021 3 years ago
For the DTC company, diamond sight holders and wholesalers that are undergoing a slump in sales as a result of retail jewelry sales being badly hit globally due to the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, there might be a silver lining after all as there is now a new usage and demand for diamonds in the medical, pharmaceutical and biotech industries in the form of nanodiamonds.
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Source: COVID-19 Pandemic And Emerging Variants Jul 13, 2021 3 years ago
Study findings of a new research by scientists from the University of Toronto alarmingly indicates that the current COVID-19 pandemic is likely to become more deadly and lethal as more emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants are manifesting progressive increase in transmissibility and virulence.
The study team said that the period from February to June 2021 was one during which initial wild-type...
Long COVID: A new research led by scientists from Scripps Research Translational Institute, San Diego, California has confirmed that COVID-19 induces long term effects on the heart rate of those infected and also causes other heart issues as well as behavioral and physiological impacts that can last over 79 days!
Individuals who contract COVID-19 are at a greater risk to suffer from an irregular ...
Source: Medical Innovations And Startups Jul 12, 2021 3 years ago
Medical Innovations: Australian researchers from RMIT University, Melbourne in collaboration with biotech start-up Soterius have developed a new sensor that can detect the presence of tiny amounts of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants from a person’s breath or even the environment despite minute amounts present. It works extremely well even with those that are asymptomatic.
The new senso...
Source: Breaking SARS-CoV-2 News Jul 12, 2021 3 years ago
More confusing data is emerging and maybe Senator Rand Paul and other fact –checkers can help us to ascertain the truth.
It seems more day by day that China was never ever involved in any way with the start of the current COVID-19 pandemic and is in fact nothing more than a victim themselves. Yes their vaccines might be substandard in terms of efficacy as with most China made products...
Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 11, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientist from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor-USA and the Northeastern University, Shenyang- China have in a new study found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can also use the CAT, AGTR2, L-SIGN and DC-SIGN receptors to gain entry into human cells and not just by the ACE2 receptors or other known receptors such as the TMPRSS2 and NRP-1 receptors etc.
This new discovery wil...
Source: Breaking COVID-19 News Jul 11, 2021 4 years ago
The ongoing European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) that is being held online this year is showcasing lots of new worrisome trends that is emerging in the COVID-19 pandemic. https://www.eccmid.org/
One presentation from researchers from Belgium warned that as more SARS-CoV-2 variants emerge, the number of cases of co-infections with two or more variants is fa...
HIV-COVID-19: Numerous case studies are emerging that special attention needs to be paid to HIV patients should they contract the COVID-19 disease as their immunocompromised conditions make them perfect ‘vivo laboratories’ for the SARS-CoV-2 to constantly mutate and develop more potent and worrisome mutations and resultant variants.
In one case study published on a preprint server by ...
Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen-Denmark indicates that lockdowns imposed by authorities in certain countries and locations exert selection pressure on overdispersion of emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants. The type of lockdowns, the varying degrees of movement restrictions and target groups affected and also the degree of va...
Heart and COVID-19: Considering that a high percentage of COVID-19 patients including those that were deemed as having “recovered” are manifesting atrial fibrillation ie an irregular heartbeat that can increase a person's risk for heart failure and stroke, among other heart issues, researchers from Johns Hopkins Medicine have identified a type of echocardiogram which is a common te...
A recent article published on the website of the In Association of American Physicians and Surgeons website is extremely concerning and there is an urgent need for qualified medical fact checkers to verify as to whether what is written is fake or true. https://aapsonline.org/covid-19-what-about-the-delta-variant/
Should the details written be fake, the website should be taken down immediately and...
Source: COVID-19-Myocarditis Jul 08, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Warning: A new meta study by researchers from India, United States, Peru, Russia and Pakistan involving more than 41 published case reports and clinical studies alarmingly indicates that myocarditis is a real threat to those who had contracted the COVID-19 disease and had so called been deemed as recovered from the disease.
The study findings also collaborate with the fact that the...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Jul 08, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: Australian scientists from the University of New South Wales, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead-Sydney, Westmead Institute for Medical Research-Sydney and the New South Wales Health Pathology-Sydney researching how our immune system responds to COVID-19 have discovered that those infected by early SARS-CoV-2 strains in 2020 produced sustained antibodies, however,...
COVID-19 Warnings: A new study to be presented at the coming European Association of Urology Congress, EAU21 by Italian researchers from San Raffaele University Hospital in Milan says that men with low testosterone are more likely to die from COVID-19.
According to the study team, men with symptomatic COVID-19, who were found to have low testosterone following admittance to hospital, were more li...
Source: COVID-19-Immunology Jul 07, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from the Medical University of Vienna-Austria, Nebion-Switzerland and the National Institutes of Health-United States has shown that together with their multifaceted action mechanisms, activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) and so-called APOBEC proteins are important factors in the body's immune response and offer fast and effective protecti...
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the University of São Paulo's Medical School-Brazil and the University of Michigan-USA have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infects and replicates in the salivary glands of the human host. The study also shows that the mouth is also a point of direct entry for the novel coronavirus.
According to study abstract by the resea...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Updates Jul 06, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Updates: Researchers from the University Hospitals Leuven-Belgium are warning that more hospitalized severe COVID-19 patients are manifesting a rare liver complication known as Sclerosing Cholangitis as seen in observational clinical studies done at their hospitals. As of now it is not known if this sudden rise in such liver complications can be linked to specific variant infecti...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Lambda Variant Jul 06, 2021 4 years ago
Lambda Variant: Another hilarious moment! While the Western scientific idiots and those following them are simply focusing on antibody based therapeutics and vaccines to solve the COVID-19 crisis, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is simply ahead of the game. A new variant that emerged in Peru and is fast spreading globally has now alarmed scientists as some of the mutations found on it has the ability t...
Source: Microalgae-COVID-19 Jul 05, 2021 4 years ago
Microalgae-COVID-19: A new study by Italian researchers from the University of Campania, the Marine Biology Department at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and Complesso Universitario di Monte have in a new study found that various bioactive constituents from microlalgae such as lectins, polysaccharides, flavonoids, polyphenols, peptides and pigments could inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and be us...
Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 05, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from Amsterdam University Medical Centre-Netherlands, VU University-Netherlands and Duke University Medical Center-USA has shown that SARS-CoV-2 infection induces accumulation of lipids and viral N-proteins in lungs, leading to disease severity.
The trafficking of coronaviruses in lung of COVID-19 patients is not well understood and virus particles ar...
COVID-19 News: A new study conducted by researchers from the Colorado State University-USA, and the University of Queensland-Australia has concluded that peridomestic animals such as deer mice, bushy-tailed woodrats and striped skunks could serve as zoonotic reservoirs for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The study findings were published in the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or CDC&rsq...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Jul 04, 2021 4 years ago
More good news! The variant of Concern found in Brazil called the P.1 Strain or The gamma Strain has further evolved with its second generation variants now spotting a new mutation and also a deletion on its genome. These new mutations and deletions are making the newly emerging second generation variants even more transmissible and also evasive to the immune system.
Alarmingly, these second gene...
COVID-19 Herbs: A new study by Spanish researchers from the Polytechnic University of Valencia has identified a derivative of the phytochemical called Sinigrin which is extracted from mustard seeds as being a potent inhibitor of SARS-CoV-2 3CLPro activity, hence a potential antiviral for treating the COVID-19 disease.
Sinigrin is a glucosinolate that belongs to the family of g...
Coronavirus News: A new study by researcher from Université Paul Sabatier-France, Ecole Nationale Vétérinaire d’Alfort-France, Université Grenoble Alpes-France and also involving scientist from Ghent University-Belgium has shown that mannose-specific lectins derived from plants, algae, fungi, and bacteria selectively bind N-glycans present on the surface of ...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by American and Swiss researchers from University of Pennsylvania , University of Maryland, National Institutes of Health-USA and Epithelix-Switzerland demonstrates that usage of pyrimidine biosynthesis inhibitors such as Mycophenolate, Azathioprine And Leflunomide in conjunction with nucleoside analogs (Examples of such nucleoside analogs include Remdesivir and M...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 News-Alpha Variant Jul 03, 2021 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 News: Public health authorities are in for rude shock as their current policies of 10 to 14 days quarantine periods to prevent the spread of the SARS-CoV-2 are now completely obsolete. A new study led by researchers from University Of Oxford that also involved scientists and doctors from the University of Glasgow and Brighton & Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust shows that the mo...
COVID-19 News: A study by French researchers from Aix-Marseille University claims that there is a strong correlation between human circadian rhythms and COVID-19 severity.
The study team analyzed the implications of circadian rhythms (CRs) in the infection by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), which is the pathogen responsible for COVID-19, on isolated human monocytes...
Source:Medical Innovations Jul 02, 2021 4 years ago
Medical Innovations: Scientist and engineers from MIT and Harvard University have developed an innovative face mask that can diagnose if the wearer has COVID-19 within about 90 minutes. The masks are embedded with tiny, disposable sensors that can be fitted into other face masks and could also be adapted to detect other viruses.
Face Masks with sensors that detects SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Credit...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs And Supplements Jul 01, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: A new study by researchers from the Royal Institute of Technology-Sweden, University of Health Sciences-Turkey, Istanbul Technical University-Turkey, Atatürk University-Turkey, Chalmers University of Technology-Sweden, University of Gothenburg and Sahlgrenska University Hospital-Sweden and Istanbul Medipol University-Turkey has found that metabolic activators such as nico...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Jul 01, 2021 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 variants: A new research by British researchers from Cardiff University And University of Oxford has alarmingly found that the SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation P272L that is found on several lineages is able to escape vaccine and infection-induced CD8 T-cell responses.
The human adaptive immune system protects against infection via selection of specific antigen receptors on B cells and T-cell...
Thailand Medical News is urgently seeking angel investors, sponsors and collaborators for a couple of interesting projects including a new form of using herbs and phytochemicals for therapeutics that involve a new drug delivery technology to treat a variety of diseases including COVID-19, another for our medical devices project involving new mobile based diagnostic tools, a new portable air ...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements-Vitamin B12 Jul 01, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new study involving researchers from King’s College London-UK, Fujitsu Technology Solutions-Spain and South London Virology Centre-UK using advanced quadratic computational screening platforms have identified Vitamin B12 as a potential antiviral against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. A further detailed study involving cell cultures in the laboratory further showed that d...
Remdesivir the controversial drug that was deemed to be ineffective in WHO’S SolidarityTrial (https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/latest-who-s-solidarity-drug-trial-shows-that-remdesivir-is-not-the-least-effective-in-treating-covid-19) but is still being approved as a drug to treat COVID-19 under EUA status in the United States by the no longer credible US FDA is now facing more backlash a...
COVID-19 News: Already we are seeing more evidence that SARS-CoV-2 infections are far more worse than HIV infections including those by the newer emerging variants, whereby the immune system is damaged and disrupted by these coronaviruses leading to not just immediate health issues but also to more complicated long term medical conditions down the road for so called recovered COVID-19 patients, no...
Source: SARS-Cov-2 Research Jun 26, 2021 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new research by scientist from California, Massachusetts, New York, Orlando and also Costa Rican researchers have discovered that in patients having being deemed as recovered from COVID-19 but are still suffering from Long COVID conditions, it was found that even 15 months later, there was SARS-CoV-2 S1 protein found in the CD16+ monocytes of these patients. The study has nu...
Coronavirus News: More good news as Scientists from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have now discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is evolving even faster and is now developing its own strategies to infect human host cells no longer through the ACE2 receptors but by other receptors and means! It is doing so by causing a variety of mutations involving amino acid bases at ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variant News Jun 24, 2021 4 years ago
Variant News: Japanese scientists have conducted a new research in which the findings show that the B.1.617 lineage of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that emerged in India has evolved a unique strategy to facilitate infection and evade the immunity induced by vaccination or natural infection.
Numerous mutations have been accumulated in the viral genome, and at least five variants of concerns (VO...
COVID-19 News: A new study conducted by researchers from the University of Nicosia-Cyprus has alarming shown that pollen particles can be a new infectious agent of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and help spread the COVID-19 disease.
The study investigates how airborne pollen pellets (or grains) can cause severe respiratory-related problems in humans. Given that pollen pellets can capture ribonucleic ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variants Jun 22, 2021 4 years ago
Thailand Medical News is proposing a new hypothesis that the new emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants including the second and third generation variants arising from present identified VOCs or variants of concern and also from VOIs or variants of interests, are behaving far more worse in terms of the way they disrupt the various components of the immune system and even various T-cells and that infections ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Variant News Jun 21, 2021 4 years ago
Variant News: An international team of researchers from Brazil, UK, South Africa and Mauritius are warning about yet another worrying SARS-CoV-2 variant that is fast becoming dominant in the Mauritius and has also been detected in other countries.
The identified variant called B.1.1.318 carries 14 spike mutations. Including the worrying immune-evading mutations E484K, Y144del, T95I, D796H...
There is viral news circulating around various online news sites and communities about the deaths of 4 British Airways pilots with some making claims that the 4 pilots died as a result of developing blood clots while on flight after having been vaccinated with the COVID-19 vaccines. One twitter thread was also making these claims and there was statements from an official British Airways account co...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Research Jun 19, 2021 4 years ago
Various medical experts and researchers from the European Alliance of Associations for Rheumatology are warning that there is a sudden surge in patients manifesting the medical condition known as Giant Cell Arteritis and that these surges are associated with peaks in COVID-19 prevalence.
GCA or giant cell arteritis is an inflammatory disease that affects the arteries, often causing headaches, jaw...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs And Phytochemicals Jun 18, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: A new study by scientist from Max Planck Institute-Germany, University of Witten/Herdecke-Germany, University Mainz-Germany and the Angiogenesis Foundation at Cambridge University-USA has found that Cinnamaldehyde from Ceylon Cinnamon is a good adjuvant with Dexamethasone for treating COVID-19 patients.
According to the study’s abstract, “Overshooting immune reactions ...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis Jun 17, 2021 4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine-Associated Myocarditis: A new study by researchers from Inova Heart and Vascular Institute, Fairfax-Virginia and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas-Texas details the treatment of myocarditis-like symptoms in seven individuals after receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States.
Myopericarditis has been reported as a rare vaccination comp...
Researchers from UCLA School of Public Health-USA, the Institute of Genetics at the University of Cologne- Germany, the Department of Medicine at the University of California, Davis-USA and the Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology, Friedrich-Alexander University-Germany have in a new study found that the various SARS-Cov-2 strains are evolving rapidly and are giving rise to more escape va...