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Source: SARS-CoV-2 Strains  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Strains: Researchers from Philippines and Thailand in a new study have identified a total of 23 different distinct strains circulating in the Philippines including the potent and infectious D614G Strains.   The study results are published on a preprint server but are currently being peer-reviewed for publication into a journal. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.29.2...
Source: Pregnancy And COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Pregnancy And COVID-19: Canadian researchers from the University of Toronto, Sinai Health Systems-Toronto, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute-Toronto along with support from the University of Minas Gerais-Brazil have in a new study found that maternal immune cells actually help to spread the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus to the placenta.   In the study, the researchers provided evidence that u...
Source: Vaccines-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Vaccines-COVID-19: The NIAID And Moderna Inc  Phase 1 clinical trial of an investigational mRNA vaccine to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infection has shown that the vaccine is well-tolerated and generates a strong immune response in older adults.   The trial results were published in the New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2028436   The new experimental v...
Source: AI-Artificial-Intelligence-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
AI-Artificial Intelligence-COVID-19: Researchers from the U.S. NIH, University of Central Florida, State University of New York, NVIDIA Corporation and University of Milano have developed an  algorithm can accurately identify COVID-19 cases, as well as distinguish them from influenza.   The study shows that artificial intelligence can be nearly as accurate if not even better than a phy...
Source: Drugs-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Drugs-COVID-19: Anti-tumour necrosis factor (anti-TNF) drugs or TNF inhibitors are now being explored by numerous researchers to treat COVID-19 after recent studies of patients with COVID-19 have shown that patients already taking anti-TNF drugs for inflammatory bowel disease and inflammatory arthritis are less likely to be admitted to hospital. The same was not observed for patients taking other ...
Source: Delirium-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Delirium-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from King's College London involving detailed meta-analysis of data and information procured from the COVID Symptom Study app and patients admitted to St Thomas' Hospital in London, has shown that delirium, a state of acute confusion associated with a higher risk of serious illness and death is a key symptom of COVID-19 in frail, older individu...
Source: Strokes-COVID-19  Oct 01, 2020  4 years ago
Strokes-COVID-19: According to a new study led by Canadian researchers from Western University -Ontario, strokes may be the first presenting symptom of COVID-19 in younger patients who are typically asymptomatic.   The new study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology. https://n.neurology.org/content/early/202...
Source: U.S. News  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
U.S. News: Most Americans were oblivious to our headlines and breaking news today on a new research that confirms that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus actually attacks the CD4 T Cells, literally elevating the COVID-19 disease to a ‘potent airborne HIV-like disease.’ https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-news-covid-19-study-reveals-that-sars-cov-2-uses-cd4-cells-to-infect-t-helper-l...
Source: COVID-19 Intranasal Drugs  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Intranasal Drugs: Researchers from the National Infection Service-UK, Ena Respiratory, Melbourne-Australia, The University of Melbourne-Australia, University of Newcastle-Australia and Oxford University-UK are exploring the usage of TLR2/6 Agonist INNA-051 as an intranasal prophylaxis against COVID-19.   To date their vivo studies involving animal models showed that the TLR2 agonis...
Source: Obstructive Sleep Apnea  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) increases the risk of severe COVID-19 according to a new research led by University of Helsinki-Finland and involving Broad Institute of MIT, Harvard, Stanford University and Massachusetts General Hospital.   Information regarding obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) diagnosis and COVID-19 infection was extracted from the FinnGen study (N=260,405) with a total of 305 ...
Source: BREAKING NEWS  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
Breaking News: A multi-disciplinary team of researchers from University of Campinas (UNICAMP)- Brazil have in a new study discovered and proved that the SARS-CoV-2 infects human CD4+ T helper cells, but not CD8+ T cells, and is present in blood and bronchoalveolar lavage T helper cells of severe COVID-19 patients.   The study findings are published on a preprint server but are already being...
Source: COVID-19 Latest Headlines  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest Headlines: Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School have utilized VirScan, a technology that can determine which of more than 1,000 different viruses have infected an individual including SARS-CoV-2 to discover more than 800 epitopes on the SARS-CoV-2 genome. The epitope is the part of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself to. ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Sep 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A study led by researchers from the University of Cincinnati along with scientists from University of Duisburg-Germany, the German Primate Center  and Saarland University-Germany have discovered that sphingosine, a naturally occurring lipid in the human body could be used as a potential treatment for COVID-19 as prevents binding of SARS-CoV-2 spike to its cellular receptor ...
Source: Nutrition And Diets  Sep 29, 2020  4 years ago
Nutrition And Diets: Researchers from University of Gothenburg-Sweden, Lund University-Sweden and the University of South Australia in a preclinical study found that dietary oat bran can offset chronic gastrointestinal damage caused by radiotherapy, contradicting long-held clinical recommendations.   The goal of this study was to evaluate the influence of dietary fiber on radiation-ind...
Source: U.S. COVID-19  Sep 29, 2020  4 years ago
U.S. COVID-19:  USA has now recorded a total of 205,114 deaths and more than 7,149,073 in the country have been infected. In the last 24 hours, 37,418 new cases were recorded and only 355 COVID-19 deaths were recorded.   Despite the low death rates and moderate infection rates in the last few days, the rate of positive COVID-19 tests is ticking up in New York, especially in neighborhoo...
Source: Excess Deaths  Sep 29, 2020  4 years ago
Excess Deaths: A University of Leeds led study has shown that there were more than 2085 excess deaths in England and Wales due to heart disease and stroke during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic stretching over 4 months (2nd March to 30th June 2020) with an average of 17 deaths per day. The researchers say that most of these deaths could have been prevented. (Excess deaths are the number of death...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Exclusive  Sep 29, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine Exclusive: Adeno-associated viral vectors to deliver gene therapies and vaccines are a growing platform that is being used by more and more pharmaceutical companies in drug and vaccine development. But unknown to many there are possible repercussions taking such AAV vectors based meds or vaccines.   Two gene therapies using adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors to deliver ge...
Source: Supplements For Coronavirus  Sep 29, 2020  4 years ago
Supplements For Coronavirus: Researchers University of Groningen - Netherlands, in a new vitro research have demonstrated that the phytochemicals resveratrol and pterostilbene, have long-lasting antiviral effects against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Both resveratrol and pterostilbene are natural plant compound found in grapes, small berries and certain nuts.   The study findings are published on ...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Sep 29, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Adding to the confusions and contradictions, a new study by researchers from the University of Mersin and the Mersin City Education And Research Hospital in Turkey found as men's testosterone level at baseline decreases, the probability for them to be in the intensive care unit (ICU) significantly increases.   The study findings suggest that the COVID-19 disease might a...
Source: Virus News  Sep 29, 2020  4 years ago
Virus News: Swedish researchers from the Karolinska Institutet in a new study claim that a type of anti-bacterial T cells known as MAIT cells, are strongly activated in individuals with moderate to severe COVID-19 disease.   The new research findings contribute to increased understanding about how the complex human host immune system responds against COVID-19 infection.   Severe COVID-...
Source: Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE)   Sep 28, 2020  4 years ago
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE): Researchers from the University of Miami, Miami VA Healthcare System and Express Gene in a news study have identified the anti-N Immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 as possibly being the  cause of the Antibody-Dependent Enhancement (ADE) phenomenon in patients experiencing COVID-19 severity. Furthermore the same antibodies could also act ...
Source: COVID-19 Headlines  Sep 28, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Headlines: In late July this year, Dr Anthony Fauci, the head of National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) since 1984 was busy touting to the media and numerous health agencies while it was becoming clear that antibodies in some cases were not working and also has a short lifespan coupled with the fact that antibody resistant strains of the SARS-CoV-2 was emerging, a n...
Source: News-COVID-19  Sep 28, 2020  4 years ago
News-COVID-19: A new study by researchers from University of Arizona-Tucson led by Dr Rajesh Khanna, Professor from the department of pharmacology has made a breakthrough discovery that the SARS-CoV-2 is also able to bind to the neuropilin-1 receptors in humans,(NRP-I) in the process disrupting certain pain signals pathways, hence making the human host impervious to pain that might otherwise be cr...
Source: COVID-19 Research Briefs  Sep 28, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research Briefs:   1. Anti-Androgens For COVID-19   A team of scientist led by Dr Andy Goren, MD from Applied Biology and Dr Flavio A. Cadegiani, MD, MSc, PhD from Corpometria Institute in Brazil while studying the genetics of the androgen receptor discovered a possible breakthrough treatment for COVID-19.Their study elucidates the possible role of androgens in controlling...
Source: COVID-19 Herd Immunity  Sep 28, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herd Immunity: Off late here has been reports covered in certain unreliable mainstream media and also non-credible medical media talking about certain cities like Manaus in Brazil attaining herd-immunity or worse another claiming that Japan has also attained herd immunity, such coverage are misleading and can sometimes cause more problems and danger as locals in those locations might deve...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Sep 28, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Researchers from Duke University Medical Center-North Carolina have identified biomarkers that accurately identify numerous viral infections across the clinical stages of disease, advancing a potential new way to guide treatment, quarantine decisions, and other clinical and public health interventions in the setting of endemic and pandemic infectious diseases.   The un...
Source: COVID-19-Povidone-Iodine  Sep 27, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19- Povidone-Iodine: A study led by researchers from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine-Farmington along with experts from The Institute for Antiviral Research at Utah State University, Veloce BioPharma-Florida, ProHealth-Farmington and Ocean Ophthalmology-Florida has demonstrated that an antiseptic nasal spray containing povidone-iodine may help curb transmission of the SARS-C...
Source: COVID-19 Headlines  Sep 27, 2020  4 years ago
Coronavirus Headlines TM : COVID-19 Cases In Myanmar Surging, Country  May Go Into Total Lockdown With Massive Restrictions.   As cases are fast rising in Myanmar, its biggest city, Yangon is rapidly building new quarantine centers as it scrambles to contain the commercial hub's first significant coronavirus outbreak, with overworked medical staff fearing thousands more cases to co...
Source: COVID-19 Airborne  Sep 27, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19-Airborne: The U.S. CDC a few days ago retracted an update on its website on the issues of the COVID-19 airborne spread claiming a variety of technical and admin errors but which many are saying the retraction was based on directives from the White House as election approaches. A 2018 photo shows The Gesundheit II machine in Dr Donald Milton's Public Health Aerobiology, Virology, and...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Sep 26, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from more than 200 medical and research institutions globally in a new study have found that that certain auto-antibodies known as neutralizing auto-Abs against type I IFNs are the reasons that certain individuals are suffering from severe conditions of the COVID-19 disease.                &nb...
Source: COVID-19 Scams  Sep 26, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Scams? Biomed Lublin a Polish pharmaceutical company claims to have successfully completed the production of a drug for COVID-19.   The company released a media statement on September 23 that its initial research “has confirmed its efficacy” and that it now plans to begin non-commercial clinical trials, and that if all goes well Poland could be the first country in...
Source: COVID-19 Mask  Sep 26, 2020  4 years ago
Homemade COVID-19 Mask: Researchers from the University of California at their Davis Laboratory have in study tests of surgical mask, N95 masks and homemade cloth mask found that by only surgical mask and N95 mask cuts down the amount of aerosolized particles emitted during breathing, talking and coughing. However tests of homemade cloth face coverings showed that the fabric itself releases a larg...
Source: COVID-19-Vitamin D  Sep 26, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19-Vitamin D: Researchers from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Sina Hospital-Tehran have found that hospitalized COVID-19 patients with adequate blood levels of Vitamin D exhibited lesser complications and also had a lower mortality risk. The study results were published in the peer-reviewed journal: PLOS One https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.023979...
Source: Metformin-COVID-19  Sep 26, 2020  4 years ago
Metformin-COVID-19: A few past research studies  the last few months has shown the possibility of using metformin, the common cheap and easily available diabetes drug being used for COVID-19 treatments as it was found to reduce severity and mortality rates in COVID-19 patients. In one study, the researchers found that among more than 600 patients with diabetes and COVID-19, use of metformin ...
Source: Drug News  Sep 25, 2020  4 years ago
Drugs News: A new study by researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Birmingham, Oxford and Nottingham have found the drug Gabapentin that is regularly used to treat chronic pelvic pain in women has been found to be no more effective than a placebo.   Chronic pelvic pain is estimated to affect 2–24% of women worldwide, and is associated with substantially reduced quality of life...
Source: Pharma News  Sep 25, 2020  4 years ago
Pharma News: Pharma giant Roche has partnered with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals to develop, manufacture and distribute Regeneron’s antiviral antibody combination, REGN-COV2, as a potential treatment of COVID-19.   The new antibody combination REGN-COV2 could help treat patients with symptoms and also prevent the disease in individuals exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   An init...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Sep 25, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Immunology experts at the University of Birmingham-UK have developed a new COVID-19 test using dried blood spot samples (DBS) as an accurate alternative to venous blood in detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. DBS sampling is simple, inexpensive and can be self-collected by the patient at home, using a simple finger prick. Credit: University Of Birmingham   The research fin...
Source: COVID-19 Reports  Sep 25, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Reports: A study presented at the ongoing ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID, 23-25 September) indicates that the severe COVID-19 immunological profile, represented by changes in cell populations and circulating inflammatory proteins, is already partly present in older healthy individuals in the West especially in Europe. (Applicable to Northern America as well)   The...
Source: COVID-19 Severity  Sep 25, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Severity according to yet another study, this time by researchers from Rockefeller University is also linked to mutations in human genes but this time in a group of 13 genes associated with antiviral defense. Mutations in any one or more of these genes can also increase disease severity in those infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   The study findings were published in the jo...
Source: Human Genetic Mutations PiZ And PiS  Sep 25, 2020  4 years ago
Human Genetic Mutations PiZ And PiS found in segments of the general population contributes to a greater risk of severity and mortality from COVID-19 disease according to researchers from Tel Aviv University-Israel.   Accordingly these mutations lead to deficiency in the alpha1-antitrypsin protein, which protects lung tissues from damage in case of severe infections.   The study findin...
Source: Russia COVID-19 News  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
Russia COVID-19 News: Russia proudly launched the world’s first COVID-19 vaccine Sputnik V despite lack of proper phase 3 trial data and was boasting about its mass vaccinations program that is currently under way. To top it up, only a few days ago it also announced that its local version of the teratogenic drug favipiravir which is called Coronavir is being made available at pharmacies acro...
Source: Coronavirus Warning  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
Coronavirus Warning: Day by day it is emerging despite initial denials by researchers that the SARS-CoV-2 resembles an airborne version of the HIV virus that kills the human host slowly except for those that are vulnerable either due to age, a weakened immune system and the presence of various comorbidities, where the process is even faster.   A new study by Chinese researchers from Tongji ...
Source: Pandemic News  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
Pandemic News: Researchers from the Wayne State University-Detroit and the Detroit Medical Center in a new study that was presented at the ongoing online ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCMID, online 23-25 September) showed that the initial SARS-CoV-2 viral load in nasopharyngeal samples has been decreasing as the pandemic progressed.   Interestingly the study team led by Dr Said...
Source: Pterostilbene  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
Pterostilbene (PSB) a polyphenolic phytochemical that occurs in plants, particularly small berries and nuts has been identified by Japanese researchers from the Tokyo University of Science as a new therapeutic option for chronic inflammatory disorders. The study findings are published in the FASEB Journal: (Journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) https://faseb.on...
Source: News-COVID-19  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
News-COVID-19: Researchers from the University of California-San Diego (UCSD) in a new study found that a high percentage of recovered COVID-19 patients exhibited ocular inflammation in their eyes which is a type of neuroinflammation.  The study findings by the researchers from the Department of Ophthalmology-UCSD, the Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Public Health-UCSD, and the ...
Source: Virus News  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
Virus News: Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology-Lausanne (EPFL) in a new study shows that pathogenic viruses may be able to develop resistance to warm temperatures and certain some types of disinfectant such as chlorine. That combined with global warming and more frequent and longer heat waves could make it even harder to keep them from spreading.    The study te...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest:  Researchers from University of California-San Diego, University of Texas-Austin and Maynooth University-Dublin have discovered an active role for glycans, the sugar molecules that decorate the spike proteins of the coronavirus in terms of the actual infection and binding process to human host receptors.   These glycans in turn could be new targets for certai...
Source: COVID-19 Updates:  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Updates: Thursday morning starts with the global death toll reaching almost 974,000 due to the novel coronavirus that originated from Wuhan, China and whose global spread was never stopped by the WHO (World Health Organization) led by black Ethiopian national Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who is still shamelessly refusing to resign from his position despite calls and online petitions. &nbs...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments  Sep 24, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: Two new studies by researchers from the University of California-San Diego show that statin usage is linked to a lower risk of developing COVID-19 severity and that removing cholesterol from cell membranes prevents the virus from getting into these cells.   Furthermore there is some biologic plausibility for a protective role of statins in COVID-19 through known anti-in...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Sep 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Good news for most of the mental asylums as most of their inmates are less likely to suffer from the COVID-19 severity due to the fact that they are likely to possess a mutated variant of the human gene Rs4702 according a new vitro study from Icahn School of medicine that shows how human genes affects the COVID-19 disease besides numerous other factors and comorbidities.  ...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements  Sep 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Spanish researchers from the Hospital Del Mar, Barcelona led by Dr Roberto Güerri-Fernández presented a new research at the ESCMID Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID, currently held online 23-25 September) that shows that having a lower level of zinc in the blood is associated with a poorer outcome in patients with COVID-19. Past studies have shown that in...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Sep 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: It was announced last Saturday that The World Health Organization has finally endorsed a protocol for testing herbal medicines as potential treatments for the COVID-19 disease coronavirus and other epidemics. https://www.afro.who.int/news/expert-panel-endorses-protocol-covid-19-herbal-medicine-clinical-trials   The COVID-19 pandemic has raised the issue o...
Source: HIV Drugs  Sep 23, 2020  4 years ago
HIV Drugs: According to researchers from the University of Washington-Seattle, the commonly used HIV drug that is to treat those infected and also individuals using it as a prophylaxis or in PrEP protocols can induce a type I/III interferon-associated signature and inflammation throughout the gut.   It should be noted that long term inflammation of any kind can lead to a variety of chronic ...
Source: COVID-19 Herd Immunity  Sep 23, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herd Immunity: Researchers from University of Georgia have developed a new model that proves that achieving herd immunity to COVID-19 is an impractical public health strategy.   The study findings were published in the journal:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/09/21/2008087117   Currently attempts to controlling COV...
Source: Coronavirus Latest  Sep 23, 2020  4 years ago
Coronavirus Latest: Contrary to all the hyped up news about potential drug candidates discoveries, latest research revelations about the virus pathogenesis, about advances in monoclonal antibody therapies and about COVID-19 vaccines that are in expected to be available before the end of the year thanks to the White House intervention, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from going to be over as the ever ...

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