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Gastroenterology News - Alpha-Gal Syndrome - Lone Star Tick Mar 22, 2023 2 years ago
Gastroenterology News: Researchers from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill-USA, Mayo Clinic, Florida-USA and University of Virginia, Charlottesville-USA are warning that more people are developing digestive issues due to a condition known as alpha-gal syndrome, a type of food allergy that is caused by the bite of the Lone Star Tick that is predominant in parts of the United States, ...
AI News - Google Bard - ChatGPT Mar 22, 2023 2 years ago
AI News: As Google unrolled its AI chatbox called Google Bard to more users in the United States and the United Kingdom in the last few hours, the world of AI chatbots is witnessing a fierce competition between tech giants Google and Microsoft-backed OpenAI that is behind the chatbot ChatGPT.
Both Google Bard and ChatGPT are chatbot tools designed to provide human-like responses to user q...
H5N1 News - Kherson-Ukraine Mar 22, 2023 2 years ago
H5N1 News: Its now getting more confusing with more indications that something is not right and there is something really going on in Kherson region in Ukraine.
The Russian news agency.. Tass had earlier reported about 65 hours ago that there was an outbreak of H5N1 Avian Flu infections among residents from a village of Velikaya Aleksandrovka in the Ukraine controlled part of the Kh...
Medical Startups - Indonesia's Etana Mar 21, 2023 2 years ago
Medical Startups: PT Etana Biotechnologies Indonesia (Etana), a trailblazing Indonesian biopharmaceutical startup, has successfully obtained a fresh influx of investment. The financing round, led by DEG, saw participation from Yunfeng Capital, HighLight Capital, and East Ventures. This monetary boost will enable Etana to enhance its pipeline and product portfolio, with a particular emphasis on onc...
U.S. Medical News - Candida Auris Spreading In American Hospitals And Nursing Homes Mar 21, 2023 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: Candida auris (C. auris), a formidable fungus posing a critical antimicrobial resistance (AR) challenge, has been spreading with astonishing speed across U.S. healthcare facilities between 2020-2021, as reported by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the Annals of Internal Medicine.
https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/full/10.7326/M22-3469
Nationwide, cl...
COVID-19 Drugs - Chlorpromazine And Prochlorperazine Mar 21, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Indian researchers after conducting successful animal model drug trials involving hamsters are suggesting that G4-binding drugs, chlorpromazine and prochlorperazine could be repurposed against SARS-CoV-2 infections.
Chlorpromazine, marketed under the brand names Thorazine and Largactil among others, is an antipsychotic oral medication. It is primarily used to treat psychot...
COVID-19 News - Metabolic Alterations -170 Dysregulations Mar 21, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from University of Zacatecas-Mexico, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social-Mexico, Waters Technologies of Brazil, Waters Corporation-Mexico and University of Monterrey-Mexico has alarmingly found that up to 170 metabolic dysregulations were found in recovered SARS-CoV-2 patients two years on….. especially dysregulated lipid pathways.
Accordi...
Health News - Ice Cream- Spring Mar 21, 2023 2 years ago
Health News: Dairy Queen's Free Cone Day promotions to celebrate 'start' of spring prompted me to write this article as with the start of spring, ice cream consumption will once again start rising all over the United States and other countries in the Northern hemisphere.
Ice cream is a beloved treat worldwide, with a range of flavors and toppings that cater to everyone's t...
Long COVID News - Breathing Issues Mar 21, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID News: A new study by researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine has found the mechanism that may explain one of the most prevalent symptoms of Long COVID - breathing difficulties. These post-COVID-19 respiratory issues are the result of a condition called lung fibrosis, which occurs when damaged lung tissue forms scars, making it challenging for the lungs to expand and cont...
Star Anise - H5N1 Avian Flu Mar 20, 2023 2 years ago
Star Anise is the seed pod of the fruit of the Illicium verum plant. It is a star-shaped, dark-brown spice that has been used in traditional Chinese medicine for centuries. Its unique flavor, often described as sweet and licorice-like, is a key ingredient in several recipes and is also used a key ingredient in the Chinese five-spice powder and the popular Vietnamese soup, phở. However, this a...
H5N1 News -Outbreak In Kherson-Ukraine Mar 20, 2023 2 years ago
H5N1 News: In the last few hours, a Russian news agency announced that there was an outbreak of H5N1 Avian Flu Infections among humans in the Kyiv-controlled part of Kherson region in Ukraine!
According to the Russian Tass News Agency, 18 people were hospitalized and 2 died as a result of contracting the H5N1 Avian Flu virus!
https://tass.ru/proisshestviya/17308475
The Russians eme...
COVID-19 News - Obesity - Weakened Immune Response in COVID-19 Mar 20, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study led by researchers from University of Cambridge-United Kingdom has found that obesity linked to weakened immune response in COVID-19 patients, often leading to disease severity.
The study was included scientists from Wellcome Sanger Institute-United Kingdom, Shenzhen Third People’s Hospital-China, University College London-United Kingdom, Newcastle Univers...
COVID-19 News - Variety Of XBB Sublineages Driving COVID-19 Onslaught In India Mar 20, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Indian Health authorities reported a mere 918 COVID-19 Infections, and only 3 COVID-19 deaths in the last 24 hours casting doubt on the reliability of such official figures!
https://www.mohfw.gov.in/
Doctors and hospitals in the state of Maharashtra and Gujerat are witnessing a high rise in hospitalizations due to COVID-19 and outpatient clinics are literally being outrun b...
Many U.S. Banks Expected To Collapse Mar 20, 2023 2 years ago
A new study published by financial and banking experts from the University of Southern California, Northwestern University - Kellogg School of Management, Columbia University - Columbia Business School and Stanford University warns that more than 186 American banks at risk of collapsing rapidly, similar to SVB, Silvergate Capital and Signature Bank sagas!
The experts said that these 200 U...
Long COVID News - T Cell Dysregulation Mar 20, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from University of California, San Francisco-USA, Ulm University Medical Center-Germany, Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital-USA has found that T Cell dysregulation, uncoordinated adaptive immune response to SARS-CoV-2 along with inflammation are among the many factors behind Long COVID!
The study investigated the role of T-cells in Lon...
Banking And Financial News - Credit Suisse And Asian Markets Mar 20, 2023 2 years ago
How the $3.2 billion emergency rescue deal changed the landscape of Swiss banking
The Unprecedented Deal to Save Credit Suisse
Switzerland's largest bank, UBS, made headlines after agreeing to purchase its struggling rival, Credit Suisse, in an emergency rescue deal designed to halt the financial panic sparked by the collapse of two American banks earlier this month. The Swiss ...
COVID-19 News: Taiwan's Central Epidemic Command Center (CECC) announced on Sunday 8,419 new COVID-19 cases and 43 COVID-19 deaths, marking a 7.4 percent decrease in local infections from the previous week. With this update, the total number of COVID-19 infections in Taiwan since the start of the pandemic in early 2020 has reached 10,231,343, accompanied by 18,775 deaths.
Pic Credit: Getty
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The healthcare industry is on the brink of a revolution with the advent of ChatGPT, which has been making headlines since November 2022. Not only can it write code and poems, but it has also demonstrated its capability by passing all three components of the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) in a recent research experiment.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.12.19.222836...
US. News - Trump - American Banks - Chaos Mar 19, 2023 2 years ago
US News: The former US president, Donald Trump, announced on Saturday, March 18, that he foresees his arrest on Tuesday, March 21, in relation to alleged hush money paid to an adult film actress prior to the 2016 election, and called for his supporters to take to the streets in protest.
Trump, referencing a supposed "leak" from the Manhattan district attorney's office, poste...
A few days ago, various news and social media accounts were abuzz about a mysterious disease outbreak in Tanzania’s Northwest Kagera region that borders Uganda that has so far killed five people and infected another 2 who are still in critical condition.
https://www.africanews.com/amp/2023/03/17/tanzania-authorities-investigates-mysterious-illness-that-killed-five/
https://www.theeast...
U.S. Medical News - Pfizer Recalls Nurtec ODT Migraine Tablets Mar 19, 2023 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: Pfizer has initiated the withdrawal of millions of Nurtec ODT Migraine tablet packs in the United States due to the lack of necessary child-resistant blister packs, which, according to U.S. regulators, present a poisoning hazard to children.
In all, more than four million blister packs of Pfizer’s prescription migraine drug Nurtec ODT is being recalled in Amer...
SARS-CoV-2 And Human Growth Hormone Mar 19, 2023 2 years ago
Human Growth Hormone or HGH is now emerging as interesting therapeutic agent that can prevent disease severity and also help with Long COVID issues. In fact emerging data also shows that it can also be deployed as a potential prophylactic agent to prevent SARS-CoV-2 infections!
Thailand Medical News found in preliminary meta-analysis of published studies that many infected and hospitalize...
COVID-19 News - SARS-CoV-2 E Proteins - Pyroptosis Mar 19, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Nanchang University-China, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Nanchang-China, Hainan General Hospital-China and University of Missouri Kansas City-USA has found that the SARS-CoV-2 E protein induces inflammatory response and monocyte pyroptosis which can be reversed by Ruscogenin.
Ruscogenin is an anti-inflammatory steroid and is actually a phytochem...
SARS-CoV-2 Research - Metalloproteinases, Specifically MMP-2 and MMP-9, For Viral Entry Mar 19, 2023 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: Scientists from University of Ottawa-Canada, Western University-Canada and University of Western Ontario-Canada have in December 2022 found that SARS-CoV-2 can also use Metalloproteinases, specifically MMP-2 and MMP-9, for viral entry and also for cell fusion.
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COVID-19 Supplements - Vitamin K - Ferroptosis Mar 18, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Researchers from the Department of Medical Biology and Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń-Poland have conducted a study review examining the potential of Vitamin K in suppressing SARS-CoV-2 induced ferroptosis. Ferroptosis, a recently identified form of programmed cell death, is characterized by the accumulation of iron and lipid hydrop...
SARS-CoV-2 Research - Fusion Peptide Mar 18, 2023 2 years ago
A new study by researchers from the Institute of Research, Development, and Innovation in Healthcare Biotechnology (IDiBE), Universitas “Miguel Hernández”, Spain has found that SARS-CoV-2 spike’s fusion peptide binds to negatively-charged phospholipids in cell membranes of host without significant changes to its secondary structures.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus which causes the...
COVID-19 News -SARS-CoV-2 Infections Rising Again Mar 18, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: In the last 36 hours, the WHO had once again opened their mouths prematurely and said that the threat from COVID-19 would likely be reduced and be on par with that of flu and that the agency will likely be able to declare an end to the health emergency sometime in 2023.
https://www.voanews.com/a/who-sees-covid-posing-similar-threat-to-flu-this-year-/7010599.html
Interesting...
H9N2 News: Before I even proceed, I have to confess..even I am getting confused keeping abreast with all the developments these days…H5N1 bird flu outbreak, H3N2 flu In India, H7N9 avian flu in camels In Mongolia, H1N1 flu in various parts of the world…etc!
Taiwan health authorities in the last few hours announced that a H9N2 bird flu outbreak has occurred on the island of K...
COVID-19 Research - 1,449 Human Host Plasma Proteins Altered By SARS-CoV-2 Mar 17, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Researchers from Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri-USA have in a new study utilizing detailed proteomics discovered that over 1,449 Human Host proteins including critical genes, enzymes and cellular proteases necessary for various cellular functions are altered (damaged, dysregulated or suppressed) by SARS-CoV-2 infections!
Identification of p...
Long COVID News - Decreased Plasma Tryptophan - Increased Kynurenine Levels Mar 17, 2023 2 years ago
LONG COVID News: A new study by researchers based in Iraq and Thailand has found that decreased plasma Tryptophan and increased Kynurenine levels may be contributing factors to Long COVID symptoms.
Already, severe cases of COVID-19 have been linked to reduced levels of tryptophan (TRY) in the blood and an increase in indoleamine-dioxygenase (IDO)-triggered production of neuroactive trypto...
COVID-19 News - Acute Necrotizing Encephalopathy - Infants Mar 17, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Chinese pediatricians and scientists from Guangxi Maternal and Child Health Hospital have reported the first documented case of a 45-day infant developing acute necrotizing encephalopathy (ANE) as a result of SARS-CoV-2. Although this is the first case documented of acute necrotizing encephalopathy in an infant, local physicians are questioning if there are any new changes in the pa...
U.S. Medical News - Cancer Drug Shortage Mar 17, 2023 2 years ago
U.S. Medical News: America Facing A Severe Shortage Of Various Cancer Drugs Including Methotrexate, Cisplatin, And Fluorouracil. Many Americans Will Die!
U.S. Medical News: The American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) has issued warnings that the various cancer drugs are in shortage in the country including Injectable methotrexate, cisplatin, and fluor...
COVID-19 News - Omicron Not Mild In Children Mar 17, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study involving 14 Canadian pediatric Emergency Departments (ED) in hospitals across the country has found that the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron is causing more health issues in children that previously thought.
Pic Credit: Evgeniy Shkolenko / iStock
The stud team aimed to investigate the differences in symptoms, chest X-ray results, treatments, and outcomes among children infe...
A new revelation by the British Medical Journal has found that UK’s General Medical Council (GMC) had been investing millions of pounds into various junk food companies while its chief executive gets paid over a quarter million pounds a year and another six staff on the council gets paid over 200,000 pounds a year.
https://www.bmj.com/content/380/bmj.p580
https://www.gmc-uk.org/about/...
Colorectal Cancer News - Millenials - Gen Zers Mar 16, 2023 2 years ago
Yeap, it true….the arrogant but stupid generation that think they are more smarter and only want to make fast bucks without much hard work to a point that they have no morals or ethics as we have seen in the FTX, Genesis, Voyager Digital, Celsius and BlockFi collapses or the Theranos scams or the numerus others selling whatever orifices they have on Only Fans site or creating stupid content...
Autoimmune-Diseases - Sucralose - T-Cell Immune Response Mar 16, 2023 2 years ago
Autoimmune Diseases: Scientists at the Francis Crick Institute have discovered that high consumption of sucralose, a widely used artificial sweetener, can reduce the activation of T-cells, a crucial part of the immune system, in mice. If this effect can also be observed in humans, sucralose may be employed therapeutically to regulate T-cell responses, such as in patients with autoimmune diseases w...
COVID-19 Research: Alterations In Gut Immunological Barrier Mar 16, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from University of Patras-Greecee, University Hospital of Patras-Greece and “Agios Andreas” Patras State General Hospital-Greece has found that SARS-CoV-2 infections causes alterations in gut immunological barrier.
Key features of intestinal immune barrier disruption during SARS-CoV-2 infection. SARS-CoV-2 infection is associated with pro...
COVID-19 News -CIART -SARS-CoV-2 Mar 16, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study led by scientists from Weill Cornell Medicine, New York-USA had identified CIART, the circadian-associated repressor of transcription as the key regulator of SARS-CoV-2 infection.
The study also involved researchers from New York University-USA and Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
Using organoid models, the study team systematical...
SARS-CoV-2 Research - ORF6 And NSP13 Proteins Cause Degradation Of The DNA Damage Response Kinase Mar 15, 2023 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: A new study by Italian researchers have found that the SARS-Cov-2 ORF6 and NSP13 proteins cause degradation of the DNA Damage Response or DDR involving the kinase CHK1 through proteasome and Autophagy.
The study team comprised of researchers from:
-IFOM ETS - The AIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology, Milan, Italy
-International Centre for Genetic Engineering an...
H7N9 News - Camels - Mutations Mar 15, 2023 2 years ago
H7N9 News: Researchers from Yangzhou University, Yangzhou, Jiangsu-China have made a shocking discovery that the H7N9 virus has mutated and is now infecting camels in the inner Mongolia region. The discovery serves as a warning that the H7N9 is evolving and there is a very high threat of it further mutating to enable it infect humans more easily!
Distressed camel being molested in the Middle-Eas...
Vaccine News - Counterfeit COVID-19 Vaccines Mar 15, 2023 2 years ago
Vaccine News: British detection and anticounterfeit technology specialist Eluceda has developed a rapid, ‘two-minute’ COVID vaccine authentication test that is not only easy-to-use but highly accurate to detect counterfeit Covid-19 vaccines.
The new testing solution can be conveniently used in the field, providing a practical authentication solution that doesn’t require ...
H5N1 News: The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) along with the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the EU reference laboratory (EURL) has released a new report detailing the new worrisome mutations found on the H5N1 Avian Flu virus that is circulating around the world and wreaking extensive havoc by infecting and killing millions of birds, poultry and also many mamma...
Medical Warnings - Online Influencers Mar 14, 2023 2 years ago
Medical Warnings: A new study led by researchers from University of Colorado-USA has found that many online “Patient Influencers” are being paid by pharmaceutical companies to mislead viewers on prescription drugs!
In some cases, these online medical influencers are not just previous patients but also doctors, researchers and so called “experts’ and even advocacy o...
SARS-CoV-2 Research - Spike And ORF-9B Proteins Impairs Contractile Function In Cardiomyocytes! Mar 14, 2023 2 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Research: Scientists from Clemson University, South Carolina-USA, Stanford University School of Medicine, California-USA, Southern Illinois University School of Medicine-USA, Shandong University, Jinan-China and University of Pittsburgh-USA have in a new study found that ectopic expression of SARS-CoV-2 S and ORF-9B proteins alters metabolic profiles and impairs contractile function in ...
Long COVID News - Prosopagnosia - Face Blindness Mar 14, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire USA has found that SARS-Cov-2 infections can lead to individuals developing visual impairments including prosopagnosia!
Prosopagnosia (also known as face blindness or facial agnosia) is a neurological disorder characterized by the inability to recognize faces. There is no treatment for the condit...
COVID-19 News - India - XBB.1.16 Mar 14, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: India has reported in the last 3 weeks a rise in various respiratory infections along with an increase in hospitalizations and also ICU admissions.
While physicians and hospitals across India are also reporting an increase in mortality rates…state and federal health and government authorities have not come up with any public statements nor have has there been any proper co...
COVID-19 News - Vasculitis - Children Mar 13, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 News: Limited information is available on cases of skin and central nervous system vasculopathy associated with COVID-19 in children, despite several such cases being reported.
Russian scientist and pediatricians conducted a retrospective-prospective case series study that included information on four children with COVID-19-associated vasculitis.
In each case, they provide...
Colorectal Cancer - Bendectin Mar 13, 2023 2 years ago
A new study by researchers from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston)-USA and the School of Public Health Public Health Institute, Berkeley, California-USA have shockingly found that all whose mothers had taken the anti-nausea drug called Bendectin during pregnancy face a high risk of developing colorectal cancer!
The study findings showed that prenatal e...
Outbreak News - India - Multiple Viral Infections Mar 13, 2023 2 years ago
Outbreak News: Reports are emerging that many parts of India are facing a simultaneous onslaught of various viral infections caused by pathogens like adenovirus, influenza A virus, Influenza B virus, respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), metapneumovirus, rhinovirus, common human coronaviruses, para-influenza virus and also SARS-CoV-2!
Local physicians and hospitals are reporting the rise of ...
Pharma News -Silver Nanoparticles - Antivirals - COVID-19 - H5N1 Mar 13, 2023 2 years ago
Pharma News: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic with the emergence of new variants and sub-lineages have made identifying effective treatments become even more challenging.
Unknown to many, drug resistance has developed in many of these new sub-lineages not only with the used of officially approved antivirals such as remdesivir, paxlovid, molnupiravir, favipiravir but even with drugs unofficially an...
Dementia -Sleep Medications -Whites Mar 13, 2023 2 years ago
Dementia: According to a recent scientific study led by the University of California, San Francisco, sleep medications, including benzodiazepines, antidepressants, and Ambien, may increase the risk of dementia in white individuals.
However, the type and quantity of medication may be factors that affect the higher risk.
The study followed approximately 3,000 older adults without dem...
COVID-19 Supplements - Omega 3 Fatty Acids Mar 13, 2023 2 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: A new study by researchers from the Fatty Acid Research Institute, Sioux Falls-USA, Sanford School of Medicine, University of South Dakota, Sioux Falls-USA and College of Nursing, University of Illinois–Chicago-USA
delved into the potential protective effects of omega-3 fatty acids, specifically EPA and DHA, in relation to contracting and/or experiencing negative outcom...
RSV Virus News: A first study by scientists from Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital, Buenos Aires-Argentina and Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville-USA ash found that the the human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is rapidly mutating to evade vaccines!
The respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a major cause of lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) in child...
Long COVID News - Adrenal Glands Mar 12, 2023 2 years ago
Long COVID-19 News: As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to ravage the world, researchers and medical professionals are starting to take note of a troubling phenomenon: Long COVID. This condition, also known as post-acute sequelae of SARS-CoV-2 infection (PASC), affects some individuals who have recovered from the initial acute phase of COVID-19. There are many possible factors that can contribute t...
H5N1 News: Health authorities in Argentina have reported that 6 individuals out of 46 locals exposed to infected animals could have possibly been infected with the H5N1 Avian Flu virus.
https://www.infobae.com/salud/ciencia/2023/03/11/el-mapa-de-la-gripe-aviar-en-la-argentina-se-detectaron-40-focos-en-aves-en-10-provincias/
According to the Argentinian Health authorities, 5 of the suspect...