For All The Latest Medical News, Health News, Research News, COVID-19 News, Dengue News, Glaucoma News, Diabetes News, Herb News, Phytochemical News, Cardiology News, Epigenetic News, Cancer News, Doctor News, Hospital News
Coronavirus News is a section dedicated to the new coronavirus that is causing an epidemic in China and fast spreading globally. The strain of coronavirus called Covid-19 or also commonly called the Wuhan coronavirus is genetically more potent and faster spreading than the SARS coronavirus. Currently teams are working to develop a new vaccine for this new coronavirus while other teams are trying t...
U.S. Hospitals are running short of ICU beds as COVID-19 infection rates are fast climbing. In the last 24 hours, there were 225,441 new COVID-19 cases reported in America while a new record of 3,242 Americans have died from the COVID-19 disease in the last 24 hours. Current hospitalizations have reached 106,920 while more than 24,000 cases are termed as critically ill with more than 8,200 individ...
NeuroCOVID: A new study by researchers from Boston University Medical Center and Boston University School of Medicine shows that SARS-CoV-2 infections can cause a wide range of neurological complications, even in patients who are not critically ill.
The study was conducted to characterize the breadth of neurologic findings associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection in a diverse group of in...
Source: British Medical Journal Dec 10, 2020 4 years ago
The British Medical Journal is one of the few credible and untainted medical journals left that believes in real scientific facts and data, ethics, transparency and cannot be manipulated by money as in the case of certain other journals that are literally in the hands of pharmaceutical companies or the U.S. or China governments.
Day by day its seems that the monies of the big pharma compa...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine News Dec 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine News: The U.S. FDA has warned that four participants in Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine trials had developed facial paralysis while UK regulators have issued yet another warning that individuals with allergies should avoid the COVID-19 vaccine.
The U.S FDA commenting on the incident of the 4 individuals developing facial paralysis after having the Pfizer’s COVID-19 ...
COVID-19 Alerts: The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cautioned all medical staff and hospitals that protective face masks containing metal can heat to unsafe temperatures during Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanning.
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) uses strong magnets and radio waves (radiofrequency energy) to make pictures of the inside of the body. MRIs hel...
SARS-Cov-2 News: Scientist from at Gladstone Institutes and the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, in collaboration with scientists at University of California- San Francisco (UCSF) and Synthego Corporation, have identified critical molecular processes in human cells that coronaviruses including the SARS-CoV-2 virus uses to survive.
According to the study team’s abstract, the Coronavirida...
COVID-19-News: Medical researchers from the Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School-New Jersey have reported the first documented case of COVID-19 triggering a recurrence of Guillain-Barré Syndrome , a rare disorder where the body's immune system attacks nerves and can lead to respiratory failure and death.
COVID-19 has been reported to trigger Guillain–Barr&eacu...
Healthcare News: According to a new study by researchers from the University of Glasgow-UK, healthcare workers are 7 times as likely to have severe COVID-19 infection as those with other types of 'non-essential' jobs.
The study findings were based on the first UK-wide lockdown and are published online in the peer- reviewed journal Occupational & Environmental Medicine. ht...
Source: India Medical News Dec 08, 2020 4 years ago
India Medical News: Health authorities in the town of Eluru in the Southern state of Andhra Pradesh are reporting the emergence of a new strange disease that has affected more than 487 individuals so far with one death.
Credit: PTI
Most manifest symptoms similar to epilepsy attacks that last for few minutes and loss of memory coupled with anxiety, nausea, headache and back pain and a few ...
Source: Thailand COVID-19 News Dec 08, 2020 4 years ago
Thailand COVID-19 News: Trying the decipher the real numbers of COVID-19 infections in Thailand per day can be really mind boggling for instance yesterday it was announced during the mid-day daily COVID-19 briefings that 9 more Thai female returnees from Myanmar tested positive but in the evening it was disclosed in mainstream media that another 6 more cases were detected in the ...
Source: COVID-19 Genetic Risk Variants Dec 08, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 genetic risk variants significantly associated with the expression of 11 protein-coding genes that impact immune cell types and COVID-19 disease severity were identified in a new study by researchers from La Jolla Institute for Immunology-California and the University of California San Diego.
In the study abstract, the researchers said that common genetic polymorphisms associated...
Source: Immunogenetics-CRELD1 Gene Dec 07, 2020 4 years ago
Immunogenetics: Researchers from the University of Bonn-Germany and the Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen-Netherlands have in a new study found a genetic disposition that plays a key role in the development of the heart in the embryo also appears to play a key role in the human immune system. When the gene identified as CRELD1 is not active enough, the immune defense system undergoes cha...
Vaccine News: Scientists from the U.S. National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) have reported that Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine, mRNA-1273, caused the human immune system to produce potent antibodies that endures for at least three months.
The research findings were published in the peer reviewed New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10...
Source: Thailand Coronavirus News Dec 07, 2020 4 years ago
Thailand Coronavirus News: Officials in the Northern Thai province of Chiang Rai has discovered nine new cases of COVID-19 linked to a hotel and entertainment area in Myanmar famous for females freelancing themselves as escorts or working as karaoke and disco hosts called 1G1 Hotel in Myanmar.
The Nightclub At 1G1 Hotel In Myanmar.
It was reported that all the nine were women aged 20-44 y...
Source: World COVID-19 News Dec 07, 2020 4 years ago
World COVID-19 News: The world is witnessing an unprecedented health crisis never witnessed in the last few decades. With daily new COVID-19 infections surpassing 650,000 day and daily global death rates from COVID-19 exceeding an average of 12,000 per day with rates expected to rise exponentially the next few weeks, public healthcare systems in many countries are about to collapse. It is apparent...
Coronavirus News: A study by Italian doctors and researchers published in the JAMA Internal Medicine medical journal alarmingly reveals that that 18% of recovered COVID-19 patients test positive for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and that 3% ie 1 of 32, carry replicating virus in their respiratory tract. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/10.1001/jamainternmed.2020...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Dec 06, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Researchers from Gladstone Institutes, University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley), and University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have developed a new fast and portable yet accurate COVID-19 diagnostic platform utilizing CRISPR testing technology and the smartphone camera.
The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus outbreak has become an ongoing global pandemic due in part...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News Dec 06, 2020 4 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: The situation in America is sadly getting bad and daily deaths now crossing the 2,400 mark the last few days and new COVID-19 infections crossing the 200,000 daily mark. (Sources: John Hopkins COVID-19 Dashboard, the COVID-19 Tracking project, Worldometer)
As of Sunday, the total number of COVID-19 infections in America now stands at 14.57 million and the total number ...
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 05, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Institute of Molecular Biology, Academia Sinica, Taipei-Taiwan shows that SARS-CoV-2 D614 and G614 spike variants impair neuronal synapses, causing neurological manifestations. The study also showed that these spike variants exhibit differential fusion ability.
In the study abstract, the researchers said that the SARS-CoV-2 coronaviru...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs-Angelica Archangelica Dec 05, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: A new study by researchers from Spain led by WorldPathol Global United S.A, Universidad de Zaragoza-Spain and various other institutions have found that non-toxic furocoumarin phytochemical extracted from the roots and seeds of the Angelica Archangelica plant was able to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in vitro studies.
The study findings were published on a preprint se...
COVID-19 News: Researchers from Sun Yat-Sen University campuses in both Shenzhen and Zhuhai, China have in a new study identified an antibody called nCoV396 that is able to halt the SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein induced complement hyperactivation that often leads to increased morbidity and mortality in COVID-19 patients.
In the abstract of the study, the researchers said that although human anti...
Source: COVID-19 Antivirals Dec 05, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Antivirals: The interim WHO Solidarity Trial results confirms that antivirals like remdesivir, lopinavir, interferon and hydroxychloroquine seem to have little to no effect on mortality for hospitalized patients with COVID-19.
The trial randomly assigned hospitalized patients with Covid-19 equally between one of the trial drug regimens that was locally available and open control ...
Source: Supplements, Herbs and Repurposed Drugs For COVID-19 Dec 04, 2020 4 years ago
This simple guide to COVID-19 supplements, repurposed drugs and herbs that can help one with the COVID-19 is basically to help all around the world especially our readers in America, UK, the rest Of Europe, South America and India that has been badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and is going through a rough crisis in their countries.Please do due diligence first and never take any item below ...
Source: Latest Medical News Dec 04, 2020 4 years ago
The latest medical news circulating around is based on a new study by researchers from the University of Minnesota Medical School and UnitedHealth Group-Florida in which it was found that metformin was associated with significantly reduced COVID-19 death risks in women in one of the world's largest observational studies of COVID-19 patients.
According to the study, type 2 diabetes and...
Source: COVID-19 Research-Antioxidants Dec 04, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from McGill University-Canada, University of Saskatchewan-Canada and University of Calgary-Canada have in a new study proposed the ‘redox hypothesis; to help explain as to why certain individuals are more vulnerable to the SARS-CoV-2 infection.
In their abstract presentation, the study team says that disparity in the infection of SARS-CoV2 among host po...
Molnupiravir: As of the last count on Friday morning (4th December), sadly more than 276,120 Americans have died from the COVID-19 disease so far and more than 14.2 million COVID-19 infection cases were logged in the country. These figures are expected to rise exponentially in the next few months despite having so many ‘experts’ in the country.
It was reported that resea...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements-Melatonin Dec 04, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Researchers from University of Toronto-Canada, Somnogen Canada Inc. and Pontificia Universidad Católica Argentina have in a new study proposed that melatonin can help prevent severe COVID-19.
The study abstract states that the therapeutic potential of melatonin as a chronobiotic cytoprotective agent to counteract the consequences of COVID-19 infections has been advoca...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Dec 03, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Doctors from the Institute of Human Behaviour and Allied Sciences, Delhi-India report a report a case of a young male patient who came in with a headache to an emergency room. He had increased intracranial pressure and tested positive for SARS-CoV-2, suggesting new headaches during the pandemic should not be ignored.
The case report and study findings were published the...
Source: Phytochemicals and Herbs Dec 03, 2020 4 years ago
Phytochemicals and Herbs: Scientists from North Carolina State University-U.S. in a new study have found that phytochemicals like Flavan-3-ols and Dimeric Proanthocyanidins from plants and fruits can inhibit the main SARS-CoV-2 protease called Mpro hence acting as antivirals against the novel coronavirus.
The study team reported that twelve phytochemicals, (–)-afzelechin (AF), ...
COVID-19 Scams: The purpose of the COVID-19 vaccines trials were to determine the safety of the vaccines, whether they elicited relevant and effective antibodies and T-cells and whether they offered protection to the recipients of the vaccines against the various SARS-CoV-2 strains in circulation. (Please also note that having antibodies and T cells elicited does not mean that one is protected as ...
COVID-19 Latest: As predicted, the next few months will be fun days for those who have been prepared in advance and have been taking advice from us. Stay locked up in your homes and sip hot therapeutic teas as we watch the fun that is about to happen in the arrogant countries like America and UK where their own incompetent and greedy governments have been misleading the majority of its ignorant ci...
Source: COVID-19 Quarantine Dec 02, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Quarantine: It has already been confirmed that the U.S. CDC or the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is to officially announce this evening in the U.S. a new federal policy to shorten the recommended length of quarantine after exposure to someone who is positive for COVID-19, as the SARS-CoV-2 virus rages across the nation.
A senior administration official said tha...
Source: COVID-19 Phytochemicals Dec 02, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Phytochemicals: Scientist from the University of Batna-Algeria in a new study with findings published in the peer reviewed European Journal of Pharmacology, have found that the phytochemicals belonging to the class of flavonols that are found commonly in many plants and vegetables could be used as a therapeutic approach to COVID-19. The flavonols myricitrin and myricetin-3-O-β-D-gluc...
Source: COVID-19 Fallacies Dec 02, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Fallacies: There are lots of variables being used in the management of the current COVID-19 pandemic that are not yet properly and scientifically proven yet they are being adopted major policies. For instance, it has been widely assumed that incubation periods of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is between 5 to 6 days and the maximum it could be 14 days, hence the unreliable quarantine periods ...
COVID-19 Scams: Kinda sick of reading about so called ‘experts’ and leaders in various industries complaining that there is a lot of misinformation online and that people are lacking confidence to accept the new COVID-19 vaccines as result of that. However they themselves failed to reassure the public with proper facts and assume that the masses are really stupid. (Well maybe in certai...
Source: COVID-19 Research Dec 01, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Chinese researchers from the Beijing Institute of Biotechnology, Academy of Military Medical Sciences (AMMS)-China led by Professor Dr Wei Congwen, have found the role of an HDL (high-density lipoprotein) receptor in the facilitation of entry of the SARS CoV-2 into human host cells.
The SARS-CoV-2 infects host cells through binding of the viral spike protein (SARS-2-S) ...
SARS-CoV-2 News: A new study involving physicians and researchers from Kiel University, the University Medical Center Schleswig-Holstein (UKSH) and the Universities of Bonn, Cologne, Luebeck, Tuebingen and Nijmegen as well as the Research Center Borstel-Leibniz Lung Center and the German Centre for Neurodegenerative Disorders (DZNE) have demonstrated that not only classic immune cells play a...
Source: COVID-19 Antivirals Dec 01, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Antivirals: A new study by researchers from Stanford University-U.S., University Hospital Heidelberg-Germany, University of Freiburg-Germany, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) indicates that developing antivirals to treat COVID-19 that are based on the approach of inhibiting SAR-COV-2 proteases might not be an effective way due to the...
Source: Diets And Nutrition Nov 30, 2020 4 years ago
Diets And Nutrition: A new review published in the Journal of Translational Medicine by Italian researchers from the University of Padua- Italy and IRCCS San Raffaele Pisana-Rome-Italy says that Keto diets could help to prevent and mitigate COVID-19 severity. https://translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12967-020-02600-9
Thailand Medical News had also published ...
Source: Coronavirus News: Nov 30, 2020 4 years ago
Coronavirus News: A new study by Italian researchers from Meyer Children's University Hospital-Florence, University of Florence and the Guglielmo da Saliceto Hospital-Piacenza have found that steam inhalation therapy was able to mitigate SARS-CoV-2 infection.
This single-centered open label interventional study had the limited objective of enrolling up to 10 adults in whom RN-swab (eSwa...
COVID-19 Care: Doctors and researchers from Edge Hill University, Lancashire-UK, Lancaster University-UK, and hospitals under the Wrightington Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust-UK have in a new study found that CPAP Machines when used in early stages can save the lives of patients hospitalized with COVID-19. This is especially important as the current surges in the second wave is already o...
Source: COVID-19 Immunity Nov 30, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunity: Researchers from the University of Buffalo-New York and University of Alabama at Birmingham stress that more research and focus should also be focused on the mucosal immunity and not just on the systemic immunoglobin antibodies.
The mucosal immune system is the largest component of the entire immune system, having evolved to provide protection at the main sites of infecti...
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from Ankara City Hospital, Yildirim Beyazit University School of Medicine-Turkey and the Public Health Institutions of Turkey have in a new study found that asymptomatic individuals possess higher viral loads of the SARS-CoV-2coronavirus than symptomatic individuals.
To date, the SARS-CoV-2 virus dynamics in different hosts and different samples and their rela...
Source: COVID-19 Phytochemicals Nov 30, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Phytochemicals: A new research by scientist Dr Kara Fitzgerald from the Institute for Functional Medicine-Washington has revealed that furin Inhibition may lower risk of COVID severity. The study also advocates the use of furin inhibitors including heparin and a more so Berberine, a HIF-1 Inhibitor derived from plants.
The Barberry Plant
Berberine is a phytochemical that is ...
Y453F Mutation: Japanese researchers from Kyoto Medical Center, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Tohoku University School of Medicine and Kyoto University School of Medicine have in a new study of the SARS-CoV-2 virus strains that passed from infected minks to humans found that these strains contained the mutation Y453F on the receptor binding domain (RBD) of the spike glycoprotein ...
COVID-19 News: A new Chinese study led by researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences-Beijing along with a variety of other Chinese research institutions and biotech companies have discovered a new promising monoclonal antibody called HB27 that was found to have two distinct mechanisms of action inhibiting the virus-host cell interaction and subsequent infection and because of this unique mec...
Editorial
COVID-19 Racism: Racial tensions are getting heated up against a background where patriotism and nationalism is already emerging around a crazy world where at least 85 percent of the populations are simply ignorant and stupid. (Figures could be higher for America)
COVID-19 could be a godsend after all and perhaps hopefully by the time the fourth and fifth waves are over in the o...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Nov 28, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by researchers from Imperial College London-UK and Kumamoto University-Japan has revealed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes CD4 T Cells and CD25 hyperactivation while repressing FOXP3 genes in severe COVID-19, causing a T-Cell dysregulation.
It has been found that severe COVID-19 patients show various immunological abnormalities including T-cell reduc...
Herb News: Canadian researchers from University of Lethbridge, University of Calgary-Cumming School of Medicine, Pathway Rx Inc and Swysh Inc have in a new study found that extracts from Cannabis sativa cultivars especially those strains rich in Cannabidiol (CBD) are able decrease levels of the host cell ACE-2 receptors that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus uses to gain viral entry to target tissue...
Source: Herbs and Phytochemicals Nov 28, 2020 4 years ago
Herbs and Phytochemicals: A new study involving both molecular docking and in vitro research covering a variety of phytochemicals by scientists from Tennessee State University and Meharry Medical College-Nashville has found that phycobilins found In algae can basically function as potential antivirals to inhibit SARS-CoV-2 replication.
Phycobilins are light-capturing pigmen...
Source: Latest COVID-19 Research Nov 28, 2020 4 years ago
Latest COVID-19 Research: Israeli scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot-Israel and the Israel Institute for Biological Research, Ness Ziona-Israel have uncovered new details that show that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus deploys a multipronged strategy to suppress the mechanism of human host protein synthesis that often leads to disease progression or even to long term COVID-19 eff...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs And Phytochemicals Nov 28, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs-Phytochemicals: Researchers from Shenzhen Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Immunity Research at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen-China have in a new in vitro study found that the phytochemical extracted from plants called resveratrol is able to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus effectively.
Resveratrol (3,4,5‐trihydroxy‐trans‐stilbene, RES) is...
Source: COVID-19 Mutations Nov 27, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Mutations: Researchers, virologists and genomic specialist from the Harbin Institute of Technology-China are warning that a new emerging mutated SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strain N439K is more infectious and antibody resistant than the original Wuhan strains.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been undergoing various mutations and in some cases becoming more infec...
Ivermectin-COVID-19: Finally the results of a randomized trial has emerged to show the effectiveness of Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 despite numerous attempts by various big American and European pharmaceutical companies and their governments to try to suppress Ivermectin research due to greed and financial scams.
The clinical trial study was led by Iranian researchers from Qazvin university of m...
Research News: Scientists from the NCH Healthcare System-Florida, University of South Florida and University of Illinois-Chicago in a new study have identified a specific set of genes associated with a poor prognosis of COVID-19.
Often poor outcomes after SARS-CoV-2 infection are difficult to predict. Survivors may develop pulmonary fibrosis. The study team previously identified a 5...