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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. 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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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 ...
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...
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.
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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.
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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...
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: 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 ...
COVID-19 News: More and more each day we are learning of the various damaging and disastrous effects the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has on the human host body not only on those that are just infected and are going through severe conditions but also in term of long term health complications of those who had recovered from mild or moderate symptoms or were asymptomatic. The COVID-19 disease is now...
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from University of Manchester-UK have made a startling discovery that the SARS-Cov-2 damages blood marrow cells especially the myeloid cells originating from the hematopoietic stem cells of the bone marrow.
The study team found that of the myeloid cells damaged by the novel coronavirus, the monocytes are in particular affected.
The study results were pu...
Source: Strokes And COVID-19 Sep 22, 2020 4 years ago
Strokes-COVID-19: It is already being reported by medical professionals all over the world about a sudden increase of unexplained strokes in the last few months. Among those that were already tested positive for COVID-19 but were either asymptomatic or had recovered from severe, moderate or even mild conditions of the SARS-CoV-2 infection, the risk of strokes was found to be high but there are man...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments Sep 22, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: Medical researchers and physicians are now trying interrupt the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus before it gets into the lungs and the rest of the body and starts ravaging the body, targeting not only the lungs, heart and blood vessels but even the cerebrospinal fluids, the brain, the kidneys, the gastroenterological tract , the male testis to even the immune system itself.
The...
COVID-19 News: Doctors and researchers from the department of Digestive Surgery, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can be found in the gallbladder wall of COVID-19 patients and that COVID-19 can also mimic acalculous acute cholecystitis.
Two case reports of COVID-19 patients developing cholecystitis were mentioned in a study fi...
Source: COVID-19 Scams-Russia Sep 22, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Scams: It was announced that Russia has approved R-Pharm's Coronavir treatment for outpatients with mild to moderate COVID-19 infections and the antiviral drug could be rolled out to pharmacies throughout the country as soon as next week, the company said on Friday.
The drug’s approval as a prescription drug follows the green light for another Russian COVID-19 drug, Avi...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 22, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A study led by researchers from University of Bristol-UK that also involved scientist from Max Planck Institute-Germany, University of Heidelberg-Germany and Geneva Biotech Sàrl-Switzerland has discovered a druggable pocket in the SARS-CoV-2 Spike protein that could be used to stop the virus from infecting human cells.
The stud findings are published in the peer ...
V483G Mutation: Researchers And health Officials are warning that that a mutant strain of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, the V483G strain is fast making appearances in various countries including India, Brazil, The Middles-East, UK and even in the United States.
According to genomic experts and immunologist, the V483 strain is resistant to the neutralizing properties of antibodies and ...
Source: Post-COVID Myocarditis Sep 21, 2020 4 years ago
Post-COVID Myocarditis: As a result of alarming data showing that a majority of recovered COVID-19 patients have some sort of heart tissue damage after being infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus irrespective of whatever the conditions they had endured ie from mild, moderate , severe or asymptomatic, there is a huge rush by many concerned to go for heart screenings. https://www.thailandmedical....
Source: America Coronavirus Sep 21, 2020 4 years ago
America Coronavirus: American official COVID-19 infection rates hits 6.81 million and 200,014 Americans have died from the COVID-19 so far though actual figures are expected to be much higher. Americans are expected to have a great time for the rest of the year and also an interesting year end festive season never experienced in its history starting from next month’s Halloween as many more a...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by French researchers from Aix-Marseille University, IHU-Méditerranée Infection, Institut Paoli Calmettes and Laboratoire d’Immunologie-Marseille, including the controversial French physician and microbiologist Professor Dr Didier Raoult have discovered that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus basically causes immunoparalysis in the human hos...
COVID-19 Scams: Of all the stupidity and craziness which not many people are questioning (the intelligence levels in America has sunk to its lowest!) is the new American standard for drug approvals set by the US FDA under the Trump administration in which as long you can demonstrate somehow by whatever means that a drug is able to shorten hospitalization stays, Voila! You get approved and you can ...
COVID-19-News: Initial hypothesis that the it was the cytokine storms as a result of SARS-Cov-2 infections that were destroying various organ tissues including the heart, kidneys, intestines and even brain tissues are now being replaced with the stark fact it is actually the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus itself that is causing these issues and in some cases it might be also compounded by the inflammatory...
Drugs-COVID-19: Spanish researchers from the Department of Cell Biology at the University of Malaga (UMA) and the Andalusian Centre for Nanomedicine and Biotechnology (BIONAND) have identified 4-Phenylbutiric acid or 4-PBA as a possible drug candidate to treat the various inflammatory and immune issues resulting from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection that causes COVID-19 disease.
The s...
Source: Disinfectants-COVID-19 Sep 20, 2020 4 years ago
Disinfectants-COVID-19: To curb the problem of current COVID-19 disinfectants taking time to sanitize surfaces and the impracticability of using them on high-contact areas such as door handles, elevators, and bannisters due to ‘wearing-off' effects, researchers from the University of Central Florida (UCF) are co-developing a new, rapid-acting, long-lasting disinfectant spray that instant...
Source: COVID-19 Research Sep 20, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Japanese researchers from the Kyoto Prefectural University of Medicine and Osaka University have engineered to create soluble ACE2 (sACE2) in human cells that have enhanced affinity to receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 thus serving as decoy while also neutralizing the novel coronavirus.
The research findings were published on a preprint serve and are curre...
Source: Therapeutic Herbal Teas Sep 19, 2020 4 years ago
As a result of overwhelming response and also a new promotional program with postal authorities and also with certain well-wishers who wish to make our specially blended therapeutic herbal teas more accessible to as many Americans as possible to better equipped themselves with the coming cooler season and the impending COVID-19 second wave, Thailand Medical News announces that we now offer a...