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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...
Source: Spain COVID-19 News  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
Spain COVID-19 News: Spanish health authorities are reporting of a massive spike of fresh COVID-19 cases in the Aragon region, with hospital overflowing and an acute shortage of hospital bed and ICU facilities.   It was reported that the spike in COVID-19 cases started with outbreaks in households in the impoverished working-class neighborhood of Zaragoza, the capital of Aragon.   Dr J...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from University of Waterloo, McMaster University, University of British Columbia, University of Nottingham, and Okinawa Institute of Science are now challenging previous accepted findings about how the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus affects lungs. It was previously assumed that all entry of SARS-CoV-2 into cells occurs through a receptor on the cell surface, known as ACE...
Source: Latest COVID-19 News  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
Latest COVID-19 News: European researchers from Univ. Grenoble Alpes-France, Universidad Complutense School of Medicine-Spain and Universita` degli Studi di Milano-Italy have made a shocking discovery that a type of sugar-based receptor on innate immune cells called C-type lectin receptors promotes the entry of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus into other cells that carry the viral receptor, angiotensin-...
Source: Vietnam News  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
Vietnam News: Vietnamese researchers in a study highlights how wild animal trade that increases risk of humans becoming infected by diseases such as Covid-19 are still being conducted in various markets across Vietnam. Rats Being Sold At A Market In Vietnam, Credit: WCS   In the study, various other coronaviruses were found in animals being sold in 58 out of 70 sites studied in the south of...
Source: COVID-19 Questions  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Questions: We continue our series of COVID-19 questions, sometimes posing questions that may sound ‘stupid’ but could provide new insights and challenge researchers for answers around the world so that more specific targeted studies can be conducted with relevant answers.   Of late there has been so much talk of T-Cells and the provision of immunity and protection again...
Source: COVID-19 News  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by Spanish researchers explains why certain organs are ‘attacked’ by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus while others are not. Previous studies showed that the ACE-2 receptors played a major role in this but the new research reveals that human protein to protein interactions (PPIs)  and also interactions of the SARS-CoV-2 with these PPIs is behind why certain org...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Hyperglycemia or a condition of high blood sugar can aggravate and cause progression to severity in COVID-19 patients according to a new study by researchers from Michigan Medicine-University of Michigan. According to the researchers one of the possible explanations for this is because high sugar levels in the body triggers low inflammation which further aggravates the immunity ...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology  Aug 12, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by scientists from the School Of Medicine-Stanford University, Emory University-School of Medicine and University of Hong Kong Faculty Of Medicine identified immunological deviations and lapses that appear to highlight the difference between severe and mild cases of COVID-19.   The researchers observed that In PBMCs (Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells) of CO...
Source: Bhutan COVID-19 News  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
Bhutan COVID-19 News: The remote scenic and tranquil kingdom of Bhutan Bhutan famous for its gross national happiness went into a COVID-19 Lockdown today, marking the first time in its long history that the country has ever gone into a lockdown of such a scale.   Although the Himalayan kingdom has been largely protected from the COVID-19 crisis, a set of events is now worrying officials tha...
Source: Thailand Hospitals And Clinics  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
Thailand Hospitals And Clinics: The National Health Security Office (NHSO) had announced in mid-July that about eighteen community clinics in Bangkok were found to have embezzled money from the universal healthcare budget and that officials concerned would be duly punished.   However further investigations are still underway as it has emerged that more community clinics are also found to ha...
Source: New Zealand COVID-19 News  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
New Zealand COVID-19 News: Jacinda  Ardern , Prime Minister of New Zealand announced on today that health authorities have found four cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections in one Auckland household from an unknown source, the first reported cases of local transmission in the country in 102 days. In this image from a video, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, left, and Direct...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: A new detailed study by researchers from University of Washington shows that most SARS-CoV-2 antibodies last for about 3 months on the average with the neutralizing antibodies falling fourfold from 30 to 90 days from symptoms onset. However the effectiveness of these antibodies has not been validated as time progresses. Credit: Lisa Donohue, CoVPN   Typically most ...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: If you thought that buying supplements was easy, think again. As a result of greed and profitability, many manufacturers especially those in Asia will find ways to put in the cheapest ingredient or form and not really focus on the true effectiveness of the product and whether it will truly help the end consumers.   The media has been abuzz recently about the proven ben...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Just as we thought that we have almost heard it all..a case study published in the American Journal of Emergency Medicine that has been peer-reviewed, reports of a rare case in which the patient exhibited persistent hiccups as an unusual symptom of COVID-19. https://www.ajemjournal.com/article/S0735-6757(20)30274-6/fulltext   Although a lot of new studies are emerging rep...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: From the beginning of the outbreak of the COVID-19 crisis in China, the Chinese health authorities brought in the top TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine) experts to develop and test formulations against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and to treat various stages of the COVID-19 disease. Some were used alone and some were used as adjuvants alongside standard pharmaceuticals including the ...
Source: COVID-19 Rehab  Aug 11, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Rehab: Mayo Clinic medical experts are warning that the long term health effects from COVID-19 are varied and real and that both patients and physicians should pay more attention to these and not assume that it is not COVID-19 related when various medical conditions start manifesting.   Although common symptoms of COVID-19, such as cough, fever and shortness of breath, are now wide...
SourceL Neuro-COVID  Aug 10, 2020  4 years ago
Neuro-COVID: Dr Natalie C. Tronson, an Associate Professor of Psychology from the University of Michigan in an article in The Conversation warns of potential memory loss and also the possible conditions of dementia as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus effects on the brain.   Many patients suffering from COVID-19 exhibit neurological symptoms, from loss of smell, to delirium, to an...
Source: COVID-19 Biomarkers  Aug 10, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Biomarkers: Medical and immunology researchers from the Ragon Institute of Massachusetts General Hospital, MIT and Harvard Medical School, and the University of Washington School of Medicine, have identified immune response markers that, collectively, were able to distinguish between those COVID-19 patients who convalesced from the infection, and those who did not survive the disease. &...
Source: COVID-19 Airborne  Aug 10, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Airborne: European researchers from University of Twente-Netherlands, Gran Sasso Science Institute-Italy, the University of Rome Tor Vergata-Italy and Max Planck Institute-Germany have published  new research findings showing that  current information about how far the SARS-CoV-2 particles can travel and also how long they linger in the air is all wrong as the studies show that ...
Source: COVID-19 News  Aug 10, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from Harvard Medical School warns that co-infections with endemic coronaviruses and other respiratory viruses can cause severe bronchiolitis in children.   The research findings were published in the journal: Pediatrics, the official journal of the American Academy Of Pediatrics. https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2020/08/04/peds.2...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine  Aug 10, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine: Results of the phase one trial of NovaVAx’s NVX-CoV2373 recombinant nanoparticle vaccine that is manufactured at Emergent Biosolutions, was found to be well tolerated and immunogenic including inducing T-cell response and neutralization antibodies four-fold higher than the mean observed in hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Though several promising candidates are already on...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Aug 10, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: Greek researchers from the University of Crete has discovered that a natural occurring chemical from Kum Quats called fortunellin has potential inhibitory properties against the SARS-CoV-2 virus as it is able to inhibit the dimerization process in the virus 3C protein replication process.   The researchers made the discovery using computational silico molecular docking studi...
Source: COVID-19 News  Aug 10, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: Studies are indicating that individuals with existing chronic liver conditions especially severe cirrhosis are at a great risk of dying upon contracting the COVID-19 Disease.   Just 3 studies alone published in the Journal of Hepatology supports this conclusion with numerous other similar studies appearing in various other journals as well. https://www.journal-of-hepatology.e...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs  Aug 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Herbs: In a breakthrough study and clinical trial by Chinese researchers from at Nanjing University, Wuhan Institute of Virology and Second Hospital of Nanjing along with support from Thailand Medical News, it has been found that Honeysuckle (we are not disclosing the particular strains at the moment) has efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   The research findings are publ...
Source: COVID-19 Herbs And Therapeutic Teas  Aug 09, 2020  4 years ago
Therapeutic Teas is a range of herbal teas specially created for the COVID-19 crisis after 6 months of intense research and is still evolving daily based on emerging daily COVID-19 research.We do not make any claims about what the teas are good for or what it can do and achieve in terms of health benefits but rather we let readers do their own due diligence based on the accompanying published rese...
Source: COVID-19 Sepsis  Aug 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Sepsis: Italian researchers in a case report published on a preprint server warns of  bacterial or fungal infections that are drug resistant emerging in COVID-19 patients, often leading to treatment complications, sepsis and fatalities. https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202008.0198/v1   The researchers said that although co-infections with bacteria or fungi may be a frequen...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine  Aug 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine: Biotech and medical researchers from the University of Chicago and Duke University have created a new vaccine technology platform that allows the generation of the more effective vaccines with the fewest side effects using self-assembling peptide nanofibers tagged with antigens to prime the immune system against a potential invasion.   The research findings were published ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Aug 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: The research community has been abuzz with a new conspiracy theories the last 24 hours after Indian researchers from the MACS Agharkar Research Institute in Pune published a new research paper online questioning the origins of samples used for the genomic sequencings of the BAT RaTG13 coronavirus which has since been submitted to various international databases for comparisons a...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Aug 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: A new German study is proofing that contrary to what has been generally assumed so far, a severe course of COVID-19 does not solely result in a strong immune reaction, rather, the immune response is caught in a continuous loop of activation and inhibition.   Medical and immunology experts from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the University of Bonn, the Ger...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments  Aug 09, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: For the last 6 weeks, Thailand Medical News has been advocating that COVID-19 treatments should be approached from a personalized medicine approach as the disease parthenogenesis and progression differs in every individuals due to genetic factors, underlying medical conditions, a variety of risk factors and also the genomic strains of the infecting virus as meta-analysis of va...
Source: COVID-19 Tips  Aug 08, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Tips: A research in the Open Research publishing platform: F1000Research, which has been peer-reviewed, claims that heat can be used as a therapeutic intervention for COVID-19. https://f1000research.com/articles/9-292/v2   It is known that viruses that are contained within a lipid membrane or “enveloped viruses” such as coronaviruses and rhinoviruses can ...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings  Aug 08, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings:  Researchers from COVID-19 Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Unit, Hospital Universitario Virgen de Valme- Spain have discovered that the usage of the antivirals Lopinavir-Ritonavir (LPV-r ) can lead to numerous drug interactions that can be detrimental to health conditions and even cause death in certain situations as a result of these interactions. Despite numerous st...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Aug 08, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: A team of medical researchers from the Department of Urology and the Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York  in a review paper that focuses on the two diseases (Prostrate Cancer And COVID-19) advocate that  males with prostate cancer should be routinely tested for COVID-19.   Their research review was published in the j...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments  Aug 08, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: With no proper effective antivirals against the SARS-CoV-2 to date and mounting skepticism about antibody therapies and vaccines due to conflicting research studies as to whether real long time immunity protection against the SARS-CoV-2 can be truly achieved and with issues arising from all so called discovered repurposed drugs to deal with anti-inflammatory issues and cytokin...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings  Aug 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings: As daily evidence mounts that COVID-19 can damage the heart, cardiologists and medical experts are urging individuals to take precautions when doing vigorous exercise.   It has been reported that up to 30% of patients hospitalized with coronavirus infection have signs of cardiac injury plus it has been found in various studies that the SARS-CoV-2 is able to caus...
Source: India COVID-19 News  Aug 07, 2020  4 years ago
India COVID-19 News: India's official COVID-19 case tally hit two million on Friday, doubling in three weeks as the pandemic sweeps into smaller cities and rural areas, with experts warning the real toll could be much higher.   Another record daily jump of more than 62,482 fresh infections was recorded, according to health ministry data, making the South Asian giant only the t...
Source: COVID-19 News  Aug 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: Just like literally everything that we were told since the COVID-19 infections first broke out in China, nothing that we know then as a result of all the misinformation fed to us by the unscrupulous Chinese and their faked data or the initial misinformation from the clueless and incompetent WHO is really valid today. From the drugs that they claimed worked, to the pathogenesis and p...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Aug 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: Medical researchers from George Washington University (GW) have identified five blood biomarkers that are associated with higher odds of clinical deterioration and death in COVID-19 patients.   The research findings were published in the journal Future Medicine, with the hope that these findings will help physicians better predict outcomes for COVID-19 patients ...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics  Aug 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: Researchers from Emory University-Atlanta have confirmed that recombination events among the viral strains of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are already occurring and have detected the presence of such recombinant strains.   The research findings were published on a preprint server and are currently under peer-review. https://www.biorxiv....
Source: COVID-19 Vaccines  Aug 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccines: As the world eagerly anticipates the arrival of a truly effective COVID-19 vaccine, it is emerging that one country is most likely to least benefit from it despite spending the most money compared to any other country in the world to secure a sufficient supply of the vaccine for its population.   In the United States where more than 42 percent of its population is obese, ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CU Medicine) conducted  to investigate the impact of liver injury on clinical outcomes of over 1,000  COVID-19 patients in Hong Kong has found that around 20% of the patients manifest liver injuries.   The estimated risk of COVID-19 patients with liver injury experienci...
Source: America Covid-19 News  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
America Covid-19 News: The United States added 1,262 more deaths to its COVID-19 toll in the last 24 hours (Wednesday)   The largest economy in the world also added 53,158 new COVID-19 cases .   America has now recorded 4,818,328 cases in total, which have resulted in 157,930 deaths, making it by far the worst-hit country in the world.   US President Donald Trump nonetheless remai...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine: Maryland-based Novavax is yet another biopharma company reporting promising early-stage data for a potential COVID-19 vaccine.   The biopharma company announced data from Phase I of its Phase I/II placebo-controlled trial of its vaccine with and without Matrix-M adjuvant. The trial was conducted in healthy adults 18 to 59 years of age.   The vaccin...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: A new survey identified dozens of potential long-term coronavirus symptoms that had previously been unreported, including hair loss.   The new research was conducted by a Dr Natalie Lambert, a doctor from the Indiana University School of Medicine and the grassroots COVID-19 survivor group using a social media poll. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e8b5f63562c0...
Source: Medical Journals  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
Medical Journals: In the last seven months, as result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the amount studies, research and clinical trials has greatly accelerated as scientist around the world are rushing to find more about the  SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, its genomic elements, its pathogenesis, treatments and cures.   Unfortunately while have lots of honest and credible researchers and research ins...
Source: COVID-19 Updates  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Updates: The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infects the respiratory tract and in severe cases, the infection can result in lung failure, which necessitates the use of mechanical ventilation. In addition, these patients develop further complications, such as pulmonary embolisms or thromboses (clots) in their veins. Whether or not virus-associated respiratory failure is functionally related to the ...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Researchers from Uppsala University-Sweden have found the presence, throughout the human body, of the enzyme ACE2. This is thought to be the key protein used by the SARS-CoV-2 virus for host cell entry and development of the disease COVID-19. In contrast to previous studies, the study shows that no or very little ACE2 protein is present in the normal respiratory system. The resu...
Source: COVID-19 News  Aug 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 News: A new study by researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have now identified a protein called histone deacetylase 3 (HDAC3) as the orchestrator of the immune system's inflammation response to infection. By using both specially cultured cells and small animal models, HDAC3 was found to be directly involved in the production of agents that ...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Aug 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Whatever we know about the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and the COVID-19 disease it causes is changing rapidly day by day. Just when it was thought that we have discovered the way the virus works and how to possibly deal with it, a new opposing facet turns up often, dispelling all previous perceptions.   While the COVID-19 pandemic continues to claim thousands of lives around the...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies  Aug 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: Researchers from the Medical University of Vienna-Austria in an attempt to develop a test to determine whether COVID-19 patients develop protective antibodies after having the disease came across a shocking discovery in that there were certain antibodies that actually help the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by enhancing its ability to bind to the ACE receptors even better.   Th...
Source: COVID-19 World News  Aug 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 World News: Contrary to what some morons are saying that the COVID-19 crisis is improving in the United States, 1,304 deaths due to the COVID-19 disease and 53,858 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours and more than 22,310 patients are now in critical conditions nationwide.   A total of 156,812 Americans have now died from the COVID-19 disease and more are expected to j...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements  Aug 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: There is growing mounting evidence of the usage of Vitamin D to prevent severity of COVID-19 disease and now even as a prophylaxis to lower the risk of even contracting COVID-19.   The latest report published in the journal: Lancet by researchers from the London School Of Medicine and Dentistry -Queen Mary University Of London and School Of Clinical Medicine-University...
Source: COVID-19 Mutation  Aug 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Mutation: Genomic researchers from Karolinska Institutet-Sweden and the Federal University of Santa Catarina-Brazil have identified a novel mutation in a strain of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) obtained from a patient in Stockholm, Sweden, in late April.   The research findings are published on a preprint server and are currently undergoing peer revie...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology  Aug 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study led by researchers from La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) indicates that memory helper T cells that recognize common cold coronaviruses also recognize matching sites on SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19.   According to the research paper, the immune system's 'memory' T cells keep track of the viruses they have seen before...
Souce: COVID-19 Antibodies  Aug 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: The United States has begun late stage clinical trials into a drug formulated to fight COVID-19, officials said Tuesday.   The drug is an antibody against the new coronavirus called LY-CoV555, which was identified in the blood sample of a recovered patient by Canada's Abcellera Biologics.   The identified antibody was then developed synthetically for&...

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