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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: COVID-19 Antibodies  Jul 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: New York based Regeneron Pharmaceuticals announced its double-antibody cocktail against COVID-19 is advancing into Phase III studies, less than a month after the start of its first clinical trial, with preliminary data from one study expected to be reported later this summer. Regeneron's Biotech Plant   The biotech company said it is proceeding with clinical develop...
Source: COVID-19 Medical Devices  Jul 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Medical Devices: To date, emerging studies suggests that COVID-19 patients are at a higher risk of stroke and promptly diagnosing and treating such patients is a priority in hospitals across the world.   Furthermore, identifying which COVID-19 patients are at increased risk of developing a stroke is also important, and may help with preemptive treatment and monitoring.   Los A...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Updates  Jul 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine Updates: It was announced that vaccine candidate COVAX-19 developed by Vaxine Pty Ltd and Flinders University will commence Phase 1 trials at the Royal Adelaide Hospital (RAH) to test its efficacy.   The phase I trial will provide initial safety and immune response data on 40 healthy participants aged between 18 and 65 years who have already been pre-screened.   Resear...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jul 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from University of South Florida Health (USF Health) Morsani College of Medicine scientists along with pharmaceutical experts from the University of Arizona College of Pharmacy have identified several existing drug compounds that block replication of the COVID-19 virus (SARS-CoV-2) within human cells grown in the laboratory. The identified inhibitors all demon...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jul 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new study by  Dr Anna Aksenova, a senior research associate at the Laboratory of Amyloid Biology at St Petersburg University, has advanced a hypothesis that the severe course of COVID-19 may be associated with the von Willebrand factor, a blood glycoprotein that is one of the main components of the blood coagulation system.   The research findings have been peer re...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jul 07, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A research in which US Military bioweapon researchers tested the stability of the SARS-CoV-2 pathogen on various surfaces, including paper currency and pig skin showed that the novel coronavirus can live for days on animal skin at room temperature and even up to 2 weeks on refrigerated pig skin.   The study has huge implications in the food industry, meat processing plant...
Source : Masks  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
We apologize to readers first for posting such an article on our site but we simply just could not resist the kind of stupidity materializing from the COVID-19 pandemic! While many Americans and Europeans are refusing to wear protective mask against the SARS-V-2 coronavirus either due to political reasons or sheer stupidity, across the globe in India, we have the protective mask evolving into a f...
Source: Bubonic Plague China  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
Bubonic Plague: China health authorities have reported an outbreak of Bubonic Plague in the inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.   Bubonic plague, caused by bacterial infection, was responsible for one of the deadliest epidemics in human history  ie the Black Death which killed about 50 million people across Africa, Asia and Europe in the 14th Century.   There have been a handful of ...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
GOVID-19 Genomics: A major genetic risk variant found on the SARs-CoV-2 coronavirus RNA which comprises of a stretch of six genes that seems to increase the risk of severe illness from the coronavirus was found to be part of a stretch of DNA passed down from Neanderthals 60,000 years ago, according to a new study by genomic experts from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology-German...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine:  Professor of vaccinology at the University of Oxford, and one of the scientists leading the vaccine initiative, Dr Sarah Gilbert, told the U.K.'s Science and Technology Committee last week that their candidate vaccine has progressed to the phase III trial in the United Kingdom.   Phase III trials typically involves tens of thousands of research participants acros...
Source: Flu Vaccine  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
Flu Vaccine: Researchers from the Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, the University of Basel and University of Sao Paulo Medical School in a new research involving over 92,000 patients with COVID-19 in Brazil shows that the risks of severe disease, ventilatory support requirement, and death are reduced with a recent trivalent influenza vaccine. The research findings were printed on a pre...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: A new research from the University of Virginia (UVA) School of Medicine suggests doctors can examine COVID-19 patients' blood to identify those at greatest risk of severe illness and to pinpoint those most likely to need a ventilator. The main biomarker that should be looked out for is the cytokine IL-13 (Interleukin 13). High levels of IL-13 were associated with worsened...
Source: Generic Remdesivir  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
Generic Remdesivir: The Trump administration last week proudly announced that it had secured 500,000 doses of Gilead’s remdesivir at prices that were set by Gilead at between US$2,340 to US$3,120. https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/breaking-remdesivir-gilead-sets-price-at-us$2,340-to-us$3,120-for-drug-that-has-no-safety-studies-or-true-efficacy-except-that-it-shortens-hospitaliza  ...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Is Airborne  Jul 06, 2020  4 years ago
WHO: Despite mounting evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is airborne and that the general public worldwide needs to be aware of this, the WHO (World Health Organization) is still taking a stance that it is not the case but is only spread by large respiratory droplets that, once expelled by infected people in coughs and sneezes, fall quickly to the floor.   The  WHO lead by black ...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jul 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: The US FDA last week  on  granted Emergency Use Authorization to a new molecular diagnostic test from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that can detect and differentiate the viruses that cause COVID-19 and flu.   The new Influenza SARS-CoV-2 (Flu SC2) Multiplex Assay is a real-time RT-PCR test intended for the simultaneous detection and differ...
Source: COVID-19 Innovations  Jul 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Innovations: The current COVID-19 pandemic has brought a slew of new challenges for clinical facilities, including how to deliver as much care as possible at a distance or remotely not only for precautionary measures to safeguard the wellbeing of healthcare staff but only for better monitoring of COVID-19 patients..   Researchers from the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine at To...
Source: COVID-19 And HIV  Jul 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 And HIV: Individuals with HIV who were hospitalized with COVID-19 did not have worse results than COVID-19 patients without HIV, according to new research by Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.   The research findings were published in the journal: Clinical Infectious Diseases https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciaa880/5864410?searchresult=1   Study...
Source:  Jul 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Pharma News: Pharma giant Merck, a leading science and technology company, announced that the US FDA has cleared its investigational new drug application (IND) for M5049 for the treatment of patients with Covid-19 pneumonia. Merck will initiate a Phase II randomized, controlled clinical study evaluating the safety and efficacy of M5049 in this patient population. M5049 is a potentially fi...
Source: Melatonin and COVID-19  Jul 05, 2020  4 years ago
Melatonin and COVID-19: Another study by researchers from Peking Union Medical College in China and the University of Texas- San Antonio in America have in a new peer-reviewed finding that is published in the journal: Life Sciences By Science Direct, propose that Melatonin should be incorporated as an adjuvant treatment for COVID-19 as it has proven mechanisms to target Inflammasomes that triggers...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine  Jul 05, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine: Researchers from China have created an artificial protein that they say could be the basis of a vaccine to help ward off various deadly coronaviruses, including the pathogen that causes Covid-19 Copyright: Credit: Xinhua    The researchers from the Chinese CDC said the approach triggered a strong antibody response in mice and monkey trials to Middle Eas...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: Researchers are expressing that more safety data is needed in terms of treatment of symptomatic COVID-19 patients on antivirals with anticancer drugs.   A report published in the European Journal of Cancer by a group of French investigators led by Dr Paul Gougis of the Department of pharmacology, Hôpital Pitié-Salpêtrière in Paris, Franc...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: EUSA Pharma has secured approval from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) for a Phase III clinical trial protocol of intravenous siltuximab plus standard of care in hospitalized patients with Covid-19 associated Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). The pharmaceutical company will now proceed with the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial to e...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine:  Indian pharmaceutical company, Zydus Cadila received the green signal from the Drug Controller General of India (DGCI) to start phase I and II of their clinical trials on human participants. Over 120 independent scientific bodies are in contention to find a potential COVID-19 vaccine. Over 7 vaccines are being researched in India and just this week, two candidate groups ...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Updates  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine Updates:  Pharmaceutical and Biotech giants, Pfizer and BioNTech reported that the most advanced of four constructs of their messenger RNA (mRNA) vaccine candidate for COVID-19 showed encouraging immunogenicity and a favorable safety profile in preliminary Phase I/II data published in a preprint study. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.30.20142570v1   Bot...
Source: COVID-19 Disinfectants  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Disinfectants:  University of Manchester scientists say that a little-known non-toxic antiseptic developed in the Soviet Union during the Cold War has enormous potential to beat common infections and that even detailed studies should be conducted with regards to its use in the current COVID-19 scenario. Their report was published in the journal: FEMS Microbiology Reviews. https://aca...
Source: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome: There has been so many clinical manifestation of Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) reported in COVID-19 patients experiencing mild to moderate symptoms and also in typically asymptomatic and also recovered COVID-19 patients. To date medical experts do not have a proper explanation for this.   However, browsing through various new COVI...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Researchers from the University Of Bristol in a new review published in the Journal Of Infection indicate that liver complications are common and are associated with more severe disease in patients with COVID-19. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7306105/ or https://www.journalofinfection.com/article/S0163-4453(20)30425-4/pdf   Dr Setor K. Kunutsor of Bristol M...
Source: COVID-19 Pediatrics  Jul 04, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Pediatrics: Researchers from the University College London Institute of Neurology are warning that children with COVID-19 may present with new neurological symptoms involving the central and peripheral nervous systems, and splenial changes on imaging.   The new research findings were published the journal: JAMA Neurology. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/fullarticle/2...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jul 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs and Erythropoietin: German researchers from the Max Planck Institute of Experimental Medicine in Göttingen suggest that the anemia drug Erythropoietin (Epo) which is sometimes misused as doping agent could also be effective against COVID-19. EPO, the growth factor could also mitigate severe disease progression and protect patients from long-term neurological effects when the ...
Source: SARS-COV-2 Mutations  Jul 03, 2020  4 years ago
SARS-COV-2 Mutations: Virologists and genomic researchers now know that two major variants of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) are circulating in the United States and elsewhere at the moment besides the hundreds of minor variants. The variants, called G614 and D614, have just a small difference in their "spike" protein, the viral machinery that coronaviruses use to enter hos...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News  Jul 03, 2020  4 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: America sets a new record in the last 24 hours with 53,069 (Thursday) new coronavirus infections in the last 24 hours. The country now has recorded a total of 2,837,189 COVID-19 Infections of which health authorities claim that 1,191,102 have ‘recovered.’ A total of 131,217 Americans have died from the COVID-19.   What is even scarier is that it is reported t...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jul 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Despite the fact  that accurate and widespread testing is crucial to managing the coronavirus pandemic, many individuals in the U.S. and even elsewhere globally still can’t get tested for COVID-19 without visiting designated sites. A rendering of a potential affordable, handheld COVID-19 testing device. The researchers hope to be evaluating prototyp...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jul 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from the University of North Carolina (UNC) have used a new web-based platform to help identify synergistic and antagonistic drug combinations and their underlying mechanisms of action in the context of fighting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease.   The data mining tool, called COVID-KOP, prioritized 73 combinations of 32 drugs as potential treatments for COVID-1...
Source: COVID-19 and Strokes  Jul 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 and Strokes: A new study finds that although both Influenza and COVID-19 can raise the risk for a stroke, the odds appear to be eight times higher with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.   The researchers found that among more than 1,900 patients with COVID-19, 1.6% suffered a stroke, versus 0.2% of nearly 1,500 patients seriously ill with flu.   The research findings ...
Source: COVID-19 Hypoxia  Jul 03, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Hypoxia:  Researchers from Hines Veterans Affairs Hospital and Loyola University of Chicago in a new study provides possible explanations for COVID-19 patients who present with extremely low, otherwise life-threatening levels of oxygen, but no signs of dyspnea (difficulty breathing). This new understanding of the condition, known as silent hypoxemia or 'happy hypoxia,' could ...
Source: COVID-19 and the Endocrine System  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Endocrine System: It seems that the damage from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is never ending. Starting out initially as a respiratory disease that causes damage to the lungs, studies progressed to show that it also affects the immunity system, the gastroenterological system, the clotting mechanisms, the neurological system, the heart and circulatory system, the reproductive system in males ...
Source: COVID-19 Recovered Patients  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Recovered Patients: A collaborative study in China involving leading universities and hospitals headed by Wuhan Institute Of Virology has discovered that recovered patients who even after 2 to 11 weeks of being discharged from hospitals, displayed a remarkable phenotypic alterations in lymphocytes after clinical recovery. This suggests SARS-CoV-2 infection imprints profoundly on lymphocyt...
Source: Diabetes and COVID-19  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
Diabetes And COVID-19: A case study by German researchers from University of Kiel have confirmed that the Sars-CoV-2 coronavirus can trigger diabetes and insulin dependency in young adults who have otherwise been healthy with any prior history of sickness or diabetes. It is assumed that the diabetes is triggered by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus attacking the pancreas thru the ACE-2 receptors present ...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics:  Researchers from the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI), the same UC Berkeley group that rapidly popped up a state-of-the-art COVID-19 testing laboratory in March, are now trialing a quicker way to obtain patient samples: through saliva. So far diagnostic tests for COVID-19 have relied on samples obtained by swabbing uncomfortably deep into a person’s nasal pa...
Source: US Medical News  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
US Medical News: Daily new COVID-19 cases in America soared past 51,097 in the last 24 hours for the first time, as the World Health Organization delivered a grave warning that the global pandemic is accelerating.   Clubs, restaurants, bars and beaches in the world's worst-hit nation closed from California to Florida, as states reeling from yet another surge in the deadly virus&nbs...
Source: COVID-19 Latest  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest: Researchers from Utrecht University, UMC Utrecht, and Erasmus MC have discovered that platelets also play a role in the immune system: They appear to be indispensable in protecting the respiratory system against pathogens despite their primary role in blood coagulation and the development of thrombosis.   Lead researcher Dr Erhard van der Vries told Thailand Medical News, &...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs and Fostamatinib  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: Fostamatinib, an FDA-approved monoclonal antibody that is a spleen tyrosine kinase inhibitor (SYK), was studied by researchers from Harvards’ Broad Institute, Imperial College’s Hammersmith Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School for possible use to reduce the levels of mucin-1, a molecule associated with acute lung injury and acute respi...
Source: COVID-19 Endotheliopathy  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Endotheliopathy:  Yale University researchers have found that injury to endothelial cells ie the cells lining blood vessels may be a key driver of COVID-19 severity and death. The new research may help to explain the mysterious blood clotting seen in some patients with COVID-19, a condition associated with the most severe cases and death. The discovery suggests that doctors could ...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies  Jul 02, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: A new research published by the British Medical Journal, (BMJ) yesterday highlights major weaknesses that exist in the evidence base for COVID-19 antibody tests. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2516   The research found that the evidence is particularly weak for point-of-care tests (performed directly with a patient, outside of a laboratory) and does not support...
Source: World Covid-19 News  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
World Covid-19 News: The world has recorded 10,614,957 official COVID-19 infections and 514,635 deaths in the last six months as of Ist July 2020 (5am California). The actual figures are at least 5 fold for both infection and deaths due to underreporting and concealments by many countries. Unfortunately despite the relative high figures, people are still complacent and many are living in denial. (...
Source: COVID-19 Disinfectants  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Disinfectants: PNNL or Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has created a new superhydrophobic material, called ElastiDry that repels bacteria and viruses. Water beads off ElastiDry due to the substance’s ​​​superhydrophobocity. Image credit: Andrea Starr | PNNL   PPEs or personal protective equipment has been at the center of the fight against COVID-19. The unforgiving...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccine  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccine: Medical experts from UK are saying that a vaccine against COVID-19 may not be as effective in older people who are most at risk of suffering complications and dying from the disease.   A better approach they say is to immunize those around the elderly to better help them and also protect them from getting infected those close to them or are in constant with them.   Pr...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Trials  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Trials:  Researchers from RCSI University of Medicine and Health Sciences-Ireland have begun a clinical trial of a promising therapy for critically ill COVID-19 patients in intensive care. A study published in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine by the team led by RCSI Professors Dr Gerry McElvaney and Dr Ger Curley, describe changes in the...
Source: COVID-19 Neurology  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Neurology: A research team comprising of multidisciplinary experst from two Johns Hopkins University institutions, including neurotoxicologists and virologists from the Bloomberg School of Public Health and infectious disease specialists from the school of medicine, has found that organoids (tiny tissue cultures made from human cells that simulate whole organs) known as "mini-brains&...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: Genomic researchers from Norway and the US demonstrate the presence of a highly conserved, mobile genetic element (thus far with unknown function) in genomes of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and a large number of insects, opening the door for hitherto unexplored treatment opportunities.   The coronaviruses are a group of known human...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus typically uses a protein called polymerase to replicate its genome inside infected human cells. Studies have shown that terminating the polymerase reaction will stop the growth of the coronavirus, leading to its eradication by the human host's immune system.   Now researchers from Columbia University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison have...
Source: COVID-19 Myocarditis  Jul 01, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Myocarditis: Researchers from Mount-Sinai have in a new study showed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can infect heart cells in a lab dish, indicating it may be possible for heart cells in COVID-19 patients to be directly infected by the virus.   The new discovery, published in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, was made using heart muscle cells that were produced by stem cell ...
Source: New G4 EA H1N1 Swine Flu Strain  Jun 30, 2020  4 years ago
New G4 EA H1N1 Swine Flu Strain:  A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in China and one in the U.S. has found evidence of a new strain of swine flu that poses a possible threat to humans based on widespread testing of pigs in China and people known to be near them. The research finds are published in the journal:  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences...
Source: COVID-19 Drugs  Jun 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Drugs: More emerging results from the ongoing international RECOVERY Trail project shows that Lopinavir-Ritonavir has no clinical benefits in hospitalized COVID-19 treatments. Readers should also take note that in February 2020, Thai ‘medical experts’ held a huge press conference to announce that they had invented a treatment protocol to treat COVID-19 using Lopinavir-Ritonavi...
Source: COVID-19 Research  Jun 30, 2020  4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: A new research by University Of Utah indicates that changes in blood platelets triggered by COVID-19 could contribute to the onset of heart attacks, strokes, and other serious complications in some patients who have the disease.   The study team found that inflammatory proteins produced during infection significantly alter the function of platelets, making them "hype...

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