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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...

COVID-19 Drugs: Ivermectin Reduces Mortality Rates In Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients In A Cohort Clinical Study Conducted In South Florida

Source: COVID-19 Drugs and Ivermectin Jun 10, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Drugs: Medical Researchers from Broward Health Medical Center-South Florida, Drexel University College of Medicine and Florida International University have demonstrated that Ivermectin reduces mortality rates in hospitalized COVID-19 patients according to a cohort clinical study conducted. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.06.20124461v1.full.pdf+html The study findin...

BREAKING! Harvard University Study States COVID-19 Was Most Probably Already In Wuhan Since August 2019

Source: COVID-19 And China Jun 09, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19: Harvard University researchers have released a preprint study that states that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus was already in Wuhan as early as August 2019. https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/42669767/Satellite_Images _Baidu_COVID19_manuscript_preprint.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y or https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/42669767 The study suggests that trends in hospita...

US Medical News: Optimism As COVID-19 Infections And Death Rates Seem Dropping In America.Only 19,044 New Cases And 586 Deaths In the Last 24 hours

Source: US Medical News Jun 09, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: There is beginning of some optimism as despite shutdowns being lifted and the ongoing protests in various states all over America with regards to criminal nature of the police force in the US, COVID-19 infections and deaths seem to be dropping. In the last 24 hours, (8th June), there was only 19,044 new confirmed COVID-19 infected cases while there was only 586 COVID-19 r...

Immune Health: Cistanche And Pu-erh Tea Supplements Could Help Improve Immune Factors And Reduce Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Such As Interleukin-6

Source: Immune Health Jun 09, 2020 5 years ago

Immune Health: As we age, our immune functions become dysfunctional or senescent while at the same time Influenza viruses and the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can wreak havoc on our bodies when we get infected especially with the body’s response of producing pro-inflammatory cytokines such as interleukin-6 (iL-6). Medical research has since moved forward on several fronts ...

Study Finds That COVID-19 Also Causes Myocardial Injury (Heart Damage)

Source: Myocardial Injury Jun 09, 2020 5 years ago

Myocardial Injury: Medical researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that myocardial injury or heart damage is prevalent among patients hospitalized with COVID-19 and is associated with higher risk of mortality. More specifically, a serious myocardial injury can triple the risk of death. Lead researcher Dr Anuradha Lala, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)...

SARS-CoV-2 Attacks Kidney Proximal Tubular Cells Causing Acute Fanconi Syndrome According To French Study

Source: SARS-CoV-2 Jun 09, 2020 5 years ago

SARS-CoV-2-associated acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the more frequently encountered organ involvements in COVID-19, occurring in as many as 80% of all critically ill patients. A new French study shows that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease, also attacks the proximal tubular cells of the kidney and causes the development of acute Fanconi syndrome as one of the...

University Of Birmingham Researchers Warn That Children Infected With COVID-19 Could Develop Kawasaki-Like Syndrome Weeks Or Months Later At Any Time.

Source: Kawasaki-Like Syndrome Jun 08, 2020 5 years ago

Kawasaki-Like Syndrome: Medical researchers from the University of Birmingham have developed a test that has offered evidence confirming COVID-19 to be the cause of a newly emerged multi-system inflammatory syndrome in children, who have tested negative for the virus by the PCR test. The study findings also raise the possibility that children who may have had the virus in their system, ev...

European COVID-19 Research Indicates That Individuals With Blood Group Type A Might Be More Vulnerable To Respiratory Failure

Source: COVID-19 Research Jun 08, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Research: A European study involving more than 52 research centers, universities, medical schools and hospitals and more than a hundred researchers from a variety of countries has performed the first genome-wide association study to reveal host genetic factors that may contribute to respiratory failure in cases of COVID-19 disease including blood group types. It was found that those from ...

COVID-19 Research: Study From Columbia University Indicates That Lowering Testosterone Levels Could Reduce Severity Of COVID-19

Source: COVID-19 Research Jun 08, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Research: Medical researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center have found in a recent research study that lowering the hormone testosterone in infected patients could lessen the severity of COVID-19 disease by preventing the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus from entering lung cells. The research findings which are published as a preprint have yet to have been peer reviewe...

MUST READ! COVID-19 Long Term Effects: COVID-19 Survivors Could Suffer Chronic Medical Conditions For Years

Source: COVID-19 Long Term Effects Jun 07, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Long Term Effects: As of 4am, California, Sunday 7th June 2020, the total official number of infected COVID-19 cases in the world has reached more than 7 million (7,001,2180) and total number of individuals who have died have reached 402,578. These are only conservative figures as the real figures could actually be much more due to under reporting and concealments by government a...

COVID-19 Research: Interesting COVID-19 Pre-Print Non-Peer Reviewed Research Studies Worth Exploring (Vol 2)

Source: COVID-19 Research Jun 07, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Research: To date, there are more than 1,486 peer-reviewed published research studies related to COVID-19 in more than 185 medical journals not only in English but also in other languages. However there are almost more than 12,039 pre-print non-peer-reviewed studies published over the last few months in more than 17 pre-print servers online. Thailand Medical News in this second r...

Uric Acid: Japanese Researchers Discover That High Uric Acid Levels Protects Against Lung Function Decline Especially In Older Women

Source: Uric Acid Supplements Jun 07, 2020 5 years ago

Uric Acid: Medical researchers from Kumamoto University in Japan have discovered that uric acid, an antioxidant, protects against declining lung function from age or lung disease, especially in women. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3921/9/5/387 It is commonly known that the oxidant/antioxidant imbalance plays a pivotal role in the lung. Uric acid (UA), an endogenous antioxidant, is highly pres...

COVID-19 Latest: US FDA Approves Antibiotics For Nosocomial And Ventilatilator Associated Bacterial Pneumonia Infections During COVID-19 Crisis

Source : COVID-19 Latest Jun 07, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Latest: It was announce that the U S FDA has approved the antibiotic combination imipenem-cilastatin and relbactam (Recarbrio) for the treatment of hospital-acquired bacterial pneumonia and ventilator-associated bacterial pneumonia (HABP/VABP) in patients aged 18 years and older. Recarbrio was previously FDA-approved to treat patients with complicated urinary tract infections and co...

COVID-19: Use Of Tear Gas By Authorities In US During COVID-19 Pandemic Is Totally Irresponsible As The Chemicals Can Increase Risk To Respiratory Illnesses

Source: COVID-19 & KHN Jun 07, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19: It is shocking to see scenes of US authorities using tear gas and pepper sprays to disperse protesters in various states while the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is still infecting tens of thousands of individuals each day. Studies have shown that the usage of these chemicals can increase the risk to respiratory illnesses. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25003867/ Unknown to many des...

US Medical News: America Finally Sues Chinese Company Over Fake N95 Masks

Source: US Medical News Jun 06, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: America has finally started the legal process to sue a Chinese firm over half a million fake N95 masks that the country had ordered during the peak of the COVID-19 crisis when it needed these protective masks for its front line health staff. A legal complaint was filed in a federal court in Brooklyn, New York, in which the FBI said Guangdong-based King Yea...

Blood Clots: Study Recommends All Hospitalized COVID-19 Patients To Undergo A Thromboelastography (TEG) Test To Identify Undetected Blood Clots

Source: Blood Clots Jun 06, 2020 5 years ago

Blood Clots: Medical researchers from Baylor College of Medicine are recommending that all hospitalized COVID-19 patients especially those admitted to the ICU to undergo a thromboelastography (TEG) to test for the risk of forming blood clots. The researchers advocated this protocol after after they found that more than half of the patients tested under these same conditions develope...

COVID-19 Treatments: Study Shows That Acalabrutinib, A Bruton Tyrosine Kinase (BTK) Inhibitor Can Treat Severe Respiratory Distress In COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 Treatments Jun 06, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Treatments: Significant early data from a clinical study suggest that blocking the Bruton tyrosine kinase (BTK) protein provided clinical benefit to a group of patients with severe COVID-19. The medical researchers observed that the off-label use of the cancer drug acalabrutinib, a BTK inhibitor that is approved to treat several blood cancers, was associated with reduced respiratory distr...

Supplements: Singaporean Researchers Say That Vitamin D, Magnesium And Vitamin B12 Combo May Reduce Severity In Older COVID-19 Patients

Source: Supplements And COVID-19 Jun 06, 2020 5 years ago

Supplements: Medical researchers from Singapore General Hospital lead by Professor Dr Heng Joo Ng from the Department of Hematology, SGH have recently published a preprint study that has been yet to be peer-reviewed that shows a combination of easily available and cheap dietary supplements such as Vitamins D3, B12 and the mineral magnesium can reduce the progression of the disease to severe or fat...

Acute Kidney Injury: Study Shows That Acute Kidney Injury (AKI) Predominant Among COVID-19 Patients

Source: Acute Kidney Injury Jun 06, 2020 5 years ago

Acute Kidney Injury: According to a study published in The British Medical Journal or BMJ, most hospitalized COVID-19 patients faced major morbidity and mortality, with 78.0 percent of those admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) developing acute kidney injury or AKI. https://www.bmj.com/content/369/bmj.m1996 Dr Michael G. Argenziano, from Columbia University in New York City, and c...

US Medical News: America Registers 22,268 New COVID-19 Infections And 1031 Deaths In Last 24 Hours. Total Deaths From COVID-19 In USA Now Stands At 110, 179

Source: US Medical News Jun 05, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: There were a total of 22,268 New Covid-19 infections in the United States over the last 24 hours (4th June) and a total of 1031 deaths reported. To date a total of 1,924,189 individuals have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the United States of which a total of 712,252 are supposedly to have ‘recovered’ according to US health authorities. A to...

High Blood Pressure: Another Study Shows Hypertension Increases Risk Of Dying From COVID-19

Source: High Blood Pressure Jun 05, 2020 5 years ago

High Blood Pressure: So far from what we have seen, diabetes and obesity are some of the many factors that contribute to the risk of dying from COVID-1 and now yet another study indicate that patients with raised blood pressure have a two-fold increased risk of dying from the coronavirus COVID-19 compared to patients without high blood pressure. Furthermore the new research found th...

MUST READ! Strokes: Study Shows COVID-19 Increases Risk Of Strokes In Healthy Young Individuals. Global Increase In Stroke Deaths Last Few Months

Source: Strokes And COVID-19 Jun 05, 2020 5 years ago

Strokes: A new research study shows that healthy young patients with no risk factors for stroke may have an increased risk if they have contracted COVID-19, whether or not they are showing symptoms of the disease. The study findings has serious implications as people who otherwise are either symptomatic or are going to only mild to moderate conditions of the disease or have even recovered have to ...

BREAKING! Studies Show Famotidine, A Common Indigestion Drug Could Help In Mild To Moderate Cases Of COVID-19

Source: Famotidine And COVID-19 Jun 05, 2020 5 years ago

Famotidine and COVID-19: To date there are still no proven effective and approved drugs for COVID-19 and most drugs are only authorized under experimental use. However a commonly available and inexpensive drug that is used to ease the symptoms of indigestion may prove a worthy contender for treating COVID-19 infection in those whose disease doesn't require admission to hospital. ...

Cytokine Storms: Pharma Giant Roche Gets US FDA Approval For New Diagnostic Test To Identify Inflammatory Response In COVID-19 Patients

Source: Cytokine Storms Jun 04, 2020 5 years ago

Cytokine Storms: The largest Swiss pharmaceuticals conglomerate Roche announced today that the US FDA had given it emergency clearance for a test identifying patients most at risk of a dangerous immune response to coronavirus infection. A large proportion of COVID-19 patients display a very severe inflammatory response to COVID-19 as the body tries to combat the infection but ends up also...

Biotechnology: University Of Virginia Create New Open-Access Platform To Aid In COVID-19 Drug And Vaccine Development

Source: Biotechnology And COVID-19 Jun 04, 2020 5 years ago

Biotechnology: University Of Virginia’s biomedical experts in collaboration with international biotech professionals and entities have created a new online open-access platform that will help researchers and scientists working with COVID-19 drug and vaccine development better understand the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus about the structural models they are using in their research. https://covi...

BREAKING!! Male Infertility: Research Shows That SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus May Indirectly Cause Testicular Damage In Male COVID-19 Patients And Also Orchitis

Source: Male Infertility And Orchitis Jun 04, 2020 5 years ago

Male Infertility: A Peer-reviewed study published in the journal European Urology Focus indicates that the SARS-CoV02 coronavirus is able to cause damage to the testicles without even actually entering the testicular cells. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405456920301449?dgcid=rss_sd_all A pathological analysis of patient samples from a hospital in Wuhan showed that th...

MUST READ!! Hydroxychloroquine: Study Shows Hydroxychloroquine Fails As A Prophylaxis Against COVID-19

Source: Hydroxychloroquine Jun 04, 2020 5 years ago

Hydroxychloroquine :The drug that has used to treat malaria and has been publicly touted by some as drug that can be used as a prophylaxis to prevent getting infected with COVID-19, has in a rigorous a detailed study been proven to be ineffective. The research by medical experts from the University Of Minnesota is the first large, high-quality study to test the drug effectiveness in health w...

COVID-19 Latest: Researchers Identify 27 Biomarkers That Can Help Predict How Ill COVID-19 Patients Will Become

Source: COVID-19 Latest Jun 04, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Latest: Medical researchers at the Francis Crick Institute and Charité – Universitätsmedizin in Berlin have identified 27 protein biomarkers that could be used to predict whether a patient with COVID-19 is likely to become severely ill with the disease. The study has been published in the medical journal: Cell Systems. https://www.cell.com/cell-systems/fulltext/...

BREAKING! Pediatrics: Study Indicates That Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome More Predominant Among Children Of African Ancestry Infected With COVID-19

Source: Pediatrics Jun 04, 2020 5 years ago

Pediatrics: French researchers have found that an inflammatory syndrome in children and adolescents, believed to be linked to COVID-19, seems to be more common among children of African ancestry. The pediatric syndrome has been compared with Kawasaki disease, a rare condition which mainly affects children under five. Experts have said that it may be an "antibody mediated or...

Diabetes And COVID-19: Study Shows That Diabetics With High BMI Usually End Up On Ventilators Or /And Die Within 7 Days Upon Hospital Admission

Source: Diabetes And COVID-19 Jun 03, 2020 5 years ago

Diabetes And COVID-19: French researchers in a new study show that body mass index (BMI) is associated with tracheal intubation and/or death within seven days among individuals with diabetes hospitalized for COVID-19. Dr Bertrand Cariou from the University of Nantes in France, and his research team conducted a multicenter study in 1,317 people with diabetes (88.5 percent with type 2 diabe...

US Medical News: 1,134 Deaths Recorded In America For 2nd Of June, Bringing Total Number of COVID-19 Deaths To 108,059. More Infections To Come

Source: US Medical News Jun 03, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: In the 24hrs for the 2nd of June, America registered 1,134 deaths due to the COVID-19 disease, bringing the total deaths in the United States so far to 108,059. In the same period, 21,882 new COVID-19 infected cases were reported bringing the total infected so far in the country to 1,881,205. Off these, 645, 974 individuals have been deemed as “recovered&rsqu...

BREAKING! Study Shows Inactivation Process In Samples For COVID-19 Diagnostics Could Lead To High Rate of False Negatives!

Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Jun 03, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Diagnostics: A team of medical and biotech researchers led by Dr Chaofeng Ma of Xi'an Center for Disease Control and Prevention in China had initially hypothesized that viral inactivation may contribute to false negatives. The researchers subsequently tested several inactivation methodologies to determine if and to what extent they reduce detectible virus in a clinical s...

UV Light: Eradicating SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus That Causes COVID-19 With Handheld UV Light Devices

Source: UV Light and COVID-19 Jun 03, 2020 5 years ago

UV Light: Researchers at Pennsylvania State University, the University of Minnesota, University of Tokyo and Tohoku University in a joint research have ascertained that personal, handheld devices emitting high-intensity ultraviolet light are feasible for ‘killing’ the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The study findings are published in the journal: Nature’s Communication P...

BREAKTHROUGH! COVID-19 Antibodies: Chinese Researchers Identify Potent SARS-CoV-2 Neutralizing Antibodies

Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jun 03, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Antibodies: A collaborative research led by Peking University In Beijing has successfully identified multiple highly potent neutralizing antibodies against the SARS-CoV2 coronavirus, the causative virus of the respiratory/thrombotic disease COVID-19, from convalescent plasma by high-throughput single-cell sequencing. These neutralizing antibodies generated by the h...

Nicotine: Medical Experts Say That Evidence Is Weak Regarding Nicotine Therapy For COVID-1

Source: Hartmann-Boyce, Jamie & Lindson, Nicola – Converzation Jun 03, 2020 5 years ago

Nicotine: Most countries in the Europe including France recently put limits on the purchase nicotine-replacement products, stopping online sales and restricting buyers to a one-month supply of gums, patches and inhalers bought at pharmacies. The limits have nothing to do with the products' usefulness or safety as these are well established. They have been put in place to stop people stock...

Antibiotics: Melbourne Researchers Exploring Using Teixobactin For Bacterial Lung Conditions Including Secondary COVID-19 Infections

Source: Antibiotics Jun 03, 2020 5 years ago

Antibiotics: Researchers from University of Melbourne are exploring ways to eradicate lethal pathogens with 'resistance resistant' antibiotics, and it could also contribute in the fight against SARS-CoV-2coronavirus disease or COVID-19 complications. Typically as bacteria evolve, they develop strategies that undermine antibiotics and morph into 'superbugs' that c...

COVID-19 Antibody Tests: Medical Researchers Warn About Misinformation With Regards To Test Results

Source: COVID-19 Antibody Tests Jun 02, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Antibody Tests: The Covid-19 serology or antibody tests became available only in April this year. These tests involve a blood sample and detect antibodies produced by the body in response to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. A positive test indicates that a person was infected at some time in the past. A research paper published recently in the journal Clinical Chemistry by Dr Neil And...

Anti-Inflammatory Drugs: APPA (Apocynin And Paeonol)- New Anti-Inflammatory Drug That Does Not Weaken Host Defense To Infection Even For COVID-19

Source: Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Jun 02, 2020 5 years ago

Anti-inflammatory Drugs: Researchers from the University of Liverpool and AKL Research and Development Ltd (AKLRD), have developed a new anti-inflammatory drug called APPA that has anti-inflammatory properties but without weakening host defense to infection. The drug could be useful in treating COVID-1 cytokine storms. The research was published in the journal: Inflammopharmacol...

WHO: World Health Organization Warns That Excessive Use Of Antibiotics During COVID-19 Crisis Will Cause More Deaths In Future Due To Resistance

Source: WHO-World Health Organisation Jun 02, 2020 5 years ago

WHO: The World Health Organization warned that increased antibiotics use in combating the COVID-19 pandemic will strengthen bacterial resistance and ultimately lead to more deaths during the crisis and beyond. Director-general of WHO, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus expressed concern that a "worrying number" of bacterial infections were becoming increasingly resistant to the medicine...

COVID-19 Transmission: Does Air Conditioning Help Transmit COVID-19?

Source: COVID-19 Transmissions Jun 02, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Transmission: Considering that the weather is now warmer and lockdown orders are being lifted, individuals are questioning: Can air conditioning tranmit COVID-19, especially the AC in public places, the office, stores or restaurants? A few past researches raised concerns especially one study, published in Emerging Infectious Diseases, found that nine people in Wuh...

Pregnancy And COVID-19: Study Shows Choline Supplements Could Help Pregnant Women Reduce Negative Effects Of COVID-19 In Newborns

Source: Pregnancy And COVID-19 Jun 02, 2020 5 years ago

Pregnancy And COVID-19: According to a recent study by medical researchers from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, pregnant women who take extra choline supplements may mitigate the negative impact that viral respiratory infections, including COVID-19, can have on their babies. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S...

COVID-19: Australian Researchers Say Reduced Humidity Linked To Increased COVID-19 Risk, Cooler Months To Be Worse

Source: COVID-19 Jun 02, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19: Researchers from University Of Sydney have found an association between lower humidity and an increase in locally acquired positive cases. It was discovered that a 1 percent decrease in humidity could increase the number of COVID-19 cases by 6 percent. The new research led by Professor Dr Michael Ward, an epidemiologist in the Sydney School of Veterinary Science at the Universit...

US Medical News: Experts Are Warning That COVID-19 Infections Could Escalate Tremendously In US As African-Americans Are Busy Looting Stores And Burning Cities

Source: US Medical News Jun 01, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: EDITORIAL- In a country that has reported 20,350 new cases of COVID-19 in the last few hours bringing the total in the country to 1,841,375 cases and a total of about 106,270 deaths as a result of the SAR-CoV-2 coronavirus, it is shocking to see on TV channels and online media spanning from the CNN, New York Times, Washington Post, Fox News images of black African Americans ...

BREAKING! Face Mask: Israeli Researchers Develop Self-Disinfecting Protective Mask

Source: Face Mask Jun 01, 2020 5 years ago

Face Mask: The Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) faculty of Materials Science and Engineering have developed a revolutionary self-disinfecting reusable protective face mask. The self- disinfection process occurs when a layer of carbon fibers in the mask is heated using a low current source, such as an electric mobile phone charger, the developers state. A legal patent...

Medical Imaging: CT Findings Of COVID-19 In Children Often Show False Negative Infections

Source: Medical Imaging Jun 01, 2020 5 years ago

Medical Imaging: Researchers from Icahn School Of medicine , Mount Sinai are warning clinical practitioners that a recent study they conducted revealed a high frequency of negative chest CT findings among pediatric patients with laboratory-confirmed SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease (COVID-19), while also suggesting that bilateral, lower lobe-predominant ground-glass opacities (GGOs) are common in th...

COVID-19: Could Mosquitoes Transmit The SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus?

Source: COVID-19 Jun 01, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19: With the rainy season now in Thailand and in many Asian countries and with warnings of Dengue expected to be prevailing, many are also concerned as to whether the mosquito season that typically accompanies the rainy season can also contribute to the spread of the COVID-19 disease. You cannot blame people for their concerns considering that these bloodsuckers are known to transmi...

COVID-19 Disinfectants: Hong Kong Researchers Unveil New Disinfectant That Can Protect Against SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus For Up To 3 Months

Source: COVID-19 Disinfectants Jun 01, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Disinfectants: Researchers from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology have developed "MAP-1," a new disinfectant spray that can kill viruses including the SARS-CoV-2coronavirus and bacteria for up to 90 days. https://www.ust.hk/news/research-and-innovation/hkust-develops-new-smart-anti-microbial-coating-fight-against-covid-19 The new disinfectant coating is unlike ...

Ophthalmology: Eyewear And COVID-19 Safety

Source: Ophthalmology May 31, 2020 5 years ago

Ophthalmology: Covid-19-related safety is crucial if one wears contact lenses, eyeglasses or safety glasses/goggles, eye experts say. Though the American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends limiting use of contact lenses and switching to eyeglasses during the pandemic, the American Optometric Association says there's no evidence that wearing contacts increases COVID-19 r...

US Medical News: America Reports 23,290 New COVID-19 Infected Cases In The Last 24 Hours And 1015 Deaths

Source: US Medical News May 31, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: Sadly, the number of COVID-19 infected cases in America does not seem to be going down with 23,290 cases reported in the last 24 hours for the 30th Of May 2020 and 1015 deaths were registered. To date the total number of individuals that have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in the United States stands at 1,816,897 while the total number of deaths are 105,557...

Influenza: Individuals Should Prepare For The Coming Flu Season By Getting Vaccinated Especially With COVID-19 Around

Source: Influenza May 31, 2020 5 years ago

Influenza: Though it is very vague and not conformative, the second annual influenza season in Thailand starts during the rainy months of June to August while the first season is during the cooler months of December to February. In the US, the flu season typically starts in October to February while in China it is between November to February. In UK it is also around October to February. In ...

US Medical News: 1,225 COVID-19 Deaths Recorded In America During Last 24 Hours

Source: US Medical News May 30, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: 1,225 COVID-19 deaths were recorded in the United States on Friday. The death toll in America as of 7.00am New York (30th May) is now 104,552 while a total of 1,793,535 people have tested positive for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. So far about 16,810,778 individuals have been tested for the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus of out of total population of 330,832,890 individuals. It sho...

Blood Banks: Researchers Develop Protocol Using Vitamin B2 And UV Light To Inactivate SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus In Whole Blood and Plasma

Source: Blood Banks May 30, 2020 5 years ago

Blood Banks: Though medical experts are still have no proof that SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus can be transmitted by blood transfusion, considering the many anomalies of this new virus researchers have decided to still proceed to find ways to make sure that blood stocks are safe. Medical researchers from Colorado State University used existing technologies to show that exposing the SARS-CoV-2 co...

Respiratory Infections: Study Warns Glucocorticoids Are Harmful In Treating Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Conditions Including Those In COVID-19

Source: Respiratory Infections May 29, 2020 5 years ago

Respiratory Infections: Finnish researchers are warning against the use of glucocorticoids or corticosteroids to treat respiratory infections caused pathogens and more so to treat acute respiratory distress syndrome conditions including in Covid-19. Their research findings are published in the medical journal: Intensive Care Medicine. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00134-020-06086-3 ...

COVID-19 Research: University Of Massachusetts Study Warns Of Emerging Genomic Variants In SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus That Could Lead To Drug Resistance

Source: COVID-19 Research May 29, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Research: A new research by University Of Massachusetts Medical School lead by Dr Sean P Ryder, a Professor Biochemistry and Molecular Pharmacology has demonstrated that there are numerous emerging genomic variants of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and that some of these with changes on certain of parts of the structure of the genome, he warns could lead to drug resistance. Dr Ryder ...

Diabetes: French Study Indicates That 10 Percent Of Covid-19 Patients With Diabetes Die Within Seven Days Of Hospital Admission

Source: Diabetes May 29, 2020 5 years ago

Diabetes: The world’s first study of COVID-19 to specifically analyze the effect of the diabetes in hospitalized patients has found that one in ten patients dies within 7 days of hospital admission, and one in five is intubated and mechanically ventilated by this point. The study is published in Diabetologia (the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabete...

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Source: SARS-CoV-2-Cancer
Nov 18, 2021 3 years ago

BREAKING! COVID-19 Genetics: Yale Scientist Identify Eight ‘Super’ Genetic Variants In White People That Increases COVID-19 Death Risk!

Source: COVID-19 Genetics
Nov 13, 2020 4 years ago

Japanese Study Shows That Ozone Water Rapidly Inactivates SARS-Cov-2 Coronavirus, Making It An Ideal COVID-19 Disinfectant And Sanitizer

Source: Ozone Water-COVID-19
Nov 05, 2020 4 years ago

BREAKING NEWS! COVID-19 Study Reveals That SARS-CoV-2 Uses CD4 Cells To Infect T-helper Lymphocytes. COVID-19 A Potent Version Of Airborne HIV?

Source: BREAKING NEWS
Sep 30, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 News: Emerging Studies Shows SARS-CoV-2 Attacks The Digestive Tract Especially The Intestines Directly, Reported Case Of Bowel Perforation

Source: COVID-19 News
Sep 21, 2020 4 years ago

BREAKING NEWS! Study Of COVID-19 Recovered Patients In China Reveals That Lymphocytes Are Drastically Altered To Become Dysfunctional With Immunity Implications

Source: COVID-19 Recovered Patients
Jul 02, 2020 5 years ago

Occulus Hirsutus and AQCH: India Discreetly Developing And Testing COVID-19 Drug Based On Phytochemicals Extracted From Occulus Hirsutus Plant

Source: Occulus Hirsutus and AQCH
Jun 27, 2020 5 years ago

High-Flow Nasal Cannula: For COVID-19 Second Wave Preparations, Forget About Ventilators, Doctors Are Now Turning To High-Flow Nasal Cannula

Source: High-Flow Nasal Cannula
Jun 25, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING! Androgens: Study Shows Bald Men Mostly Likely To Suffer Severe COVID-19 Conditions Due To High Levels Of Androgens

Source: Androgens And COVID-19
Jun 23, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING NEWS! COVID-19 Research Shows That SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Can Survive In Water For Up To 25 Days And Could Also Be Water-Borne

Source: COVID-19 Research
Jun 23, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING! Hepatitis B: UAE COVID-19 Case Study Indicates That COVID-19 Could Induce Hepatitis B Virus Reactivation

Source: Hepatitis B and COVID-19
Jun 21, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING! COVID-19 Research: Sodium Channels Could Be Affected As Coronavirus Spike Protein Has Similar Sequence To Human Epithelial Sodium Channel

Source: COVID-19 Research
Jun 21, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING! Cannabis And COVID-19: Caflanone, A Flavonoid Extracted From A Distinct Cannabis Strain Could be A Therapeutic Drug Against the COVID-19

Source: Cannabis And COVID-19
Jun 20, 2020 5 years ago

Gargling: New Studies Show That Throat Gargling May Be Beneficial After All During COVID-19 Despite Being Labeled In the Past As Misinformation

Source: Gargling and COVID-19
Jun 19, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING! COVID-19 Research: New Study Reveals That SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Also Affects Thyroid Functions In Majority Of COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 Research
Jun 17, 2020 5 years ago

Exploring Inhaled Nitric Oxide (iNo) As As An Adjuvant COVID-19 Treatment For Pulmonary Issues

Source: Nitric Oxide and COVID-19
Jun 15, 2020 5 years ago

Understanding The Differences Between COVID-19 Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic Conditions

Source: COVID-19 Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic
Jun 14, 2020 5 years ago

Scripp Institute Has Detected The Mutation That Most Scientist Dread: The D614G Mutation Which Could Make The SARS-CoV-2 More Infectious

Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations
Jun 13, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING! Medical Experts Warn That COVID-19 Could Trigger Diabetes In Otherwise Healthy Individuals Who Never Had The Condition Before.

Source: Diabetes and COVID-19
Jun 13, 2020 5 years ago

Acute Pancreatitis: Warning That Acute Pancreatitis Is Now Manifesting In COVID-19 Patients, A Condition Never Seen In Early Stages Of The Pandemic

Source: Acute Pancreatitis
Jun 11, 2020 5 years ago

Immune Health: Cistanche And Pu-erh Tea Supplements Could Help Improve Immune Factors And Reduce Pro-inflammatory Cytokines Such As Interleukin-6

Source: Immune Health
Jun 09, 2020 5 years ago

Study Finds That COVID-19 Also Causes Myocardial Injury (Heart Damage)

Source: Myocardial Injury
Jun 09, 2020 5 years ago

European COVID-19 Research Indicates That Individuals With Blood Group Type A Might Be More Vulnerable To Respiratory Failure

Source: COVID-19 Research
Jun 08, 2020 5 years ago

Supplements: Singaporean Researchers Say That Vitamin D, Magnesium And Vitamin B12 Combo May Reduce Severity In Older COVID-19 Patients

Source: Supplements And COVID-19
Jun 06, 2020 5 years ago

MUST READ! Strokes: Study Shows COVID-19 Increases Risk Of Strokes In Healthy Young Individuals. Global Increase In Stroke Deaths Last Few Months

Source: Strokes And COVID-19
Jun 05, 2020 5 years ago

BREAKING ALERT! COVID-19: Italian Researchers Discover Brain Lesions On COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19
May 23, 2020 5 years ago

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