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COVID-19 Drugs: A research team led by Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)'s Professor Dr Yaakov Nahmias says that a simple and inexpensive cholesterol-lowering drug called Fenofibrate (Tricor) that is been approved and on the market for decades could help downgrade the severity of COVID-19 disease.
The early research finding which looks promising has been published in the preprint section of...
COVID-19 Drugs: Heparin, a common drug, already approved by the US as an anticoagulant may also be a powerful tool in fighting COVID-19, according to research published in the journal: Antiviral Research. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166354220302874?via%3Dihub
The SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, uses a surface spike protein to latch onto human c...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Jul 16, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Although various skin rashes and breakouts are already being associated with COVID-19 now doctors in Spain doctors are reporting that rashes on the inside of the mouth are also occurring in some cases.
The study findings reporting this new emerging clinical symptom is published in the latest edition of the journal: JAMA Dermatology (Journal Of The American Medical Assoc...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jul 15, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: A new study by researchers from Netherlands warns against the use of any COVID-19 therapies containing the IgG antibodies as these would react with the macrophages in the bodies of the infected and accelerate cytokine storms.
Though these IgG antibodies are more prevalent in large amounts in patients with severe COVID-19 conditions, they are also found in very small a...
COVID-19 Vaccine: The Phase 1 trial of an investigational vaccine, mRNA-1273, designed to protect against SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 disease, was generally well tolerated and prompted neutralizing antibody activity in healthy adults, according to US NIH authorities.
The interim results of the trial were published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine....
Source: COVID-19 Heart Issues Jul 15, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Heart Issues: To date more than 22% of all COVID-19-associated deaths are from cardiac complications, yet the mechanisms from which these complications arise have remained a topic of debate in the cardiology community.
One common hypothesis centers on the infection of the heart itself, but the understanding of which cells may be infected is unclear.
In order to address thi...
Source: COVID-19 Delirium Jul 15, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Delirium: Trinity College Researchers in Dublin have identified a connection between aberrant energy metabolism in the brain and delirium ie the state of impaired cognition in individuals who are unwell. This mental symptom is proving common in individuals hospitalized with COVID-19.
The research findings were published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Neuroscience. https://w...
COVID-19 News: In a new detailed study conducted by researchers from the University Hospital of Salamanca in Spain that was funded by the Spanish Ministry For Science, in was found that more than 40 percent of 139 health care workers who had recovered from COVID-19 were found to have Pericarditis Or/And Myocarditis when they were examined about 10 weeks later. More than 42 % experienced symptoms a...
COVID-19 Rehab: As the number of confirmed global COVID-19 cases is fast approaching 14 million and many experts are saying that the numbers could actually be as high as 10 to 20 times that figure due to underreporting by many countries and also due to concealments in some cases, it is becoming apparent day by day and an emerging fact that there is a whole list of long term health complications ar...
COVID- 19 Vaccine: Canadian biophamaceutical company Medicago that is based in Quebec with branches in the U.S. announced that it has begun Phase I clinical trial for its plant-derived COVID-19 vaccine candidate. It has already administered the first doses of the candidate in healthy human subjects, and the company intends to initiate a Phase II/III trial this coming October.
Dr Nath...
COVID-19 Vaccine: American researchers from Duke University-Durham have made an important discovery about the spike protein SARS-CoV-2 that could have a broad impact on vaccine studies.
The S or spike protein is the structure that binds to host cell angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) to enable viral attachment and entry during the infection process. The spike protein is also...
Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 15, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: According to an international study led by the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, depressed mood or anxiety exhibited in COVID-19 patients may possibly be a sign that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is affecting the central nervous system.
The research findings are published in the journal: Laryngoscope. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/lary.28964
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Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 14, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Researchers from New York University Langone Health in a retrospective study, found that the viral load of SARS-CoV-2 collected from patients in the emergency department is significantly higher in patients with fewer or milder symptoms who did not require hospitalization, the opposite of what might be expected. They also found that a patient's history of cancer and cardiovas...
Source: COVID-19 Pandemic Jul 14, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Pandemic: A modeling study by Imperial College London and Oxford University predicts that the global healthcare industry will be disrupted the next 5 years due to the COVID-19 pandemic and that there will be a huge surge in deaths for those who contract or are suffering from HIV, TB and Malaria.
Certain low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) could see HIV, tuber...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements-Zinc Jul 14, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: It seems that certain doctors, (those unethical ones getting commissions from Pharma giants), fact checkers (those buffoons who failed in their careers and work as fact checkers for garbage companies like Facebook) and certain corrupted government authorities tend to have an affinity for always discounting the fact that vitamins, supplements and herbs could help in cert...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Jul 14, 2020 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein: In most of the research concerning vaccine and antiviral development, the key target is the spike (S) protein of the SAR-CoV-2 coronavirus, a trimeric component of the viral particle that is responsible for binding to the host receptor, ie the angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2).
A new research by scientists from Janssen Vaccines & Prevention B...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Jul 14, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Medical researchers from King’s College London and Zoe Global Ltd have conducted a study suggesting that skin rashes could be valuable predictors of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).
The research finds are being peer-reviewed and are currently published on a preprint server. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.10.20150656v1
The large and deta...
COVID-19 Vaccine: There are more than 140 SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in development and the race for a successful candidate to help prevent COVID-19 is making many researchers jumpstart processes and in some cases even by pass safety protocols.
Although an effective and safe vaccine would be a major advance in the fight against COVID-19, there are challenges in evaluating the efficacy of&nb...
Source: COVID-19 Immunity Jul 14, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunity: Researchers from King’s College London and Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in a long and detailed study discovered that there is a rapid decline in the levels of SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies during the weeks following initial infection. This raises questions over the potential for re-infection, the effectiveness that may be expected from va...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jul 13, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: A new research led Scripps Research Institute has discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19.
The researchers reviewed data on nearly 300 anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies that their labs and others have found in convalescent COVID-19 patients over the past few months....
COVID-19 Vaccine: Maryland based Altimmune, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, has reported positive results from the preclinical studies conducted in mice at the University of Alabama at Birmingham of its intranasal COVID-19 vaccine candidate, AdCOVID.
The research studies; a collaboration between the University of Alabama-Birmingham and Altimmune showed strong serum neutr...
Source: Thailand COVID-19 Jul 13, 2020 4 years ago
Thailand COVID-19: Thailand is reporting new COVID-19 cases from foreigners and Thais coming from Muslim countries like Pakistan, Egypt, UAE, Kuwait etc. Many local Thais are getting upset with the government for allowing flights to resume from these countries and are calling for a ban for all flights and arrivals from these countries.
In what is now becoming a major health scare that is ...
COVID-19 Drugs: A relatively large and detailed clinical trial performed by Japanese researchers has showed inconclusive data from Covid-19 patients treated with Fujifilm’s Avigan drug also known as favipiravir. Fujita Health University researcher Professor Dr Yohei Doi said that the drug led to improvement in patients treated early, compared to those who received delayed dose...
Source: China COVID-19 News Jul 13, 2020 4 years ago
China COVID-19 News: A prominent Chinese doctor from Renmin Hospital of Wuhan University who has been supplying us with research studies and information but on conditions of anonymity since the start of the outbreak has claimed to say that the situation in China is more dire that thought as he claims that millions of Chinese country wide are infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus but do no...
Source: COVID-19 Immunology Jul 13, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunology: A new study by German researchers from Saarland University shows that there are higher levels of anti-SARS-CoV-2 T cells, which show significant alterations in the phenotype and function in COVID-19 patients.
Initial research had already shown that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus causes broad changes in cellular immune response, seen chiefly as lymphopenia, altera...
Source: COVID-19 Innovations Jul 13, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Mask: Medical and Engineering Researchers from MIT and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed a new face mask that they believe could stop viral particles as effectively as N95 masks. Unlike N95 masks, the new masks were designed to be easily sterilized and used many times.
The masks are based on the shape of the 3M 1860 style of N95 masks, the type n...
Source: COVID-19 Cellular Therapy Jul 13, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Cellular Therapy. Spanish researchers announced that a cellular therapy tested on 13 intubated patients with mechanical ventilation has shown to be efficient for the clinical improvement of critical cases of COVID-19.
The research which is the broadest published to date in these conditions, has been published in journal: The Lancet's EClinical Medicine, after proving that the...
Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 13, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Researchers from the department of molecular medicine at Scripps Research Institute - Florida in a new study have discovered that cholesterol saturation in host cells helps to facilitate viral entry of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Their research findings were published on a preprint server but are yet to have been peer-reviewed. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20...
Hand Sanitizer Reaction: A report was published in the Oxford journal: Alcohol and Alcoholism in which a case study was highlighted involving Disulfiram-Ethanol reactions by hand-sanitizer usage. The case warn patients recovering from alcoholic addiction and are on the drug Disulfiram to be ware when using ethanol containing hand sanitizers. https://academic.oup.com/alcalc/article-abstract/55/4/34...
Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jul 12, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Antibodies: One of Boehringer Ingelheim’s research programs has uncovered unique 28 antibodies that the company plans to move into further testing.
A study team led by Cologne University Hospital and the German Center for Infection Research studied the antibody response to COVID-19 in 12 people who recovered from the virus, as well as immune cells from 48 healthy people col...
COVID-19 Meds: With more than 140 vaccine projects and more than 420 drug trials under way and governments in Europe and the United States investing billions of dollars in research, trials and manufacturing, there is concern that richer nations could scoop up promising medicines against the new coronavirus, leaving developing countries empty-handed.
Bill Gates, Billionaire philanthropist (wish h...
Remdesivir: Pharma giant Gilead Sciences wasted no time beginning testing of an inhaled formulation of its COVID-19 drug remdesivir for mild and less severe COVID-19 patients with the hope that the US FDA and Trump administration will support its approval again and buy up overpriced stocks once again with tax payers monies. We are not sure what basis the inhaled version of the drug will be approve...
Source: Cancer Treatments Jul 12, 2020 4 years ago
Cancer Treatments: Oncology researchers from Stanford University and Washington State University have demonstrated that a fatty acid called dihomogamma-linolenic acid, or DGLA, can be used to target and kill human cancer cells.
The research findings published in the journal: Developmental Cell, found that DGLA can induce ferroptosis in an animal model and in actual human cancer cells...
COVID-19 Latest: More than 55 European researchers from 13 research centers across Germany, Netherlands and Greece provide the first evidence for the use of whole blood transcriptomics to distinguish COVID-19 disease from other infections, and also to monitor and potentially predict disease outcomes. Such as approach helps further dissect molecular phenotypes and stratify COVID-19 patients, as wel...
Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 12, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: European researchers from Universitair Ziekenhuis Leuven-Belgium, Karolinska Institutet-Sweden, Dresden University of Technology-Germany, University of Cambridge-UK and University of Oslo-Norway have in a new collaborative study shown that genes involved in severe SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infection are expressed to a higher degree in older heart muscle cells or cardiomyocytes than...
Source: COVID-19 Virucides Jul 11, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Virucides: Researchers from Duke-NUS Medical School In Singapore shows that Povidone-Iodine demonstrates rapid in vitro virucidal activity against sars-cov-2 coronavirus in a new study.
The research findings were published in the journal: Infectious Disease and Therapy Journal. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40121-020-00316-3
Povidone-iodine (PVP-I), which is highly ef...
Source: Thailand Medical News Jul 11, 2020 4 years ago
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Source: COVID-19 Aerosol Box Jul 11, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Aerosol Boxes meant to protect doctors and nurses when they intubate COVID-19 patients may actually increase their exposure to airborne SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus particles according to a new Australian study.
The study findings are published in the journal: Anaesthesia,the official journal of the Association of Anaesthetists. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/an...
COVID-19 Latest: Emerging research from China shows that certain COVID-19 patients without a previous diagnosis of diabetes are showing abnormally high blood sugar and this is often associated with more than double the risk of death and also an increased risk of severe complications. One of the possible explanations for this phenomenon is that the endocrine system is being affected along wit...
COVID-19 News: Researchers from the University Of Basel have published a new study that focuses of the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 emergence amidst Community-Acquired Respiratory Viruses(CARVs) with implications of what we can expect in the coming winter.
The study traces how COVID-19 became the predominant cause of respiratory infection in the period from early January until the present. ...
New Viral Pneumonia:The Chinese embassy in Kazakhstan has warned of a deadly “unknown pneumonia” after the former Soviet republic reported a spike in pneumonia cases since June.The embassy that that is not the current SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus but stopped short of saying what it was.
The embassy said in a warning to Chinese citizens in the country, “The death rate of this disease ...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Jul 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: American researchers led by the Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and University Of Connecticut have developed highly specific and sensitive assays that could improve understanding of the antibody response in the COVID-19 disease and also help to determine the effectiveness of vaccines.
The new assays uncovered dynamic changes in the level of antibodies against the SARS-Co...
Source: U.S. Medical News Jul 10, 2020 4 years ago
US COVID-19 News: America posted 65,551 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, a record for a 24-hour period, according to a tally by Johns Hopkins University.
USA is the hardest-hit country in the world by the pandemic, has a total caseload of more than 3.22 million, with 135,018 deaths. (As of 10th July, 3am California,m Source Worldometer)
It was also reported that more ...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Trials Jul 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Medical researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have launched a clinical trial to assess the safety and efficacy of convalescent plasma to prevent COVID-19 after a known exposure to the virus.
Convalescent plasma therapy involves infusing patients with antibodies extracted from the blood of donors who have successfully...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Trials Jul 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Trials: Medical researchers are saying that low-dose radiation therapy seems to improve outcomes for COVID-19 patients. At least a dozen clinical trials are underway throughout the world to further explore the benefits. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/results?cond=COVID-19&term=low-dose+radiation&cntry=&state=&city=&dist=
The latest two trial...
Source: COVID-19 Vaccines Jul 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Vaccines: The U.S.National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has founded a new clinical trials network focused on enrolling volunteers in clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines and monoclonal antibodies.
Various media have recently reported that sponsor companies are struggling to enroll patients in clinical trials for COVID-19 va...
Source: COVID-19 Controversies Jul 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Controversies: Despite the fact that Pharmaceutical giant Gilead has huge resources and research facilities, it was never demonstrated that Remdesivir had any direct effects in terms of inhibiting the SARS-CoV-2 replication capability in vitro or vivo studies. The only things it had that made the Trump administration pass the FDA approval as a drug for COVID-19 was 'half-baked' st...
COVID-19 Drugs: Despite numerous studies showing that Lopinavir and Ritonavir are not effective to treat COVID-19, we still have numerous ignorant countries and doctors still using those drugs in their treatment protocols.
Now a new French study shows that older, critically ill patients with COVID-19 who received a combination of the antiretroviral medications lopinavir and ritonavir experienced ...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Jul 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: University Of Otago-New Zealand researchers studying the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has discovered that a particular binding site of virus targeting host microRNA miR197-5p has mutated more than 40 times since March and is now present in more than 75 percent of SARS-CoV-2 global isolates. The findings also have implications for cardiovascular issues.
The research findings w...
COVID-19 Drugs: There is now an increased demand for a variety of drugs to treat the growing variety of symptoms and conditions associated with COVID-19. One of which is the assortment of different types of neurological conditions. Just for one neurological category of symptoms which is delirium, BioXcel Therapeutics, which is based in Connecticut has developed a new drug called BXCL510.
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COVID-19 Drugs: R-Pharm, a Russian pharmaceutical company has secured regulatory approval for the use of its antiviral drug Coronavir, to treat patients suffering from Covid-19. The company released the announcement today to Russian media.
The regulatory approval comes after a clinical trial in mild to moderate Covid-19 patients showed that the drug is highly effective in blocking replica...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Jul 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: Swiss Researchers from the Institute of Molecular Biology and Biophysics-Zurich, University of Bern and Institute of Virology and Immunology-Bern have discovered the detailed functional process by which the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus NSP1 Protein Inhibits Host Translation.
Their study published in a preprint server shows that the 5’ end of the RNA molecule is ca...
Source: COVID-19 Disinfectants Jul 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Disinfectants: The American Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) just approved two disinfection sprays that can kill severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), the virus that causes the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), on surfaces. The agency gave the green light to Lysol Disinfectant Spray, and Lysol Disinfectant Max Cover Mist, as two products that can effectively kil...
Source: COVID-19 Nutrition Jul 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Nutrition: A new but intriguing European study involving the collaboration of 13 research centers and universities in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Franca and Switzerland suggests that COVID-19 mortality rates are likely to be lower in countries where diets are rich in fermented vegetables.
Though the study is published on a preprint server, it is currently being peer-reviewed by a f...
Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Jul 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Diagnostics: Researchers from the University of Exeter have developed a revolutionary new device that could allow health professionals to accurately test patients' antibody response to COVID-19 in as little as seven minutes.
The new pioneering COVID-19 Triple Antibody Test has been produced by the University of Exeter spin-out company Attomarker Ltd and is set to spearhead th...