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Source: COVID-19 Mutations Nov 27, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Mutations: Researchers, virologists and genomic specialist from the Harbin Institute of Technology-China are warning that a new emerging mutated SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus strain N439K is more infectious and antibody resistant than the original Wuhan strains.
The SARS-CoV-2 virus causing the COVID-19 pandemic has been undergoing various mutations and in some cases becoming more infec...
Ivermectin-COVID-19: Finally the results of a randomized trial has emerged to show the effectiveness of Ivermectin to treat COVID-19 despite numerous attempts by various big American and European pharmaceutical companies and their governments to try to suppress Ivermectin research due to greed and financial scams.
The clinical trial study was led by Iranian researchers from Qazvin university of m...
Research News: Scientists from the NCH Healthcare System-Florida, University of South Florida and University of Illinois-Chicago in a new study have identified a specific set of genes associated with a poor prognosis of COVID-19.
Often poor outcomes after SARS-CoV-2 infection are difficult to predict. Survivors may develop pulmonary fibrosis. The study team previously identified a 5...
Coronavirus News: French researchers in a new multicenter study have found a lower or equal risk of fatal COVID-19 in hypertensive patients, depending on the type of medication they are on.
The study finding confirms earlier recommendations that antihypertensives should be continued in these patients before and during infection with SARS-CoV-2, the viral agent that causes COVID-19.
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Scientist from the Organic and Natural Products Research Laboratory, McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School-U.S, Institute of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences at the Johannes Gutenberg University-Germany along with Traditional Chinese medicine experts from Henan University of Chinese Medicine at Zhengzhou-China have in a new study showed the effectiveness of certain he...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Nov 26, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: A new breakthrough research led by scientists from Harvard including researchers from the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University-Boston, Massachusetts Institute of Technology-Cambridge, Harvard Medical School-Boston, Brigham and Women's Hospital-Boston, Boston Children’s Hospital and also experts from Dankook University-South Korea have identified specif...
COVID-19 Scams: While most of the moronic and non-credible media and ignorant individuals were celebrating AstraZeneca’s so called vaccine trial results including supposedly experts with huge vested business interest in the pharma industry like Dr Anthony Fauci, it has now come to light that there was a huge error in the manufacturing process of these vaccines which even AstraZeneca an...
Source: COVID-19 Transmission Nov 25, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Transmission: Despite constant denials by the WHO and also the U.S. CDC due to lobbying from powerful food conglomerates and interest groups, more emerging studies are showing that food products including frozen seafood and meat supplies can be potential carriers of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Food Control. htt...
Vaccine News: A new vivo animal study by scientist from Pennsylvania State University shows that intramuscular COVID-19 vaccination of ferrets failed to induce sufficient antibodies against SARS-CoV-2, and the ferrets remained susceptible to infection of the upper respiratory tract. The study shows that protection of upper respiratory tract will require vaccines that mimic natural infection by SAR...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Nov 25, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: The current COVID-19 pandemic has infected almost 60 million people worldwide and caused more than 1.4 million deaths. These figures are rising exponentially but as far as progress is concerned in terms of finding a cure for the disease, we are still nowhere as unknown to many, the COVID-19 disease is a highly complex disease that is not just affected by the type or strain of SA...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Nov 24, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: Researchers from the University of Barcelona-Spain, Instituto de Salud Carlos III-Spain, University of Múrcia-Spain, University of Hawai-U.S. and University of Oxford-UK have in a new study concluded that nasal dryness could be an early warning sign of COVID-19 disease.
One of the entry routes of SARS-CoV-2 is the nasal epithelium. Although mounting evidence sugg...
COVID-19 Latest: Top Glove, a Malaysian company that is the world's biggest manufacturer of surgical gloves will close over half of its factories after a surge in COVId-19 cases among workers, Malaysian health authorities said Monday.
The company had seen a huge jump in demand since the start of the pandemic as countries scrambled to stock up on protective equipment, pushing up both i...
COVID-19 Alerts: A new research that is among many that is emerging is indicating that natural deletions in the SARS-CoV-2 spike glycoprotein is driving antibody escape and many of the current vaccine candidates may end up being useless or worse even contribute to the phenomenon of ADE or antibody-dependent enhancement.
The new research by scientist from the University of Pittsburg and Ha...
American COVID-19 Scams: The Trump controlled U.S FDA, a regulatory agency that no longer has any credibility has suffered yet another blow as ethical medical professionals are advocating against the use of the overpriced drug bamlanivimab (Eli Lilly) that was granted emergency use authorization (EUA) by the U.S. FDA on the November 10th for use in ambulatory patients with mild to moderate COVID-1...
Source: Herbs For COVID-19 Nov 24, 2020 4 years ago
Herbs For COVID-19: German scientists from the Institute for Virology at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany have in a new study demonstrated the that potential antiviral effects of commonly consumed Sage and Perilla herbal infusions on the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus -the pathogen that causes the COVID-19 disease.
Sage Grown In Phayao, Thailand
The present COVID-19 pandemic represents a...
COVID-19 News: Brazilian scientists have in a new study reported two cases of individuals with SARS-CoV-2 shedding infectious virus for a significantly longer period than has previously been reported. The findings can also implications on quarantine periods etc.
Previously, it has been estimated that individuals with COVID-19 can shed replication-competent virus up to a maximum of only tw...
Phytochemicals-Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM): Scientist from the Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute & Hospital -China, the Central South University,Hunan-China and the HuaZhong Agricultural University,Wuhan-China have in a new silico computational molecular docking study found that the phytochemicals quercetin, puerarin and kaempferol frequently found in most relevant Traditional...
COVID-19 Herbs: In new research by scientists from the faculty of medicine, University of Banja Luka-Bosnia/Herzegovina and the Institute for Medicinal Plant Research Belgrade-Serbia, that involved using computational molecular docking studies, it was found that the phytochemicals Ellagic Acid, Gallic Acid, Punicalagin and Punicalin extracted from pomegranate peels could inhibit the SARS-CoV-...
Coronavirus News: A Turkish researcher, Dr Cemile Seymen from the Gazi University Institute of Health Sciences, Ankara-Turkey has warned based on his study findings that the COVID-91 disease is able to negatively affect male reproductive health and fertility.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal of Medical Virology. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jmv...
Source: Antibody Resistant SARS-CoV-2 Nov 22, 2020 4 years ago
Antibody Resistant SARS-CoV-2: A new study and modeling platform created by researchers and scientist from Harvard Medical School, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston Children’s Hospital, University of Washington, Fractal Therapeutics,-Cambridge, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Microsoft Research, Mark S. Hixon Consulting and Boston University alarmingly indicates that due to t...
COVID-19 Scams: More emerging news coming out from the land of COVID-19 Scams-America. After the hydrochloroquinone, convalescent plasma and remdesivir sagas, we have the Eli lily monoclonal drug and now the Regeneron’s antibody cocktail drug being granted emergency authorization or EUA status to treat COVID-19. It was already expected news as many were sure that Trump has to oblige his...
Source: Latest COVID-19 Research Nov 22, 2020 4 years ago
Latest COVID-19 Research: Spanish researchers from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute (IMIM), the Fight AIDS and Infectious Diseases Foundation-Spain, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona-Spain and the Universtiat Central de Catalunya-Spain have in a new study revealed that SARS-CoV-2, the causative pathogen COVID-...
Source: COVID-19 Protection Nov 22, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Protection: Researchers from largest private hospital group in Mexico-Hospital Médica Sur have in a new study found that measles-mumps-rubella MMR II vaccine could offer protection against the COVID-19 disease.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: Allergy (The European Journal Of Allergy and Clinical Immunology) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/do...
Source: Latest COVID-19 Updates Nov 21, 2020 4 years ago
Latest COVID-19 Updates: Researchers from the University of São Paulo's Medical School (FM-USP) in Brazil under the supervision of Dr Marilia Cerqueira Leite Seelaender, a professor in the Department of Clinical Surgery in a new study indicate that there is growing evidence that adipose tissue plays a key role in the aggravation of COVID-19. One of the theories under investi...
SARS-CoV-2 News: Researchers from the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Justus-Liebig University, Germany, have uncovered how the genome of SARS-CoV-2 ie the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 utilizes ‘genome origami’ to infect and replicate successfully inside host cells.
Discovery of shape of the SARS-CoV-2 genome after infection could inform the develo...
COVID-19 Scams: It is now emerging that it is not just medical products from China that are typically substandard with most Chinese suppliers trying to scam other countries desperate in need of supplies but now South Korea has emerged as another country indulging in similar practices.
The Washington Post reported yesterday (Friday) that coronavirus tests imported from South Korea by...
Source: COVID-19 Breakthroughs Nov 20, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Breakthroughs: A new breakthrough study led by researchers from St. Jude Children's Research Hospital-Memphis along with scientist from University of Tennessee Health Science Center have discovered that inflammation in COVID-19 patients were not just caused by cytokine storms per se or even just by bradykinin storms but rather were triggered by what is known as PANoptosis.
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Source: COVID-19 Intranasals Nov 20, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Intranasals: Scientists from the University of Birmingham have developed a nasal spray that can provide effective protection against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus by using materials already cleared for use in humans.
Airborne pathogens pose high risks in terms of both contraction and transmission within the respiratory pathways, in particular the nasal region. Although knowledge of ...
COVID-19 Scams: Finally the world is seeing more day by day the scams perpetrated by American entities including the NIH, CDC, FDA, the Trump Administration and individuals like Dr Anthony Fauci, billionaires like Tom Cahill and politicians like Nick Ayers and Mike Spence.
One of the biggest scams that is coming to light is remdesivir, an overpriced drug that had no efficacy against COVID...
Source: COVID-19 Second Wave Nov 19, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Second Wave: The COVID-19 second wave is finally here and by the way things look, nothing is going to for well for the next 3 to 4 months. Already another new record number of global COVID-19 deaths was recorded in the last 24 hours at 11,005. As of today, the official total number of people worldwide who have been infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus stands at more than 56.4 million ...
Vaccine News: New alarming study findings based on a research by scientist from the University of Oxford-UK has now put numerous vaccines that are under development and soon to be used on masses under a new spotlight.
The study team has revealed that site-specific glycosylation differs between spike proteins derived from SARS-CoV-2 and a viral vector-based vaccine candidate. A significant...
Source: SARS-Cov-2 Foodborne Transmission Nov 19, 2020 4 years ago
SARS-Cov-2 Foodborne Transmission: A new Canadian study by researchers from Bureau of Microbial Hazards-Health Canada and the Faculty of Medicine-University of Ottawa on the potential foodborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through fresh produce shows that typical coronaviruses like the HCoV-229E strains remains infectious for up to 3 days on cucumbers.
Typically human coronaviruses (HCoVs) ...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Nov 19, 2020 4 years ago
COVID19 Genetics: Scientists from the University of Adelaide-Australia, Australian National University and the University of Arizona-United States have in a new study found that that an ancient coronavirus-like epidemic drove the adaptation of East Asian people from 25,000 to 5,000 years ago.
The present SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has emphasized the vulnerability of human populations to novel vi...
COVID-19 News: Italian researchers from Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori, VisMederi Srl-Siena, University of Siena and University of Milan in a new study have surprisingly discovered that SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus was circulating in Italy even before China knew about its existence on its own soil.
There are no robust data on the real onset of SARS-CoV-2 infection and spread in the ...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Nov 18, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: Researchers from New York University School of Medicine have revealed that the clinical severity of hospitalized COVID-19 patients can be predicted by analyzing the level of troponin elevation and electrocardiographic (ECG) abnormalities.
Troponin elevation is a frequent laboratory finding in hospitalized patients with COVID-19 disease, and may reflect direct vascu...
COVID-19 Herbs: Scientist from Jinan University-China, University of Houston-United States, University of California-United States and Beijing University of Chinese Medicine-China are calling for more research into the potential prophylactic effects of herbs, phytochemicals and traditional medicines on SARS-CoV-2 infection and the subsequent COVID-19 disease.
The scientists said that alth...
Source: COVID-19 Treatments Nov 18, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Treatments: Researchers from the Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sichuan Provincial People's Hospital, Chengdu in China, have in a new study proposed the usage of hydrogen therapy as an adjuvant treatment to treat to severely ill COVID-19 patients.
According to the research team, hydrogen has been shown to have antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, hormone-regulating, and apo...
Coronavirus News: A new study by researchers from King Abdulaziz University-Saudi Arabia and Taibah University-Saudi-Arabia alarmingly points out that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus could also target the dopamine and dopaminergic receptors and co-receptors and that dopamine-release mechanisms in the central nervous system may play a major role in the entry and propagation of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus...
Source: COVID-19 Asymptomatics Nov 17, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Asymptomatics: French scientists in a new research show that individuals who are asymptomatic following infection with SARS-CoV-2, the agent that causes the COVID-19 disease, typically elicit a polyfunctional antibody response to the virus. Besides the generation of anti-SARS-CoV-2 neutralizing antibodies, this polyfunctional response includes the induction of antibody-dependent cell...
WHO: Emerging reports are indicting that a COVID-19 cluster has broken out at the World Health Organization headquarters with more than 65 cases of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus infections among staff based at its HQ office, including five individuals who worked on the premises and were in contact with one another. Sources are saying more cases are expected to emerge and that even certain senior exec...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by French researchers from Université Claude Bernard, Université de Paris, Sorbonne Université, Hôpital Henri-Mondor, Centre Hospitalier de Vierzon and Centre Hospitalier Métropole Savoie has demonstrated that corticosteroids increases survival rates of elderly severe COVID-19 patients.
The study was designed to assess the effe...
Source: COVID-19 Research Nov 17, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientists from University of North Dakota School of Medicine & Health Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases have in a new study found that goblet cells are basically the prime targets of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus despite the virus also being able to infect ciliated cells. The study also showed that gob...
COVID-19 Latest: Scientists and immunologists from the VIB Research Center-Belgium, University of Leuven-Belgium and the The Babraham Institute, Cambridge-UK have in a new study that besides confirming what was already revealed in earlier studies that the SARS-CoV-2 not only impairs the human host immune system and causes T-cell Lymphopenia, has now also discovered that the infection causes an inc...
COVID-19 Drugs: A new study by Taiwanese researchers from Chang Gung University, Kaohsiung Medical University, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Ming Chi University of Technology and Puxin Fengze Chinese Medicine Clinic have found that strategies using drugs and therapeutics to target neutrophils help to reduce and treat respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in severe COVID-19 patients.
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COVID-19 Scams: While the majority of the stupid people are still placing their hopes in COVID-19 vaccines with more ‘bribed’ Western journalists and media still extolling merits on these vaccines, various pharmaceutical and biotech executives from companies like Pfizer, Moderna, Novavax are quickly cashing out on their shares while the going is good.
We even have some media i...
Virus News: Korean Scientist from Konkuk University-Seoul, Yeungnam University-Daegu, Inje University-Seoul, Seoul National University and also experts from University of Colorado Denver-USA have discovered new mutations on the SARS-CoV-2 genome from samples taken from infected Korean COVID-19 patients. The researchers warn that these new mutations can have critical implications on the current COV...
SARS-CoV-2 News: Researchers from University Of Renmin Hospital, Wuhan-China have found in a new study involving ultrasound diagnostic imaging that a high proportion of male COVID-19 patients developed acute testicular infections (22.5%).
The study team enrolled male patients with a confirmed diagnosis of COVID‐19 and performed a bedside ultrasound (US) examination of the scro...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Nov 15, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Various studies are now showing that NAD+ (Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide) plays a key role in the COVID-19 disease and also in long COVID and that NAD+ supplementation can help in a variety of ways
There are already studies showing that individuals who suffer from NAD+ deficiency are at higher risk of mortality when contracting COVID-19. https://www.sciencedirect.com/sci...
Coronavirus News: Even if any of the current COVID-19 vaccines under development is able to offer only short-term protection against certain strains of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus without causing any long term adverse effects such as ADE (Antibody-dependent enhancement) or other issues, the vaccines will need to be constantly reformulated as emerging studies show that the coronaviruses are constant...
Source: COVID-19 Terminology Nov 14, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Terminology: We at Thailand Medical News found that many of our readers had problems understanding certain terminology used often in various articles including terms like mutations, isolates, variants, strains, antigens, antibodies etc and have decided to start a new series to explain certain terminology to readers. As COVID-19 is expected to be with us for the next 10 years of so (forget...
Research News: Researchers from Sainte-Justine University Hospital Research Center-Canada have identified 11 circulating microRNAs in the human body that can be used as biomarkers to determine if a person is suffering from chronic fatigue syndrome or myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME).
Myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) is a complex chronic disease, rooted in multi-sy...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by scientists from the University of Otago-New Zealand, University of Auckland-New Zealand and University of Queensland, Brisbane-Australia have found that individuals with rheumatoid arthritis (RA) may be at an increased risk of death if they develop COVID-19 after becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2.
The study team used data from the UK Biobank. Multivariate-a...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics Nov 13, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics: Scientist from Yale University in a new research have identified genetic variants among people of white British ancestry that may increase the risk of dying from COVID-19.
The study team considered the mortality as the trait of interest and perform a genome-wide association study (GWAS) of data for 1,778 infected cases (445 deaths, 25.03%) distributed by the UK Bi...
Source: Herbs For COVID-19 Nov 13, 2020 4 years ago
Herbs For COVID-19: A Colombian and Peruvian study involving scientist from the University of Antioquia-UdeA-Colombia, Universidad de Antioquia UdeA-Colombia, Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia and Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos-Peru have demonstrated in proper and credible in vitro studies that phytochemicals present in Cat’s Claw (Uncaria Tomentosa) is able to inhibit replicatio...
Source: COVID-19 Discoveries Nov 12, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Discoveries: Researchers from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center-California, Martin-Luther-University, HalleWittenberg-Germany, University of California-Los Angeles, University of Pittsburgh, Boston, Massachusetts General Hospital and Loma Linda University Hospital-California have in a new study discovered a unique t cell receptor repertoire in MIS-C patients commonly associated with superantige...