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COVID-19 News: A new record of 10,218 Global COVID-19 deaths was recorded in the last 24 hours bringing the global death tally to 1,285,944.
At the same time number of total Global COVID-19 infections reached 52,208,810 with more than 613,840 new Global COVID-19 infections in the last 24 hours.
In America sadly the numbers are fast rising with total number of COVID-19 infections now reaching 1...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Viral Proteins Nov 12, 2020 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Viral Proteins: Canadian scientist from the University of Calgary, University of Ottawa, University of British Columbia and Dalhousie University have in a new study found that coronaviruses’ viral proteins including those of the SARS-CoV-2 virus is able to disrupt so called processing bodies (PBs) in the human host resulting in the modifications of interferon and proinflammatory c...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Nov 12, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: Scientists and genomic specialists from the Academia Sinica-Taiwan, the Institute for Comparative Genomics-U.S, Technical University of Munich-Germany, University of Wisconsin-Madison, SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University-U.S, University of California-Berkeley and University of California-Los Angeles have in a new study discovered a hidden novel overlapping...
Source: COVID-19 Immunogenomics Nov 12, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Immunogenomics: Japanese scientist from Tohoku University have found that human editing enzymes are likely behind a type of mutation in the COVID-19 virus that stimulates the release of pro-inflammatory molecules called cytokines by immune cells in the body.
SARS-CoV-2 infection induces severe pneumonia and is the cause of a worldwide pandemic. Coronaviruses, including SARS-CoV-2...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study led by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine-Mount Sinai with the support of scientist from University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, University of Alberta-Canada, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, La Jolla- California have uncovered yet another way the SARS-CoV-2 is able to evade human host immu...
Source: U.S. COVID-19 News Nov 11, 2020 4 years ago
U.S. COVID-19 News: America on Tuesday far exceeded its previous daily record of new COVID-19 cases, adding 201,961 cases in 24 hours, according to the tally compiled by Johns Hopkins University.
According to health authorities the high number was partly due to data delayed over the weekend, took total cases in the US to 10,238,543, with a total of 239,858 deaths, as of 11:55 pm (0455 GMT...
Source: Latest COVID-19 News Nov 11, 2020 4 years ago
Latest COVID-19 News: Mayo Clinic and University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have discovered in a new study that COVID-19 can result in cardiomyocytes to fuse resulting in cardiac damage coupled with disruption of the heart electrical rhythm.
The study team made this discovery after an autopsy of a COVID-19 patient who died of sudden cardiac arrest found the virus had infected her he...
Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Nov 11, 2020 4 years ago
SARS-CoV-2 Mutations: Researchers from Washington University-St. Louis, Harvard Medical School and Mayo Clinic in a new study using a variety of monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) to understand the mutational landscape of resistance in the SARS-CoV-2 receptor-binding domains (RBD) have discovered 48 new mutations resistant to antibodies including 27 that are circulating in humans.
More worrisom...
Coronavirus News: Researchers from McMaster University, Ontario-Canada have revealed that platelet activating immune complexes are the contributing causes to coagulation disorders associated with COVID-19 seen in severe or critically ill COVID-19 patients.
Thrombosis is a prominent feature of COVID-19 and often occurs in patients who are critically ill; however, the mechanism is unclear. ...
Source: COVID-19 Mutations Nov 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Mutations: A new international study involving researchers from United Kingdom, United States, Switzerland, Australia and Italy from more than 23 institutions and entities are warning that more variants or strains that can evade human host immune response can emerge as a result of mutations in the spike proteins. One such spike protein mutation known as N439K is already becoming a major c...
Vaccine News: Another latest development in the trillion dollar COVID-19 vaccine sector that is plagued with scams, lies, cover-ups and greed as Brazil announces a sudden suspension of all clinical trials involving the Chinese COVID-19 vaccine called Coronavac made by Sinovac Biotech.
24 hours ago, Brazil's health regulator said it had suspended clinical trials of a Chinese-developed ...
COVID-19 Vaccine: American headquartered pharmaceutical giant Pfizer spend a fortune on a PR conference and paying off numerous unethical media writers and media to do an elaborate piece about its vaccine which it claims is more than 90 percent effective. In the last few hours its stocks were rallying and God knows who is going to make millions but the key issue is that there were no published stu...
Source: COVID-19 Warnings Nov 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Warnings! The COVID-19 disease is always baffling the medical community and researchers day by day with new discoveries or anomalies being uncovered or emerging rare case studies.
Since the beginning of the pandemic it was assumed that only the elderly would be most at risk and subsequently as more younger adults and youths were also contracting the disease and dying from i...
Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Nov 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Clinical Care: A new study by researchers from the Federal University of Sao Paulo-Brazil and Faculdade de Medicina do ABC-Brazil have discovered that the inner retina of certain severe COVID-19 patients may harbor acute vascular lesions in the form of flame-shaped hemorrhages and "cotton wool" spots. However the researchers are not clear as to what could be causing these retina...
Source: COVID-19 Supplements Nov 10, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Supplements: Researchers from Cleveland Clinic in a new study have found that melatonin, a hormone that regulates the sleep-wake cycle and is commonly used as an over-the-counter sleep aid, may be a viable treatment option for COVID-19.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed journal: PLOS Biology.
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.30009...
Source: COVID-19 Protection Nov 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Protection: Nanox, a Brazilian company based on São Paulo and supported by São Paulo Research Foundation, through FAPESP’s Innovative Research in Small Business Program (PIPE) has developed a new technology of incorporating nanoparticles of silver and silica into the polyethylene structure of a new protective film against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. The company has lic...
In the first ever multicenter randomized controlled trial study involving herbs to treat COVID-19, researchers from Pakistan, Canada, Chile and the United States have shown that the herb Nigella Sativa (Fennel Flower or Black Caraway Plant or Kalonji) and honey is able to treat moderate and severe COVID-19 patients.
The study findings were published on a preprint server is currently being...
Source: COVID-19 RECOVERY Nov 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 RECOVERY: The current NAT PCR Nasal swab test can be described as one of the most inaccurate diagnostic protocols to assess whether a person has recovered from COVID-19 and even to a certain degree to assess even if a person has been infected.
If we were to look at the start of the pandemic that started in Wuhan China, Chinese researchers along with the WHO first assumed that the...
Source: COVID-19 Prophylaxis Nov 09, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Prophylaxis: A recent study by All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS)-Bhubaneswar in the Indian state of Odisha found that two doses of the drug ivermectin served as a prophylaxis that resulted in a 73% reduction in COVID-19 infection.
In the study that was also propelled by Thailand Medical News research initiatives, ivermectin prophylaxis was taken by 77 controls and ...
COVID-19 Latest: According to the research findings from a global registry of psoriasis and COVID-19 patients, led by Guy's and St Thomas' clinicians, patients with psoriasis who are taking drugs that affect their immune system have high rates of survival from COVID-19, in most cases almost over 90% survive.
The study findings were published in the Journal of Allergy an...
Research News: Scientist from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have in a new study found that the eye's cornea can resist infection from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. Although the herpes simplex virus can infect the cornea and spread to other parts of the body in patients with compromised immune systems, and Zika virus has been found in tears and corneal tissue, SARS-CoV...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Nov 08, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: Scientist from New Zealand, the United States and Australia have in a new study demonstrated the effectiveness of real-time genomic sequencing at tracking the re-emergence of severe SARS-CoV-2 in New Zealand, in August this year. They however pointed at various shortcomings in the current Global SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data available in various open access repositories onlin...
Source: U.S.COVID-19 Crisis Nov 08, 2020 4 years ago
U.S.COVID-19 Crisis: Hope is finally returning to America. It is time to throw aside any blame games and instead focus on the current COVID-19 crisis that is plaguing America. As of today the total number of COVID-19 infections in America has reached 9,862,715 while the CDC and NIH are saying that the actual numbers could be far more than that. Between 80 to 95 percent of these people are also goi...
COVID-19 Impacts: Researchers from Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), with support from the British Tinnitus Association and the American Tinnitus Association have found in a new study that the common condition that causes the perception of noise in the ear and head known as tinnitus is actually exacerbated by COVID-19 and at the same time it was also found that some individuals who never ...
COVID-19 Alerts: The world is really entering a dangerous phase and people should start facing the reality of what is coming. Rather than accusing sites that expose the truths of being fear mongers, while all that they are doing is to warn organizations, entities and people so that everyone is better prepared for what is to come, people should be praising these sites for the advance warnings...
COVID-19-Sex: Researchers from the University of Toledo at Ohio in a new study have found that the anti-inflammatory and proimmune properties of the hormone Oxytocin can be beneficial in the management of the COVID-19 disease.
The research findings were published in the peer-reviewed journal: Physiological Genomics (A journal of the American Physiological Society)
https://journals.physiol...
Source: COVID-19 Biomarkers Nov 07, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Biomarkers: Harvard Medical School researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital-Boston have in a new study found that rapid rise of C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in COVID-19 patients are an indication of increasing respiratory decline and disease severity. According to the study team, CRP can be used as a biomarker to predict outcomes in COVID-19 patients.
In this single-c...
COVID-19 World: The new COVID-19 infections are rising again with the global figures reaching a new record at 608,550 while America proudly also reached a new record high of 123,085 new infections. However the death rates in the last 24 hours showed a dismal figure of only a mere 8771 globally and a just only 1226 Americans dying from the COVID-19. However on the bright side, more than 67,000 Amer...
Source: Probiotics-COVID-19 Nov 06, 2020 4 years ago
Probiotics-COVID-19: Researchers from Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University of Reading-UK and Department of Sport Science, Sport, Health and Performance Enhancement Research Centre, Nottingham Trent University-UK have in a new study demonstrated the role of the gut microbiome in COVID-19 and also the benefits of probiotics for both as adjuvants and also as prophylactics.
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COVID-19 Warning: Malaysian researchers Dr Chia Siang Kow from the International Medical University, in Kuala Lumpur-Malaysia and Dr Syed Shahzad Hasan from the University of Huddersfield-U.K have in a new meta-analysis study involving 5 past research data involving a total of 37,372 patients found that proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs) usage is associated with an increased risk for poor outcome...
Source: Coronavirus Latest Nov 06, 2020 4 years ago
Coronavirus Latest: A new study by a multidisciplinary team of Yale researchers has discovered that the nonstructural protein 1 (Nsp1) of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is able to hijack the human host protein synthesis in the ribosomes of the cells in order to produce its own viral proteins.
It has been found that one of the novel coronavirus' most insidious tricks is that it can block t...
COVID-19 Herbs: German researchers from the Institute of Molecular Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Technische Universitaet Dresden and CogniVerde GmbH in a new study report the effects of green tea and black chokeberry, pomegranate, and elderberry juices on preventing SARS-CoV-2 viral infections in cells.
The study team said that respiratory viruses initially infect the naso- and...
Research News: In a new study by Yale Cancer Center, researchers have identified the short endosomal protein interferon-inducible transmembrane protein 3 or IFITM3 as a central amplifier to supercharge activation of immune cells.
The IFITM3 proteins functions like glue to rapidly assemble and tighten up large complexes of signaling molecules that together generate the activation sig...
The signs are heralding a ‘fun’ filled chaotic year end festive season! In the last 24 hours, the world has seen a record 9,067 COVID-19 deaths within 24 hours and more than 571, 481 infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. (Source: Worldometer)
For those that have been skeptical of Thailand Medical News’ predictions, just keep on monitoring the situation from now till Ma...
Swine Flu: On Wednesday, Canadian health authorities reported the country's first case of a human infected with the H1N2 virus, a rare strain of swine flu.
A Chinese pig being tested for swine flu. Credit: Honglei Sun
The isolated case was case detected in the western province of Alberta in mid-October and although Canadian authorities are refusing to divulge the details of the infect...
Source: COVID-19 Mortality Nov 05, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Mortality risk was found to be reduced by 22% to 25% in individuals taking statins according to a Spanish study.
The retrospective observational study involved patients taking statins who were 11 years older and had significantly more comorbidities than patients who were not taking statins. A genetic matching (GM) procedure was performed prior to analysis of the mortality risk. ...
Source: Ozone Water-COVID-19 Nov 05, 2020 4 years ago
Ozone Water-COVID-19: Japanese researchers from University of Miyazaki in a new study have found that ozone water is able to rapidly inactivate the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
Despite ozone water being one of the promising candidates for hand hygiene to prevent fomite infection, the detailed effects of ozone water on SARS-CoV-2 have never been studied and documented till now. The study team e...
Source: COVID-19 Genomics Nov 05, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genomics: A new genomic research by scientist from University of Oxford, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows the presence of of large-scale internal RNA base pairing in the SARS-CoV-2 genome. This property, termed genome-scale ordered RNA structure (GORS) has been previously associated with host persistence in other positive-strand RNA viruses, potentially through it...
Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Nov 05, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Symptoms: A new research by French and Spanish Researchers from University Of Bordeaux-France and Universitat Oberta De Catalunya, Barcelona-Spain indicates that delirium accompanied by fever could be an early symptom of COVID-19.
The research findings were published in the Journal of Clinical Immunology and Immunotherapy. https://www.heraldopenaccess.us/openaccess/delirium-in-se...
COVID-19 Updates: Pathology studies of deceased COVID-19 patients by researchers from King's College London in collaboration with the University of Trieste and the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biology in Italy have revealed that the human host lung damage is often characterized by SARS-CoV-2 viral RNA persistence, pneumocyte syncytia and thrombosis.
The study team ...
Vaccine News: As an individual that has been observing with skepticism the vaccines and therapeutic programs initiated in America under the corrupted and incompetent Trump administration and Dr Anthony Fauci with so many other scammers in play including a group of clandestine businessmen and billionaires headed by Tom Cahill and Nick Ayers, an aide of Mike Spence, it shocking to see that the trill...
COVID-19 News: According to a new study by researchers from Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra and Columbia University Medical Center nerve damage to vocal cords could be the reason why some individuals recovering from COVID-19 suffer mysterious bouts of shortness of breath for months after shaking off the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus.
According to...
COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from the University of South Australia, Istituto Di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS)-Italy and University of Campania-Italy in a new international study propose that beta-blockers could potentially be used to treat COVID-19.
COVID-19 disease which has now rapidly spread around the globe causing severe pneumonia is often linked to Acute Respir...
Source: Coronavirus Research Nov 03, 2020 4 years ago
Coronavirus Research: Scientists from Georgetown University Medical Center-USA and the Bogomolets National Medical University-Ukraine in a new study found that vascular cells in the lung tissue begin to secrete signaling growth factors when exposed to just the spike protein of SARS-CoV-2, without the rest of the viral components. Since this signaling mechanism is potentially linked to wo...
Pharma News: American biotech company that is linked to the corrupted Trump administration Regeneron, has another of its clinical trials halted over the weekend due to fatal adverse reactions to the monoclonal antibody drug garetosmab (REGN2477).
Only about 4 days ago, another clinical trial involving another monoclonal antibody drug to treat severe COVID-19 patients was also stopped due ...
Source: Biological Warfare Nov 03, 2020 4 years ago
Biological Warfare: There are more reports discreetly emerging around the world that malicious groups of people are using the COVID-19 pandemic to create more upheavals and chaos to meet their political and group’s goals by inhumane methods including leveraging on the current COVID-19 crisis by developing so called homemade bioweapons involving the usage of the SARS-Cov-2 coronavirus. Their ...
COVID-19 News: Researchers from University of Michigan have made a startling discovery that immunocompromised individuals contracting COVID-19 can exhibit prolonged viral shedding for weeks to even months!
The study team presented a case report of a chronic COVID-19 patient with hematologic malignancy. The patient shed infectious SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus for over 119 days. This case highlig...
COVID-19 Latest: A new study by researchers from University of Michigan, U.S. NIH-Bethesda and Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine-China have surprisingly discovered that the culprit that is causing blood clots in most severe COVID-19 infections is an autoimmune antibody that's circulating in the blood, attacking the cells and triggering clots in arteries, veins, ...
Source: COVID-19 Genetics-Genomics Nov 02, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Genetics-Genomics: Indian researchers from CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology-India in a new study have revealed the critical roles that non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) and RNA Interference (RNAi) play in SARS-CoV-2 infection and pathogenesis.
Despite the fact clinical trials of a number of promising antiviral drugs and vaccines against COVID-19 are underway, it is hard to predic...
Source: Melatonin-COVID-19 Nov 02, 2020 4 years ago
Melatonin-COVID-19: Columbia University researchers have in a new study showed that COVID-19 patients requiring intubation and mechanical ventilation due to respiratory distress may benefit from treatment with the hormone melatonin as the survival rates are greatly increased.
The study findings were published on a preprint server and are currently being reviewed. https://www.medrxiv.org/c...
COVID-19 Drugs: With the current COVID-19 pandemic fast escalating and no effective drugs to date, researchers around the world are desperately trying to find suitable drug candidates to further explore their efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. In two separate studies, two possible drug candidates that demonstrated to inhibit the SARS-CoV-2 virus were identified, one being 5-Amino Levulin...
Source: COVID-19 Research Nov 02, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Research: Scientist from the U.S. National Institutes of Health have shockingly discovered that that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus utilizes the cell organelles called lysosomes to exit cells instead of the typical biosynthetic secretory pathways that other viruses normally adopt.
Illustration shows components of the lysosome exocytosis pathway, which coronaviruses use to exit cells. Also s...
COVID-19 Updates: A new study by Italian researchers from the School of Medicine, Vita-Salute San Raffaele University-Milan has shown that COVID-19 is associated with clinically significant weight loss and also an increased risk of malnutrition, independent of hospitalization.
The study findings were published in the peer reviewed medical journal: Clinical Nutrition. https://www.cli...
COVID-19 Herbs: A new research is currently under way by Thailand Medical News to explore certain phytochemicals present in Wasabi that might have potential antiviral activity against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and could maybe treat COVID-19 possibly in combination with other herbs and phytochemicals.
Wasabi a pungent condiment for sushi and other foods typic...
Source: COVID-19 Latest News Nov 01, 2020 4 years ago
COVID-19 Latest News: Researchers from Harvard Medical School have found in a new observational study that major thromboembolic complications and adverse cardiovascular events occurred with high frequency in patients with COVID-19, especially in the intensive care setting, despite a high use of thromboprophylaxis.
The study involving a retrospective cohort of 1,114 patients with COVI...