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Latests Medical News from around the world and also Thailand, bringing you updates, discoveries, studies and findings on various aspects and diseases in the medical world. Most of these articles are not only meant for Doctors In Thailand or Hospitals In Thailand but also for any patients or health conscious individuals wanting to know more.

COVID-19 Research: Cases Of COVID-19 Patients Developing Diabetes For First Time Can Be Due To High ACE2 Expression In Pancreatic Islet Cells During Infection

Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 27, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Research: Researchers from Italy, Belgium and America in a new collaborative study have found the possible causes of numerous COVID-19 patients who never had diabetes before and were healthy prior to contracting the SARS-CoV02 coronavirus suddenly developing diabetes. According to their research findings, the pancreatic islet beta cells which produce insulin could be infected by the...

World COVID-19 News: China Reports Spike In New COVID-19 Cases, Australia and Florida Seeing New Record Cases, Younger Canadians Contracting Virus

Source: World COVID-19 News Jul 27, 2020 4 years ago

World COVID-19 News: China this morning reported its highest number of coronavirus cases in three months, part of a worrying swell of second and third-wave infections that are hitting Asia and Europe. China where the coronavirus was first reported in December last year recorded 61 cases on Monday, the highest daily figure since April. The new second-wave surge was propelled by clusters in...

SHOCKING! While Healthcare Professionals Fighting COVID-19 In America Facing Mask Shortages, U.S. Embassy In Thailand Donates Thousands Of Mask To Thais!

Source: U.S. COVID-19 News Jul 27, 2020 4 years ago

U.S. COVID-19 News: Thai media yesterday reported that the United States Embassy In Bangkok, Thailand had send thousands of boxes of protective mask to the province of Chiang Rai province for distribution to Thai hilltribe individuals. US embassy offcials in Thailadn donating protective mask to Thais. Photo Credit: US Embassy, Bangkok This was shocking news for the teams at Thailand Medic...

U.S. COVID-19 News: Sad State Of Affairs As Hospitals In America Now Have To Choose Who Lives And Dies Due To Exponential Number Of COVID-19 Cases

Source: U.S. COVID-19 News Jul 27, 2020 4 years ago

U.S. COVID-19 News: The exponential rise in COVID-19 cases are forcing more and more hospitals in affected states to start setting up “death panels” to decide who lives and who dies as there is a growing shortage of resources, ICUs, ventilators and other medical resources in many hospitals. Certain counties are resembling third world countries and trump supporters and Republic...

Myopathy: Researchers From University Of Oxford Identify Patients At Higher Risk Of Statin-Related Myopathy

Source: Myopathy Jul 26, 2020 4 years ago

Myopathy: Although statins are commonly prescribed to millions of individuals globally to reduce their risks of suffering heart attacks and strokes, many alsos develop myopathy as a result of taking these drugs. Now, researchers from the University of Oxford, in collaboration with other researchers, have identified a combination of factors that put some patients at higher risk of my...

AMD Or Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Researchers Identify Vitronectin As New Drug Target For Dry Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Source: AMD Or Age-Related Macular Degeneration Jul 26, 2020 4 years ago

AMD or Age-Related Macular Degeneration: Researchers from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have shown that the blood protein vitronectin is a promising drug target for dry age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a leading cause of vision loss in Americans 60 years of age and older. The new study, published in the journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Scien...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Latest: Study Reveals That SARS-CoV-2 Spike Protein Has Shape Shifting Ability To Evade Immune Attacks And To Ensure Its Survival

Source: COVID-19 Latest Jul 26, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19-Latest: A study led by Boston Children's Hospital has found that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus spike proteins bind to human cells via the ACE2 receptor and then dramatically change shape, jack-knifing to fuse the cell membrane with the coronavirus's outer membrane and opening the door to coronavirus infection. The study for the first time freeze-frames the spike protein i...

COVID-19 Clinical Care: For Poorer Countries With Hospitals Lacking CT Scan Machines, Lung Ultrasound Can Be Used To Show Duration, Severity Of COVID-19

Source: COVID-19 Clinical Care Jul 26, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Clinical Care: A recent study published in American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR),indicates that lung ultrasound (US) was highly sensitive for detecting abnormalities in patients with COVID-19 disease, with B-lines, a thickened pleural line, and pulmonary consolidation the most commonly observed features. https://www.ajronline.org/doi/10.2214/AJR.20.23513 The usage of l...

COVID-19 Vaccine News: US-Based Dynavax Partners With Taiwan’s Medigen To Develop New Adjuvanted COVID-19 Vaccine

Source: COVID-19 Vaccine News Jul 26, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Vaccine News: Dynavax Technologies, a fully-integrated biopharmaceutical based in California has partnered with Taiwan-based Medigen Vaccine Biologics to develop a new adjuvanted Covid-19 vaccine candidate. The new collaborative vaccine development will leverage on Medigen’s stable prefusion form of the SARS-CoV2 recombinant spike protein in combination with Dynavax&rs...

LATEST! COVID-19 News: Singapore Researchers Discover Evidence That SARS-CoV-2 T-Cell Immunity Is Present In The General Population To A Degree

Source: COVID-19 News Jul 26, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 News: Researchers from Singapore’s Duke-NUS Medical School have discovered SARS-CoV-2-specific T cell immunity in recovered COVID-19 and SARS patients and in uninfected individuals as well. The Singapore study shows that SARS-CoV-2-specific T cells are present in all recovered COVID-19 patients and interestingly these T cells were also found in all subjects who recovered f...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Antibodies: Researchers Discover That Antibodies Encoded By Gene IGHV3-53 Have The Most Potent Antibody Response To COVID-19

Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jul 26, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Antibodies: A new study led by scientists from Scripps Research has discovered a common molecular feature found in many of the human antibodies that neutralize SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. By reviewing 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, the r...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Drugs: Study Shows That Fucoidan Extracted From Seaweed Outperforms Remdesivir In Inhibiting SARS-CoV-2 In Cell Studies

Source: COVID-19 Drugs Jul 25, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Drugs: Researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute-New York, Korea Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology, and Zhejiang University of Technology-China in study involving the test of antiviral effectiveness against the virus that causes COVID-19, found that an extract from edible seaweeds called fucoidan substantially outperformed remdesivir, the current standard antivira...

COVID-19 Diagnostics: Study Indicates That Acetylated K676 TGFBIp Can Be Used As A Severity Diagnostic Blood Biomarker For SARS-CoV-2 Pneumonia

Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Jul 25, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Diagnostics: Korean researchers in a new study found raised levels of transforming growth factor beta-induced protein (TGFBIp) in blood sampled from roughly 100 people hospitalized for COVID-19, and further found that elevated levels of both the normal and acetylated forms of TGFBIp correlated with the severity of disease symptoms in these patients. The researchers suggest that a...

COVID-19 Research: Study Shows SARS-COV-2 Infections Causes Dysregulation Of Numerous Host Cellular Processes

Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 25, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Research: A study led by researchers at Karolinska Institutet published in Emerging Microbes & Infections gives new insights into the virus-host interplay enabling newer perspectives about how to tackle the virus. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/22221751.2020.1799723 The prevailing COVID-19 pandemic caused by the novel coronavirus has created an unprecede...

COVID-19 Innovations: George Washington University Developing New Mobile Phone Attachment Device That Can Diagnose COVID-19

Source: COVID-19 Innovations Jul 25, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Innovations: Scientists from George Washington University (GW) have developed a miniscule device that could allow public health professionals to immediately diagnose and track COVID-19 infection using cell phones. The university’s Technology Commercialization Office (TCO) awarded a US$50,000 COVID-19 Technology Maturation Grant to the team, led by Dr Mona Zaghloul and...

COVID-19 Research: Study Links The Hormone Leptin In Obese Individuals To Increased COVID-19 Severity And Mortality

Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 25, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Research: Researchers from the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University System have established a possible link between the hormone Leptin and the increased risk of severity and mortality in obese COVID-19 patients. Leptin is a hormone that connects the body's metabolism and immune response system and it may explain why the COVID-19 idisease is so d...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Genomics: Dutch Researchers Identify Host Variants Of Gene TLR7 On X Chromosome As Being Factor That Leads To COVID-19 Severity

Source: COVID-19 Genomics Jul 25, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Genomics: Research in Netherlands led Radboud University Medical Center-Nijmegen have uncovered that host variants of the X chromosomal gene called TLR7 could be one of the factors that leads to severity in COVID-19 patients. The research findings were published in the JAMA journal. https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2768926 Present observations suggest that...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Genomics: SARS-CoV-2 Has Mechanism To Mimic Host Cellular mRNAs, Protecting Itself From Host Innate Immune Restriction

Source: COVID-19 Genomics Jul 24, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Genomics: Researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) have discovered how the non-structural protein 16 (nsp16) of the SARS-CoV-2 , in conjunction with nsp10, methylates the 5′-end of virally encoded mRNAs to mimic cellular mRNAs, thus protecting the virus from host innate immune restriction. The research findi...

COVID-19 Pandemic: Thailand Medical News Exclusive Review-6 Months Into The Pandemic-We Are Still Clueless-Grim Future Ahead

Source: COVID-19 Pandemic Jul 24, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Pandemic: The world is about 6 months (Note that on January 23, 2020, WHO chief Tedros publicly described the spread of the new coronavirus in China as “limited.”, and only on January 30, 2020,The World Health Organization finally declares it an international health emergency but not a pandemic just yet) into the COVID-19 pandemic and to date, we have officially more than...

MEDICINE ALERT! Study Led By Penn State Shows That L-Type Calcium Channel Blockers (LCCBs) Used To Treat Hypertension May Actually Harm The Heart

Source: Medicine Alert Jul 24, 2020 4 years ago

Medicine Alert: Pennsylvania State University researchers along with scientists from La Jolla Institute for Immunology-California and Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar, have found that in rats and human cells in vitro, LCCBs cause changes in blood vessels known as vascular remodeling that reduce blood flow and increase pressure and could potentially lead to heart failure. The study finding...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Diagnostics: Nanoscent, An Israeli Biotech Company Launches World’s First 30-Second SARS-CoV-2 Breath Test

Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Jul 24, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Diagnostics: Israeli biotech company, Nanoscent has developed a SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus breathalyzer test that gives results in less than 30 seconds, billing it as a "front line" tool that can help restore a sense of normality during the pandemic. The breathalyser is not meant to replace lab tests, but is a mass screening tool The company said an extensive trial in Israe...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Research: Mutated SARS-Cov-2 Spike Protein Variants Evade Neutralizing Antibodies. Warning Of Emergence Of Antibody-Resistant Variants

Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 24, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Research: Scientists from the Rockefeller University-New York, New York Blood Center, Università della Svizzera italiana,-Switzerland and Howard Hughes Medical Institute have discovered in a new study that mutated SARS-Cov-2 spike protein variants can evade neutralizing antibodies . Furthermore the researchers warn that the emergence of antibody-resistant SARS-CoV-2 varian...

COVID-19 Hand Sanitizer: Biotech Startup CAGE Bio Launches Novel Hand Sanitizer Ionlast For COVID-19, With Long-lasting 4 Hours Plus Of Protection

Source: COVID-19 Hand Sanitizer Jul 24, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Hand Sanitizer: CAGE Bio Inc., a California based biotech startup announced discovery of a novel hand sanitizer that offers long-lasting protection from the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and other harmful viruses, bacteria, and fungi. It kills germs on contact and, unlike common hand sanitizers, provides protection against their transmission for more than four hours after applying to skin....

US COVID-19 News: 63,282 New COVID-19 Cases In Last 24 Hours And 1,061 Americans Dead, United States Crosses 4 Million Infected Milestone

Source: US COVID-19 News Jul 23, 2020 4 years ago

US COVID-19 News: As Of 2.30am (California, Thursday 23rd July), the number of newly infected COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours(for the 22nd of July) is now 63,782 with numbers still expected to rise due to delays of reporting by certain counties and states. This brings the total number infected in the United States to 4,001,315 ( we do not base our figures on John Hopkins Dashboard or the US ...

BREAKING! U.S. News: America Charges Chinese Hackers for Stealing COVID-19 Data and Proprietary Medical Device And Pharmaceutical Information From Various Countries

Source: U.S. News Jul 23, 2020 4 years ago

U.S. News: America has indicted two Chinese nationals for hacking into the computer systems of hundreds of companies, governments, non-governmental organizations and more to steal trade secrets, including data on treatments related to COVID-19 for themselves and in certain cases for the Chinese Government according to the charge sheets. The American Department of Justice indicted Li Xi...

COVID-19 Vaccine: Arcturus Therapeutics And Duke-NUS Medical School’s LUNAR-COV19 Vaccine Secures Approval For Clinical Trials In Singapore

Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Jul 23, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Vaccine: California based Arcturus Therapeutics Holdings Inc., a clinical-stage messenger RNA medicines company focused on the discovery, development and commercialization of therapeutics for rare diseases and vaccines, and Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore's flagship research-intensive graduate entry medical school, announced that the Clinical Trial Application for COVID-19 vaccine ...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Genomics: SARS-CoV-2 Evolves By Decreasing CpG Dinucleotide At 5’UTR_c-241-t Mutation Site To Avoid Human Zinc Finger Antiviral Protein

Source: COVID-19 Genomics Jul 23, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Genomics: A new genomic and molecular biology study by American and Chinese researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences-Shanghai, Harvard Medical School, University Of Michigan, Fudan University –Shanghai and various genomic labs in China has revealed that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus is mutating and evolving constantly to evade the human immunity responses. The st...

UK Medical News: Academy of Medical Sciences Warns All Concerned To Prepare Now For Winter COVID-19 Peak

Source: UK Medical News Jul 23, 2020 4 years ago

UK Medical News: Medical experts at the Academy of Medical Sciences (AMS) are warning that Britain must prepare now for a potential new wave of COVID-19 infections that could be worse than the first. The report: Preparing for a challenging winter 2020/21 calls for ‘intense preparation’ throughout the rest of July and August to reduce the risk of the health service be...

SARS-CoV-2 Mutations: Study Shows Human Host Proteins APOBEC Is Causing SARS-CoV-2 To Mutate But Novel Coronavirus Evolves To Survive

Source: SARS-CoV-2 Mutations Jul 23, 2020 4 years ago

SARS-CoV-2 Mutations: University Of Bath and University Of Edinburgh scientists investigating the evolution of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes COVID-19 say that its mutation seems to be directed by human proteins that degrade it, but natural selection of the virus enables it to bounce back. The findings could help in the design of vaccines against the virus. The research findings a...

America-US-United States News: California Child Care System Collapsing Under COVID-19

Source: America-US-United States News Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

America-U.S.-United States News: The COVID-19 pandemic is having a devastating economic and human impact on California child care centers, forcing hundreds of them to close while others remain open at the risk of illness to both children and staff, according to a new report from the University of California, Berkeley. At Rockridge Little School in Oakland, California, owner Holly Gold has had to...

COVID-19 Drugs: Heron Therapeutics Starts Phase 2 Clinical Study of CINVANTI (Aprepitant) For Prevention And Treatment Of Lung Injury In COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 Drugs Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Drugs: Heron Therapeutics, Inc, a commercial-stage biotechnology company announced the initiation of the GUARDS-1 Study, a Phase 2 clinical study evaluating CINVANTI (aprepitant) injectable emulsion in early hospitalized patients with COVID-19. The research study initiation follows clearance from the U.S. FDA of Heron's Investigational New Drug application for CINVANTI for th...

BREAKTHROUGH! COVID-19-Antibodies: Columbia University Isolates Neutralizing Antibodies From COVID-19 Patients That May Suppress SARS-CoV-2

Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19-Antibodies: Researchers from Columbia University Irving Medical Center have isolated antibodies from several COVID-19 patients that, to date, are among the most potent in neutralizing the SARS-CoV-2 virus. These isolated potent antibodies could be produced in large quantities by pharmaceutical companies to treat patients, especially early in the course of infection, and to preven...

BREAKING! COVID-19 News: Study By Nebraska University Confirms That Airborne or Aerosolized SARS-CoV-2 Is Infectious

Source: COVID-19 News Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 News: Researchers have known for several months now that the SARS CoV-2 coronavirus can become suspended in microdroplets expelled by patients when they speak and breathe, but until now there was no real scientific evidence that these tiny particles are infectious. A recent study by scientists at the University of Nebraska that was uploaded to a medical preprint site this week ha...

COVID-19 Drugs: US FDA Approves Abivertinib for Phase 2 Safety And Efficacy Study In Hospitalized Patients With Moderate To Severe COVID-19

Source: COVID-19 Drugs Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Drugs: Biophramaceutical company Sorrento Therapeutics, Inc. has received clearance from the US FDA to initiate a Phase 2 trial of Abivertinib in patients with COVID-19 who have moderate to severe pulmonary symptoms. The drug Abivertinib is a novel small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) that selectively targets both mutant forms of the epidermal growth factor receptor (EG...

COVID-19 Vaccine Progress: BioNTech And Pfizer’s BNT162b1 RNA-Based Vaccine Elicits T Cell And Neutralizing Antibodies Response In Phase 1/2 Trial

Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Progress Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Vaccine Progress: The Phase ½ clinical trial of BioNTech And Pfizer’s BNT162b1 RNA-Based Vaccine has demonstrated that the vaccine is able to elicit both T Cell And Neutralizing Antibodies Response. The trial results were published by researchers from Germany and the United States on a preprint server and are yet to have been peer-reviewed. https://www.medrxiv.org/co...

MUST READ! COVID-19 Scandals: More Medical Experts Criticize Claim That Remdesivir Cuts Death Rates Or Hospitalization Stays

Source: COVID-19 Scandals Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Scandals: Remdesivir is coming under more spotlight as more doctors questions its effectiveness not only in terms of its ability to cut death rates but also on its claims to shorten hospitalization stays. https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m2839 Many subsequent studies that emerged after the criticisms seems suspicious as some look as if the researchers or institutions wer...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Heart Issues: Doctors Shocked By Autopsies Of COVID-19 Patients Revealing Unique Heart Damage

Source: COVID-19 Heart Issues Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Heart Issues: Autopsies of COVID-19 patients by researchers from the department of pathology at Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in New Orleans have revealed shocking damage to the hearts of COVID-19 patients that are not expected from typical inflammation of the heart muscle associated with myocarditis. Rather there was a unique pattern of cell death in scatter...

COVID-19 Warnings: Researchers Warn That Asymptomatic Spread Could Make The COVID-19 Pandemic Longer And Worse

Source: COVID-19 Warnings Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Warnings: Researchers from Princeton University-USA, Georgia Institute of Technology-USA and McMaster University-Canada based on a new statistical study are warning that asymptomatic spread of the COVID-19 disease is likely to extend the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic coupled with more worsening effects. The research findings were published in the journal: Epidemics. https://w...

COVID-19 Drugs: Nitric Oxide Could Slow Progression Of COVID-19 According To Study From George Washington University

Source: COVID-19 Drugs Jul 22, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Drugs: According to researchers from the George Washington University (GW), nitric oxide treatment can be pivotal in the world's fight against SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. A review article on its usage is published in the journal Nitric Oxide. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1089860320301701?via%3Dihub As a pharmaceutical compound,...

COVID-10 Treatment Protocols: Dutch Researchers Advocate Using High-Dose Glucocorticoids And IL-6 Receptor Inhibitors To Reduce Cytokine Storm Mortality

Source: COVID-19 Treatment Protocols Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-10 Treatment Protocols: Dutch researchers from Zuyderland Medical Center-Heerlen and Leiden University Medical Center-Zuid have developed a treatment protocol to reduce cytokine storm mortality in COVID-19 patients undergoing severe stages of the disease. The journal of the European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) - The Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases has published findings ...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Reinfections: Israeli Doctor Reinfected With SARS-CoV-2 Just 12 Weeks After Recovering, More Reinfections Appearing Globally

Source: COVID-19 Reinfections Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Reinfections: As early as late February, Thailand Medical News was reporting about cases of COVID-19 reinfections occurring in China from data supplied by Chinese researchers on the frontlines, https://www.thailandmedical.news/news/latest-more-cases-of-coronavirus-reinfections-emerging-among-cured-patients-in-china-causing-concern but many times Western Researchers (mostly those not ...

COVID-19 Vaccine: Phase I/II Of Oxford University And AstraZenaca’s ChAdOx1 Vaccine Produces Strong Immune Response, Early Results Show

Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Updates Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Vaccine Updates: The clinical trial results of the Phase I/II trial of Oxford University and AstraZenaca’s ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccine published in the scientific journal, The Lancet, indicate no early safety concerns and induces strong immune responses in both parts of the immune system. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31604-4/fulltext The ChA...

COVID-19 Vaccine: Chinese Ad5 Vectored COVID-19 Vaccine Progresses To Phase 3 As Phase 2 Trial Results Claim To Be Safe and Induces Immune Response

Source: COVID-19 Vaccine Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Vaccine: The phase 2 trial of China’s Ad5 vectored COVID-19 vaccine candidate that was conducted in Wuhan has found that the vaccine is safe and induces an immune response, according to trial findings published in The Lancet. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(20)31605-6/fulltext#%20 The phase 2 randomized trial sought to evaluate the ...

BREAKING NEWS! COVID-19 Research Shows That SARS-CoV-2 Spike Proteins Also Targets Nicotine Acetycholine Receptors In Human Host, Massive Alarming Implications!

Source: COVID-19 Research Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Research: A new study by researchers from University of Bristol-UK, University of California-San Diego and Oxford Brookes University has revealed that the spike proteins of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has a high affinity for the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) of human host with significant implications for pathology and infectivity of the COVID-19 disease. The fact tha...

COVID-19 Nutrition: European Study Claims Eating Certain Vegetables Could Lower COVID-19 Mortality Risks.Cabbage, Cucumbers Good While Lettuce Bad

Source: COVID-19 Nutrition Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Nutrition: A study by researchers in Europe claims that COVID-19 mortality rates may be lower in countries where individuals consume high amounts of cabbage and cucumber. Increasing average daily consumption of the vegetables by 1 gram may cut mortality rate, according to research, which has not been peer-reviewed. The research findings are published on a preprint server. https:/...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Ventilators: University Of Liverpool Researchers Show That CPAP Machines Could Do Away With Need For Ventilators For COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 Ventilators Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Ventilators: A recent study by researchers from University Of Liverpool and Liverpool University Hospitals show that the administration of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) may help in avoiding mechanical ventilation in COVID-19 patients. The results of the study are significant as CPAP is less invasive and less costly than invasive ventilation. The research findi...

COVID-19 Diagnostics: New Blood Test For Heart Failure Patients Could Also Aid COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Jul 21, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Diagnostics: According to newly published research from cardiologists at the University of Alberta, a new blood test that reliably predicts outcomes for heart failure patients could lead to new diagnostics and treatments for COVID-19 patients as well. The medical researchers examined circulating angiotensin peptide levels in the blood of 110 people who were experiencing hear...

COVID-19 Medications: Synairgen's Inhaled Interferon Beta Treatment Decreases COVID-19 Disease Risk by 79%

Source: COVID-19 Medications Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Medications: Synairgen, a British biotech company announced positive results from a clinical trial of its wholly-owned inhaled formulation of interferon beta in COVID-19 patients. Synairgen indicated its nebulizer treatment resulted in a 79% lower risk of patients developing severe disease compared to those receiving a placebo. And the patients receiving the treatment &...

BREAKING! Healthcare Innovations: Northeastern University-Boston Develops Sensor That Can Detect SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus Particles In The Air

Source: Healthcare Innovations Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

Healthcare Innovations: Researchers from Northeastern University-Boston have created a new sensor that is capable of detecting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus particle in the air. The new sensor would be a major game changer in the management of the current COVID-19 pandemic. A gas sensor used to detect airborne SARS-CoV-2 virus in Professor Nian Sun’s lab in Egan Research Center. Credit: Ruby ...

Medical Innovations: Want To Know If You Will Die From COVID-19? Check Out MIT’s Online COVID-19 Mortality Risk Calculator

Source: Medical Innovations Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

Medical Innovations: Researchers led by Massachusetts Institute of Technology along with colleagues from University of Seville-Spain, Benefits Science Technologies-Boston, Hartford HealthCare-Connecticit, Azienda Socio-Sanitaria Territoriale di Cremona-Italy and HM Hospitals Spain have created a new online COVID-19 Mortality Risk calculator for all healthcare professionals and even laymen to...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Symptoms: King’s College London and Massachusetts General Hospital Identify Six Specific Symptom Cluster ‘Types’ Of COVID-19 Infections.

Source: COVID-19 Symptoms Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Symptoms: Researchers from King’s College London and Massachusetts General Hospital by detailed analysis of data from the COVID Symptom Study have identified six distinct ‘types’ of COVID-19, each distinguished by a particular cluster of symptoms. The research team found that these types differed in the severity of the disease and the need for respiratory support duri...

BREAKING! Hong Kong COVID-19 News: SARS-CoV-2 Infections Spreading Out Of Control Says Hong Kong’s Chief Executive Carrie Lam

Source: Hong Kong COVID-19 News Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

Hong Kong COVID-19 News: SARS-CoV-2 infections are escalating and spreading out of control in Hong Kong with a record 108 new cases confirmed, the finance hub's leader said Sunday as she tightened social distancing measures to tackle the sudden surge in infections. Hong Kong was one of the first places to be struck by the virus when it emerged from central China. However the city had ...

COVID-19 Supplements: Vitamin D Could Help In A Supporting Role To Treat COVID-19 Confirms New Research Involving 10 International Medical Institutions

Source: COVID-19 Supplements Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Supplements: Vitamin D could play a supporting or adjuvant role in the treatment of COVID-19 disease as it is able to shut down certain pro-inflammatory responses to the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in a timely manner according to a new collaborative research involving 10 medical research entities and institutions including Imperial College London-UK, University of Oxford-UK, The U.S. National ...

BREAKING! COVID-19 News: Scientists Discover Drug-Resistant Hybrid Fungus Aspergillus Latus Involved In Lung Infections Of Certain COVID-19 Patients

Source: COVID-19 News Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 News: Just when things could not become more complicated and worse, scientist have discovered a new hybrid strain of the fungus Aspergillus latus that is even more drug-resistant and worse it was found in certain COVID-19 patients causing serious lung infections and giving medical researchers new ‘headaches’ to deal with not one but two different dangerous pathogens. ...

Pharma News: Swiss Pharma Giant Novartis Launches PR Initiative To Supply COVID-19 Meds To Low And Middle-Income Countries

Source: Pharma News Jul 20, 2020 4 years ago

Pharma News: One of the world’s biggest pharma giant Novartis, in a PR move publicly announced the launch an initiative to assist patients in low-income and lower-middle-income countries in getting access to affordable drugs for COVID-19. The pharma company said that they are specifically making 15 drugs from its Sandoz division available that can be used to treat symptoms...

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Phenolic Phytochemicals From The Roselle Plant Or Hibiscus Sabdariffa (Thai: Krachiap กระเจี๊ยบ) Can Treat And Prevent Obesity

Herbs And Phytochemicals - Roselle - Obesity
Mar 08, 2023 2 years ago

COVID-19 News: Will SARS-CoV-2 Infections Ultimately Lead To An Increased Incidence Of Head And Neck Cancers?

COVID-19 News - Head And Neck Cancers - By Nikhil P & Kittisak M
Feb 02, 2023 2 years ago

Study Validates Previous Findings That SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections Are Now Occurring At Shorter Intervals. Current CDC and ECDC Reinfection Definitions Are Obsolete!

Source: Medical News - SARS-CoV-2 Reinfections - Omicron
Sep 28, 2022 2 years ago

Quercetin Emerging As One Of The Must Take COVID-19 Supplements Especially When Considering The Omicron Variant And Long COVID-19 Issues

Source: COVID-19 Supplements - Quercetin
Jan 02, 2022 3 years ago

BREAKING! New International Study Warns That SARS-CoV-2 Infections Will Lead To Cancers Especially Colorectal Cancers Due to Disruption In Autophagy!

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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