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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.

India Medical News: India Sees A Record 2,006 COVID-19 Deaths In The Last 24 Hours

Source: India Medical News Jun 17, 2020 4 years ago

India Medical News: India recorded a total of 2,006's COVID-19 deaths in the last 29 hrs and it seems like that trend is going to stay for a while as it is reported that 15,832 individuals are in also critical conditions and local hospitals are reporting of a surge in cases and also critical patients. The number of new infected COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours was 11,135 cases brin...

Vildagliptin Just As Efficient As Metformin In Controlling Blood Sugar For Diabetics According To Indian Study

Source: Vildagliptin Versus Metformin Jun 17, 2020 4 years ago

Vildagliptin an oral anti-hyperglycemic agent that goes by the trade name Galvus showed similar protective effects as metformin on the beta-cell function, reduced insulin resistance, and blood sugar levels in newly diagnosed Asian Indians with type 2 diabetes (T2D), according to a recent study. The research trial further found that there was an improved insulin sensitivity in patients treated wi...

Diabetes: Study Shows Continuous Glucose Monitoring (CGM) Medical Devices Helps Reduce Hypoglycemia In Elderly With Type 1 Diabetes

Source: Diabetes Jun 17, 2020 4 years ago

Diabetes: The elderly with type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a growing but under-studied population that is prone to hypoglycemia, particularly when diabetes is longstanding. Unknown to many, hypoglycemia can cause altered mental status and sometimes seizure or loss of consciousness, which can prove fatal. According to this six-month, multi-site clinical study trial called the Wireless Innovation for Sen...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Second Wave: NATO Announces Plans To Stockpile Medical Equipment And Drugs For Impending Coronavirus 2nd Wave

Source: COVID-19 Second Wave Jun 17, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Second Wave: The chief of NATO made an official announcement on Tuesday that its alliance will start to stockpile medical equipment and drugs to prepare for an impending second wave of the coronavirus pandemic. The official announcement triggered panic among many members of the public as even certain medical professionals are saying that governments heads are not releasing the tr...

Pediatrics: Study Provides Insights As To How Pediatric Patients Are Affected By COVID-19

Source: Pediatrics and COVID-19 Jun 17, 2020 4 years ago

Pediatrics: According to a new study by Chinese researchers, important insights into the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of pediatric patients infected with the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus that causes the deadly COVID-19 disease could facilitate early identification and intervention in suspected patients. The research was led by Dr Xihui Zhou of the First Affiliated Hospital of Xi...

COVID-19 Antibodies: Regenron Pharmaceuticals And Researchers From University Of Maryland Identify New Potent Antibody Cocktail

Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jun 17, 2020 4 years ago

COVID-19 Antibodies: Medical researchers from the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM) in collaboration with scientists from Regeneron Pharmaceutcials have evaluated several human antibodies to determine the most potent combination to be mixed in a cocktail and used as a promising anti-viral therapy against the virus that causes COVID-19. The research demonstrates the rapid p...

Remdesivir Antiviral Activity Reduced By Co-Administration Of Hydroxychloroquine or Chloroquine Warns US FDA

Source: Remdesivir and COVID-19 Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

Remdesivir: The American Food and Drug Administration has issued a warning to doctors and all healthcare professionals about a newly discovered potential drug interaction related to the investigational antiviral drug remdesivir, an antiviral drug that is being evaluated as a potential treatment for the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and has also been granted emergency use authoriz...

BREAKING NEWS! Dexamethasone Improves Survival Rates Of Severe COVID-19 Patients According To University Of Oxford

Source: Dexamethasone and COVID-19 Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

Dexamethasone and COVID-19: Medical researchers from University Of Oxford-England say they have the first evidence that the cheap steroid Dexamethasone can improve COVID-19 survival in patients with severe conditions. http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-06-16-dexamethasone-reduces-death-hospitalised-patients-severe-respiratory-complications The British researchers have found that low-dose dexam...

UK Healthcare News: British Medical Industry Reports More Than More 237 Million Medication Errors Each Year With 1700 Lives Loss As A Result

Source: UK Healthcare News Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

UK Healthcare News: A total of more than 237 million pharmaceutical and medication errors are made every year in England, the avoidable consequences of which cost the NHS almost US$124 million and more than 1700 lives every year. The data and national estimates were published in the British Medical Journal and reflect on the sad state of affairs of the UK Medical Industry and its credibil...

COVID-19 Study: Individuals Under The Age Of 20 Half As Likely To Contract The SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus But Many Will Not Exhibit Symptoms

Source: COVID-19 Study Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Study: Individuals under the age of 20 are half as likely to contract COVID-19 as the rest of the population, according to new modeling study released today by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. The study also suggests four out of five infected young individuals will show no symptoms. The study findings published in the Nature Medicine Journal could hel...

Anti-Aging: University Of California Research Unveils Potential Way To Rejuvenate Tissues In The Old By Using Plasma Diluted With Saline And Albumin

Source: Anti-aging Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

Anti-Aging: A new study by anti-aging researchers from the University of California-Berkeley shows that age-reversing effects can be achieved by simply diluting the blood plasma of old mice and transfusing the mixture back to them. The team found that replacing half of the blood plasma of old mice with a mixture of saline and albumin, where the albumin simply replaces ...

COVID-19 Pandemic: EDITORIAL-Time For All Governments To Be Truthful As New Cases Emerge in China And New Zealand

Source: COVID-19 Pandemic Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Pandemic: EDITORIAL- As of 16th June, (3.30am California) the official total number of infected COVID-19 cases has reached more than 8.15 million while the total number dead is 439,715. In reality all these figures being collated by John Hopkins and sites like Worldometers are all not reliable as many countries are under-reporting figures or even concealing figures deliberately. Amo...

Atherosclerosis: Scripps Research Identifies Cyclic Peptides That Alters Gut Microbiome Leading To Lower Cholesterol And Atherosclerosis Inhibition

Source: Atherosclerosis Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

Atherosclerosis: Medical scientist at Scripps Research have identified cyclic peptide molecules that can remodel the gut microbiome to a healthier state and they have shown through studies in mice that this reduces cholesterol levels and strongly inhibits the thickened-artery condition known as atherosclerosis. The researchers created a set of molecules called cyclic peptides th...

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD): Clinical Trial OF Systemic Delivery Of Micro-Dystrophin Gene Therapy In Children With DMD Shows Positive Results

Source: Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or DMD Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy or DMD: Initial findings of the first four patients treated in the first clinical trial of systemic delivery of micro-dystrophin gene therapy in children with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) suggest that the therapy can provide functional improvement that is greater than that observed under the standard of care. Dr Jerry Mendell, MD, the study's co-author...

US Medical News: Hospitalizations For COVID-19 Will Cost Many Americans Significant Out-Of-Pocket Medical Expenses

Source: US Medical News Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: Many Americans could face high out-of-pocket medical costs for COVID-19 hospitalizations despite the fact that many insurers have waived their cost-sharing requirements, a study from researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health suggests. The research findings were published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. https://www.ajpmonline.org/a...

Vitamin K: New Study Shows That Vitamin K May Offer Protective Health Benefits In The Elderly Especially In Terms Of Vascular Health

Source: Vitamin K and Supplements Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

Vitamin K: A new research lead by Tufts University that also involved scientists from Boston University, Wake Forests School Of Medicine and University of Vermont that involved a new, multi-ethnic study found older adults with low vitamin K levels were more likely to die within 13 years compared to those whose vitamin K levels were adequate. The study findings suggest vitamin K, a nutrient found i...

BREAKING! America Finally Revokes Emergency Use Status Of Hydroxychloroquine and Chloroquine For COVID-19 Treatment

Source: Hydroxychloroquine And Chloroquine Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

Hydroxychloroquine: U.S. regulators finally on Monday revoked emergency authorization for malaria drugs hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine promoted by scammers for treating COVID-19 amid evidence these drugs do not work and are in fact lethal in certain cases and causes serious side effects. Strangely the official revocation of the drug to treat COVID-19 was done on a very low...

COVID-19 Antibodies: Scripps Led Research Discover Extremely-Potent Antibodies

Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Antibodies: A team led by Scripps Research including scientists from University of California-SanDiego, University Of Washington, Harvard University and International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI)-New York has discovered a type of antibodies in the blood of recovered COVID-19 patients that provide powerful protection against SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus when tested in animals and human c...

COVID-19 Research From Norway and Estonia Shows Limitations Of Plasma Therapy and Also Identifies Six New Antivirals Candidates And A New Drug Combo

Source: COVID-19 Research Jun 16, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Research: A new research led by Norwegian University of Science and Technology involving both Norwegian and Estonian researchers have established a cell culture that allows them to test antibody-laden plasma, drugs and drug combinations in the laboratory. The team also identified six potential antiviral candidates out of a base of 136 already approved drugs that could be repurposed. One c...

COVID-19 Antibodies Immune Response Could Remain Stable For About Two Months After Diagnosis

Source: COVID-19 Antibodies Jun 15, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Antibodies: Emerging results from an antibody testing research show that COVID-19 antibodies remain stable in the blood of the majority of infected patients almost two months after diagnosis and possibly longer. However the antibodies were not detectable in everyone exposed to the SARS-CoV-2 corona virus, opening discussions on how best to interpret antibody and viral tests. The ...

MUST READ! Major Corruption Claims Of Thai Public Hospital Directors And Pharmaceutical Companies Unfolding Starting With Khon Kaen Hospital First

Source: Thailand Hospital News Jun 15, 2020 5 years ago

Thailand Hospitals: An official disciplinary inquiry has been ordered against the director of a Khon Kaen Hospital, Dr Charnchai Chanvorachaikul in northeastern Thailand, who stands accused of demanding kickbacks. He is accused of demanding a 5% commissions from pharmaceutical firms from March to October 2018, in exchange for buying products from certain suppliers. The official inquiry wa...

Inhaled Corticosteroids Downregulates The SARS-CoV-2 Receptor ACE2 In COPD Through Suppression Of Type I Interferon

Source: Inhaled Corticosteroids And COVID-19 Jun 15, 2020 5 years ago

Inhaled corticosteroids could be the reason that many COPD patients do not seem to be affected by the COVID-19 disease despite the earlier assumptions that most COPD patients were more likely to get sickened badly by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. However the few that do contract the COVID-19, normally end up in extremely severe conditions. A new study by researchers from Imperial College Lo...

Mesothelioma: New Transarterial Chemoperfusion Treatment For Mesothelioma Shows Promise For Cancer Patients

Source : Mesothelioma and Cancer Jun 15, 2020 5 years ago

Mesothelioma: According to a cancer research abstract presented during a virtual session of the Society of Interventional Radiology's 2020 Annual Scientific Meeting held yesterday by cancer researchers from Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida and also the University of South Florida, a novel treatment for advanced mesothelioma is safe and effective and may improve the quality of life for patients...

COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma Therapy Soon To Be Superseded By More Effective Hyperimmune Plasma Or H-Ig Therapies

Source: COVID-19 Convalescent Plasma and Hyperimmune Plasma Or H-Ig Therapies Jun 15, 2020 5 years ago

Convalescent Plasma: In an attempt to treat COVID-19, there have been numerous studies and trials to treat COVID-19 involving convalescent plasma transfusions but most have produced only mediocre results. Biotech companies working in the plasma space are now collaborating to develop a hyperimmune Ig therapy which could product produce better results. Typically, plasma is the liquid compon...

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Bacteria Can Be Killed By Phytochemicals From An Invasive Shrub In Florida

Source: Drug-Resistant Bacteria Jun 15, 2020 5 years ago

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA): Researchers from Emory University have identified and isolated phytochemicals from the Brazilian peppertree- a weedy, invasive shrub in Florida that reduces the virulence of antibiotic-resistant staph bacteria. The research has been published in the journal: Scientific Reports https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598...

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

Nitric Oxide: Previously published findings from the 2003 SARS-CoV infection suggest the potential role of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) as a supportive measure for treating infection in patients with pulmonary complications. Treatment with inhaled nitric oxide reversed pulmonary hypertension, improved severe hypoxia, and shortened the length of ventilatory support compared with matched control patie...

COVID-19 Vaccines: China Famous For Past Scandals Involving Fake Vaccines And Tainted Medicines Trying To be The First With A COVID-19 Vaccine!

Source: COVID-19 Vaccines Jun 14, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Vaccines: With China’s PR machines in full swing telling the world about its progress in terms of creating a COVID-19 vaccine and the time frame it expects to roll it out for its country and the rest of the world, many health professionals elsewhere are either shaking their heads in horror or are having a long hilarious laugh. Chinese reputation and it past track record for tainted ...

Understanding The Differences Between COVID-19 Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic Conditions

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

COVID-19 Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic: Recently, the ‘China owned’ WHO (or World Health Organization) , one of the main health entities with a track record for misinformation and fake news about the COVID 19 made yet more misleading information publicly when during a June 8 press briefing, Maria Van Kerkhove, PhD, the WHO's technical lead on the COVID-19 p...

Telehealth App: Babylon Health Offering Online Doctor Consultancy In UK Suffers Data Breach

Source: Telehealth Jun 14, 2020 5 years ago

Telehealth App: UK’s most used online doctor consultancy app: Babylon Health has acknowledged that its GP video appointment app has suffered a data breach. The company was alerted to the problem after one of its users discovered he had been given access to dozens of video recordings of other patients' consultations. A security follow-up check by Babylon revealed a s...

Thailand Coronavirus: Thailand Becomes Racists And Xenophobic In New Policies

Source: Thailand Coronavirus Jun 14, 2020 5 years ago

Thailand Coronavirus: Local Thai media has reported that the Transport Company in Thailand that runs the public buses have imposed a new rule in the attempt to curb COVID-19 in that no foreigners including all expats in the country will be allowed to board any public buses. Public buses will only be allowed for Thais and proof via the showing of a Thai ID card is required prior to boardin...

BREAKING! Diabetes: Study By Kerala Researcher Shows That Green Jackfruit Powder Aids In Lowering Blood Sugar In Diabetics

Source: Thailand Diabetes Jun 14, 2020 5 years ago

Diabetes: Indian Researchers led by a Keralite have found in a new study that green jackfruit powder decreases blood sugar and glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c) in diabetes patients. The study findings have been published in the American Diabetes Association’s medical journal: Diabetes. https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/69/Supplement_1/719-P The study suggests a thera...

MUST READ! COVID-19 Pandemic-Need For An ‘Outside The Box Approach’ For Immediate Solutions To A Crisis That Is Much More Serious That It Seems

Source: COVID-19 Pandemic-Nikita K. Alexandrov Jun 14, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Pandemic: The following is extracted from an original article by Nikita K. Alexandrov, BChem, MBA. Alexandrov is a private researcher based in US who had himself contracted COVID-19 and while initially indirectly aiding a private vaccine development project in Canada, he decided to switch to working with a consortium of international researchers, scientific leaders and also front...

Researchers Say One Potential Long-Term Health Implication Of COVID-19 Could Be Hearing Loss

Source: COVID-19 Long-Term Health Implications Jun 13, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Long-Term Health Implications: Researchers in a collaborative international study are warning that hearing loss could be one of the long-term health side-effects from COVID-19. Their research review was published in the International Journal of Audiology. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14992027.2020.1776406 Though the pace of research on the SARS-CoV-2 ...

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

SARS-CoV-2 Mutations: Genomic researchers and virologist from Scripp Research Institute in Florida say they believe the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus has mutated in a way that makes it more easily infect human cells. The researchers say more research is needed to show whether the change has altered the course of the pandemic, but at least one researcher not involved in the study says it likely h...

BREAKING! China Medical News: Portions Of Beijing Goes Into Lock Down Due To New COVID-19 Outbreak

Source: China Medical News Jun 13, 2020 5 years ago

China Medical News: Certain Areas In Beijing, China’s capital have been placed under lockdown today as six new confirmed domestic coronavirus cases were reported, fuelling fears of a resurgence in local transmission. Local hospitals are however saying that there are far more cases than authorities are reporting as hospitals are seeing a surge of patients manifesting symptoms. &n...

Niclosamide Shows Efficacy Against COVID-19 In Animal Tests According To South Korean Pharmaceutical Giant Daewoong

Source: Niclosamide & COVID-19 Jun 13, 2020 5 years ago

Niclosamide & COVID-19: In a few preprint studies involving computational drug repurposing studies, niclosamide, an approved parasiticide drug was identified as a potential candidate. https://aac.asm.org/content/early/2020/04/28/AAC.00819-20 Past studies had also showed that it did have efficacy against the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus in vitro studies and also another study published in Sc...

Aspirin Reduces Risk Of Colorectal Cancer Risk In Patients With Lynch Syndrome. Preventive Effects Are Long Lasting

Source: Aspirin and Cancer Jun 13, 2020 5 years ago

Aspirin and Cancer: Oncology and medical researchers have discovered from an international clinical trial that a regular dose of aspirin taken to reduce the risk of inherited bowel cancer can have long lasting effects even up to 10 years after stopping treatment. The clinical trial known as CAPP2 involved patients with Lynch syndrome from around the world and revealed that two aspirins a day, for ...

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

Diabetes and COVID-19: New emerging evidence suggests that COVID-19 may actually trigger the onset of diabetes in otherwise healthy people and also cause severe complications of pre-existing diabetes. The report was published in the medical journal: New England Journal of Medicine. https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMc2018688 The report was initiated by an international group of 1...

Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases: Researchers Say Up to 45 percent of SARS-CoV-2 Infections Could Be Asymptomatic With Potential Health Conditions In Long-Term

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

Asymptomatic COVID-19 Cases: According to the results of a Scripps Research Institute (California) study involving analysis of public datasets on asymptomatic infections, an extraordinary percentage of individuals infected by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, never show symptoms of the disease. The research findings, published in Annals of Internal Medicine, suggest that asymptomatic infec...

China Medical News: Fresh COVID-19 Cases In Beijing Starts Fears Of Potential Second Wave. Schools Delay Opening

Source: China Medical News Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

China Medical News: Government authorities in Beijing announced today that it would delay primary school students returning to class after three fresh SRAS-Cov-2 coronavirus cases emerged in the capital the first after two months of no infections in the city. It was not just the three cases that triggered the reactions and fears but reportedly certain medical professionals are saying that...

Medical Devices Generating Cold Plasma Could Increase The Chances Of Survival For COVID-19 Patients On Ventilators

Source: Thailand Medical Devices Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

Medical Devices: It is a well-known fact that cold atmospheric plasma (CAP) treatment inactivates various pathogens such as bacteria and viruses. Medical researchers are now exploring if cold atmospheric plasma CAP is used in the nasal, oral, and pharyngeal cavities, nosocomial super infections in patients with mechanical ventilators, which are a frequent cause of death, could potentially b...

HIV Can Harbor In Brain Cells According To Latest Study

Source: Thailand HIV Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

HIV: Medical researchers from Rush University Medical Center, Temple University School of Medicine and the University Of Texas Medical Branch have found that astrocytes, a type of brain cell can harbor HIV and then spread the virus to immune cells that traffic them out of the brain and into other organs. It was observed that HIV moved from the brain via this route even when the virus was ...

India Medical News: COVID-19 Crisis Fast Spiraling Out Of Control, Shortage of Hospital Beds In New Delhi

Source: India Medical News Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

India Medical News: The COVID-19 crisis is fast spiraling out of control in India. As of Friday (12th June), the total number of COVID-19 infected cases has reached 298,291 while the total number dead from the coronavirus have reached 8,501. The total deemed to have recovered according to health authorities are 147,195 while about 11,134 are in critical care. On Thursday alone, a record of almost ...

Diabetic Retinopathy Could Be Treated By Vitamin A Analog According To Researchers From The University Of Oklahoma

Source: Diabetic Retinopathy Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

Diabetic retinopathy is a typical complication of diabetes and a leading cause of blindness in the world. A new research by scientist from University Of Oklahoma show that visual function in diabetic mice was significantly improved after treatment with a single dose of visual chromophore 9-cis-retinal, a vitamin A analog that can form a visual pigment in the retina cells, thereby producing a light...

Neurologists In A Collaborative Study Identify Stages Of Brain Damage Caused By COVID-19 And Warns Of Future Issues In Recovered Patients

Source: Brain Damage Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

Brain Damage: Researchers in a collaborative study involving the NeuroGrow Brain Fitness Center in Virginia, John Hopkins, Washington University and University Of California have published a research paper with a comprehensive review of the COVID-19's effect on the nervous system which classifies brain damage caused by COVID-19 into three stages. The research is published in The ...

Interferon Lambda-An Antiviral Protein Being Investigated For COVID-19 Use, Found To Also Inhibit Lung Damage Repair

Source: Interferon Lambda Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

Interferon Lambda: Medical researchers from the Francis Crick Institute in England have found that a protein called Interferon Lamba which has antiviral properties and is initially helpful in the body's immune response to viruses, can later interfere with the repair of damaged lung tissue by inhibiting the repair process. The researchers led by Dr Andreas Wack from the Institute...

Northwestern University Issues COVID-19 Warning That The Whole Nervous System Can Be Affected By The SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus

Source: COVID-19 Warning Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 WARNING: A new study by Northwestern University indicates that the SARS-CoV-coronavirus literally threatens the whole nervous system. The study indicates that the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus disease also involves multiple other organs, not just the respiratory tract, including the central and peripheral nervous system. Disturbingly, the number of recognized neurologic manifesta...

COVID-19 Antibody Test: University Of North Carolina Scientists Create New SARS-CoV-2 Serologic Test

Source: COVID-19 Antibody Test Jun 12, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Antibody Test: Scientists and researchers from University Of North Carolina School Of Medicine have developed a new kind of antibody test that could be ramped up to test thousands of blood samples at labs that do not have the resources of commercial labs and large academic medical centers. The team created a blood test to pinpoint SARS-CoV-2 antibodies that target one u...

US MEDICAL NEWS: American Thoracic Society Warns That The Country Is Going To Be Facing Acute Drug Shortages

Source: US Medical News Jun 11, 2020 5 years ago

US MEDICAL NEWS: The American Thoracic Society has published a study paper that warns about the impending drug shortage that the United States will face if not already facing. The research paper is published in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society and examines the nation’s current shortage of vitally needed medications, and how this dangerous situation is being made...

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

Acute Pancreatitis: A disturbing revelation has been made by a new study conducted by researchers from the University Of Liverpool. The study shows that acute pancreatitis is now materializing in certain COVID-19 patients and also provides a guideline to identifying the condition. The research findings were published in Gastroenterology, identifies the signs of COVID-19 related pancr...

BCG Vaccine: More Studies Are Showing That The BCG Vaccine Does Not Protect Against COVID-19

Source: BCG Vaccine Jun 11, 2020 5 years ago

BCG Vaccine: Initially several researchers and prominent news outlets have noticed that countries still administering the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin vaccine against tuberculosis had fewer coronavirus cases and fewer deaths per capita in the outbreak’s early stages. This led many to assume that the BCG vaccine could to a certain degree protect against the COVID-19. However mor...

Study Says Hydroxychloroquine Suppresses 'Trained Immunity, Adding To Mounting Evidence It Perhaps Has No Efficacy Against COVDI-19

Source: Hydroxychloroquine Jun 11, 2020 5 years ago

Hydroxychloroquine: Researchers in a new study from Netherlands in collaboration with scientists from US and Germany show that the drug hydroxychloroquine suppresses a form of immunity called ‘trained immunity,’ with repercussions for its potential use to treat COVID-19. Hydroxychloroquine is an anti-malarial and a disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drug (DMARD), whi...

BREAKING! COVID-19 Diagnostics: New Research Shows Many COVID-19 PCR Tests Unable To Detect Mutated Strains Of SARS-CoV-2 Coronavirus

Source: COVID-19 Diagnostics Jun 11, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Diagnostics: As the SARS-CoV-2 has the potential to mutate, and numerous studies and genomic sequencings have already shown that many mutated strains of the SARS-CoV-2 has emerged, it is critically significant to check the efficacy of current diagnostic tests, warns York University researchers, who found seven out of 27 methods had potential sequence mismatch issues that may lead to under...

Gut Microbiome’s Effects On Medications In Terms Of Alterations To Drug Safety And Efficacy Catalogued By Scientists

Source: Gut Microbiome Jun 11, 2020 5 years ago

Gut Microbiome: Medical researchers at Princeton University have developed a systematic approach for evaluating how the microbial community in the human intestines can chemically transform, or metabolize, oral medications in ways that impact their safety and efficacy. The study is published in the journal: Cell. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867420305638...

US Medical News: COVID-19 Second Wave In America Emerges With Texas Leading The Most New Infections

Source: US Medical News Jun 11, 2020 5 years ago

US Medical News: The state of Texas on Wednesday (June 10) reported 2,504 new COVID-19 cases, the highest one-day total since the pandemic emerged. Also, a month into its reopening, Florida this week reported 8,553 new cases - the most of any seven-day period. Meanwhile California's hospitalizations are at their highest since May 13 and have risen in nine of the past 10 days. &...

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

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Jun 17, 2020 4 years ago

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

Source: Nitric Oxide and COVID-19
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Understanding The Differences Between COVID-19 Asymptomatic and Presymptomatic Conditions

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

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

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

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

Source: COVID-19 Research
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Uric Acid: Japanese Researchers Discover That High Uric Acid Levels Protects Against Lung Function Decline Especially In Older Women

Source: Uric Acid Supplements
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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
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MUST READ!!! Brazilian Respiratory Expert Says That COVID-19 Should Be Treated As A Thrombotic Disease

Source: COVID-19
May 28, 2020 5 years ago

COVID-19 Research: Could Disulfiram- A Drug To Prevent Alcoholism, Aid In Inhibiting Cytokine Storms In COVID-19?

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

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

COVID-19: Study Shows That COVID-19 Infections Could Lead To Delirium, PTSD and Other Psychiatric Disorders

Source: COVID-19 News
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